Arrow-Copter testflight, July 2011

[scottessex]

I better start saving a larger amount of money

I'm thinking about selling the house! but I already have an airstrip out front, Oh well guess that I should send Mama gyro out to earn all the extra money (for the arrowcopter) after she finishes school.

 

[stupidceleb]

I'm thinking about selling the house! but I already have an airstrip out front, Oh well guess that I should send Mama gyro out to earn all the extra money (for the arrowcopter) after she finishes school.

Maybe if we buy them at once we will get a discount Group buy!!!

 

[ckurz7000]

Don't forget, it is also available as a kit. Details on the website www.arrow-copter.com.

-- Chris.

 

[Resasi]

Just a thought Chris, but could you/the factory calculate the savings possible by buying the full kit of a specifically specced aircraft and the factory built model as a sales exercise

It could enable prospective customers to evaluate which choice might be best for them?

The manufacturer would certainly seem to be best placed to undertake such an exercise. The customers in various other countries then better able to assess build costs and possible local authority compliance.

 

[ckurz7000]

I am not sure what you mean, Leigh, but there is a price configurator for the kit version available here: http://www.arrow-copter.com/arrow-configurator-kitbau.html

-- Chris.

 

[Resasi]

My fault. Serves me right for not looking at the site recently.

That certainly looks as though it would do the job Chris. Sorry about that.

 

[andycx]

I too am very interested in the Arrow-Copter. I saw it in the flesh this year at Friedrichaffen and was very impressed with the design and build quality. The one thing stopping me from doing 'something foolish' was the lack of storage capacity when flying two up. Can anyone shed more light on the proposed baggage/long range file pods, when they may be available and if they will be able to retro fit, should I commit myself sooner rather than later? Many thanks, Andy

 

[ckurz7000]

Let's first get the Arrow-Copter through flight testing and certified. Before that's done I wouldn't expect any more development to occur since it would only delay the certiication process and divert company resources away from that key milestone. However, after this, we already have several ideas how to extend the Arrow-Copter's capabilities. And the auxiliary tanks and "cargo" pods are high up on the list.

-- Chris.

 

[PTKay]

So still, at the moment, only the Xenon offers you a reasonable
luggage room. On top of it, this luggage is in flight available.

You can order special bags that fit on top of the tank,
behind the seats. You can reach them from your seat.

The room fits also standard "Pilotenkoffer".

But this is, of course, the permanent discussion and
comparisons of tandem Calidus/ArrowCopter and
side by side Xenon.

For me the tandem machines are more like motorcycle,
the Xenon, like a car.

There is no common sense in comparing cars with motorbikes.

 

[stupidceleb]

Fair enough Chris So is there not any kind of storage inside the cabin if flying with a passenger?

The Arrow Copter looks like it may be the fastest production 2 seat gyro which is very exciting for those wanting to go farther and fly faster. I hope the storage solutions you come up with will make this capable gyro even better!

Jeff

 

[WHY]

Isn't the primary "luggage" in exspensive aircraft considered to be the wallet and credit cards ??

Tony

 

[stupidceleb]

or the female in the back seat with the 20 pound purse.

 

[All_In]

Or... just ship your luggage to the hotel and have the hotel ship it back.
I did this all of the time when I was selling at conventions as I had to much equipment to bring on the plane. But I sent our suitcases too so no baggage to carry at all.

Also just a note but with the prices the airlines are starting to charge for luggage it might be cheaper and easier when flying on an airlines too?

@Chris
Thank you for the heads up... very interesting!

 

[PTKay]

Just the "beauty enhancement box" of my wife is 30lb.
(... and John, you cannot send it in advance, it has to be
permanently available, even in flight.)

And what about the shoes collection?

flying out for just 2 days is an enterprise...

 

[stupidceleb]

Just the "beauty enhancement box" of my wife is 30lb.
(... and John, you cannot send it in advance, it has to be
permanently available, even in flight.)

And what about the shoes collection?

flying out for just 2 days is an enterprise...

lol! I'm glad my fiance is not that bad.

 

[All_In]

Just the "beauty enhancement box" of my wife is 30lb.
(... and John, you cannot send it in advance, it has to be
permanently available, even in flight.)

And what about the shoes collection?

flying out for just 2 days is an enterprise...

My wife was the same way she needed five bags at least.

(... and John, you cannot send it in advance, it has to be
permanently available, even in flight.)
I got her to take one cosmetic bag and an big purse with all the stuff she felt she just had to have with her at all times.

I wish you luck with her:lalala:, it's not easy convincing them they do not need "the kitchen sink" with them all the time.

 

[stupidceleb]

I guess the real question to ask is -what the heck is the arrow copter doing in the Kitchen in the first place?

 

[PTKay]

It will be a hard job,
especially that she got used to our Rallye, 4-seater,
which we were almost all the time flying alone.
Then the whole back seat area was filled with stuff
to the edge of the windows.

We once went to a convention in North Poland with all
the poster tubes, demo equipment etc. in the back.

Fortunately the stuff I sell fits more or less into your pocket.
So going for business trips alone around the country
shouldn't be a problem even with the ArrowCopter.

My biggest problem to do the "family conversion" to gyrocopter
is the luggage issue, therefore my probably skewed point of view
in some of the discussions...

 

[ckurz7000]

I guess I have a "luxury wife" as defined by a gyrocopter pilot: together we brought 20 lbs of luggage (that includes my flight gear, maps, GPS, clothes, reading material, toilet articles, etc.) for a 2 week vacation in Croatia. And guess what she said when I, apologetically, explained the legal MTOW to her, "Great, what a neat challenge."


So we both took it to the extreme, just for the heck of it. We sawed off the handles of our tooth brushes. Katharina was reading a huge tome of a paperback novel, which she had gotten to about the half way point. So she simply took a knife to it and left the first 500 pages at home. You get the idea.

God, I love her!

-- Chris.

 

[stupidceleb]

I guess I have a "luxury wife" as defined by a gyrocopter pilot: together we brought 20 lbs of luggage (that includes my flight gear, maps, GPS, clothes, reading material, toilet articles, etc.) for a 2 week vacation in Croatia. And guess what she said when I, apologetically, explained the legal MTOW to her, "Great, what a neat challenge."


So we both took it to the extreme, just for the heck of it. We sawed off the handles of our tooth brushes. Katharina was reading a huge tome of a paperback novel, which she had gotten to about the half way point. So she simply took a knife to it and left the first 500 pages at home. You get the idea.

God, I love her!

-- Chris.

I love her too and now I understand why you don't need to worry about luggage space on the arrow copter lol.

Never got an answer from you earlier though, does the arrow copter have any storage space inside the cabin?