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- Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:06 am
- Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
- Topic: Delete
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13451
Re: Have You Ever Considered Quitting Flying
I quit when I had my daughter. There's an immense challenge in getting a license and it changes you as a person. I'm now able to multi-task at work better than I ever have before. And I'm able to deal with short-term stress much better than ever before. What made it easy to shelve flying was a limit...
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 12:04 pm
- Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
- Topic: Bloomberg Video & Article on ICON A5 in NYC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3033
Re: Bloomberg Video & Article on ICON A5 in NYC
I have a soft spot for the A5. I read about it in a Gizmodo article, and one week later I was at Chesapeake Sport Pilot taking a discovery flight. Here I am a Light Sport Pilot. I know its not the smartest LSA purchase out there. Lots of other planes have much better value. But like the iPhone I bel...
- Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:59 pm
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: I'm 63 today~the future of Gen Aviation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3409
Re: I'm 63 today~the future of Gen Aviation
I got involved in flying at age 27 with no elements in my life predisposing me to take up the hobby.
What got me to take a discovery flight was seeing the Icon A5 shown on a gadget website I frequent.
What got me to continue taking lessons was an instructor who embraced technology.
What got me to take a discovery flight was seeing the Icon A5 shown on a gadget website I frequent.
What got me to continue taking lessons was an instructor who embraced technology.
- Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:04 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: How much time?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7423
Re: How much time?
Solo'd at like 17, licensed at 48.
- Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:41 am
- Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
- Topic: Icon, the good the bad and the ugly.
- Replies: 169
- Views: 50606
Re: Icon, the good the bad and the ugly.
The weight restriction on light sport aircraft is so arbitrary. If they're able to create a spin resistant airframe that still fits within all of the LSA performance requirements then who cares how much it weighs?
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:10 pm
- Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
- Topic: Cirrus to make Icon A5
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5869
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:50 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: PiperSport training and sales in Gaithersburg, MD
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9458
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:29 am
- Forum: Safety Corner
- Topic: Please help me make sense of this light sport fatal accident
- Replies: 50
- Views: 26194
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:11 pm
- Forum: Safety Corner
- Topic: Please help me make sense of this light sport fatal accident
- Replies: 50
- Views: 26194
It costs something like $10,000 which is not covered by most insurance to pull the chute. Virtually none of the emergency procedure practice I did ever even paid attention to the chute - they didn't want you to pull it. It was an absolute last resort and I'll bet most flight schools teach it the exa...
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:48 am
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: I am now a sport pilot
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2952
- Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:47 am
- Forum: Ask The Insurance Agent
- Topic: Insurance-saved $400 by one day
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18492
- Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:27 am
- Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
- Topic: Sky Arrow back in production...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12729
- Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:16 am
- Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
- Topic: Icon A5... your thoughts and opinions?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 48722
The Icon A5 is the best thing that's happened to aviation recruitment. Possibly second only to the introduction of the Light Sport license. Let's face it, general aviation has an 'older person' feel to it. When many people are flying around in orange planes from the 60's and 70's, and the cost is so...
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:21 am
- Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
- Topic: Floatplane/Amphibious Maintenance - worth it?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12449
- Tue May 08, 2012 11:56 am
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: leaseback
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4032
I did a fair amount of research on this. It seems that for every positive experience, there are at least seven negative experiences. My conclusion was that it's generally a very bad method that pilots use to afford to own an airplane. A plane share or flying club are better solutions for ownership i...