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Agreed ! As technology and automation increase jobs will decrease. At the same time the worlds population is increasing. I see a looming problem on the not too distant horizon. History has time and again shown what happens to large unemployed populations !

If the engine quits how long does a vacuum powered attitude indicator continue to work ? It's actually an honest question because I've flown glass for so long I don't remember.

Yeah Shep many of the old-timers that trained me told me they were surprised when they actually landed still under power !

In a round about way the OP is referring to putting the gyro in a negative G situation and thus slowing the rotor speed below flying speed.

Too far north for my tastes. Might as well be in Georgia !

Surprised Dept of Wildlife hasn't slapped them with a fine !

Hey ! Ask Dayton if he can give you a Gyrocopter Mountain Flying Checkout - tell him you'd like to do it up by Boulder Canyon in Colorado. See what he says !

Ok, gyros are pretty slow - like 70 knots slow. Factor in a headwind and you'll look down and see kids on skateboards passing you up ! That's just the nature of the beast - I mean look at them your basically dragging a spinning rotor disk thru the air just like a big kite or parachute. From an...

Like I've said here before I think owners will very quickly outgrow the Cirrus jet and move on to bigger equipment fairly quickly. Think of it more as a training jet. Time will only tell - let's see how many are on the used market two years from now.

I LOVE a good storm scope ! I wish the 777 I fly at work had a stormscope. It doesn't replace radar it augments it. Very good tool for spotting convective activity before radar sees it. I would keep that if at all possible.

That salt water will be an issue for you. I'm guessing you've never owned a boat that's kept in a salt water environment. The whole tail wheel mechanism in the Searey will be bathed in a salt acid bath - not good ! It's more than just a tail wheel back there too. There's this long spring like...

OKAY BOB THERES A THING CALLED ECONOMY PLUS - IT'S ABOUT 50 BUCKS MORE - now you know ! Most people with two functioning brain cells are aware of it but I guess you must live under a rock or in an old Carmen Ghia or something.

Hogwash - the vast majority of the unwashed masses don't even know what "pitch" is outside of baseball !

Excessive CEO pay is by no means limited to the airline industry.

Okay, you sound like you have ALL the answers. So tell me how should they do it ?

I think what you're looking for is one like I use - gpsvisualizer.com Try that

Yeah - didn't see that coming ! And I almost put money down on Dixon too.

Naw....just some Hooters wings with three mile island level hot sauce and some beers. By morning you should be able to sh7t thru the eye of a needle at 30 paces !

I used to do that in Utah. Maui is on my bucket list for that. That type of flying is the closest you can come to flying like a bird. It's like the kind of flying you do when you dream you can fly.