Maintain thy airspeed.

inigo88 said:
Right... And don't get me wrong, STOL competitions and such are freaking awesome. But if you're going to do it, insure your airplane and own the fact that you took that risk voluntarily.
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I imagine experimentals are very expensive to insure.
 
alaskadrifter said:
I imagine experimentals are very expensive to insure.
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I think the only people who do it are EAA, but it can't be that bad. Imagine how many immaculate Vans RVs are flying around. There's no way those things aren't insured.

Heck even insurance for off-airport ops exists. My buddy has it! ;)
 
inigo88 said:
I think the only people who do it are EAA, but it can't be that bad. Imagine how many immaculate Vans RVs are flying around. There's no way those things aren't insured.

Heck even insurance for off-airport ops exists. My buddy has it! ;)
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Honestly, it's cheaper to self insure unless you completely destroy the airplane beyond a rebuild-able state IMO. If he has 5k in the rebuild of this, I'd be very surprised. Fixing metal on airplanes, especially experimental ones is pretty cheap. A couple ribs, a spar splice and new end caps on both sides and a few feet of fabric. Struts are ~$500. Insurance on a 200k airplane that's primary mission is STOL competitions and off airport work can't be less than 5k a year. All the guys that I know that fly these are relatively low time pilots to.
 
z987k said:
Honestly, it's cheaper to self insure unless you completely destroy the airplane beyond a rebuild-able state IMO. If he has 5k in the rebuild of this, I'd be very surprised. Fixing metal on airplanes, especially experimental ones is pretty cheap. A couple ribs, a spar splice and new end caps on both sides and a few feet of fabric. Struts are ~$500. Insurance on a 200k airplane that's primary mission is STOL competitions and off airport work can't be less than 5k a year. All the guys that I know that fly these are relatively low time pilots to.
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What about liability coverage?
 
z987k said:
He didn't crash because he stalled. He crashed because he failed to recover from a stall correctly. He did literally everything wrong. There was most likely enough altitude to recover the stall in that airplane.
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I don't know, at such altitude a stall recovery seems complicated, but then again I've never flown STOL aircraft before. However - since he banked the stall, I'm leaning also towards him not being coordinated.
 
MaRiO FDZ said:
I don't know, at such altitude a stall recovery seems complicated, but then again I've never flown STOL aircraft before. However - since he banked the stall, I'm leaning also towards him not being coordinated.
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You can be perfectly coordinated and enter a spin.
 
Just saw this...had to. Not maligning anyone's career choice as crash test pilot.
 

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Eek!

I don't mind being a psuedo Airbus pilot.

You do know there is a captain who put it into alternate law, intentionally, in flight to demonstrate, yes?
 
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