Gyros are EXPENSIVE!

[Rotor-Head]

...to everyone who has never seen them before... The last few times I went flying (today being an extremely great flight), I am always amazed at how many people pull off the side of the road to watch me zoom around the field and trees... Company cars, trucks, Fed-Ed, UPS, etc... Some stay for the entire flight (sometimes up to an hour in the area).

I wonder how much company money is being spent when they should be doing their work.. But I can't blame them. I'd do the same if I weren't the one flying....

 

[Monarchist]

I know I would...especially since I've seen how well you fly.

Who knows, I might even be immortalized as a cameo in your gyrocam footage.

Speaking of which....more videos please! (And post them on YouTube...)

-John

 

[M. Pearce]

Rotor,

I know if I saw you flying I would stop and watch.

I bet they go home and dream of some day doing it themselves.

I'm sure some of the guys here including you make it look real simple and almost natural within nature.

I bet some think you are a UFO.

Got any alien suits laying around to go flying in?

 

[gyro]

Shawn, I have a private airstrip about 300yrds from the road. If I stay close by after take off the area becomes a tourist attraction. I dont mind putting on a little show so they can see from the raod, but I have had them drive right on up to the airstrip waiting for me to land. Then comes the questions how high? howfast? how far? is it hard to fly? what if the motor quits?...etc....etc...etc...

The gyro is truley aviations best kept secrete!

 

[Brent_Brown]

May runway has a road right at the end of it and cars stop all the time, gyros are just not around and they just think they are one off.

 

[barnstorm2]

The best advertizement for gyros is seeing one fly.

Every time I leave a fly-in the crowds gather to watch me take off.

I would like to encourge all experienced pilots to please attend EAA and GA events.

.

 

[enewbold]

The best advertisement for gyros is seeing one fly.

Every time I leave a fly-in the crowds gather to watch me take off.

I would like to encourage all experienced pilots to please attend EAA and GA events.

I agree wholeheartedly, Tim. I'll be using my gyro to fly Young Eagles at the EAA Chapter 402 event on June 9th (at VTA). My Chapter members have encouraged me to participate with the gyro because they know it has such crowd appeal that attendance will be greatly improved.

=Ed=

 

[Paul_in_Ohio]

Ed,

Will you be the first to do the Young Eagles thing with a Gyro? I have not heard about a gyro being involved in the program yet. Might be worth contacting EAA to let them know. Who know's, maybe Harison will give you a call...

If I didn't already have plans, my oldest would have loved to take a flight with you. Post the info in events if you haven't already.

 

[GyroChuck]

I'll be using my gyro to fly Young Eagles at the EAA Chapter 402 event

Our PRA Chapter was told we could not give Young Eagle rides at the local EAA Pancake breakfast. We were told that the EAA insurance would not cover the rides given in a gyro.

This was two years ago. I have not bothered checking again to see if the EAA insurance situation has changed.

 

[Heron]

Insurance situation covers very little related to flying and in special carrying passengers.
My uneducated guess (not there yet) tells me that if the couple (instructor/pilot and machine) are covered, and FAA legal then it is all good.
I hope I can finish all paper work when I get back to Florida and try to show the path.
Of course the organizers have some rules that have to be respected, after all it is their party.
thanks
Heron

 

[Caribean_gyro]

my final leg is crossing a freeway. They some times stop to see the landing and some times they think we are going to crash and stop just in case.

Now I have to tell this weekend story. I was flying on down wind when a PR hawk dive next to mee. I thought he was flying below me. no he keep in a dive wings close until just a few inches from the ground open his wings and caught a storch. ( garza) they normally are on top of the cows eating bugs.

Man I think he was doing 100 mph.

CHuckP

 

[rgraffeo]

I've flown to several local EAA flyinns in my area & always seem to draw a crowd around the gyro.
But there is so much traffic in the pattern with the Young Eagles & people arriving there is no chance to show some gyro flying. I'm not a very good pilot but would do a few touch-n-gos & fly a tight pattern just for show.
A few years back a pilot in a Polish jet trainer did a low fly by & they were very upset. After that they seem very cautious about what happens in the traffic pattern.