Continental O-200 ?

It's easy to sit on the ground and dream about developing and flying
in an "alternate" aircraft engine. But when airborne, in a homebuilt
is not the time to mess around with these types of engines. As they
say, it's better to be on the ground, wishing you were in the air,
than to be in the air, wishing you were on the ground.

newsreader wrote:
It's easy to sit on the ground and dream about developing and flying
in an "alternate" aircraft engine. But when airborne, in a homebuilt
is not the time to mess around with these types of engines.

IOW there is no time to "mess around with" anything that is not a
certified aircraft engine. If everyone thought like that the OX-5 would
still be the "proven" aircraft engine. By now they would probably have
the old beast putting out 300-400 hp and getting a whopping 500 hour
TBO.

Stick with certified engines in CERTIFIED AIRCRAFT, with TWO (or three
or four) certified engines and a TWO MAN CREW. People like you make
good airline pilots but belong nowhere near single engine single pilot
aircraft.

As they
say, it's better to be on the ground, wishing you were in the air,
than to be in the air, wishing you were on the ground.

Worst case scenario: forced landing or bailout. It happens. Rarely.
But if you are not prepared to do that DO NOT FLY EXPERIMENTAL
AIRCRAFT.

The "average person" is not supposed to be flying experimental
aircraft. Does the average person build their own motorcycle or car?
No they buy one designed, built and tested by trained professionals.
You are WATERING DOWN this activity to something safely doable by
idiots (with fat bank accounts, mostly from house morgtgages or
consumer credit. GOD we need a Depression! Please Allah!!)