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Old 15th Nov 2006, 22:40
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Now this looks like fun

http://www.airdromeaeroplanes.com/ai...plane2_dsl.mov
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Old 16th Nov 2006, 07:53
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Yep looks like fun, Same company, although simpler aircraft cheap as well.
What’s more under the SSDR proposals due sometime in the next six months, hopefully, will be fully legal in the UK...

should be able to get one flying for around £4k.

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http://www.airdromeaeroplanes.com/Default.asp?page=68

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Especially the last part of that film.. oh goody!
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I want the Dr1 Triplane!! Shame they don't do the British WW1 aircraft....
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i think the magneto blipping is probably dubbed on - surely that's taking authenticity a bit far?
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I want one now!

What sort of registration os required? Are they microlites. Changed my mind, I'll have three please!
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Ridiculous

This looks like ridiculously good fun. And so cheap, too!!

Are these things legal to fly in the UK on just a PPL?
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Old 21st Nov 2006, 16:42
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They would mostly be classed as microlights in the UK (the full scale look like they just tip over into the VLA category), but so far as I can see the dream classic is the only one that would qualify under the proposed 115kg de-regulated category.

Any of the others you'd have to put through either BMAA or PFA for design approval and no doubt would suffer a few mandated design changes, but it would be fun to do. If anybody is seriously thinking of doing so, certifying light aeroplanes is something I'm quite good at, and I might be persuaded to help out for an appropriate consideration in flying hours.

They should all be flyable on a PPL + microlight differences. (The light aeroplane, I think I'd still do the microlight differences training - it's probably the best way to learn about the combination of high drag and low intertia that you'll get on an aircraft that shape and size).

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