@@delawarepilot Seriously. Its a true shame, and videos like these that call these 200k airplanes "affordable" or "cheap" just rub salt in the wound. I love the phoenix LSA. Beautiful aircraft with impressive performance. Its too bad that all the LSA manufacturers completely missed the point of the LSA category, which was to create entry level aircraft that would help people get into aviation at a reasonable cost.
glider - high aspect ratio wing, not a speed break but a spoiler to disrupt the lift not slow down, great description of the panel (!). a great (!) comprehensive video once again from the moj.
As far as the thumbnail is concerned, I got my zenith 601XL for 29k and I get just barely under 30mpg as long as I fly 100mph true... I just don't see the point of trying to market to budget flyers if the product is a quarter mil
They also increase drag this is their primary function, rdducing lift to drag ratio to let you get down and stopped in a short distance. They reduce lift coefficient but that is not a desirable function during landing, its an accepted secondary effect.
Two words: Recreational fun. 35' wingspan without wing extensions, 49' with. The two items you're looking at on the ground between the main landing gear are wingtips that side into place when flying without the wing extensions installed. 32:1 glide ratio - not bad recreational performance (comparison: Blanik L-23 is 28:1). Not sure where cost could be trimmed to get the price down. It looks way heavy on avionics, maybe some $avings there? How "basic" would/could be basic, and get closer to +/- $150K?
It's how far the Glider will go for a certain loss of height . A glide ratio of 30 to one means the Glider will fly 30, 000 feet for a height loss of 1000 feet . There is an Italian Glider called an ETA which has a 30 metre wingspan and an incredible glide ratio of 70 to one ..
Nice glide ratio, even better than Risen. Quite a bit actually. But they don't write fuel burn anywhere... presumably that would be one of its strengths... they had one job. They don't write fuel capacity either. They had two jobs. From the payload and full fuel payload we can say it takes 150bls of fuel, roughly 87 liters. From the claimed range and cruise speed that's about 11liters per hour or 3gph. Of mogas. What they could do is make a wing with less lift, a wing for higher speed. Let's say it could go 300km/h, close to a Cirrus SR22 yet vastly lower fuel burn. That would make it way more interesting. It would need to be CS23 or simply stretch the definition of LSA which Bristell gets away with. But a plane like this seems so simple and robust it should be easy to get proper certified.
True, the high-performance gliders - single-place - reach into that glide ratio. 32:1 is NOT a brick. There are plenty of gliders (non-powered) that have lower than 32:1. For a two-place motor glider, 32:1 is pretty good.
@@adenwellsmith6908 Okay...? The point is 32:1 is not a "brick", and the higher the glide ratio, the high the price. Jonker's JS5 is a 24m, single-place - yet to be certified - glider. Can't find a proposed price or release date.
