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Also .. saw this on the sweepstakes site: “Editor's note: The next AOPA Sweepstakes aircraft, an Aviat Husky A-1C-200, was involved in a ground incident while en route to EAA AirVenture, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Nobody was injured. The Husky will undergo necessary maintenance so we can have it back in the air soon. Unfortunately, the aircraft won't be on display at the AOPA Pavilion this week. We will provide regular updates on its return to service.” https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/july/17/bring-home-a-husky

ASN page is up https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/528089

Sorry, when I said Aviation Consumer, I meant a YouTube video from AC (not a print article). https://youtube.com/@aviationconsumermagazine450 Thanks for all of your comments here. This is super helpful. I’ve spent some time with SmartCharts and I really like the presentation. I’ve never seen the FF product, so I didn’t have a super clear idea of their different approaches.

I’m hoping that Aviation Consumer or someone will do a long form side-by-side YouTube review of SmartCharts vs Dynamic Procedures. Based purely on the name, SmartCharts is clearly the better product ”Dynamic Procedures” is a mouthful, and I’d have no idea what you were talking about if I had no context. Sounds like a new FAA policy for traffic flow.

In the Piper I fly, it’s really easy to get your foot caught on the firewall directly above the rudder pedals. If you aren’t careful, you can end up with no rudder control and no brakes on landing just because one or both feet got caught. Since I know it can happen, I normally do a check on final to be sure that my feet are sitting on the pedals properly. But it’s easy to screw up at the end of a long flight when you’re tired. Anyway - I can empathize with the shoelaces guy

Eek

Was he able to get insurance? Even with a recurrent training program, I’m surprised someone can get insurance on an experimental turboprop without a ton of turbine experience. Getting the Meridian first and logging some hours before transitioning to the TP Lancair seems more realistic, but I dunno. Maybe it’s no big deal.

(I’m a CFI as well, fwiw)

Who says you can’t log PIC time? If you’re appropriately rated, you can log PIC while receiving dual instruction whenever you’re the sole manipulator of the controls, and the CFI can also log PIC.

I don’t have any first-hand experience, but I understand that it can be nearly impossible to get insurance on a turbine-powered experimental. Especially if it’s owner-flown by a pilot with less than a ton of turbine time. I sometimes drool over the turbine LX7, which seems like an absolutely amazing aircraft and surprisingly affordable relative to peers. But most of those planes aiui are essentially self-insured.

Postscript: Shiny new gear switch (looks a lot like the old one )

Welcome

Yeah, this is the guy in Florida that flew the plane like 100 miles back to his home base after scraping both propellers on the runway.

@Parker_Woodruff is the resident insurance expert

Weren’t they $3000 from Lasar?