The Toyota Prius Of The Skies - Pipistrel Virus 

Oops- wish I had looked at prior posts more carefully. You covered it more eloquently than I did!

Haha!

sameee

same

its not there and not available for reviews yet

the yellow one is a ranger AR by silverlight aviation. mike has done videos on these before

I’ll be googling that immediately 😆 Edit: After this video

Ford Pinto had a name change too in Latin America (it means penis in spanish and portuguese).

Dylan Baxter I heard the same thing about Nova in school, but I learned recently that the Nova story is an urban legend - the Nova sold quite well in Spanish speaking countries. The word means the same in Spanish as in English - all in the pronunciation. Kind of like “notable furniture” in English, we wouldn’t think this means “no table furniture” because of how it’s said.

@@ashsmitty2244 No va - "doesn't go" lol

If we're doing names that didn't go well in Spanish.. Don't forget the Mitsubishi Pajero.. lol.

Not bureaucracy. It's odd outdated traditions and fear from all the participants of GA (pilot-owners, aircraft manufacturers, engine manufacturers, regulators) to try new stuff. Just look at Lycoming & Comtinental engines - they are old as shit! The design goes back to 1930s-1940s. Rotax is way more advanced, economic and reliable. But unfortunately they don't build 6-cylinder powerful engines. Nor 4-cylinder powerful engines. I thing somebody in USA "insistently asked" Rotax (or the BRP) NOT to built such engines. Americans understand this and now and then try to install modern car engines on their planes, thus going experimental only. However, modern, say, Ford V6 3.5 Biturbo from F-150 Raptor is a very yammy spice on an airplane! Powerful, electronically controlled, lightweight, liquid cooled, economical... Americans try to save money by retaining old familiar technologies. Europeans have less money and substantially higher prices on fuel, so they try to save money by going into new design decisions. For instance Dimond DA-42 and DA-62. Both have Austro engines, which in fact are modernized Mercedes-Benz 2.0 liter in line four turbo diesel engines. One hole cylinder block, liquid cooling, electronic control, always turbo, of course fuel injected and!.. They use the jet fuel which is cheaper than the avgas.

@@aleksandrnestrato It's not outdated traditions or bureaucracy, it's the shitty nature of families of a couple idiots who died in aircrafts to start suing the manufacturer. A new Cessna 170 when they came out in the 1950's adjusted for inflation in 2021 only costs about $87,000. In the 70's and 80's, some idiots started dying and their families filed lawsuits that crippled the aviation manufacturers like Cessna who did not have large reserves due to private aviation at the time being a low margin industry. Those families also petitioned the FAA to heavily regulate private aviation to the point where most of the cost of a private aviation plane is now just testing of parts for FAA certification, and added buffer margin to protect companies from going under due to litigation. Cost of materials and assembly of a plane does not cost much at all. Honestly, just buy a reputable experimental plane kit, like those from Van's and register it as a amateur homemade plane by assembling it yourself so you can get around all the BS regulations. If you can't do it yourself, just find a experienced auto motive welder and a good auto mechanic to assemble it for you, not that hard to have a good reliable new plane with modern avionics nowadays for the same price as in the 1950's when adjusted for inflation. Might be a good idea to do it before the FAA closes this loophole for good in the future.

It sure gets better gas mileage than a Prius that's going 150mph lol

Crit Fish very funny, man.

Best PIP comment ever! Aeronautical comedy is born.

Hahaha

lmao.....ohhhh...my goodness!!!

Crit Fish very good

Yeah, and most people get training before buying an aircraft. I've got my PPL but still ways off from buying an airplane. Sure as hell ain't gonna get a Cessna or any of the other dinosaurs. Flown a DA-40, 3 times. Night and day compared to the C-172 or 182

Carl Turner could have looked it up faster than writing that comment.

May i ask the cost/price per hour ?

I don‘t know the cost per hour. The price of the plane is > 100.000€

I mean, name a 2-seater that is cheaper? Brand new, no 50 y/o C-152, plz

Where did you read that??

@@ammerudgrenda didn't read it I'm a aircraft engineer with 20yrs experience and that fact is one of the things iv learnt over the years

In fact, they are very comfortable. (I fly a Virus every week)

I kinda like it

No, but he's been flying a Sling TSI which is the next best thing.

@@thisismagacountry1318 Yup. Also trained in a Sling-2 and loved them. Pipersport SportCruiser are also good. But, both cruise at only like 100 TAS. Virus would do 120 TAS. the 150 they boast is an exaggeration as much as the 120 TAS is for Sling-2.

It gets 120-125kt at 5gph. But, still very impressive

Don't think that you need a license. I am a sport pilot and I am heading to florida to get my PPGR. No medical, flight to 17999, fly internationally and at night.

Yes

I think if you modify the LSA version to add key features like the variable pitch prop, it becomes an experimental in the USA. BUT it can be registered as an experimental powered glider in which case you can still fly it without a 3rd class medical.

@@Tharkunify A person can get the private pilot glider rating with the powered glider sign off and the light sport rules do no apply concerning 10000 ft limit. Can fly it to 17999

Flex

Standard is 100 liters or 26 US gallons.

@@MarkRose1337 Thank you

Flaps + alerons in one

Can it be flown with just a glider rating?

Right! Or a pipistrel virus. Wonder why he chose the sling??? They prolly gave him a fattt discount to promote it on his channel.

Thought this was the flight design video

@@Iseejas I'll bet you are right about the discount.

@@Iseejas Apples and oranges comparison. The Sling TSI he is building is a 4 place cruiser and stable IFR platform. The Virus is a highly efficient 2 seater which can almost serve as a motor glider.

@@Tharkunify yeah been researching lately and see the advantages a sling tsi has to offer compared to the flight design and pipistrel. Guess I was being biased with my own future plane mission goals.

I think he is comparing the fuel economy. 50 MPG in the Virus, around the same for a Prius. So hybrid-like economy in an aircraft.

You can purchase pure electric version but he was talking more about efficiency of this plane

Considering what an uninspiring and awful drive a Prius is, it's a bad analogy. You're not driving like this in a Prius: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vPep1MHJX3s.html

Scott must live in "Barthelona"? who cares how you pronounce it. Pronounce it "Virus", scott just hates that pronunciation cause it reminds him of his STDs

paige c I live in the south of England. I just don’t understand how a presenter can not know how to pronounce the name of the plane he is reviewing. If I can’t trust him to get the name right why should I believe anything else he says. PS childish reference to STDs .

i get where you're coming from, i was joking anyways. cheers.

It is a French word and that is, more or less, how it is pronounced.

@@garthly yeah was having a bad day.. He called things out wrong many times in the past don't know why it bugs me so much.. But like I said was having a bad day so I couldn't keep my mouth shut this time