Paul Hamilton
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I fly my airplane without a chute. All my trikes have chutes. I teach to use the chute for non suitable landing areas (tall trees, steep canyons, water) or my greatest fear of flying, MIDAIR’S. I do not want my last thought to be “I wish I had a chute”.
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This is what we all want to avoid. Typically, just like airplane, it is the pilot, not the aircraft. Generally it is lack PROPER TRAINING and this is the tip of iceberg as we say. More later…..
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Roger,
Yes you can fly easily with a Revo. I typically trim to 60 indicated to get my best climb rate. The Revo with a 12.4 meter wing flies very comfortably with a Revolt 14 meter. I was surprised at how fast the Revolt trimmed out for the draggy configuration. So both can trim out to 70 indicated additionally and you are good to go.
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WOW Roger what a great collection of WSC trike FAQ questions. Nothing like experience to figure it out.
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Many people ask me What happens if you fly in the rain? My answer – You get wet…
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Roger,
Do not know in minutes but long enough that I have to wait for it to warm up before takeoff. That is TOO LONG for me. Yes I had a pesky oil leak from a bad “o” ring seal but an easy fix. Yes many times replacing lines is only possible way to do it, cut them off – suck it up and use the knife. Make sure and do an oil purge after such a procedure.
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I will post my video on heated stuff.
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Roger, Run plenty of oil thermostats and aircraft without oil thermostats. As far as I am concerned, aircraft without oil thermostats take way to long to get to temperature for takeoff. Nothing is more irritating than being ready to takeoff and have to wait for the oil temperature to come up. Max oil temperatures should be the same with or without since the thermostat is open. My only gripe about a thermostat is I had one irritating oil leak in one and had to replace the “O” ring. That is with about 5000 hours using them.
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Best to get some training before you buy a WSC trike. That way you can know more for your self what you want. I sell all brands new and used and provide complete training. One stop shop. Good reviews above no sense repeating. See https://SportAviationCenter.com
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We are a full time WSC trike training facility with 3 training trikes and two full time instructors. People come here to get it done. One stop shop. Ground school to checkride. If you are not a US citizen for training ANYWHERE in the US, you must jump through a few hoops to get approved. see https://SportAviationCenter.com for details and call me with questions.
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Lori,
Any loss, we all feel it. Sorry to hear. As you know more please help us learn.
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Great for space, storing more trikes with other aircraft, but not as convenient for quick turn arounds.
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Yes I wish I could replace tires from old age but with primary training I do endless landings. Teaching students how to land, spinning those tires up time after time, I go through tires like fuel and spark plugs.
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So if it is that blue stuff, in my experience that will crack sooner than quality auto fuel injected black. Good riddance to the blue stuff for me.
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From my experience as a master rated hang gliding soaring pilot for decades, and now a successful powered hang glider/trike school, this is my perspective on this important question. First let’s look at why hang gliding has/is declining, struggling to survive. Pilots/people are generally lazy. Especially young people. Sad fact. There are fewer and fewer who want to use a motor to climb up in mid day turbulent conditions, circle up in the same location, and possible get flushed in the 600 rpm downdraft and hit the deck. 200 rpm climb, helpful/useless on a good thermal day. The joy of soaring is getting high and going somewhere. Flying low and slow is a different animal. The hang glider pilots I have transitioned to trike want to go somewhere and have hours of freedom. Even our latest pilot who bought an ATOS, whose original intent was to expand his hang gliding has not yet, after a year, to go up in knarley conditions to actually soar. He goes up and cruises around with a gas motor typically a couple of hours. So in reality, the concept of a soaring trike is great, but there is not enough market to support a low performance in climb and range trike. Simply look at the Industry leader Pipistral and Phoenix,the answer to powered soaring and declined/rejected medical. Appears to be a great marked but it is not. So the answer, until battery’s evolve, is the build the soaring trike with the intent of a soaring trike to meet part 103 weight, but include a nice “luggage rack” to be able to add additional luggage batteries to provide the climb and endurance for the current want to be soaring pilot and the rest of us who want to cruise around for a couple of hours. Best of both worlds. I think this would be successful by doubling the pilots who want to go electric.