MJP59
No "gloating" is intended. The background to my comments is this:
As the owner of what was a brand new aircraft at the time, a few years ago, and having seen the defects one has to put up with from the start, knowing that some of them were known to them at the outset, having seen the appalling conduct of the manufacturer and their UK dealer over fixing the stuff, having to pay for it myself whether in or (now) out of warranty, and having seen this happen to aircraft owners all over the place in GA, I am not happy to see somebody selling diesel engines that clearly haven't been properly tested before being sold to punters.
GA aircraft owners get s*at on in a manner which would never be tolerated in any other business.
I personally know owners whose brand new planes were delivered with engines full of rust, grinding themselves to bits over the next year or two. The vendor's response is derisory. The documentation contains "just the right dates" to comply with the manufacturer's storage requirements .....
No wonder so many people resort to litigation, or getting very close to it.
Other than that, I am all for new technology. I'd love to have a jet burning engine, if only because the stuff is so much easier to get in far away places. Composite planes are the future - much more slippery. I have argued for BRS chutes, against all the traditionalist old farts. I always support GPS, to the extent that it should be fully in the PPL syllabus.
BUT the stuff has to be tested before it goes out of the door!!!