Super Fly is on the slab

MattPearson

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Well, I am going to reluctantly feel the waters here for the gyro market. I have about had it with the world of gyros. It's hard to find a place to fly. They are noisy. People are not friendly towards gyros. They are not practical for long trips and the manufacture support for these aircraft is few and far between.  Other than that, they are pretty cool. :-/<br>Anyway, I am going to say $12,000 obo. If you are serious about buying it, email me. Otherwise, I am not in a hurry.
 
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Matt,<br>What Happened?<br>When I picked up my Butterfly at Bridgeport, gyros seemed to be alive and welll, complete with and active club and a hangar full of projects.<br><br>Alan
 
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Hey Alan,<br> I heard that you are really enjoying your Butterfly. I am really happy about that. I knew you would. <br>   I moved my gyro to Lake Dallas, TX and it's just been a real pain in the butt ever since.  I love my gyro, but I don't like the way gyro pilots are treated by other people, especially if it's an ultralight. I am in the process of getting my PPL and N-numbering my ship. Maybe then things will be better.<br>
 
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I do still concur with everything I said in my first post and until those things are dealt with, gyros probably will never be welcomed at airports other than obscure off "off the beaten trail" strips.  
 
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Matt,<br>I think that things will be better when you N number it if you add a radio.  Having flown fixed wing for 30 some years, I can sort of sympathize with them.  The gyro flys at or near their stall speed, flys a tighter pattern and turns much shorter.  If they are no radio, you have to guess what they are going to do next.  A consistant pattern and a radio might make a gyro more welcome.  <br><br>Alan
 
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I always use a radio and am a big proponent of it. I always call the pattern and at the AP I am currently located I fly a left pattern with the fixed wingers at their request which goes against the guidance for rotorcraft. <br>What I have found is that most fixed wingers have no understanding of FARS even though they play it off as they do. The standard answer is' "Well, that's just I was taught to do or that's what I was told." <br>  My case is one of pure discrimination towards rotorcraft and there isn't much that I can do about it. <br>It's funny because my aviation interest started out with Radio controlled airplanes and then helicopters.  The bias against helicopters is just as bad.
 
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Steve,<br> Sorry it took me so long to reply.  I guess it's probably like this everywhere. In the Feb 03 issue of 'Professional Pilot' there is an article on the way rotorcraft in general are treated vs fixed wing. Basically rotorcraft get the shaft just about everywhere. I guess it's a phenomenon. :-/
 
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hmmm, hearing all this talk about airports being unfriendly to gyros actually give me cause to celebrate.  That is only because I have a farm south of San Antonio, that if the army ever let's me go back to Texas, I plan to turn into an airfield solely for rotorcraft and light sport aircraft (though I might even tell the fixed-winged Light Sport Aircraft to go somewhere else and make my field a sort of "vertiport").<br><br>Fly Army,<br><br>Vince Rodgers
 
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