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I think this is why ease of construction is important. If you're building an RV, you know that you've got 3000 hours of bucking rivets ahead of you, so it's largely only going to be taken on by people who know that they'll enjoy spending years building the thing. If you can build an aircraft in...

The obvious answer (if the owner was prepared to let you fly the plane in the first place) would be to ask them to put you in contact with their CFI who would do the checkout for you. Or is your suspicion here that once they soloed they decided a student cert was enough, and they never bothered...

Yikes, looks like Skyreach just stopped making the BushCat:

Related to this Icon thread, where the suggestion is made that we need a sub-$100k airplane: https://pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/icon-spirals-in.146811/post-3506186 How could such an airplane be made? Let's assume such an airplane would be a two-seater, VFR only. I think it's worth...

Do you think they would move out of the hangars when the plane is complete?

Wait, are you throwing shade on the airport or the city?

There's an aviation maintenance course at the college of Alameda, and their workshops are right next to Oakland International, I believe. https://alameda.edu/home/business-entrepreneurship-transportation/aviation-maintenance-technology-amt/ Might be fun if Oakland or San Francisco are your kind...

Despite all the hate, I think this is quite a neat idea. It would be cool to have something that could give you two minutes of power - just enough to get you back to the airport if you had an engine failure of takeoff. I like the idea of replacing something that's already there (the starter...

and then... did you go to college twice?

If you're interested in doing any of your own maintenance, you might consider joining your local EAA chapter. As well as being able to give you advice about that stuff, they might have valuable experience of buying experimental aircraft.

My assumption is that it will make things like the Texas judge reversing the FDA's approval of an abortion drug more common and more likely to succeed: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abortion-pill-case-texas-judge-halts-access-mifepristone-rcna72117

My theory is that the people in charge of providing a lot of this funding are wishcasting. They live is an urban area like the bay area or NYC and are dismayed by the amount of time they spend on highways between San Francisco, Mountain View, San Jose, and whatever extremely expensive...

Maybe your needs might be served by being part of a small club or partnership? Whatever happens, it sounds like you could do with a better solution for your flying while you're in the process of choosing a plane/ waiting for the kit/ building the plane anyway. Have a look at...

I do wonder if it's that he's looking at the instruments. Like, if you ban him from looking inside, would that help? Also it's worth trying to ensure he's not hot, as you're much more likely to feel ill if you're hot and sweaty. I don't really know if this transfers to flying, but with VR...

To be honest if I had wasps in the cockpit I would pull the ejection seat too

I think the whole point is that they want to use the ASTM standards rather than certification, in the same way that LSAs do. Vans already sells a factory-built LSA, so I imagine it would be more of the same, except with more capable planes. Likewise, LSAs can use non-certified avionics, so I...

A big thing they mention in the document is that they are trying to move more people from experimental planes to mLSA. Certified planes have a better safety record than experimental planes, and the safety record of LSA planes falls somewhere between the two. The FAA is hoping that many...

I know a lot of people are saying "Why can't they make the 54KTS limit apply to VS0 instead of VS1"?, but the FAA is using the stall speed as a rough proxy for aircraft weight, and gross weight is proportional to the square of the stall speed. The FAA obviously considers 3000lbs to be a good...

I think that's only the case if the instructor is a CFI. If the instructor only holds a CFI-S, then those hours do not count towards a PPL.

Well, the Tecnam 2006T has two 100HP engines, and it has a max cruise speed of 145 knots, so a bit less than that? ... but that's ignoring the extra 700lbs of empty weight and at least six extra square feet of fuselage frontal area that his next-gen raptor has.