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Current kit builders with pre paid orders are getting screwed over. Their choice is to either pony up more unsecured money to Vans in the hopes that the company survives chapter 11 and isn’t bought out by someone before they get their kits or they can refuse to pay more and get in line with all...

Well either the customers are going to get screwed out of a bunch of money or they will go completely under and get bought out which will also screw their customers out of a bunch of money. Unless something is in stock and shipping today I’m not sure why anyone would place future orders with...

Volunteer for a day at Oshkosh next year. I can’t think of anything more fun to let an employee pay you for.

Realistically, how often is a battery changed on a car over its lifetime? Why use up valuable engine compartment space just to put a component that gets touched maybe 3-4 times over a 16 year lifespan. It’s still serviceable but maybe takes an extra half hour to do. There really isn’t a need...

The same guys telling you not to do it because it doesn’t make financial sense are the same ones spending 20k on a panel upgrade that only adds 5k to their planes value. Who cares if it costs money or if there are less expensive alternatives. If you wanted a cheap cross country flight you...

It’s more than a pay shortage. Becoming a doctor is hard. You give up 8 years of your life to school, residencies, insane work schedules, no family life, etc just to start at the bottom of your profession. Not many people are willing to do that anymore so you get fewer doctors.

Call your insurance company and ask for a list of primary care physicians covered under their plan in your area. Take that list and start calling to see who is accepting new patients.

My guess is that they are waiting to see what Mosaic does. Why release a design that is LSA compatible if the market is going to fizzle away with the expanded limits that mosaic is proposing. Since they don’t even have a flying prototype yet it’s going to be a few years before kits would even...

Just like the vansairforce forum their Facebook page is highly moderated with many of the negatives quickly removed.

$3500 for the instructor is insane. It’s a tail wheel endorsement not a ground school. I did mine in a J3 cub at Chester airport in Ct. it was $90 an hour for the plane wet and $55 an hour for the instructor. It took 12 hours and that was coming back after not flying for a few years. A tail...

Kit fox already went out of business once in the past. This isn’t new in the home built industry. It’s just a much larger scale than before with Vans. When kit fox went under years ago it solidified my plans to build a sonex because 100% of the details to fabricate every part were included in...

The problem of forcing a price increase is that the people with deposits down would then be able to immediately ask for a refund while those that agree to keep on aren’t going to pay anymore until parts are ready to ship. That is just going to make a cashflow problem worse. I don’t see a...

If you did then there would be a whole lot of YouTubers out there who post videos of off airport landings in their STOL airplanes that would be in trouble. Now if the plane was damaged during the off airport landing that would be different.

AC 20-37E: For nicks, dents, pits, and cuts in the leading or trailing edges of blades, ensure that the bottom of the damage is removed first by rounding out and fairing in the repair only slightly deeper than the damage. Initial removal of material should be done using a fine cut file. All...

Because it wasn’t mentioned anywhere. All the replies so far were either land immediately or go to the closest airport. The closest airport may not always be the best option when you also look to where you can glide to along the path to other airports. Things like open water shouldn’t matter...

Why no consideration for glide ratio? At 7500 feet your typical Cessna has around 9 miles of gliding distance. I would consider that when heading to the airport 30 miles away. You just need a suitable off field landing spot within a 6 or 7 mile radius. You can still fly over unsuitable...

If you are looking at it from a financial perspective there are a few things to keep in mind. Insurance on an experimental unless it is an RV is going to be much much higher than many commercially built airplanes. The first year of owning my sonex I couldn’t find insurance for under $3500 on...

Very little new is ever learned from the NTSB reports. Short of some new mechanical failure the cause of accidents have been the same for decades. You may learn what happened in this particular crash by reading the report but it is unlikely you will learn anything new that hasn’t already...

This thread is awful. Does anyone not even bother to think that there were real people involved with the accident in Reno. Two fellow aviators died and yet both viper/wiper and others on here only see it as an opportunity to engage in a battle of who has the bigger…. Everyone involved in the...

I never made it to Reno. Always wanted to go but the timing just never worked out. I'm not sure why people think the races need to be justfied. If a bunch of people want to put money into airplanes and race them around a course at low level why should I care? It doesn't affect me and I'm not...