AOPA fly-in this weekend.

[justjoe]

$2.35 million. Merely pocket change.
https://www.controller.com/listings/...us-vision-sf50

[aviator]

Starting northof 3 mil

[Flyboy]

[cabnfvr]

2 guys dropped a single engine with chute near Mt Mitchell a week or so back. Walked away!!

[Loggiebone]

$2.35 million. Merely pocket change.
https://www.controller.com/listings/...us-vision-sf50

[aviator]

They can ring you UP Doug, depending on what you want in it. A small cooler will be about 50K.

[955i]

Mani, was the Staggerwing a popular hit, or is it a plane like that is of interest only to oldsters like me?

The Diamond twin is an interesting looking airplane. I am not sure I am in love with the looks, but there is something about it that draws my eye. Few ugly planes have ever been very good. The saying is that if it looks right, it will probably fly right. The Diamond looks "right" to me.

BTW, the yellow RV10 looks finished. Is it ready to go?

[aviator]

The Staggerwing was a super hit. Like all planes Beech made, a beautiful airplane.
The RV10 is fully flying. AOPA bought it from a guy in Canada as their sweepstakes plane. Drawing in 2020.

[aviator]

Well, what do you know!
I just got an email from John King from King Schools saying the suggestions I had made, fixed him.
Nice of him to give me a heads up.
Dont know if yall know who he is. He and his wife Martha have taught ground school through videos for years and years, now in their 80s maybe and still fly themselves in a Citation jet.

[aviator]

The one Tim was referring to:

[955i]

I don't get pulling a chute on a plane unless it has a structural failure, you're over horrible terrain, or it's some other horrendous situation. If I had even a small clearing and some airspeed, I think I'd rather crash land than pull the chute. I could "fly it all the way to the scene of the crash." Maybe that's just me.

[aviator]

I don't get pulling a chute on a plane unless it has a structural failure, you're over horrible terrain, or it's some other horrendous situation. If I had even a small clearing and some airspeed, I think I'd rather crash land than pull the chute. I could "fly it all the way to the scene of the crash." Maybe that's just me.

This has had many a discussion when Cirrus brought it out. The general consensus is it is a good thing. I am like you and actually practice simulated off field landing. The chute is a last resort, in situations where the PIC is incapacitated somehow and the pass/family can use it. Certainly has its place.

[Flyboy]

Yea, the BRS is a good thing if the pilot becomes incapacitated or does something stupid like fly into IFR conditions without the qualification to exit it safely. The SR is a high performance aircraft and without CICP training, can get way ahead of one.

[955i]

I agree with your further explanations, too. I am not against whole-plane chutes. There's no STC for them to be fitted to Comanches, though, so I guess I won't have to worry about what I'd do. The number of times they have worked and saved lives is notable. However, there are a number of failures, too. I'd be pissed if I launched the chute, it failed to fully deploy and. then, wrapped itself around the vertical stabilizer.