You know Greg, I have known Tim since 2001. And have flown at Bensen Days and Rotors over Carolina fly-ins every year with him since 2001. What he is not saying is how I and others in our group have asked him repeatedly to fly with us to one place or another at these fly-ins and he would reply that he doesn't do cross country flights in his gyros.
Yes my memmory is starting to slip apparently and I forgot he flew to Sebring last year at Bensen Days 07.
And yes, you and Tim are right... it is non of my business how he flys.
My point of it all was to counter what you percieved as Tims decision to sell his Dominator over his Monarch as Tims decision that the Monarch was the superior gyro. In another thread you beat around the bush, but basically said just that. My point was that I think I know Tim better than you, and my take on the whole thing was that Tim is just having fun with the G force gear and the stop and drop landings it allows, that otherwise, if the Monarch had regular gear on it I believe he would much rather have the Dominator. I believe - or believed really - that Tim would get bored with the stop and drop landings and see that his Dominator out performs the Monarch and has a safer engine to boot and he would keep the Dominator in the end.
And in the end it is just a waste of your time to read this, Tims time to read this, my time to write it, and forum bandwidth, because in the end it doesn't really matter what I think because like I said above, it is none of my business in the first place, and to me it really honestly doesn't matter what you or Tim or anyone else thinks about any of this, as far as what gyro is better or what gyro Tims keeps or sells or whether Tim will fly cross country or not and so on....
So as far as Tim goes I am done discussing Tim.
Again, I dont want to start butting heads with Ron, but his memory is a worry. Way back GFLG was a gimmick and Doms already had the ducks nuts with what Ron said was 'drop and stop' suspension. So why would you want GFLG then anyway.
The GFLG is a gimmick. There is only very extremely rare circumstances in real world flight where the G force gear would be critical to a safe landing. Elsewise it is a gimmick to have fun with, either by showing off cool looking landings to other pilots or just for flying by yourself and making yourself smile at how your doing landings that would hurt a normal gyro. The G force gear is absolutely heavier and far more drag than regular gear, and these Cons I think outweight the Pros as far as really needing the G force gear in a true emergency landing. Elsewise it is mainly a Gimmick, and back when it first came out it was NOT a suspension that offered a smooth ride and cushioned ride for taxi and takeoff, but was touted as one anyway, and that was the reasoning for my posts a year or two ago about the G force, was that it WASN'T a true Suspension....
Now it appears Larry has added a coil over shock inside the G force gear leg and now you have both the G force stop and drop, and a smooth ride once on the ground. And because of that I think the G force gear is now a very good thing, and probably the best suspension option on the market. Certainly better than what Ernie has on the Dominator.
Why would I want G force gear? Same Reason Tim Verroi likes the G force gear on his gyro.