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War in Ukraine ? Are there any engine components manufactured over there ?

GA aviation is truly a relic stuck in the past with their “leaning strategies” and other engine implementation details that are completely irrelevant to the actual flying and have been fully automated for decades now in all modern engines …

Here is vans website for factory build SLSas with detailed explanation on what is SLSA and ELSA etc …right now only for RV12 but with MOSAIC may be for most of their planes. http://www.flyrv12.com/slsa-we-build-it-you-fly-it/

With LSAs is the manufacturer who determines what sort of equipment is allowed on their planes ( and if you switch to ELSA then it is you who determines what can get installed, as long as whatever changes you make don’t take the plane out of LSA category ) Normally , the manufacturer would...

Well, the whole point is that LSAs are not certified yet still factory build planes so in essence they are more akin to automobiles where you rely on manufacturer reputation and industry standards rather then the actual certification process.

Well, I could just as well link your post to a random but “scholarly” sounding wiki page or such but I am just way too lazy ….. The point was that If you look long enough you will always find somebody somewhere doing something stupid and if you are skilled in the fine art of ********ing, perhaps...

They said iPads never killed anyone and look at that … can’t “lighten up” on these crazy iPaders either .. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/07/14/fatal-helicopter-crash-likely-caused-by-dropped-ipad

Around 90-100 hours and strictly recreational.

Most of RV planes ( perhaps even RV14 if they up the limit a bit ) , Sling TSI and others could be build as a factory made LSAs and thus opening doors to 200-300k modern planes - not exactly cheap but at least within a reach …

Yep, it does happen now and then ... as long as it does not become a trend, I can live with that.

I have about 600 hours behind Rotax - the carbureted version. Love the engine , in fact when looking for my next plane to be, if it is not Rotax 915/16 , it is not happening.

Perhaps they were attempting to land on that highway … definitely scary.

You are bordering here on being funny ... still on the wrong side of that border because you are trying too hard - the good news is that is a common problem , the bad news is that it won’t get better … you either have it or you don’t.

I understand that and I won’t comment on the actual settlement because I have no idea who is right and who is wrong - it is funny to me though that people here are almost clamoring to have him essentially canceled ( thats the modern term for it I guess ) cause they don’t like him and what he is...

Well none of you got slandered, you are just bitching about a guy having, however uninformed and bias, opinion .

There is a simple and often overlooked solution to all your dilemmas … don’t watch his videos if you don’t like his content.

I believe jus the basic liability insurance is cheap , at least compared to hull insurance so perhaps , just as in automotive world , we should require basic liability insurance of some kind.

Why Gyro company ?

The end result will be that there won’t be any flying over there and given enough time and another crash, this time perhaps on the main runway, with enough lawyers and “easy lawsuits” there won’t be any flying during AirVenture at all.

That used to be the case - now they are offering a modernized 701 kit with prepunched holes etc