Hello Mooniacs,

I would like to welcome you to the website of the European Mooney Pilots and Owners Association (EMPOA). We are very sorry, that most of our website is still in german, although we claim to be European. I´d like to ask for you understanding as the EMPOA grew out of a german speaking Mooney community and this is where most of the content still comes from. But we have this issue at position number one on our TODO-list and we hope to present you a multi-language version of this website soon. Anyways every european Mooniac is already greatly welcome to join our association and of course all events and offers (such as the Mooney group insurance) are already available for every member. If you might not understand everything or have any questions, please don´t hesitate to write us an email. You will find the appropiate contact person on our EMPOA organisation page.

I wish all of you many happy landings and hope to meet you soon.

Thomas Hamacher

Hi Mooniacs,

Dear Mooniacs,

after thinking a lot about what would be the next highlight for EMPOA members and talking with a lot of people und pilots, what would be interesting for them, we finally decided to do something totally new, which has not yet been done in the EMPOA history. The EMPOA already brought you a lot of very interesting events besides our very attractive Fly-Ins to many different places through Europe. Starting with bringing Jerry Manthey´s maintenance class to Europe, we also established a Mooney Flight Training together with the MAPA Safety Foundation, which will also be held this year again and brought you many advantages, which are special to EMPOA members, such as the group-insurance!

Now we decided not to fly to one place for a weekend, but use the Mooney for what it is build: travelling far distances to interesting places. We decided to offer every interested EMPOA member the chance to join a a tour together with other Mooniacs & friends. As this is the very first tour of this kind we had to decide how this tour should look like and whom we wanted to attract. We had some very interesting discussions concerning this topic and it´s not an easy question, as the different Mooneys can be used for a very wide range of flying. Some Mooniacs are already very experienced and use their plane in every weather and already flew across the north atlantic and others are VFR-pilots, who are sometimes very new to this complex aircraft and might have the feeling, that they are not yet experienced enought to fly those big distances to other countries. Bringing those demands together in one tour would probably not be a good idea, as it would be very hard to satisfy everybody´s ideas, whishes and challenges. As the EMPOA should be interesting to every Mooniac, we decided to offer tours for both profiles. But we also would like to transfer the experience and the knowledge of the very skillfull pilots to the more novice pilot, because everyone started at some time without having this big bag of experience he has nowadays. So this first tour should be a chance to bring the differently experienced pilots together to help each other and to give everyone a possibility to learn and to further one´s personal development and flying skills. But the level of this trip should be doable for every VFR-rated pilot, so that pilot´s who wouldn´t do this kind of a tour alone without any help also join this trip without shame or having the feeling of being overstrained. We will offer an extended version of this tour in a shorter period for IFR pilots as well later this year. But let us now stay with this first VFR tour.

This is also the reason, why we decided to do this tour in a very tolerant amount of time. This gives us the chance to react on weather or any unexpected incidents without getting in trouble. So let me give you a brief description of what we thought about so far. We would like to meet on Saturday, 21th August, in the lovely town of Salzburg (LOWS). Salzburg is very attractive for every aviator, as Red Bull installed their famous Hangar-7 on this airfield, which is a kind of living museum, where planes of different ages are restored to fly again. Our further routing towards Istanbul will take us over Hungary and Slovania to Serbia. The first leg to the airfield of Nic (LYNI) will satisfy our hunger for flying and give us some chance to refuel and getting an idea about this country. The next day we will take-off for the next highlight of this tour: The cosmopolitan city of Istanbul will be our home for a couple of days. This city is so impressive that you can easily spend weeks there without having seen everyhing. As this tour should give us a chance to relax and enjoy the different places we will go to, we will have enough time for visiting this city. After leaving Istanbul we will have the chance to fly along the Aegean towards the island of Mykonos (LGMK). Our first destination in Greece - and also the southernmost point of our journey - will welcome us with the warm sea to relax on the beach and the wonderful countryside after the troubles of the big city. We will also stay in Greece for our next leg, as we cross the many islands towards the Adriatic sea, where Corfu (LGKR) will be our next destination. From Corfu we will head north again and fly over Albania and Montenegro to the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sarajevo (LQSA). After beeing in war for many years, this city should be an insider tip now, as it should have recovered very well until today and should have become a very interesting and impressive town. From Sarajevo we will turn towards the coast again, as we will spent some time at the very beautiful shoreline of Croatia, where we will be invited and guided by some of our EMPOA members. Our final destination for this tour will take us to Hungary, where we will also be invited by one of our EMPOA members to accomodate at a very romantic hungarian castle near Fertõszentmiklós (LHFM). This castle will also be the place for having our final farewell dinner, after everyone has to leave for their homebase the next day.

Have a look at the route on the following chart:

So as you can see there are a lot of highlights in this journey and it will provide many very different impressions, which you will hopefully like. You can also download our complete routing including the schedule as a PDF-file.

What should be clear to everyone is, that this tour will definately not be a professionally guided tour where everybody can expect that everything will be done by the EMPOA or the organizers. All we will do is, to present you a routing and a touristic program and everybody, who is interested should feel free to join this tour. Of course we will also do some kind of briefing and will help everyone to reach their destinations, but everything concerning flight-preparation and trip-planning has to be done by every crew independantly. This declaration does not only have a lawful background, but should prevent, that all the work has to be done by the organizers (which will definately not be doable) and make everyone aware of the fact, that he also has to care for his own responsibility. We will be open to every questions and provide help, wherever we can, but please also respect our limits.

We will provide you with some further information as soon as possible. What would be interesting to us now is, who is interested in joining this tour. We cannot make a real forecast about the total costs of this tour right now, but of course we will try to keep the costs low. For a first estimate you should add around 100,-€ each night for accomodation to the flying costs and of course an adequate fee for the touristic program. But what you have right now is a time-schedule and a routing, so that you can check if this tour is suitable for you. Probably we have to limit the number of participants, so that we can still handle the administrative work, be flexible enough and still have the chance to help someone. Everybody who would like to join this tour, should sign-up through our registration-form as soon as possible.

If there is someone who would like to join the orga-team and contribute some ideas or recommendations for any destination, or might maybe be interested in planning the touristic program for one location, please feel free to contact us (tour-2010@empoa.eu) at any time. We are open to any input at any time. Of course any questions can also be asked through the given email.

We are very excited about this trip and hope to see some of you guys on this tour! Stay tuned for further details...

Fly safe!

Matthias Rode
Thomas Hamacher

Mooney Flight Training 2010

Notes on an extraordinary event

Returning home from this year’s Mooney Flight Training in Donaueschingen I´m still impressed with what we have experienced during these days. This event was really a benchmark in EMPOA´s history and probably a milestone for an ambitious community. When Thomas and I initiated this Mooney Community in 2002, we soon realized that Fly-Ins and get-together of Mooniac´s are enjoyable events to attract Mooniac’s in Europe, but on the long run there is a need to organize events that challenge Mooniac’s to a higher level of airmanship. How to achieve this was not clear to us initially, but when we joined the MAPA-Convention in 2006 and heard the presentation of Bruce Jaeger on the MAPA Safety Foundation, we immediately felt that this would be a cornerstone for us European Mooniac’s. In the following summer Thomas could convince the MAPA Safety Foundation to organize a first seminar in Germany and 16 Mooniacs took the chance to improve their proficiency. As I described on a former Pilot-Report, which you will find on the Mooney-website, I felt that this first training event was of great benefit to our community, but as Thomas told me last fall that he was planning another training seminar for this year together with Bud Johnson and the Safety Foundation, I frankly admit that I simultaneously felt happy and hesitating. Happy as the Safety Foundation obviously enjoyed their stay last time and felt that their work has beenappreciated by the European Moonics - and hesitating whether a sufficient number of Mooniacs would sign up to repeat the event. Fortunately, we underestimated the European Mooniacs willingness to invest in their proficiency and Thomas could tell me already in march that there was a long waiting list of Mooniacs who would like to attend. But this immediately leads to the question, what is Mooniacs driving to spend time and money to attend such a training seminar? Of course additional knowledge and skills are reasons to attract people. But this won´t be the full answer. According to my impression the dignity and seriousity of the personalities who came together was the key for the attraction. As an experienced Mooney pilot, it makes a huge difference, whether there is an instructor sitting next to you having thousands of hours experiences on a Mooney, rather than sitting next to a checker, who is just formally entitled to perform a check ride with you, but has personally no substantial experiences with Mooneys. And we all know, that our birds are very special animals and that we are eager to master these airplanes. Thus, getting advice rooted in long experiences is somewhat, Mooniacs are obviously looking for and this has something to do with personality, responsibility and airmanship. Isn´t that alone impressive in these days?

But let me come back now to the details of the last weekend: When we arrived thursday afternoon in Donaueschingen, our American friends have already arrived and Bruce Jaeger together with Jack Napoli welcomed each arriving crew. It was a hot summer day and soon after, relaxed Mooniacs were sitting on the hotel’s terrace at the airfield, observing the arriving Mooneys. In the evening an impressive line of 24 Mooneys from 6 European countries were sitting on the apron. Later that evening, the group moved into the hotel´s restaurant to have a get-together in form of a social dinner. It was this exciting mixture of Mooniacs, who first attended an EMPOA event and Mooniacs knowing each other from former events within the community. It is really fascinating to me, that all our events always attract new Mooniacs and this shows, there is the special atmosphere of an open minded community, welcoming new participants every time with a lot of interests, rather than behaving as a conceited and narrow-minded group.

For the next day ground school was scheduled and Bud Johnson opened the course in the conference room of the Concorde Hotel. During the day, the participants learned in different sessions the benefits to ”fly by numbers”, refreshed the knowledge on airport signs and marking and discussed emergency procedures and accident prevention. In the afternoon participants were assigned to their instructors, who perfomed the briefing concerning the flight training sessions for the next day. During this first day, my job was, to conduct a pinch-hitter course for a small class of three ladies. In the morning we did a theory session on flying and emergency procedures and in the afternoon we practiced that in a Mooney. Believe me - this was pure fun to me. I never welcomed so talented and focused student pilots like these three ladies before onboard of a plane. They all were so enthusiastic and eager to learn flying, that within two hours, they already succeeded in performing a safe landing on their own. And this on a plane, which is mostly very famous to be very hard to land. Congratulations! I was really impressed how smooth and quickly these three ladies learned not only the basics of flying, but also how to apply “pitch and power” to perform a straight approach for landing. Wow!

In the evening we went to the lovely town of Donaueschingen, where we had a guided tour through the Fürstenberg brewery, one of the oldest breweries in Germany followed by a dinner at the restaurant of the brewery. Here the group relaxed from the learning exercises of the day and again stories about Mooneys and Mooniacs were told among the tables. Later in the evening, some participants continued their conversation at the hotel bar, but as the flight training was scheduled for the early morning of the next day, the majority of participants decided to have an early night. I was scheduled for the first block at 8:00 o´clock on the following morning and John Pallante was my instructor. It was a beautiful summer day when we entered our Mooney at exactly 8:00h, but very soon our American friends should learn, that departing from an airfield on an early morning in Germany is not that easy. The tower was not yet occupied at this time and we had to explain to our surprised instructors that in Germany it is not allowed to take-off from an airfield until this airfield has been formally opened by a representative of the airport owner. Our instructors were baffled that infringements are not just treated as a minor breach of the law, but as a crime. These laws go back to World War 2 and for someone, who is used to the total freedom of flying like in the US, it is really hard to understand, that these laws are still valid in our modern times. Fortunately, Thomas managed to get hold of one of these representatives, so that the airfield could be opened and John and I climbed out high above the mountains of the Black-Forest to perform some exercises along the limits of the flight-envelope of my Mooney. There was a lot to learn from an experienced instructor like John, with such a great repertoire of tricks and proven procedures from his thousands of hours of Mooney experience and we also had a lot of fun during this session. After my lessons I handed the plane over to my son Thomas to continue with Bruce Jaeger and for the rest of the day I observed the continuous stream of incoming and outgoing Mooneys from the terrace, accompanied by very excited faces of Mooney pilots. I talked to returning pilots, who were completely enthusiastic about what they had experienced during their training session. This is astonishing enough, as the scope of the participants reached from complete beginners to experienced pilots. Mooniacs, which just transitioned to a Mooney to pilots who already have hundreds of hours on this type. But literally everyone I spoke to, was satisfied and even enthusiastic about what they learned and experienced. This wonderful day has been finalized with an excellent Gala Dinner at a Golf Hotel nearby and a content group returned to our hotel later that evening, eager for the second block of training sessions on Sunday.

But the next day started different as expected. Opposite to the forecast, which promised a warm and sunny day like the day before, the sunday presented solid IMC-conditions in the morning. It was really a pity, as the evaluation of weather reports turned out, that the bad weather was just in the vicinity of Donaueschingen, whereas most of the airports in the region showed pure VMC. But the disaster of the situation was, that we could not return to Donaueschingen as the weather there was below minimum. Therefore we had to arrange an alternative schedule. But even in this situation our American friends showed an impressive flexibility. Bruce Jaeger instantly held a presentation on accident prevention, John Pallante presented how to exploit the functionality of a Garmin 430/530 for IFR flight and our Dutch friend Robert Jongen gave a presentation about his ideas concerning formation-flying with Mooneys. After lunch the weather improved a bit, so that some crews could continue with their IFR-training, but due to lost time and weather it became impossible to finish the training for all participants. Especially for those, who had to go VFR. But surprisingly for me, there were no complains at all among the participants. None at all! Even on of our Swiss friends, who donated his own session the day before to another participant and was now faced with the situation that he could not fly at all within the training weekend, showed no grudge. What an attitude! Would you expect this from a any other plane-owner? Probably not. I emphasis this, as exactly these experiences of personality and sovereignity within our community have impressed me in the last years. This attitude of Mooniacs shows, that these are very special pilots and people and empowers us to bring the community forward and makes the effort worth..

Again opposite to the weather forecast, monday morning showed good VFR-conditions. So the small group of remaining participants, who stayed until monday, were able to do some further training. But at lunch time everyone had to leave. So Thomas and I and my old friend (and new Mooniac) Manfred checked out and prepared for our flight home and after slightly more than two hours flight, we returned happy and satisfied to our homebase. An all in all very successful event was finished and now already history.

Finally, I would like to give great thanks to the following people: First of all to the directors and instructors of the Mooney Safety Foundation for coming over with 6 instructors to teach us how to fly our Mooneys better and to provide us with their knowledge, experience and skills. It was a pleasure to have you had here in Germany and we would be happy and willing to do it again. Further I thank my son Thomas for all his effort to organize this event and all the trouble-shooting during these days. Without his effort, we wouldn’t have had these opportunities and would have missed a wonderful experience. I also thank the participants for the patience and supportive attitude on any inconvenience they encountered. Finally I thank my pinch-hitter students for their trust in me and the enthusiasm to learn how to land a Mooney. This was a lot of fun and encouraged me to continue as I found this most rewarding.
I am looking forward for the next event!

Bernd Hamacher

Some comments from the participants:

"I didn't get the chance to say good bye as I didn't want to disturb the ongoing workshop when I left. As far as I am concerned the meeting was very successful and I enjoyed every minute of it. As a new Mooniac, I was pleased to note that aside from being experienced pilots, Mooniacs are also good company and I wished I had spent more time with people that I only met briefly. Maybe I'll get another chance?
With regards to the flight training I was very impressed by the ease with which John Pallante managed to improve my knowledge and understanding of the Acclaim and Garmin 1000. Both VFR and IFR sessions were extremely valuable and pleasant. Thanks to you for the flawless organization of all this
Best regards"

"Thank you so much for the weekend and the excellent organization at the Donaueschingen Airport. I really enjoyed it, although my VFR-Flying went down the toilet on Sunday morning (…but instead of VFR I made some exciting experiences [a future option maybe….] in IFR-Flying with Hermann on our way back to Zurich Kloten, LSZH).
Please say “thank you” to all people (pilots, instructors, pilot girl friends,  pilot wives and so on) I had the pleasure to meet in Donaueschingen and let them know my home- and my email address.
So, thank you very much for the wonderful days and I hope to see you folks soon"

"Nochmals besten Dank für die Organisation des PPP sowie Deiner Bemühungen um meine Teilnahme daran!
Das Airwork mit Bud und dessen flight by numbers Ansatz hat mich voll überzeugt und fliegerisch einen großen Schritt weiter gebracht.
Auch der Theoriepart am Freitag und der Blick unter die 231 Cowling am Samstag zusammen mit Bruce waren für mich sehr aufschlußreich und richtungsweisend (bei mir steht alsbald ein Engine OH an).
Ebenfalls sehr eindrucksvoll war für mich die Tatsache, daß wohl alle Moonicas (weltweit) irgendwie gleich ticken - man versteht sich sofort, man spricht eben dieselbe Sprache.
Viele Grüße und bis bald"

Please have a look at our gallery to find some more pictures of this event.

Hallo Mooniacs,

vielen Mooniacs sind mit Sicherheit in den letzten Tagen Anschreiben ihres Versicherungsmaklers eingegangen, in dem sie ihre Kunden auf ein deutlich vergünstigtes Angebot aufmerksam machen möchten, wenn sie die Versicherung Ihrer Mooney weiterhin fortführen und von einem Wechsel in die EMPOA-Flottenversicherung absehen. Zu diesem Sachverhalt möchten wir gerne Stellung nehmen ohne dabei das Vorgehen der Makler in irgendeiner Weise in ein schlechtes Licht stellen zu wollen oder in Grabenkämpfe zu verfallen. Was die Makler für Ihre Kunden machen ist absolut nachvollziehbar - jedoch vorwiegend aus unternehmerischer Sicht des Maklers und weniger für die Gemeinschaft der Mooney-Halter. Jeder Mooniac sollte sich einmal klar machen, warum es zu einer solch drastischen Veränderung in der Versicherungslandschaft gekommen ist. Dazu ein paar Hintergründe:

Wir haben im Vorfeld zu der Flottenversicherung Kontakt mit diversen Versicherungsmaklern und auch Versicherern aufgenommen und diese um ein Angebot bezüglich einer Flottenversicherung für Mooneys gebeten. Die Antworten waren sehr unterschiedlich. Sie gingen jedoch auch so weit, daß Versicherer sich weigerten ein Angebot abzugeben oder uns deutlich gemacht wurde, daß eine Flottenversicherung in der angestrebten Form für den Versicherer absolut unattraktiv sei und man für eine solch "kleine" Zahl an Interessenten kein Sonderkonditionen einräumen könne. Man muss sich dieses unkooperative Verhalten einmal vor Augen führen! Doch wir haben auch Angebote unterschiedlicher Art zurück bekommen, die an einer Kooperation interessiert waren. Diese haben wir in erster Linie hinsichtlich finanziellen Gesichtspunkten aber auch hinsichtlich der größten Schnittmenge mit den Interessen der europäischen Mooniacs geprüft. Somit hatte jeder potentielle Kandidat die selben Chancen ein Angebot abzugeben. Wir haben die Möglichkeiten des Marktes entscheiden lassen und haben letztendlich das Angebot herausgesucht, was für uns am Attraktivsten gewesen ist und das höchste langfristige Potential birgt.

Nun kann man ganz deutlich sehen, was eine solche Gemeinschaft wie die EMPOA erreichen kann! Während der Einzelne bei einer Anfrage für eine Versicherungsprämie lediglich unter den Angeboten vergleichen kann, die er von den unterschiedlichen Versicherern bekommt und die Bedingungen akzeptieren muss, konnten wir als gleichwertiger Verhandlungspartner mit den Versicherern sprechen und ein gemeinsames Konzept erarbeiten. Jeder sollte sich bewusst machen, daß diese Angebote heute ausschließlich auf dem Markt sind, weil eben die EMPOA das Gespräch mit den Versicherern gesucht hat. Was nun im Nachhinein passiert ist lediglich, daß die anderen Anbieter ihre Marktanteile schützen möchten, auf die neue Marktsituation reagieren müssen und deswegen mit dem bestehenden Angebot gleichziehen. Sie haben diesen Schritt jedoch nicht in erster Instanz gemacht, als die Chance dazu bestand! Damals wurde scheinbar noch nach anderen Kriterien entschieden.

Machen wir jedoch gemeinsam einen kleinen Ausblick in die Zukunft: Was wird nun passieren, wenn jeder das Angebot seines Maklers annimmt? Nun, das ist eigentlich ganz einfach. Letztendlich ist das Angebot der AXA für die EMPOA ein großes Entgegenkommen und nicht zuletzt dem Verhandlungsgeschick von Herrn Neumann zu verdanken, der unsere Interessen gegenüber den Versicherern durchgesetzt hat. Wir standen vor der Problematik, daß die Versicherer in der Regel erst Sonderkonditionen einräumen, sobald man mit einer entsprechenden Masse direkt zu einem Versicherer wechselt. Kein Mooniac würde jedoch wechseln wollen, wenn er keinen direkten Vorteil hinsichtlich der Versicherungsbedingungen sieht und lediglich ein etwaiger Vorteil in unsicherer Zukunft in Aussicht gestellt wird. Auf der anderen Seite können wir keinen bereits exisitierenden Stamm anbieten, sondern lediglich das mögliche Potential aufzeigen und darauf hoffen, daß die Versicherer darauf eingehen. Die AXA hat dieses Problem dank des Einsatzes von Herrn Neumann erkannt und hat sich deswegen darauf eingelassen, das Potential der Flottenversicherung über einen gewissen Zeitraum zu beobachten. Sollte sich herausstellen, daß die Anzahl der Teilnehmer an der Flottenversicherung weit unter den Erwartungen verbleibt, dann besteht die Gefahr, daß die AXA das Angebot wieder zurück zieht. Da jetzt mehrere parallele Pools von unterschiedlichen Versicherern angeboten werden, besteht somit die Gefahr, daß sich die Mooneys mehr oder weniger gleichmäßig auf die einzelnen Versicherungspools aufteilen und damit die erforderliche Anzahl für ein längerfristiges Bestehen der EMPOA Flottenversicherung nicht gewährleistet ist. Das Ergebnis sollte jedem klar sein: sobald das Angebot der Flottenversicherung wieder vom Markt verschwunden ist, sehen natürlich auch die anderen Wettbewerber keinen Grund mehr, die Prämien niedrig zu halten und würden diese wieder anheben. Damit hätten wir wieder den Status Quo erreicht, der vor der Initiative der EMPOA am Markt vorgeherrscht hat und nichts erreicht!

Teilweise werben die Makler mit dem Argument, daß im Falle einer Fortführung der Versicherung mit der damit verbundenen Prämienreduktion bei dem bestehenden Versicherer keine Zahlung des Schadensfreiheitsrabatt verbunden ist. Auch hierzu möchten wir einige Worte verlieren: während unseren Verhandlungen mit den Versicherern haben wir darüber nachgedacht, ob man eine Übernahme des Schadensfreiheitsrabattes durch den neuen Versicherer mit in das Konzept einbauen soll. Wir haben uns jedoch bewusst dagegen entschieden. In erster Linie deswegen, weil wir diesen finanziellen Vorteil lieber mit in die Prämien einbauen wollten. Hätten wir die Übernahme des Schadensfreiheitsrabattes übernommen, so wären die Prämien zwangsläufig ein bißchen ungünstiger ausgefallen. Auf lange Sicht ist es jedoch vorteilhafter für alle, wenn die Prämien niedriger angesetzt sind. Darüber hinaus ist es so, daß die Flottenversicherung ebenfalls mit einem Schadensfreiheitrabatt aufwartet. Damit muss jeder Wechsler natürlich seinen Schadensfreiheitsrabatt an die bestehende Versicherung zurückzahlen, bekommt jedoch von der neuen Versicherung auch wieder einen Rabatt gewährt. Hier ist also genaues Hinschauen gefragt. Wenn man die verbesserten Konditionen der Flottenversicherung gegenüber der alten Versicherung anschaut, so sollte die Ersparnis bei der neuen Prämie ohnehin etwaige Kosten durch einen Wechsel mehr als ausgleichen.

Eine weitere Tatsache sollte darüber hinaus ebenfalls jedem Mooniac klar sein: Die Bündelung gemeinsamer Interessen und der Zusammenschluss vieler Mooney-Halter birgt noch einen entscheidenden Vorteil hinsichtlich der Verhandlungsposition im Falle der Schadensregulierung: Man hört immer wieder, daß Flugzeugbesitzer erhebliche Probleme bei der Schadensregulierung mit ihrem Versicherer haben, weil die Versicherer sich gänzlich oder teilweise weigern, den Schaden zu übernehmen, sich dabei auf zweifelhafte Begründungen berufen und sich das Verfahren über extrem lange Zeiträume hinzieht. Meistens zieht jedoch der Geschädigte als "Einzelkämpfer" letztendlich den Kürzeren, weil er alleine keine ausreichende Verhandlungsposition aufweisen kann. Im Falle der Flottenversicherung kann dies jedoch wieder ganz anders aussehen. Dort wird der Versicherer sehr darum bemüht sein, das Verhältnis zur EMPOA nicht negativ zu beeinträchtigen. Schließlich muss dieser jederzeit damit rechnen, das sich die EMPOA im Falle von unangemessenen Komplikationen nach alternativen Versicherern umschaut und mit einem Wechsel der gesammelten Flotte erhebliche Umsatzeinbußen und auch Imageverlust verbunden ist. Unter diesen Gesichtpunkten fällt dann wohlmöglich eine Entscheidung für den einzelnen Versicherungsnehmer deutlich vorteilhafter aus. Darüber hinaus ist es ein bekanntes Gesetz der Versicherungswirtschaft, daß sich Prämien überwiegend an der Schadensquote orientieren. Entsteht ein Schaden innerhalb einer großen Teilnehmerzahl so hat dies natürlich deutlich geringere Auswirkungen, als wenn ein Schaden innerhalb eines deutlich kleineren Versicherungspools entsteht.

In diesem Sinne möchten wir an dieser Stelle noch einmal eindringlich an die Solidarität der Mooniacs mit der EMPOA appelieren und im Falle einer anstehenden Entscheidung diese definitiv zu Gunsten der EMPOA-Flottenversicherung zu treffen . Wir können nicht verhindern, daß es einige "Trittbrettfahrer" bei solchen Aktionen gibt, doch wichtig ist, daß der Großteil der Mooniacs die Hintergründe und die Vorteile einer gemeinsamen Versicherung erkennt und, im Interesse eines jeden Einzelnen innerhalb der Gemeinschaft, wahrnimmt. Wir möchten dabei darauf hinweisen, daß es nicht verpflichtend ist, die EMPOA Flottenversicherung über Herrn Neumann abzuwickeln. Wer auf Grund von langjähriger Zusammenarbeit oder anderen Gründen gerne weiter bei seinem bisherigen Makler verbleiben möchte, dem ist dies natürlich freigestellt. Jeder Makler hat die Möglichkeit über Herrn Neumann die EMPOA Flottenversicherung zu vermitteln und kann dabei die verwaltungstechnischen Vorgänge übernehmen. Es ist nur wichtig, dabei ganz explizit darauf zu achten, daß die Versicherung über die AXA abgeschlossen wird und definitiv dem EMPOA Flottenpool zugeordnet ist. Wer sich dabei unsicher ist, kann jederzeit mit der EMPOA oder bei Herrn Neumann Rücksprache halten und sich eine Bestätigung einholen.

Wir hoffen, daß wir mit diesen ausführlichen Erläuterungen dem einen oder anderen die Hintergründe, Probleme aber auch Vorteile hinsichtlich der EMPOA Flottenversicherung dargestellt haben und wünschen uns natürlich, daß möglichst viele die richtige Entscheidung treffen. Zu guter Letzt, möchten wir gerne jeden Mooniac dazu ermuntern, diese Erläuterungen auch gegenüber anderen Mooniacs in die Welt zu tragen. Es ist immer noch so, daß wir einen gewissen Anteil an Mooniacs nicht erreichen, weil dieser entweder die Seite Mooney.de und die EMPOA gar nicht kennen oder nur in sehr unregelmäßigen Abständen besucht. Wenn Ihr also einen Mooniac auf dem Flugplatz trefft, dann sprecht ihn doch einfach mal an und erzählt ihm über die Angebote und Hintergründe der EMPOA. Letztendlich kann dies nur vorteilhaft für alle sein!

Wir wünschen Euch allen "many happy landings" und eine Gute Zeit.

Mit fliegerischen Grüßen

Der EMPOA Vorstand
i.V. Thomas Hamacher