On the other hand:   I like  the free flowing information found on
AREN  that sometimes takes surprising turns that would be impossible
to anticipate or direct to the proper category. This comes from the
participation of a very diverse group of people who come at things
from vastly different backgrounds.   I appreciate Paul's benevolent
(most of the time) dictatorship.  It is good for me to filter my half
baked ideas through a good engineer with a deep background.  AREN is
the most educational "classroom" I have attended thus far in my short
life.     I vote for not changing a thing.  Jerry

This is a VERY valuable newsletter.  I, like Jerry, am fearful that much
of its value would be lost by attempting to structure it into
categories.  On the other hand, I am experiencing the same problems that
Doug enumerated in trying to summarize and save topical information for
my future reference.  I now have dozens of text files with snips of what
has been discussed and hundreds of image files that are in loosely
categorized folders.  It's a mess.  But, on balance, I would vote to
leave the newsletter unchanged.

I volunteer to work on the auto electrical component database.  I would
also like to attempt to create a database of "rotary installation
profiles" to catalog the characteristics of each rotary installation.
This may save everyone some time and also help us spot trends.

Finally, thank you, Paul, for the gift of your time and energy to keep
this endeavor going.
Aubrey

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We are always open to contributions. We will be glad to post them
on the web site below with credit and on Mark Wrathals web site if it is
critical info that has to do with a safety issue. Mark was maintenance engineer
for Lauda Air and is now an employee of the Austrian FAA equivalent.

Thanks to all you guys for your support. This past year to date has been a
bad year for off airports and out and out crashes. More of those than all the past
six years combined almost. Of course we have more rotaries flying as well.

I haven't added to the best practices website for ages largely because I
kind of picked the low hanging fruit, and most of the good ideas I have seen
since then haven't flown and proven themselves yet.

I real appreciate other people writting articles, but so far only Ed
Anderson has contributed regularly.

I also agree with Jerry's feelings about Paul's (mostly) benevelent
dictatorship. Paul has made it clear he will not tolerate promotion of
proven bad ideas on this site in the name of free speech. I think the best
example is the electric water pump.

I really like PHP based web forums, but this one is truly unique.

Mark Wrathall
www.wankel.org



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