Recent content by Warmi

I think you are right on the money with LSA, and if Mosaic goes thru then , unless you are flying commercially, there is absolutely no reason to waste thousands of dollars on potentially risky SI where a refusal can end up closing the door for good.

Looks like this post is from somebody at the company .. https://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=2318847 Bottom line is sales have fallen consistently over the years. The reasons for this can be attributed to many things but a big part of this is due to the change in LSA regs in the...

Looks like Bushcat is no more …. I heard that their sales went down significantly and it is Mosaic related …. https://www.fly-aerosport.com/bushcat-light-sport

Sparker is the next generation of their Sting line - my Sting S4 , which Sparker is replacing , was selling for about $140k back in the day and their new Sparker is something like $420k - I know inflation and everything but that’s over 3 times as much for what is basically , a retract + Rotax...

Retracts seem to be more common in EU , most likely because they dont carry this sort of huge insurance penalty they do around here but I dont know for sure …

I own a similar carbon fiber light-sport and got 500 hours on it - it is incredibly fun to fly but it is no Cirrus and the main difference is to get it under 1320 lbs limit , the design is by necessity just not as robust and does not have as much error margin build in as you get with larger...

Perform , perhaps but don not forget this plane is half the size and gross of a Cirrus so there will significant differences in terms of how it rides in anything else than smooth air, overall durability etc … These two planes are just different - one is a cross country cruiser while the other...

If all they do is increase screen size without increasing actual resolution then that is just a Pyrrhic victory …

I was talking about their legal system - the fact that GA is practically dead over there is for other reasons ( think FAA silliness but x 10 ) but it is not because of lawyers …

Nah , just something a bit more sane like .. is don’t know Europe ? Normally I don’t bring Europe as an example since I left that place for a reason but in some cases they they do manage it a bit better and this is one of them.

Thats exact why am I bitching about it :) … together with politicians ( majority of whom started out as lawyers anyway ) they have created a system so complicated that it is dangerous to make any decision without a team of lawyers checking and re-checking everything. And no , I am not talking...

Exactly , this supposedly “free” market is struggling and frankly slowly dying due to circumstances that are not too dissimilar to whats ailing Cuban automotive ( and just about all other ) “markets”

But thats like claiming that automotive markets in places like Cuba are basically healthy with just about everyone driving increasingly older and junkier 50 years old cars with just a few folks being able to afford new models - after all demand is being met in both markets …

No wonder they sell maybe a few hundred total … what used to be a product that was somewhat affordable to upper middle class and professionals is now pretty much entirely reserved for multimillionaires …

Rotax 915/916 modded to 180 HP with 160 hp continuous. There are a few LSA manufacturers in Europe who started offering this one as an option. https://shop.edgeperformance.no/produkt/aviation-engines/ep-boxer-motorer/ep917ti-180hp-turbo-efi-fadec