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bryan12
Handling explaining "homebuilt" and "exp" to riders
Just as a general discussion topic I was wondering how all of you handled explaining to your riders the way in which your aircraft was built. We are all supremely confident in Van's Aircraft from a safety standpoint, but I cant help but feel there is a time and place before taking a non pilot up to explain the nature of how experimental planes are built. Many people would be amazed at how a flying machice can come from a garage. A bit of a verbal waiver you might say.
If you dont preface your riders on the building process how you handle the question of when asked what the "Experimental" means behind the seats.
As PIC most of us feel as confident in your Vans aircraft as you would a 172 right off the showroom floor, heck almost definetly safer than a beat up 172 in a rental fleet. So internally if a pilot deems the flight to be just as safe is there a need to bring it up? If you deam "no" how would you feel about one of your riders being appauled to discover they just went flying in a homebuilt aircraft?
Just as a general discussion topic I was wondering how all of you handled explaining to your riders the way in which your aircraft was built. We are all supremely confident in Van's Aircraft from a safety standpoint, but I cant help but feel there is a time and place before taking a non pilot up to explain the nature of how experimental planes are built. Many people would be amazed at how a flying machice can come from a garage. A bit of a verbal waiver you might say.
If you dont preface your riders on the building process how you handle the question of when asked what the "Experimental" means behind the seats.
As PIC most of us feel as confident in your Vans aircraft as you would a 172 right off the showroom floor, heck almost definetly safer than a beat up 172 in a rental fleet. So internally if a pilot deems the flight to be just as safe is there a need to bring it up? If you deam "no" how would you feel about one of your riders being appauled to discover they just went flying in a homebuilt aircraft?