In rec.aviation.piloting Gig 601Xl Builder wrote:
Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
On Jun 23, 11:44 am, Gig 601Xl Builder
wrote:
Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
If someone were to make a PAV that satisfied the criteria outlined by
NASA/CAFE/PAV, there would be tremenous consumer response.
-Le Chaud Lapin-
Is affordable one of the criteria?

Yes, which is why taking a common LSA and adding a computer and a few
extra mechanical controls to it is almost guanteed not to work, even
if it just so happened to satisfy a few of the other criteria.

A systemic approach is needed, one that starts with assumption that
there is a limit on cost that even lower than $80,000 LSA.

-Le Chaud Lapin-


The cost of a LSA or any modern aircraft isn't that high because of the
things that go in to building it. A car that would cost $20,000 at
Honest Jim's Auto Sales would cost 10 times that if built in the numbers
of all the LSA and single engine GA aircraft combined.

Yep, and a good example is the Morgan.

If mass produced it would probably go for $10k to $20k. The current
hand built model (like airplanes are built) goes for about $80k.

--
Jim Pennino

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