Hi,

I definitely think Andy had an axe to grind, sure. I also think that his Javert-type pursuit of FEJ was getting old BUT unless he was posting information that was UNTRUE, shutting the thread down was just unnecessary. We are, after all, big boys here and have God's gift of free moral agency with which we can TUNE OUT or choose not to read the thread. I don't need to be protected from knowing how many pipes have failed by RCU. As far as I'm concerned, Andy's motives have nothing whatsoever to do with anything...provided his information is true and accurate.

Also, this notion of the end user being expected to figure out for himself whether or not a product is airworthy is, in my humble opinion, mostly absurd. I say mostly because of course there is some expectation of that. Do you really think, however, that some newbie should know at a glance if a pipe is suitable or not?? He shouldn't expect that the pipe will do what it's commonly accepted to be designed to do?? Puh-leeze....

I hope FEJ gets those issued sorted, because they have some very slick looking jets. I know where to get good pipes from, so if I ever buy one, I know what to do. For that reason, I am grateful to Andy. I hope that if they do right by a customer (or make an honest, good-faith effort to), they'll get cut a little slack by that customer. It seems in this case, however, that Andy has proven to a reasonable person's satisfaction, that there was a COMMON issue with the pipe that probably killed his plane. With this common-sense evidence illuminated, I do not think that 40% off a new plane is a good enough settlement and therefor don't blame Andy a bit for not being satisfied with it. Just my $.02