Jetlike Evolution Is A Speed Machine On A Budget 

We’ve owned ours since 2018 and all I can say is I’m in love with it. It’s a winged greyhound that is fast and efficient that gets you cross country fast and in comfort. Basically it’s a 4 seat airliner. At cruise altitude with its 18:1 glide ratio you are within glide range of an airport in the continental U.S. What else can make that claim? I moved up from a Cessna Turbo Cardinal RG which I flew for 20 years prior and the transition was pretty manageable. I fly ours about 150 hrs a year (mostly for business) and feel very comfortable with it. Operating costs too are quite reasonable. Now the down side: This is serious transportation where you’re mixing it up with the bigger iron up in the flight levels. Things happen faster than in lower and slower piston platforms and the avionics/automation (G1000/GFC700) has a fairly steep learning curve at least it was for me. If you aren’t proficient with it or get behind the plane you can get into trouble fast. This is not your casual Sunday go around the patch plane. This is a fast serious XC transportation that requires proficiency, good habits, experience and the discipline to use and fly by checklists. If you’re not committed to learning it’s systems, getting good transition & recurrent training (David Robinson at Elite Pilot Services) and fly it enough to stay proficient then the Evo isn’t for you.

No such thing as a plane on a 'budget', either you are rich enough not to care about the price, or you can't afford it.

Love the enthusiasm!

Shoot! I should have looked for you there! This is a great plane!

The Evolution is definitely an awesome plane.

Thank you for the details such a wonderful bird

They are built 10 miles from my house; this is one pretty speed machine

good video, Sir. Keep them coming.

Nice speed with excellent work as well.

It’s that sweet spot of price performance and efficiency

Another great video Mike. Thanks

Excellent vid Mike. A great kite indeed.

Beautiful.

Beautiful plane 🛬 ty big mike! Still the best aviation channel 😀

Beautiful! All I can ever do is dream to fly a plane like this one! As close as I can come is flying the Evolution in my X-plane simmer 🤑

That is a Sleek and Beautiful Plane, Looks Super Fast just sitting there!

Wow, what an airplane good job and thanks for the tour ?

😎👍 High speed, low drag.

Thanks...... Great Fast airplane!!!!

Love the Pratt and Whitney turbine engines, a great reliable engine. This plane rocks and so do you Mike!! Good seeing you there right after you completed your video. Thanks for the picture!Allan from Canada 👍🏻

Sick airplane

Hey Mojo, thanks for the cool video. I have been a Cirus Vision fan ... ut it looks like I am switching teams !! CHEERS Dark Arrow was a thought for a bit ..

It's a sweet design

Nice plane, good video description.

Cool plane, well done my friend. I want one.

That’s a definitely a beautiful airplane

It is a beautiful aircraft

Hopefully JMB can revitalize the plane. I know they are working hard at it, but still much to be done. Insurance costs will be a big issue until they can get more flight hours logged.

On a "budget"? A budget of several million bucks, plus YOU have to build it yourself, it's a KIT.

Nice Video, nice aircraft! What do you think about the LX7 Piston/LX7 Turboprop?

Sweet whip

This is the ideal airplane for MojoGrip. This is the one he should be flying. Fly to KWVI and lunch is my treat.

Love your enthusiasm. Keep it up! I’m curios as to why you didn’t say anything about the LX7 that was developed to correct some of the flaws in the Evolution and previous versions of the Lancair IV.

I absolutely love your videos! You're definitely one of the very best ones out there doing it! Thank you for them. Keep them coming!!!!

Awesoness

I was going to build or buy one before Lancair went out of business. I demo’d 3 of them. All 3 had the smell of jet A in the cabin. There is good info on the LOBO forum. If they have the extended range fuel tanks you get Jet A fumes in the cabin

Mike, your excitement is off the charts in this video! Does JMB have a presence in the US, or did everything move to Europe? 😃

amazing bird,,, think they even have a vl3 2 seat turbine :))

Hi Mike, could you tell me, you made a video of Lancair Mako and Lancair LX7 in the past years. Can you tell me, the cabin area of these aircrafts, especially in rear seats are the same as in evolution aircraft? It seems to me that evolution aircraft is a little bit bigger than Lancair!

Have you had the chance to fly one yet? Nice looking plane!!

I too love the original Evolution. I do not love how expensive it is to build and operate. “On a budget” is relative.

The big piston is nice too . Or the small turbine Good range . I bet that 67 is insane though

I have owned and flown both the -135 and the -42 versions. I prefer the -42 powerplant.

The fact that their demo aircraft is 12 years old tells me everything I need to know about the health of that company. Sorry I’m not spending turbo prop money on a garage built aircraft put together on a shoe string budget.

l built an test flew first lancair 320 in nc kfay 93'-96'. With my friend.

Some cockpit with that turbine?

After the actual cost, plus paying for the certs to bring you up to speed to even consider flying a high performance aircraft, this is NOT a budget airplane at all! At least not for common folk! Let’s keep it in reality Mojo! But, I absolutely support your purchase of one! 👍🏽💯

We have the same taste. I think every plane you've showcased I love it too! LOL And now, this one is added to the list. I love TBM's. But, this would be a great plane to have to me. I hope it's added into MSFS 2024. I'm 6'0" and the backseat does concern me. I would have to hope that the pilot and/or co-pilot are shorter than me. Heh Oh wait, I'll be the pilot! Nevermind.

Man that makes me want some mini thins now 😂

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Hooray you did a video from the back seat its got the lenght just a lil narrow, the next best value is the Velocity at 250kts or DA50 albeit slower. Thanks 🙌

Vision Jet allday 😄

Id love to see this aircraft with a single seat or a tandem seat configuration. Make it more like a fighter than a family aircraft.

Needs a RED V12 engine!

Poor Mojo! Still at Sun N Fun! ;). I LOVE this plane too!!! Talk about super high performance! But, does it come with a 'parachute'? :p It is deceptively roomy...

Nice video, I still prefer the pc12 😅.

Hey Mike what about the LX7? That plane has a turboprop and it’s just as fast and costs way less. Can you talk about it or make another video on the LX7? It would be nice to see you fly both piston and turbo prop versions.

Correct me please, but at that altitude… does it have de icing wings?

Is it Fiki? If not I could see getting into A lot of trouble in a hurry

Can it come with de ice boots or bleed air?

Budget ?

uau!!

Do you just like MARPAT, or were you in the Marines??

It's cruise speed is 300kts at altitude. I'm surprised it's max indicated airspeed is just 256kts. It looks like it would have a higher VNE than that. My Glasair 3's VNE is 291kts. But look at what those 3s did in Reno. Way over that. And with pumped up piston power.

When you see the spec sheet, the Vne (never exceed speed) is 474km/h but cruise speed is 555 km/h. Error perhaps?

So some one bought the rights to the old Lancair Evolution. It has way under designed front landing gear. It was a kit build with Factory help at Lancair. Not sure how many they made before Lancair went under.

What about air taxis and why aren’t these equipped with radio or television for entertainment like a land vehicle even comfort ?

The issue is actually buying this thing, I'm spoken to the factory and they haven't even delivered their first one yet, they seem very excited by their VL3 and I wonder how committed they are long term to actually making these, I would love to buy this but I'm concerned about long term viability given their current focus being elsewhere. Did you get a chance to ask them about this at the event?

Early on I saw this plane and fell in love with it. Beautiful and with a turbine up front, fast, fast, fast....unfortunately, it is expensive, expensive, expensive🥵

Does this plane have FIKI?

I love it! But at that price, I’d rather have a TBM for more space, in spite of the fuel burn.

The Tbm is a Ford F-150 compared to this sleek sporty rocket.

That thing is sexy. Looks like 500 kts sitting still.

Thanks!

Seriously considering? You have 4 million just kicking around?

Young Mans / Test Pilot’s Airplane 🤣 Right it is fast looking 👏👏👏

Isnt this a JMB Evolution, and not a Lancair Evolution like you mentioned?

mans said "3 storey building." He is 100% naija. IYKYK

The cost of maintain your authority to fly a turbine is never mentioned in videos about these type of aircraft

a)what about insurance, or the lack there of. b) ice protection on the wings, there is none. for a plane dsigned for the FL no FIKI is a deal breaker.

When you said ‘on a budget’ you meant a pretty big budget, right! 😂 Seriously though, it is a stunning aircraft

Yea sure, all insurance companies want to know if your IFR, got 10,000 HOURS, before even wasting time with the riffraff who dream.

How hard is it to insure it? 🤔

"... on a budget." Wish I had the "budget" to afford one of these.

Yes, this aircraft is quite high performance. One of my favorites in the X-Plane 12 flight sim. (ツ) ☕☕(ツ)

🆒😎🤘!

On a budget? Well, I guess it’s all relative.

This is an Experimental airplane with no support/it has a lot of problems / I have one

Rich guys fun! Working people need not apply.

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I love the plane, but it has no deicing. So, it's something I would never pay that much money for without that feature among a few other things.

I get the idea, it just doesn't work in practice at 1.7million dollars. It probably has exotic climb but it's only marginally faster than the piston Lancair IV-P at 1/6 the price and half the fuel burn and a tiny fraction of the service cost. A turboprop is the worst of both worlds. Jet price at piston speed and piston noise and looks. if turboprops were somehow reasonably priced and jet engines were not then maybe, theoretically. but they really really are not. You can get an Eclipse for less, it's far more roomy, 30% faster and might even match the fuel economy if it can fly that slow. What JMB should do is make the turbofan engines for a light pressurized 4 seater. That has potential. P&W's 1 million dollar bs doesn't fly.

on a budget… 1.7 mil 😢

Got IFR and 10,000 hours? Then forget it, you’re not getting insurance. They don’t want losers.

Great airplane until the windshield fails at FL 270. Try to get insurance on this platform.

You can have it for a couple million. Oh yeah budget plane. Get real mike

You only need 1200 feet of runway to land . Yeah okay buddy

Wait, how can max cruise be 300 but Vne is 256??

The Cirrus Vision is faster, this plane just climbs quicker.

Doesn’t get love because of it’s accident record. Can’t get insurance for a reason