Best not to tell the airport manager that your test flying. I was near finishing my 40 hours when another experimental crashed. I was asked to leave. I just let the hour meter run to 40 hours

There are no easy solutions, but there are solutions. Mine isn't easy but it works, sorta. I run a little startup company that owns several difficult-to-insure aircraft, none of which I am yet

Easy solution.. do as Charlie Johnson did for his Dragonfly and BUY the airport.. or a piece of it. Then tell the municipals to jump off a cliff!

No hull here, either. When I first looked into it, the insurance company wanted 10% of the aircrafts value, whatever I declared that to be. So, I just fix it myself, and fix it, and fix it, and fix

I was covered by Falcon from first flight (3/10/06) with hull ins. at $20,000. NOT IN MOTION. No coverage if the engine was running. Only stuff like fire, wind, building failure were covered… Did

Never had hull insurance. I built it and figure that I could fix it myself. 36 years of flight so have saved $72,000 so far. Mike Dwyer Q200

Never carried Hull insurance. Essentially, if you break, you fix it. Who else knows how to fix a Q except a Q builder? Jerry M

This is good to know and it seems like im getting consistent info from the insurance agent at least. I’m getting into exactly the catch 22 I predicted. I’m trying to figure out a place to put the

Haha…every once in a while we do joke a little about his special they are. -- Corbin N121CG

Corbin, You might want to let those two know that they are now walking National Treasures 😉 -- -MD #2827 (still thinking about planning on visualizing how to finish building)

Call Falcon Insurance. They insured both our TriQ and the Q200 Martin

Falcon covered me only after 30 hours with instructor. However, they accepted the builder Bob Malechek to fly those hours off with me. I didn’t opt for hull insurance, only liability. You break it,

Hi Micheal, Not back yet, but I will give a short response to clarify.. Corrections for the differences in chord were made external to Javafoil. I explain my procedures in the first of the

Funny; I had that same thought after I went to bed... However, I used the coordinates from Jay's stock LS(1) airfoil file directly with no changes...except one: re-scaling them up to a unit chord on

I was lucky in that my TW CFII worked for a company that has insurance to cover any plane he flies. By the time we ferried my Q home it gave him the 10 hours required by my insurance to

Does anyone have recommendations on insurance options for the Q aircraft? The responses I am getting dont look promising and require things like 20 hrs of dual from a CFI who has 10 hrs in a Q

Michael, Fun history tangent noted. Regarding your reported airfoil discrepancies, is it possible that you are inadvertently comparing two different airfoils, the LS(1)-0417 from the NASA TM against

Hi Michael, Not much time to fully absorb all the items you bring up, but let me hit a couple. Airfoil dimensions were normalized for my multifoil model representation including with the Eppler main

David, The comment was strictly about the tailoring of the hinge moment. The rest was a fun history tangent. Jay, I noted a couple concerns in the provided LS(1) airfoil after running through the

Michael, Other than the general comments about tailoring the elevator hinge moment, I fail to see the relevance of the NLF(1)-0115 or the AS504X to the Quickie line of aircraft. They suffer from the