Rob P wrote:"Charlie Splatt"!
I'm loving the names you give your aircraft
Look if I wanted a 'serious' aeroplane I'd need to be earning more money
lobstaboy wrote:PS split doors - good for opening for photography and balmy summer evenings...
Yes, looking forward to that if balmy ever arrives...
ArthurG wrote:Charlie Splott, surely, Shirley?
On brand...
MattL wrote:Congrats! Looks great fun. What’s the performance like on a machine like that?
It rather appears to depend who you ask! The mate who ferried for us came back at around 75mph
RisePilot wrote:You've angered the Gods of Sky by giving aircraft masculine names; they must be feminine names.
I think I actually know more girl Charlie's than boy Charlies...
Paul_Sengupta wrote:It's not as pretty as the last one, but it should be a good performer, and with the four stroke you've got a fighting (flighting?) chance of the engine not stopping at inopportune times!
It was beginning to get tiresome...
Genghis the Engineer wrote:Looked after properly, there's not a lot of difference in reliability between Rotax 2 and 4 stroke engines (and both are massively better than a certain Australian 4-stroke brand.)
In fairness to the engine, only one was an outright "a part disintegrated"- vapour lock, which was the final guess on our last stoppage can't really be blamed on the engine itself as such.
lobstaboy wrote:Not many folk would call an Xair pretty, but I do think they look good in a cheeky sort of way.
I thought so. If we hadn't lost a years flying to the pandemic and a rotten winter already we'd have rebuilt but the thought of losing another summer was too much.
lobstaboy wrote:One bit of advice for Leia, if I may be excused being presumptuous -
look after the nose leg - they look long and they are. You need very definitely to land on the mains first and keep the nose off the ground as long as possible or sure as eggs the nose wheel will go down a rabbit scrape and bend the nose leg, or turn you over.
Our inspector has already popped down to the hangar to give a similar piece of advice!