RaisedByWolves
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No, I’m not willing to buy $36,000 straight floats or pay $5,400 to have straight floats installed.
$36,300 for a thousand dollars worth of materials used to build 80 year old technology with 6-8 moving parts is outrageous gouging. Remember, these are straight floats. At worst installation is a 8 hour job, so $660/hr. is also outrageous gouging. Even if it takes twice the time, $330/hr. is still gouging.
Amy: why don’t you post Wip’s shop time book that shows how many hours your workers are allowed to spend installing floats. I’ll bet it calls for 8 hours or less.
I wouldn’t buy Wip Amphibious floats for my Beaver in 95 because they cost more than the entire airplane. Wip is too used to charging government rates. It’s not that his products are any better, but that they are about the only game in town and he has many of us over a barrel.
I guess you've never installed floats for the first time on an airplane before huh? You could order a new set of certified anfibs for a cub from one of the other manufactures, and order some replacement parts too. Oh wait.. How about the cost of approval. Cheapest thing in aviation is the owners