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desertdog71 said:
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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Here's the problem with the Mustang. For many builders it is more plane than they have ever flown and they have done more building than flying for a few years. Mix in tail wheel inexperience and you have a recipe for disaster. I have a friend that built a Mustang and an RV and thought the Mustang was pretty tame. I flew his RV and thought his RV was pretty honest.

Throw in an iffy engine and an honest design like the Mustang turns into a handful very fast.
 
Apophis said:
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.
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Losing the front engine was more annoying than anything. Losing the rear engine was more of an issue. It didn't fly to bad single engine as long as you weren't too heavy.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
Here's the problem with the Mustang. For many builders it is more plane than they have ever flown and they have done more building than flying for a few years. Mix in tail wheel inexperience and you have a recipe for disaster. I have a friend that built a Mustang and an RV and thought the Mustang was pretty tame. I flew his RV and thought his RV was pretty honest.

Throw in an iffy engine and an honest design like the Mustang turns into a handful very fast.
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That's exactly the combo for disaster. Even in the RV world. The builder spent all the time and money resources for a couple of years building it and not staying current by flying other airplanes or like aircraft. When it's finished they get a tailwheel endorsement in a Cub or flight review in a C152 so they are legal and then go and bend or ball up their airplane. However there are others that stay current and seek transition training that do not experience any problems. Myself included, when I first flew an RV series (RV6) I just jumped in and took off. Turns out it was much easier than the Pitts so I didn't have a problem.

Some good information from EAA:

http://www.eaa.org/news/2010/homebuilts_report_wanttaja.pdf

The FAA has an advisory circular also for transition training:

http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/90-109.pdf
 
CFI A&P said:
That's exactly the combo for disaster. Even in the RV world. The builder spent all the time and money resources for a couple of years building it and not staying current by flying other airplanes or like aircraft. When it's finished they get a tailwheel endorsement in a Cub or flight review in a C152 so they are legal and then go and bend or ball up their airplane. However there are others that stay current and seek transition training that do not experience any problems. Myself included, when I first flew an RV series (RV6) I just jumped in and took off. Turns out it was much easier than the Pitts so I didn't have a problem.

Some good information from EAA:

http://www.eaa.org/news/2010/homebuilts_report_wanttaja.pdf

The FAA has an advisory circular also for transition training:

http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/90-109.pdf
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"How cheap can I get a tailwheel endorsement with a BFR?"
"How much have you been flying lately?"
"I've mostly been building my LSA cub. I was flying my friend's 150 pretty often until a year ago."
Look at log book. 6 hours of 150 time in the last 3 years.
"Who's going to do the test flight on your plane?"
"I am, once we're done."
Oooooooookaaaaay, we need to have a serious conversation here.
 

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I checked with a few of the Light Sport outfits. They have a Sport Star going for 95 an hour, 90 at 10 hour block rates. There was a change in the rules governing ultra lights, the two seaters I guess now are required to have a registration. But it is experimental, so they can't rent it out. Go for fractional ownership in Ultra light?
 
Hawks said:
I checked with a few of the Light Sport outfits. They have a Sport Star going for 95 an hour, 90 at 10 hour block rates. There was a change in the rules governing ultra lights, the two seaters I guess now are required to have a registration. But it is experimental, so they can't rent it out. Go for fractional ownership in Ultra light?
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Part 103 ultralights do not have registrations. There was a time when two seat ultralights existed for training purposes, but no one actually used them for training. These were called "fat ultralights". When the change you're referring to happened, the "fat ultralights" (too many seats, too much fuel on board, etc..) were bumped up in to the E-LSA category.
 
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