On Jun 23, 4:35*pm, wrote:
In rec.aviation.piloting Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
You have shown that, if one wants to make a PAV for $50,000; they will
not be able to use a conventional engine or conventional avionics be
it would be too expensive.

You can have VFR avionics for under $10k, so that isn't really an
issue.

I recently read that an upgrade to the G1000 for syntethic terrain was
$10,000. Does this seem right? Just curious.

All you have to do is magically find a cheap engine that doesn't
exist to power it and cheap materials and assembly processes that don't
exist to build the airframe.

Note that the airframe is by far the most expensive component and
airframe parts and skin can't be made from recycled microprocessors.

Thanks.

If you have a magic wand, it is all trivial.

-Le Chaud Lapin-