JMB Aviation's VL3 915 • Stefan Drury's Moorabbin test flight.

[Garfly]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Student Pilot]

And only 160 K?

 

[Garfly]

160K for 160K ain't bad, Stude.

[Marty_d]

She's a beautiful aircraft.  All the bells & whistles too.

[red750]

Profile in Aircraft Recreational 3-Axis as Aveco VL3.

[Garfly]

How about half the speed for half the price?  (and a fraction of the runway)

 

https://aeroplanemanufactory.com/ChinookPlus2.html

 

 

 

 

[Student Pilot]

Single seat Thruster for a tiny percentage of the price and you have some "Real" flying.
Seems flying is way out of reach of ordinary folk who are flat out paying for food/rent let alone $3 a litre for avgas, $75 landing fees AND hundreds of thousands of dollars for an aircraft!
There are still ways

https://www.facebook.com/544160029/videos/780906566216285/

Back to basics, flying for flying sake. No glass dash needed.

Edited April 17, 2022 by Student Pilot
Brainfart

[Garfly]

True.  Luckily our preferred Mogas is back under $2 and airports that charge $75 are unavailable to us anyway.

Interesting, though, that the JMB guy was selling his VL3 as the poor man's Cirrus. LOL, it's all relative.  

[Thruster88]

11 hours ago, Garfly said:

160K for 160K ain't bad, Stude.

I see $230k usd for the base model with the 915 engine.   

[Garfly]

Really?  I thought SP's 160K sounded like a pretty good deal for speed freaks.

(I believe it's over half-a-mil USD for a 172 nowadays ... and a long wait, at that.)

 

 

 

 

Edited April 17, 2022 by Garfly

[Student Pilot]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cb-CF3UoeiH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
 

Here is some skilful minimum flying