Flight Log
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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.
Buying
The airplane is transportation; the gyrocopter is the flying itself. Speed, safety, cost and mission, compared honestly for a first-time buyer.
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 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.
Ownership
Most two-seaters fly on 100 to 141 hp, nearly always a Rotax. What the power actually does, what the turbo buys, and the underpowering mistake to avoid.
Buying
An old reputation, a regulatory box, scarce instructors and pricey insurance stacked up against a genuinely good aircraft. Two of the four are changing now.
Buying
Opposite lift principles, different laws, and barely overlapping jobs. Why the quadcopter comparison fails, and which machine fits which mission.
Ownership
Liability commonly runs $1,500 to $1,800 a year and full coverage several thousand more. Why it costs so much, and what actually brings it down.
Ownership
Blades off, a gyroplane fits a garage bay and rides an ordinary trailer. How owners store and move these machines, and the blade-handling rule that matters.
Buying
Mostly for the joy of flying, and then a working resume: patrol, pipeline and powerline inspection, photography, agriculture, and a real military history.
Airworthiness
An annual inspection around $1,000 to $1,500, a Rotax on a 2,000-hour clock, and life-limited blades. The real schedule and the numbers to ask before buying.
Ownership
A two-seat gyrocopter typically carries about 480 to 680 pounds of people, fuel and baggage. Here is what useful load means and the pilot-weight limit to check.
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