DID YOU KNOW high speed taxi testing can potentially void your insurance policy?

[LRingeisen]

Many times Vans owners call to increase their coverage from ?Builders? (not in motion coverage) to ?Ground and Taxi.? The Ground and Taxi only covers the hull of your aircraft until you reach the active runway thereby excluding hull coverage for high speed taxi test. The main reason for this is that even though you may not intend to get airborne it can happen fairly easily and unexpectedly. If you are unprepared it can be very a dangerous situation; you may not have much gas in the tank, you may not be entirely ready to solo your freshly built aircraft, and whole host of other reasons. Typically people do not opt for this coverage because by the time they are ready for this coverage they are only a few short weeks away from flying. It?s of little financial value to switch to Ground and Taxi unless it?s going to be longer than a month before you?re ready to fly.

[Auburntsts]

Interesting. Personally I'd recommend just not doing high speed taxi tests altogether -- I see no upside and just a lot of risk in that particular test.

[Shanna Linton]

Originally Posted by Auburntsts

Interesting. Personally I'd recommend just not doing high speed taxi tests altogether -- I see no upside and just a lot of risk in that particular test.

I agree with you.

[BobTurner]

I guess it depends on what 'high speed' means. I did one taxi at about 30 knots to condition the brake pads.

[scard]

Originally Posted by Shanna Linton

I agree with you.

Yeah, what she said.... <wink>

[RV6_flyer]

Originally Posted by Auburntsts

Interesting. Personally I'd recommend just not doing high speed taxi tests altogether -- I see no upside and just a lot of risk in that particular test.

Originally Posted by Shanna Linton

I agree with you.

Originally Posted by scard

Yeah, what she said.... <wink>

We all agree.

Even if you have insurance that will cover it, the risk is not worth for what little value you get.

[AviatorJ]

I call high speed taxi's "Take Offs"

[bret]

I did a few, but, I had full insurance coverage, ARROW, transition training, weather check, full pre flight and run up, fully strapped in and aircraft ready for flight. wanted to confirm fuel system and dynamic full power RPM, ground handling and brake pad seat, discovered CS prop needed adjusting, Paid very close attention to speed. I can see where a lot of things can go wrong, like if you were not ready to get air born, but on the other hand, good practice for when that deer or what ever causes you to abort a take off....

[Shanna Linton]

Originally Posted by scard

Yeah, what she said.... <wink>

HAHAHAHAHA! I was waiting to see your reply! Looking forward to seeing you and Tanya at Oshkosh.

[Raymo]

Originally Posted by BobTurner

I guess it depends on what 'high speed' means. I did one taxi at about 30 knots to condition the brake pads.

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