@AviationAZRancher i loved the little plane, but not much use but for flight training and time building with mosaic coming next year. Too light and too slow for some looking for new aircraft
On the latest Pipistreal Alpha Pro, you can. They are sold with full backup instruments, backup power on the G5, and dual navcom. But the approaches must be in VMC. You can file IFR but must remain in VMC. Hopefully once MOSAIC passes they can be flown in IMC with the proper ratings / currency.
I count 7 Pipistrel Alpha Trainers. All in 1 hanger. Does this place sell them? Do they still cost around $100,000? Some wheel pants. A 5-gallon auxiliary fuel tank. And a 104 HP Zipper Kit for a Rotax 912 80 HP engine, and you'd really have something.
@@AviationAZRancher I still fly it after PPL, not most comfortable, small cabin but safe, glide ratio 15:1, parachute, 5h endurance, ~18l/h consumption, airbrakes, ...overall, great plane
Great video!
@@Elemental_Aviation Thanks.
Is that a common aircraft to learn to fly in flight schools?
It might be now. I learned in much older airplanes. 1955 Piper Supercub.
Well, it doesn't get cooler than THAT.
I got my sport in the aircraft. Piedmont flight training center in Winston Salem north carolina 6/2020
@@mauriceevans6546 What do you think of it? My only experience with it is talking with the instructors and watching them fly out of Prescott.
@AviationAZRancher i loved the little plane, but not much use but for flight training and time building with mosaic coming next year. Too light and too slow for some looking for new aircraft
Can you train for IFR and Commercial in this aircraft?
@@drewsuiter I don’t think so.
Thanks!
On the latest Pipistreal Alpha Pro, you can. They are sold with full backup instruments, backup power on the G5, and dual navcom. But the approaches must be in VMC. You can file IFR but must remain in VMC. Hopefully once MOSAIC passes they can be flown in IMC with the proper ratings / currency.
@ Good to know!
Yes. These are certified for IFR instruction and practice, but only in VFR conditions. They are not certified for actual IMC.
I count 7 Pipistrel Alpha Trainers. All in 1 hanger.
Does this place sell them? Do they still cost around $100,000?
Some wheel pants. A 5-gallon auxiliary fuel tank. And a 104 HP Zipper Kit for a Rotax 912 80 HP engine, and you'd really have something.
@@raymond3803 The place is a flight school. They use them to get students enough hours to qualify for airline jobs.
no need for aux tanks, this thing can go for 5h .... I did my PPL in that
@How did you like it?
@@AviationAZRancher I still fly it after PPL, not most comfortable, small cabin but safe, glide ratio 15:1, parachute, 5h endurance, ~18l/h consumption, airbrakes, ...overall, great plane
@ Thanks.