Recent content by Warmi

Well, that looked more like a botched landing on a roof rather than anything else … perhaps all roof landings should qualify as botched but I don’t wish to be too judgmental on a Friday afternoon…

I still think that a medically handicapped individual driving a 5000 lbs truck, in case of a catastrophic accident, is more likely to cause serious harm ( both financial and medical ) driving on a busy city street or a highway than a similar person crashing his 172 on what most likely would be...

Yes, it is like taking your cruiser motorcycle for trip around US…. yes, it will be a lot of fun but you have to pack lightly and it is not a particularly practical way of getting somewhere on any kind of schedule - in fact, the process of getting there is the fun part.

With the jury system in place, short of gross and obvious negligence, your liability is mostly function of how skilled are your and your opponent lawyers - a particularly gifted ********ter (aka lawyer), can always make a jury swaying case that a lot more could have been done to address whatever...

Rotax 915is sells for around 50k.

I own this factory made plane https://www.tl-ultralight.cz/en/ultralight-aircraft/tl-2000-sting-s4. ( Rotax 912 ULS ) and currently building another plane https://www.flyinglegendusa.com/ ( Rotax 915is )

The age old dillema - how much you are willing to pay to minimize your risk and how to define the sweet spot for this tradeoff - I am afraid there is no a collective answer here that works for everybody …

It is not the engines thats the problem, it is the custom stuff like gearbox and other add ons.

The guy who owns the company is the company. If he retires or simply decides to wrap it up ( as he has done in the past ) what are you gonna do in terms of maintenance ? Rotax has been around for 100 years and selling this particular line of engines since 1980s - nothing is ever certain but but...

Garmin Pilot for me

No need , you are safer there by something like a factor of 10 than on any glider …

I believe a plane like ATR 72 may actually not be recoverable in certain spin scenarios ( depending on COG configuration ) ….

Just another example of natural limitations of the see-and-avoid policy.

Well, death or “a lot of trouble” …. decisions, decisions….

Markets will recover , inflation related money value drop never does ( even though inflation itself may eventually disappear )