A32, Aeroprakt A 32, Pilot Report, Aircraft Review, Aeroprakt A32 Vixxen, Light Sport Aircraft.
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2020
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Many pilots expect the first appearance of a new model at the biggest airshows, but here’s one of those times when the sector-specific shows win. It’s all about timing and the new Aeroprakt A32 just won it’s SLSA approval 147 on our SLSA List. The Midwest LSA Expo is the first show after getting its documents, so here it is!
Here’s How A32 Looks and Feels
First blush: This is a great flying airplane, reflecting Aeroprakt’s experience producing more than 1,000 of the predecessor A22LS, once also known as the A22 Valor. In A32, engineers have incorporated many refinements. The general appearance is similar but the changes are many.
One measure of success is a widening of the flight envelope. Top speed increased to 130 mph, as we witnessed in a low-altitude upwind and downwind run with the carbureted Rotax 912 ULS at 5500 rpm. A-22 would max out at about 105 mph, so this was a pretty solid 20% bump. Yet A32 retains the earlier design’s low speed capabilities. We saw stall in the low 40 mph bracket and witnessed airspeed into the high 30s without loss of control.
Of course, these exercises were preparing for stall evaluations, which proved to be some of the most benign I’ve experienced in a Light-Sport Aircraft. Stall break was extremely mild with little fall-through and while a wing dipped, it recovered itself. I never added power for recovery to normal flight and altitude loss was minimal. Excellent!
When deploying or retracting flaps, the pitch change is very minor. True, two notches is only 20° of flaps but deploying them made quite an aerodynamic change, just not a pitch change. On one landing I made with no flaps, I had to raise the nose significantly high to put A32 on the ground.
A32 uses a full flying stabilator, a change from A22 and it was more responsive than the former. It will take a bit longer to get used to but it is a powerful surface. On takeoff, importer Dennis Long demonstrated how immediate the stabilator will lift the nose off the ground. In fact, that’s his preferred takeoff technique: power to full, almost immediately pull aft on the Y-stick, control the nose so it sits a few inches off the runway, and let A32 then fly herself into the air. I followed his method and it worked wonderfully well.
A32 uses the identical wing from A22 from the fuselage root out. However, the many clean-ups of the fuselage - and they are many, which you will see more fully in the Video Pilot Report, make the new model more efficient. A pilot literally has to work at getting it back on the ground, and that’s a good thing.
I reduced power to 3000 rpm abeam my touchdown target and then began to retard speed, lowering one notch of flaps after we got in flap speed range 93 mph. On base leg I had both notches in and was monitoring my speed carefully. Using 60-65 mph was fine on base turning final but I moved it to 55-60 on short final and was ideally at 50-55 over the numbers.
With two notches of flaps and with a modest headwind, A32 landed very short. You have excellent visibility on landing as you do in flight in A32 Vixxen. It lacks a skylight but otherwise offers a wide view all around. I could even watch as the main gear touched down when Dennis was controlling the aircraft.
Takeoff and landing has been quoted at “under 100 meters” 300 feet and I believe it. No question it was short, assuming, of course, decent technique.
A32 Vixxen was easy to fly with a joystick that provided enough feedback yet offered crisp response. In flight, I found the aircraft very well behaved and suitable for less experienced flyers, naturally assuming proper instruction and transition training.
In all, I think Aeroprakt has a winner. Dennis Long equipped this particular example with most available options, including the Magnum airframe parachute system and Dynon HDX digital instrument plus autopilot. The still-available A22 starts at around $85,000 and even this deluxe A32 is a reasonably modest $135,000 - lower cost A32s are possible if you don’t need all the fancy gear.
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the Ukrainian quality of aircraft construction is, as always, on top. The chief designer and owner of the Aeroprakt company worked at AN as a designer
Great flight, informative conversation. Educational while being thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you!
One of the best, if not the best flight I’ve ever had, was with Dennis and this aircraft! I kid you not!
Up close and personal...the best construction that I have seen...bar none...
Indead thanks to Yuri and the guys!
I am awaiting delivery in February to Australia and I can't wait!
What location in Australia? I’d love to see one in the flesh..
And did you find out how much extra for the 912is? Floods told me the engine is about 8k extra but an aircraft manufacturer can add as much as they want for the fitting/design etc
Great flyer! 👍👍
Super!
Indeed a fantastic aircraft.
Hey Dan, Great video! You referred to a ratio of “5 to 1, 4 to one is the holy grail “
I would love one
Where was this video taken at? 2 great LSA people in that airplane. Dennis in left seat and Dan in the right! Probably the best little airplane in the world.
Buckeye Air Fair, Buckeye Arizona. Some footage from Midwest LSA Expo, Mt. Vernon Illinois.
914UL? Missed the powerplant if it was in the video. Nice demo flight. Great salesman.
Rotax 912.
Most probably a 912ish, 100 hp. Would be more than enough.
@@ultralightnews thanks, always have Porsche on the brain!
Looks like a great aircraft, is there ever any carb icing on the 912ULS? How she’s this aircraft manage with a tailwind on landing?
I’ve flown the uls in all Vfr conditions year round with no problems. I don’t have carb heat fitted….
Great plane, the only thing that bothers me is the long float if you're after STOL, I'd like to see Yuri smack it down in half the width of his runway (10m, 30') like he did with the A20 and A22!
You got a link to that?
Maybe adding VGs to the wing and an angle of attack indicator to the panel would improve the STOL capability.
@@markthibault8579 AOA? I think when yr getting low and slow, close to the ground you gotta be looking outside in front of you, not starting at guages in the dash, just mho
WHAT IS THE CHANCE OF GETTING A USED ONE? AND ABOUT HOW MUCH AND WHERE WOULD BE THE BEST PLACE YOU COULD BUY ONE?
DOES THIS PLANE COME IN A SINGLE SEAT? AND WANT IS THE CHEAPEST WAY TO GET THIS PLAND? AND COULD YOU FIND A USED ONE AND WHERE?
What is the engine in this aircraft?
What date this video was taken?
2020.
31:15 The pilot is working hard to SELL the airplane, but is not giving much attention to the airspace outside of the cockpit. I see Dan J is looking for and identifying traffic, but Aircraft Demonstrator is busy talking and selling, and is betting their lives on the belief "all traffic will appear on the screen on the dash." I was taught to treat each corner of the pattern as an intersection, and to visually "clear the intersection." Never do I see pilot looking left, or for possibly conflicts in the pattern. Yuri is demonstrating the flying style (WWI training techniques) that leads to two aircraft colliding at the landing point on a CAVU Sunday afternoon, after one guy flies left pattern, and the other guy with no radio flies a right-hand pattern to the same runway. Watch the pilot from 31:56 until touchdown and tell me if he looks for traffic thru the windows, or even calls FINAL. 32:53 The left wing is raised, and this would be a perfect opportunity to look left and see the Piper Comanche on a seven mile final. Comanche is transmitting on the wrong frequency.
PLEASE note that this is an EDITED video - to video a complete circuit from entering to landing would probably take 5 to 10 minutes NOT the 60 or 70 seconds shown on the video! The pilot made ALL the appropriate radio calls etc.