We knew long before we touched down at KBFI that there was an insurance issue. We had enough time to work out staging from Renton to do our rides. There was plenty of time to work out any issue. In fact we were stuck in Hoquiam due to weather and right up to the minute we left for Boeing we had an alternate plan if needed. I hope next year this issue is resolved.
jim
Speedy wrote:
So here's the situation...and perhaps those of you with rather thin skin need to reel your comments back in. I read some of these comments on here and just shake my head. Are you guys still on the grade school playground?
I actually had a face-to-face with the King County people involved, and since I work for King County I didn't get the 'canned answer'. The issue here is that ironically King County and the Collings Foundation have the SAME insurance agency, and what happend was two different underwriters for the same organization feeding two different sets of requirements and numbers to their specific client. So you have the insurance agency telling the county 'oh, you guys need to have THIS much insurance for that group to be selling rides out of your airport', and yet telling the Collings Foundation "no, you guys only need to carry THIS much to fly out of there"...which happend to be a significant amount of money apart.
This apparently didn't come to light until the planes had actually touched-down at Boeing Field. As it was related to me, BOTH parties tried to make something happen, but the stumbling block was with the insurance carrier. In the end, King County would have had to make up the difference on their own in order to make something happen within the time period the planes were scheduled to be there, and it's not in the budget. Trust me, it's not in the budget.
However, King County did get a very large amount of response from the warbird community in response to this, so they have already been working with both Collings and the insurance company to make sure everyone is on the same page for next year...or more important that both sides of the underwriters at the insurance carrier are actually talking to each other and working together instead of dividing and giving each party conflicting numbers.