Today's EAA e-Hotline has a Member Benefit Spotlight devoted to Transition Training and LODAs. I clicked on the list of LODA Holders in the article and browsed the list. One of the most widely publicized holders of an LODA is Sonex Aircraft, which has had its transition training program featured in EAA publications. When you look at the list under Wisconsin, guess who isn't on the list: Sonex Aircraft. In fact, there isn't a singe LODA holder for Sonex on the list in any state as of today.
The NTSB has recommended that "EAA create and publish a repository of voluntarily provided information regarding holders of LODAs to conduct flight instruction in experimental aircraft." Sonex is right across the field from EAA and has been featured in several aviation publications. How can they be omitted from the LODA holders list? I will give EAA a big fat F for their LODA listing, especially since the FAA and NTSB are asking EAA to step forward and do it. In this area they're abysmal. Maybe Jeremy's being shy, but I don't think that's in his nature.