What a phenomenal all-around package! Thanks to AOPA to highlighting the manufacturers, suppliers and installers who transformed this incredible aircraft.
I cannot wait to just sit in the hanger and play with the panel... I've been behind on posting videos but can promise some serious YT channel travel posts with this thing...What a plane, what a panel.... 0MG!!
Plus he kept laughing at awkward times, kind of making the whole interview in front of a camera more awkward than it had to be. Dude just needs to relax and pretend the camera isn't there.
I wish I could afford to build one! I have a buddy almost finished with his. It’s a great plane. I guess I’ll be happy with my partnership in an older 172! Take care.
Great giveaway prize. Basically superior to a Cirrus SR22, particularly in running costs. Anecdotally I get the impression that certified planes break down at least as much as amateur builts and the 737 max situation or dreamliner fires aren't really vouching for the much dreaded certification process either so it seems like great opportunity for something better. Certified didn't help Kobe either. Flying old junk because it's "certified". One bizarrely obvious first step would be to let factories build "experimentals" as perhaps a new class called uncertified or certified but not allowed for commercial pax use. It's difficult to argue high safety standard in complete amateur builds over factory with a reputation on the line. And if an inspector is to look over an amateur built to approve it, couldn't the FAA have guys that more thoroughly went over a prototype plane and asked them questions about how it has been done and their thinking on various common points and some stress tests and that be enough to certify it? let's say they have to declare supplier of the sheet alu or fiber glass and if they need to change supplier they tell FAA and maybe send a sample piece for strength test. And if they want to change the wing construction, pay for flying an FAA guy down and maybe he asks to see a 9g static wing load and listen to the sounds it makes. And if he thinks it's and iffy construction and they insist then show him 20g load. And if stuff can be classified as non safety critical like a seat then make the certification process inspector simple. Or non critical by way of ample redundancy like having two or three glass panels, don't go crazy on the certification process. Let glass be cost effective and frequently renewed. Just try not to be the cause of a fire. If one should fail, it's not necessarily the end of the world when you have two or three. Years of succesful use in experimentals could also be weighed in the certification process. Because I have electric car electronics engineering knowledge I happen to know that the lithium battery design on the dreamliner was quite amateur/incompetent and they used the most dangerous battery type because Kokam was the only product certified for aviation. When any odd LifePo battery would be vastly safer. That's a special kind of unfortunate bureaucracy. FAA sounds to me like very reasonable people when I have heard about them so maybe a meeting of minds can be very fruitful and really move GA forward. I can see how airliners can be heavy to certify but small planes feel so manageable something very beneficial should be possible.
I love the look of the plane. I just went through an airworthiness inspection on a RV14A I just finished. I couldn’t help but notice that the N number doesn’t meet the instructions that I received. It said that the number needed to be contrasting. The N26 are the same color as the background. Is this legal?
Didn’t spend too much time on the parachute subject, right up to the point where repack costs every ten years comes into the conversation. Now we want to know how much the insurance comp. will knock off their crazy rates to offset the repack cost.
been a member since 1988 and never won. I just am not that luck but this would be the perfect aircraft for what i would want to do with one. I would like to know more about the avionics and how they work. Does it have a flight director and aut pilot. I hear more about Garmin so I know little about Avidyn.
IFR with those avionics? Do the avionics need certifying? I want to build but not sure how much of avionics savings are lost by needing certified for IFR?
During the install of the avionics where did the circuit breakers get relocated to? Diamond aircraft really needs to take a look at this aircraft and take notes on how to do avionics.
i was waiting to see a more hands on so to speak walk around ,touch ,push ,climb up sit down ,wiggle the wings ,push down at the dorsil fin etc.want to see its strength ,stability ,so on.Avionics is ok ,thats all.
Why do you ask a question and then interrupt the answer with some stupid comment? It would’ve been a great interview and walk around but you ruined it by interrupting his explanation of what the viewer is interested in and wanting to know more about the airplane.
