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Training
The enclosed, side-by-side Magni M24 Orion is the gyroplane you train in at Vance Brand Airport in Longmont, Colorado. Full specs, instruction rates, and a $175 discovery flight with a gyroplane CFI.
Training
The FAA's MOSAIC rule lifts the barriers that kept gyroplanes out of American flight schools: a first-ever factory-built certification path, no weight cap, and freed rotor designs. What it means for students and schools.
Training
A steep approach, a flare that spends the rotor's stored energy, and a touchdown that can use just a few feet of ground. Here is how the landing works.
Training
In cruise it is one of the easiest aircraft there is. The takeoff roll and rotor discipline are the real skills, and airplane pilots find them hardest.
Training
A sport pilot gyroplane rating usually runs about $5,000 to $8,000 all in. The biggest lever is not the hourly rate, it is how consistently you fly.
Training
Historically sport pilots flew by day only. The FAA's MOSAIC rule now opens night flying to more pilots, with a medical requirement and an equipped aircraft.
Training
Yes. In the US you need at least a Sport Pilot certificate with a rotorcraft-gyroplane rating. Here is what that involves, and what MOSAIC just changed.
Training
What the training actually feels like, why airplane and helicopter pilots have to unlearn habits, and how to pick an instructor who will not get you hurt.
Training
Most of them were avoidable, and most of the decisions that caused them were made on the ground. Here is the mechanism behind each, and why the first hours on type are the ones that matter.
Training
What the certificate involves, why almost nobody finishes at the minimum, and the second kind of rotorcraft that costs a fraction as much to fly.
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