pilotarix
Newbie
Hi all,
My Name is Chris and I am pretty new to the gyro business. I had a PPL in the past but stopped flying about 10 years ago mainly because I moved from Europe to the US and time was pretty limited.
Currently I am in the process to get my Sport Pilot license I am set up with a flight school, have my TSA approval and eagerly awaiting my first training lesson.
Actually I was looking around for something low and slow flying with good STOL capabilities, I already have scheduled a factory visit and flight with the Zenith (CH 750) company in Mexico Missouri next month. However, about three weeks ago I stumbled across a gyro advertising and have since spend hours with reading information and looking videos on youtube and I am impressed.
What I like most are the great STOL capabilities, slow flying speed, tight turns and that cross wind seem to be not such a big problem.
What I don't like is the significant price of these machines but well, I assume (hope) you get what you pay for.
In addition it doesn't seem to be easy to find an instructor, at least in our area, closest I could find was an instructor with AutoGyro in Maryland.
At the moment I am thinking about to skip my "wing" training, I can fly a plane, I just need a couple of hours to get current again, and rather direct go to gyro training and do get the Sport Pilot license on the gyro, which seems to be an option.
I have probably still a lot of questions and hope to find some answers here.
Thanks,
Chris
My Name is Chris and I am pretty new to the gyro business. I had a PPL in the past but stopped flying about 10 years ago mainly because I moved from Europe to the US and time was pretty limited.
Currently I am in the process to get my Sport Pilot license I am set up with a flight school, have my TSA approval and eagerly awaiting my first training lesson.
Actually I was looking around for something low and slow flying with good STOL capabilities, I already have scheduled a factory visit and flight with the Zenith (CH 750) company in Mexico Missouri next month. However, about three weeks ago I stumbled across a gyro advertising and have since spend hours with reading information and looking videos on youtube and I am impressed.
What I like most are the great STOL capabilities, slow flying speed, tight turns and that cross wind seem to be not such a big problem.
What I don't like is the significant price of these machines but well, I assume (hope) you get what you pay for.
In addition it doesn't seem to be easy to find an instructor, at least in our area, closest I could find was an instructor with AutoGyro in Maryland.
At the moment I am thinking about to skip my "wing" training, I can fly a plane, I just need a couple of hours to get current again, and rather direct go to gyro training and do get the Sport Pilot license on the gyro, which seems to be an option.
I have probably still a lot of questions and hope to find some answers here.
Thanks,
Chris