Phenix tractor update

[Phenix USA]

Bienvenidos amigos ! Good day fellow gyronauts, I am happy to follow Carlos’ lead and be able to introduce myself as the Americas rep for Phenix Aviation.

My name is Cobus Burger and I live in the Denver, CO area. A little background: Am ATPL and CPL rated, AMEL, ASEL, ASES, Gyroplane. Have flown every category and class except hot air balloons. Flown all over the world and lived and worked in about 10 countries on 3 continents, and now flying in Afghanistan doing secret squirrel stuff. Also a founding member of the CO PRA 38, and hope to some zero roll landings down at Mark Shook’s airfield with the Phenix soon!

We are definitely trying to bring the awesome Phenix to American skies, and working hard at it. That said, it is a long road ahead and we need to be cautious in our planning and progress to be sure we do things correctly. I have spoken with a number of folks from the FAA MIDO in LA and various FSDOs and we are following their lead to ensure we can get the certification we are aiming for. First will be certification elsewhere, like the Section T, amongst others, and in due course will come the FAA certification.

As we all know there is no easy highway to gyroplane production certification right now. Unfortunate, but there are other options available to us, and we are pursuing those. Hopefully, like Carlos said, the GA market will be accessible to us in due course, and you can share in the joy and safety of flying the Phenix.

Mercert: hmmm….could not find us, eh? Man, trying to navigate the intricacies of Google and internet adwords is akin to understanding the FARs sometimes.

www.phenixgyrousa.com

There. Try that. Please note however, this site is only a placeholder at this time. It is pretty basic and does not hold much content. The main site is the place to go for now. Be assured though, a better one is in the making.

Okikuma: We would love to get a 51% kit on the market and we are looking into it. Thanks for the metric conversion there, being from South Africa originally, I think both ways and am now used to the US (imperial) measurements too. But it does give me warm fuzzies to see the old meter in there!


Gyrodoug: We hope to attend many shows when we have a ship on US soil. Obviously events like Oshkosh, Sun-n-fun, Sebring etc come to mind, we are also wanting to attend local EAA or PRA chapter fly-ins, and law enforcement expos.

In fact, I foresee a great many cross-country trips in our future, with wheel spats for speed, tundra tires for off field ops, floats or skis we can pretty much go anywhere. And with the state of the art, all glass instrumentation, comfortable seats and large cargo space available, those trips to anywhere will be a breeze.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you guys might have. I am happy to answer them for you.

Carlos, please drop in if I forget to mention anything.

Keep those rotors turning guys.

Cobus