LRingeisen
Well Known Member
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.