Hi FS,
Thanks for the information. Could be a problem though as I'm 6' tall? I know what you mean about being quiet, well from the outside anyway. I was sat outside the hut at Oban airfield and suddenly this Jabiru appeared on very short final, hadn't heard it until that point.
It would definitely be a good way to fly, I live in the South and from here there are tons of good places to go (Cornwall / Devon / S Wales) which although would probably take 1-1.5 hrs in a plane take double that to drive. I don't really want to fork out 6-7K per year just for the privilege of keeping a simple single engine ......(was looking at the OMF Symphony TDi which looks cool....flew the 160 in the states and it was bloody brilliant, but need to add another £70k onto the price of a Jabiru which I couldn't justify for just bashing around the UK / N France)
Cheers
EA