quadrirotor
André MARTIN
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2003
- Messages
- 1,795
- Location
- Québec, Canada
- Aircraft
- airplane, trike, gyro, paramotor...
- Total Flight Time
- 350
Denis Fetter, we need your help!!!:help:
Denis Fetter, we need your help!!!
Training is a issue, but I do not think it is a deal killer. Alot of people do what CobraDoc suggested and buy a Harely, and then what do they do....? they travel hundreds or even thousands of miles with it to spend a week at Daytona, or Sprugis or any of the other major bike rallys.
People buy hang gliders and go great distances to meet up at rallys in Florida or in the mountains somewhere....
OR they buy a boat and then travel great distances to do some boating on the coast or the Florida Keys ( I made that trip a few times! )
So to travel for a few hours of lessons to learn to fly a gyro is not the end of the world.
As far as newbies building their first gyros? Heck I think that is not always the case. I sure didn't build my first one, and glad I didn't. I wanted to fly these things, not play Mister McGyver with a band saw in my garage and think Maybe one day I will fly this thing....
I think alot of newbies do come into this sport with building their own machine cause they couldn't find or didn't know where to look, for a good used gyro. Alot of people had to build their machine if they wanted one exactly like the one they built...
Thom, I bascially saw my first gyro in person - okay second one to be exact but didn't really LOOK at the first one, just gave it a passing glance - In Febuary 2001. By the end of Febuary I had purchased my first gyro used. By the beginning of April 2001 I had fixed up my used gyro based on reccomendations made by other area gyro pilots. And then in April 2001 at Bensen days I spent the entire week there at CFI Steve McGowans side, had my gyro hang tested and had Steve test fly it. The following weekend after Bensen Days was over I went out to my local airport and after a hour of ground work I soloed my gyro around the pattern. I have been flying my gyro ever since. Start to finish was 2 months from seeing my first gyro to flying solo in one.
We have had a bad year safety-wise. ........ I believe that many "wannabies" who were lurking in the background, waiting for the right time to jump in, saw all these accidents and got cold feet.
Udi
$100,000 S-LSAs from the Czech Repulic are selling like crazy. It ain't a money issue. It's an aircraft issue and a marketing issue. Dr Bensen's design worked for LICENSED pilots in a 60hp or less single seat gyro that followed his plan to the letter. Unless it's a turbine, the engine in the back is in the wrong place. If you don't believe me go do some engine out practice in a Cessna 337 then let me know which engine you would prefer to have fail.
but I have handfuls of guys that like to come out and give me 20 dollars for some trigger time but will not lay down 5k to take one home.
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