OSH: Icon A5 presentation

On Aug 2, 7:27 am, Jay Maynard wrote:
Who says an LSA has to be VFR-only? Mine's not.


In the video the guy made it very clear that they are targeting people
with the sport pilot license. In fact, he went so far as to say that
it is the very existence of the Sport Pilot rule that makes his
company possible.

That being said, I do not see what is so exciting about this plane
that I would shell out 150K for it (not that I have that kind of money
anyway). There doesn't seem to be anything particularly "game
changing" about it. I do like the amphibious capability though; being
able to take off on land and land on water (and visa versa) would be
pretty handy.

"Rocky Stevens" wrote in message
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On Aug 2, 7:27 am, Jay Maynard wrote:
Who says an LSA has to be VFR-only? Mine's not.


In the video the guy made it very clear that they are targeting people
with the sport pilot license. In fact, he went so far as to say that
it is the very existence of the Sport Pilot rule that makes his
company possible.

That being said, I do not see what is so exciting about this plane
that I would shell out 150K for it (not that I have that kind of money
anyway). There doesn't seem to be anything particularly "game
changing" about it. I do like the amphibious capability though; being
able to take off on land and land on water (and visa versa) would be
pretty handy.



It reminds me of a SeaBee

On Aug 3, 10:54 am, Rocky Stevens wrote:
I do like the amphibious capability though; being
able to take off on land and land on water (and visa versa) would be
pretty handy.

The more I think about this, the more I like the amphib idea. I did
some searching and only found one existing amphib LSA; The Mermaid.
Does anyone know anything about this aircraft? The ability to land on
the water would not only be very convenient, but it would also seem to
be a great safety feature. I live in NYC and for trips out to the
island it would not be too hard to always stay within gliding distance
of the water; it could be like a huge alternate landing spot.

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:53:58 GMT, Jay Maynard wrote:

Too bad it's aggressively VFR-only and, as far as I could tell, completely
non-upgradeable - with a nonstandard instrument layout, *tiny* engine
gauges, one com radio, no nav radios, and a mode C transponder, and that's
it.

It suffers from a 2008 version of the 1940s tendency to try to make airplane
panels look like automobile dashboards. It didn't work then, and it doesn't
work now. Airplanes are not cars, and shouldn't try to act like them.

Outside of that, you ****ing loved it, right?
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Jay Maynard wrote:

It suffers from a 2008 version of the 1940s tendency to try to make airplane
panels look like automobile dashboards. It didn't work then, and it doesn't
work now. Airplanes are not cars, and shouldn't try to act like them.

That was exactly my thought when I saw it.

"Martin Hotze" wrote in message ...
and now for soemthing completely different:

the ICON A5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpNBNg4JzeQ

about 140AMUs

and boy, this is a cockpit from this century, not like most of the other
crap on the market.

#m

It is a very nice plane. It will be interesting to see if they can hold that price point.

the ICON A5

One for the marketing department:

At OSH they hired a sky-writer to write "ICON A5" over the Airventure
grounds. It looked great -- but everyone (myself included) thought that the
pilot was simply misspelling "ICOM A5" -- which is one of ICOM's hand-held
models.

We chuckled about it all week -- and now we find out that they were really
advertising a new airplane!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
Ercoupe N94856
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article jYnlk.227768$TT4.225382@attbi_s22,
Jay Honeck wrote:
the ICON A5

One for the marketing department:

At OSH they hired a sky-writer to write "ICON A5" over the Airventure
grounds. It looked great -- but everyone (myself included) thought that the
pilot was simply misspelling "ICOM A5" -- which is one of ICOM's hand-held
models.

When I saw the subject of the thread, I mis-read it in the same
way, and it was a few messages in before I figured out it was about
a plane and not a radio.

John
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John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/