What is the smallest airplane...

[rframe]

Smallest impact on my wallet! I'd just like to log some hours.

Depending how cheap you're trying to be and what your threshold for risk is, take a look around for a used Sonerai IIL. They are simple and low maintenance, relatively fast, can do sport aerobatics, almost all are running 4-stroke VW's with low fuel burn and generally more reliable than the big chainsaw engines on some "fat ultralights" and you'll frequently find them around $10,000 or less. The wings come off but they are also small enough to fit beside/under most any other airplane and you can probably rent a hangar "corner" from someone on the cheap.

 

[BravoHotel]

You guys are awesome. I wish I had 10 grand to throw at something flyable. If I had that kind of liquidity I would probably finance a small tail wheel type aircraft aka Cessna 120, 140, Champ etc. What I was going for was lowest price per hour flown. I should have been more detailed in the original post, but I was kind of on the run at the time. But I see these aerospace vehicles which look like a LSA and a ultralight procreated. I wondered if time spent flying in them was countable towards your overall total time.

 

[rframe]

I wondered if time spent flying in them was countable towards your overall total time.

If it's got an N number, sure. If not, then probably not.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Smallest impact on my wallet! I'd just like to log some hours. I recently gained temporary employment at a rigging shop working on parachutes. There is a couple of light sport and ultra light operations in the hangars next to me. I wanted to go tool around, log a few hours to maintain currency and really just fly. While I wait for the active duty orders to go to flight engineer school for 18 months.

A nice TEAM Hi-Max can be purchased for less than $5K.

http://www.teammini-max.com/aircraft/1700r-hi-max/

 

[wheelsup]

Which is kinda funny. Why do people like to see multi engine time? I see three reasons. The complexity of the aircraft, the difficulty in emergencies, and the type of flying you're doing. If someone was doing island charter in a C-421, how much flying around on one engine are they doing? It's not different to flying around in a C-337, when you think about it.

Push the power up on a turbo'd Navajo and get back to me on that

 

[TallFlyer]

They're not inexpensive, but if one could own or get access to an AirCam I believe they're only burning 4 gal/hr total in cruise.

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Mooney Mite

 

[CFI A&P]

...but they all have like 582's on them, no thanks! 912 please.

That is true.... Anything with the Great Plains VW engines are nice too.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

They're not inexpensive, but if one could own or get access to an AirCam I believe they're only burning 4 gal/hr total in cruise.

Over $100K, new.

 

[Adler]

That is true.... Anything with the Great Plains VW engines are nice too.

I've bee watching Sonerais

 

[drunkenbeagle]

You guys are awesome. I wish I had 10 grand to throw at something flyable. If I had that kind of liquidity I would probably finance a small tail wheel type aircraft aka Cessna 120, 140, Champ etc. What I was going for was lowest price per hour flown.

A Schweizer 1-26 is probably the cheapest thing you will find per hour. I think my 10 hours in one came to something like $95.

 

[rframe]

I've bee watching Sonerais

They are neat airplanes.

The one I owned when I was 17, I never finished it before selling it to go to college. I have no idea why I look like an angry beaver but I have a feeling I was making airplane noises and engaged in an epic imaginary dogfight, as that's what most of my time with that airplane involved.

 

[desertdog71]

No midget Mustang deathtraps?

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[CFI A&P]

No midget Mustang deathtraps?

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I have a buddy that ordered a midget Mustang tail kit and never received it. Cancelled the order, refund and then bought a Sonerai project. It'll be done next month. I'll be doing the test flights, so I'll report to Adler and other interested people if they want.

 

[Inverted]

Actually, since Yves Rossy's jet pack is too fast to be a legal part 103 ultralight, I'm sure you could build that, get an amateur built experimental certificate and an N number and then it'd be loggable. (multi turbojet PIC time to boot!)

His is N numbered now as far as I know.

 

[desertdog71]

I have a buddy that ordered a midget Mustang tail kit and never received it. Cancelled the order, refund and then bought a Sonerai project. It'll be done next month. I'll be doing the test flights, so I'll report to Adler and other interested people if they want.

I know a guy that has a midget mustang and you'd never get me to fly one. Only other time I saw one, dude crashed in front of me.

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[KLB]

What's your point? You can still log centerline thrust multi-time as multiengine in your logbook. It would be no different than logging Cessna Skymaster time.

Potential employers may not like the fact that it's a centerline thrust multiengine airplane, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still a multiengine airplane.

Most of my twin piston time is in a skymaster and my current gig had no problem with it when I interviewed. It actually gave me something to talk about since its such a unique aircraft.

 

[Apophis]

Most of my twin piston time is in a skymaster and my current gig had no problem with it when I interviewed. It actually gave me something to talk about since its such a unique aircraft.

I wouldn't have a problem with it either. I disagree with the poster who suggested there isn't a difference between multi and single time, however multi time, is multi time.

Obviously Vmc doesn't exist in a Skymaster, but you can't sit here and tell me with a straight face that an engine failure in a mixmaster is a non-issue.....because it is. And dealing with it improperly still has the potential to kill you.

 

[DE727UPS]

They are neat airplanes.

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The one I owned when I was 17, I never finished it before selling it to go to college. I have no idea why I look like an angry beaver but I have a feeling I was making airplane noises and engaged in an epic imaginary dogfight, as that's what most of my time with that airplane involved.

Aren't you a black belt? That looks like a black belt face pic.

 

[rframe]

That looks like a black belt face pic.

Indigestion face perhaps.