Originally Posted by
Timbo
I liked it a lot better than that other LSA thing over there, that fiberglass one that looks like a pollywog! (can't recall the name of it).
I flew both the high wing and low wing Technams (92T and Siera?) about 4 years ago out of SEF, over to Sun N Fun. I prefer the high wing for croswind landings, and shade in the hot sun, and for looking down at the countryside, but the buble canopy of the Siera is nice too, hot, but great visability above, not so much below. Having grown up in a Cub, I guess I'm partial to the high wings.
The Rotax is reliable, quiet, and the ability to burn auto fuel is good, avgas is getting nutz. The older I get, the more I want to fly ultralights, on floats, so I must be getting senile! The prices of some of those new LSA's is way out of my range, over $100,000.
I may just re-build the Cub, put it on floats, although I've always wanted a Pitts S1...but I think I'm getting too old for that stuff.
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Yea the Tecnam is about as cheap as it gets for a twin. 10gph (thats with both engines running) in cruise. Problem is, where to find an airport that carries MOGAS or has a pump that is certified to pump MOGAS into an airplane. Not very many of them, thats for sure. And I've even seen MOGAS be more expensive than 100LL at one airport in S. Carolina.
And yea, the price of owning even an experimental of LSA aircraft has gone through the roof. It sucks because it is making it totally unaffordable for the weekend warrior to own an airplane and enjoy what we do. And that sucks. The only people I know that own aircraft have deals to lease-back the aircraft to a school or a rental company. Only way they can afford it.