Originally Posted by
StickWithTheTruth
The Icon A5 has a factory camera fitted along with monitoring similar to a Dynon that is only accessible by the Icon service agents. It is likely that they would already know what happened. The NTSB report for the previous crash came out in lightning speed presumably for this reason.
And when you buy an ICON, you sign a contract which stipulates that you will maintain the camera and data recorder in working condition and that the data is the property of Icon.
My (somewhat cynical) take on the this is that Icon knows full well that they're going to have a bunch of A5's trying to play High speed submarine,(It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out) and the cameras and recorders are there to give Icon data so that they can place the blame on the pilot (perhaps not unfairly) in the courtroom in the inevitable lawsuits from the families of the deceased who are trying to claim that it's the airplane's fault the crash happened.
My sense from reading about the Icon contract terms is that you really don't *own* the A5, in the sense that it's yours and you can sell it to whom you like, or modify it how you like (within the Regulations) or decide what avionics you do or do not want installed in it.