Larry; the guys standing in green grass over on this side of the fence always want to be in the green grass over on that side instead, and vice-versa. I'd love to be able to fly cross-country in a 160 MPH fast glass airplane with an enclosed cockpit and cabin heat, up at 10,000'. Instead, I rarely get over 2500' in my open-cockpit, 70 MPH Pietenpol that I can only sit in comfortably for about 2 hrs. Many of the benefits that I get from owning and flying my experimental are the ones that you're looking for in your Challenger. I fly a Light Sport aircraft under Basic Med, I enjoy the sights and smells flying slow down low, the high wing on the airplane lets me see everything down below, behind, and ahead. My certified Jeff Scott-built A75 burns 4 gal/hr of anything I care to put in it (but I fly it on 100LL exclusively). Liability insurance is one dollar a day. I have no battery, no starter, no electrical system, no ADS-B or transponder, no radio except a handheld. My takeoff and landing checklists are three items long, and any passenger who can stuff themselves into the front cockpit is good to go because they sit directly on the CG and cannot over-gross the plane if they can fit into it. If I'm careful and it's not too hot or high, I can land and take off in the length of a football field. The plane stalls power-off at about 35-37 indicated. Thousands of examples of the design have been built and flown successfully and inexpensively since 1929.
What I can't do with it is do my own annuals, go fast, fly high, or stay warm ;o) Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected]
