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01-04-2011, 10:53 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Belvidere, IL
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If I lost my medical, I'd skip LSA and jump right into a motorglider. Motorgliders don't have as many restrictions as LSA. The Virus SW can be flown day or night and it has a cruise of 147 knots and range of nearly 800 nautical miles... plus... I can shut off the engine and work thermals all afternoon for free.

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01-04-2011, 11:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: austin tx
Posts: 109
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Heart attack safer in CAR?
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Originally Posted by KatieB
 Notwithstanding instant death & incapacitation scenarios... if I have a heart attack in a car, I can pull off to the side of the road and stop within several seconds. If I have a heart attack in a plane at altitude, I'm screwed, and so are the non-pilot passengers in my airplane.
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Katie, i'm sorry, but i don't think so. I don't have stats in front of me to show this but a heart attack can happen quick and many times the driver falls over steering wheel and swerves with a 50 50 chance of going Rt to shoulder or Left into oncoming traffic. (google driving heart attack and read some articles)That oncoming traffic might be a mom in a minivan or a load of kids on the church bus. It happens quick and with not much warning.
I believe wholeheartedly that dropping 3rd class and requiring valid drivers lic. would keep a LOT of pilots going for more regular Dr. visits and go sooner when something ails them.
Driving has become very stressful and flying is most relaxing! Who on this forum does not feel relaxed and happy when they are flying but stressed in traffic going to work or coming home?
jeff
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01-05-2011, 07:45 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brighton, Colorado
Posts: 393
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My father passed away when he was 38 years old of brain cancer. A little over 30 years later, my mother was engaged to a 67 year old gentleman. He had an interest in flying so I started giving him flying lessons. He was doing well and I was about ready to sign him off for solo so I sent him to the AME for a 3rd class medical.
The gentleman was a health nut so he passed easily with a clean bill of health. 4 days after his exam, he died of a massive heart attack.
That 3rd Class medical really did him a lot of good, didn't it.
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Brighton, Colorado (CO12)
RV-3 N87CT (Thanks Chuck!)
Glasair 1RG N388DM
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F1 MkIII empennage?arrived 08/22/2018--collecting dust
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01-05-2011, 04:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: La Feria Texas
Posts: 3,822
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Wow neat, I did not know that! I wonder however just where is the line between an LSA and a Motorglider? Maybe what I am actually making is an RV12 based motorglider!
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Originally Posted by David Shelton
If I lost my medical, I'd skip LSA and jump right into a motorglider. Motorgliders don't have as many restrictions as LSA. The Virus SW can be flown day or night and it has a cruise of 147 knots and range of nearly 800 nautical miles... plus... I can shut off the engine and work thermals all afternoon for free.

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01-05-2011, 05:03 PM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 531
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Originally Posted by DonFromTX
Wow neat, I did not know that! I wonder however just where is the line between an LSA and a Motorglider? Maybe what I am actually making is an RV12 based motorglider!
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Some folks here will know if this is true...but isn't the shuttle considered a motorglider too?
As for actual definitions, the Sonex site has a good page on the details (although I know there are exceptions): http://www.sonexaircraft.com/aircraf...efinition.html
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(1) Powered fixed wing gliders may be type certificated under Section 21.17(b) if:
(i) The number of occupants does not exceed two;
(ii) Maximum weight does not exceed 850 kg (1874 pounds); and
(iii) The maximum weight to wing span squared (w/b2) does not exceed 3.0 kg/M2 (0.62 lb./ft.2)
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...although from reading around certification can be tricky sometimes it seems.
It is a route for the medically declined...you just need the glider rating + self-launch endorsement. I think my second plane will either be an RV-10 or a Xenos...just depends on which mission limitations I run into most. 
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01-05-2011, 05:47 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: KRTS
Posts: 1,798
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Originally Posted by RWoodard
My father passed away when he was 38 years old of brain cancer. A little over 30 years later, my mother was engaged to a 67 year old gentleman. He had an interest in flying so I started giving him flying lessons. He was doing well and I was about ready to sign him off for solo so I sent him to the AME for a 3rd class medical.
The gentleman was a health nut so he passed easily with a clean bill of health. 4 days after his exam, he died of a massive heart attack.
That 3rd Class medical really did him a lot of good, didn't it.
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Google "Jim Fix." Same story.
Uncle of mine had the same thing happen. Army Helo pilot, avid runner, health nut. Went to the doctor for some strange chest pains, was having a quadruple by-pass a week later. You just never know...
Third class medical is a waste of time/money IMO and is a huge hinderance to the prosperity of GA.
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01-05-2011, 07:41 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: La Feria Texas
Posts: 3,822
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Just curious, back when I got medicals, they were about $70-80. What do they cost now?
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01-05-2011, 07:48 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,769
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Originally Posted by DonFromTX
Just curious, back when I got medicals, they were about $70-80. What do they cost now?
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Big range. I'm still paying $65. I can remember paying $10 back in the '60s!
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Mel Asberry, DAR since the last century.
EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1
Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
<rvmel(at)icloud.com>
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01-05-2011, 08:06 PM
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fugio ergo sum
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Carlsbad, NM
Posts: 1,912
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DonFromTX
Just curious, back when I got medicals, they were about $70-80. What do they cost now?
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My guy charges $50 and he is great in so many other ways. Unfortunately he is talking about retirement.
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Larry Pardue
Carlsbad, NM
RV-6 N441LP Flying
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01-05-2011, 08:12 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 233
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$$$
$130.00 - Ohio
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John Furey, RV7. Ohio
Life's Short...Fly Often!
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