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The desire
Many of us learned to fly on the Cessna or Piper of our local aeroclub or flying school. These are fine aircraft. They are safe, stable, roomy and well-known.
What they aren’t is very sporty. If you then look at what other factory-built aircraft are around, you’ll see that apparently, the step up is to go larger.
Look at a Mooney M20, A Cessna 182 or a Cirrus SR22. These are huge aircraft! The Mooney and Cirrus weigh in at well over 1000 kg empty! They are nice and
comfortable, they are roomy and will get you from one side of Europe to the other in style, albeit while burning substantial amounts of rather expensive fuel.
But what if your flying isn’t from one side of Europe to the other every time? What if you don’t want your own personal airliner? What if you want the equivalent of a Porsche or Ferrari rather than that of a BMW 750 or Mercedes S 500? Or what if your budget doesn’t allow either and you are looking for the aviation equivalent of an MX-5?
Then the marketplace in factory-built aircraft all of a sudden gets very empty.
Yes, there are the microlights. This class of aircraft, often built in Eastern European countries, are nice. They are fast, look sporty and often have nice
flying capabilities. They are also often expensive though, and being microlights, they demand a different pilots licence than you might have and sometimes
are not allowed to land at the places you want to go. Plus they are somewhat…. Plastic?
So, you want a “real” sports aircraft.
Please show me one, because I can’t name one.
But there is an answer: kit aircraft
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The desire
