
Mike Z has recently become the LSA Flying Ambassador to the Bahamas. Mike talks about what his new job entails and how the Bahamas are actively courting airplane owners to make the flight over to the Islands.
In a further mainstreaming of Light Sport Aircraft and Sport Pilot, Scott Severen has taken a job at a full service FBO with a focus on LSA maintenance. We talk about his new position and how LSA's will fit in with a conventional flight school and maintenance operation.
Dan Johnson held forth in the LSA Mall at Sun 'n Fun last week. We talk with him about how the light sport vendors did both in sales and in weather survival. We also talk about some of the great improvements over in Paradise City this year.
Sun 'n Fun is coming up in just a couple of weeks and Dan visits with us about some of the things we can expect at the show. Building on the success of the LSA Tour after the Sebring Light Sport Expo, some manufacturers will be making stops together both to and from the Florida convention to show off the planes in airports on the path to Lakeland.
Sonex's single-place airplane made its first flight and Jeremy Monnett joins us to talk about how it went.
I-Tec, manufacturer of the Maverick roadable powered parachute special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA), has filed a petition for exemption to permit an additional weight allowance. The increase would be similar to that allowed for amphibious LSA – 1,320 to 1,430 pounds – and the weight allowance already granted to Terrafugia. The exemption is requested to allow ...
Dan Johnson joins us to talk about more of the LSA news that came out of the Sebring Expo. Of course some of the biggest news came just before the event with Piper saying that they were splitting with Czech Sport Aircraft. Dan talks about what happened, what is going on, and what Piper may be doing in the future. He also talks about the LSA barnstorming tour some LSA manufactures went on in Florida after the Sebring event.
I’d call this Day 4 but rush-deadline work for the mag intervened after the last day at Sebring so just getting to it now. The Sebring experience gets better every year, I believe precisely because Bob Woods keeps it consistently valuable without tricking it up with a lot of extraneous booths selling things like Miracle Kitchen ...
The 2011 Sebring Sport Aviation Expo is a wrap and Jim Sweeney joins us to talk about what happened at the show. ASTM meetings, FAA meetings, new gyroplanes from Germany, and lots more filled the precious few days of the event in Florida.