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Interesting. We are bringing Recon airplane to market here at Zephyrhills, FL. It is a redesigned bigger Apollo LSA. Doing the testing with standard 912ULS engine which is also 100 HP. At a weight of 1320 pounds gross, we are seeing 650 FPM climb sustained in hot Florida right now (2500 feet DA and very humid). Adjusting it for standard conditions, that is right around 790 FPM performance. Seeing around 100 mph cruise with 22 inch tires and no wheel pants with spring leaf gear that we make ourselves. With standard size tires and wheel pants, I expect to gain around 10 mph cruise speed at 75% power. Your STi should perform similarly unless the penalty from the landing gear is very severe. Remember drag affects not just your speed but also your rate of climb. You might want to try a slightly slower airspeed because that may be your real Vy than what you are using right now. That shift can happen due to extra drag. I cannot imagine a 1500 pound gross weight with 100 HP. We will allow 1500 pounds gross weight with 916iS only because with 100 HP performance at that gross weight is not satisfactory at all.

Mike wishes Scrappy was only 300000 dollars

Guy cannot keep eye contact

Do you know other manufacturers whose parts fit better? Shame that a year is spent. Sounds like much of that year is trying to make parts fit that should have come ready to assemble. Is Kitfox sourcing their parts from China?

Agree, for tens of thousands of dollars, surprising that so much sanding and reaming to make the parts fit together is surprising….

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I am looking to buy some land and I want to build a Kitfox not sure of the model yet except that I want 7 series model. In your opinion what is the shortest length field that you would consider for take offs and landings. Also what would you feel to be a comfortable length. I live in Texas and I am talking about a relatively flat grass turf or dirt landing strip.

Do u have to build the airframe from metal pipe? Can u use wood? If not whats the actual cost to have someone weld the whole thing how it should be

I built, owned, and flew a kitfox for 15 years 100 hp rotax ivo 3 blade. I live in northern utah and flew with my Brother in law with camp gear full fuel and had great performance in the backcountry of Idaho. Made sue we always flew in the cool morning air, cruise speed was 105 and never would it only climb 300 ft per min.

Great Vid.. thanks bro

A very fine video. Thank you.

I just got the same brake lines and fuel lines from Aircraft Specialties. Really good stuff!

No offense, but you come across as a whiny little crybaby.

"Can you build a kitchen table?" Had me laughing. I designed and built my kitchen table. I mean, I also used to build airplanes for a living, but...

Whiny @ss daddy’s kid

My grand papa showed me how to do this just like in the video, said it was the best way. He died in a mysterious hanger fire one day, never did find the cause.

Super good review

I really like your no BS straight to the point unapologetic style. Its awesome. Its the way aviation should be. I was looking at your videos to see which one people found the most help just looking at the views.... 2.5k, ok 1.5k cool 2k yep 10k... Oh....fuse covering...hmmm.... really? Then I realise your very cute other half is doing the feminine "Tada" pose....Of course. What would a bunch of men click on the most....😀 Great vid. I am going to watch them all. I like that your giving a summary of the experience not a how to set of instructions.

Love your honesty. People do not understand the work that goes in to building plans, cars, trucks.

Kits shouldn't be a thing because of the bizarre effort it takes. Imagine buying a car from Volkswagen as a kit and have to spend 1500 hours putting it together only to cost about as much as a factory finished one. Unthinkable. Mike Ojo the youtuber built a Sling 4 for over 300k$ while a superior factory built plane from Gogetair costs the same. Kits is a symptom of an ailing industry rather than an advantage. It's nice that it's allowed but the reliance on it is very unhealthy. Also a composite construction can be much simpler and faster to make from factory than the many parts of a truss plane. It's an illusion of simplicity.

This dude agitates me.

I’ve enjoyed watching your videos - thank-you for taking the time to make them.

Not everybody has a large hangar either. Having someplace to build is a giant advantage.

I think your video is very good. But, you are talking to a very small audience of like minded people. I have not built a Kitfox, but I did build a Challenger from Quad City many years ago. You obviously went into your build without fully researching exactly what you were getting into. Before I started my build I knew exactly what it entailed, and I felt comfortable doing it all. You can't rely on the words of someone trying to sell you something in an advertisement. You have to do your own research. I enjoyed building my plane, and let me tell you the manual provided by Quad City was worthless. It was like 500 pages that had been xeroxed so many times parts of it were not legible at all. There were photographs in there that resembled an ink blot test. The reality is that building a kit plane is not all that much less than buying a used certified one. The major benefit building a kit is it falls into the Experimental class, enabling you to do most maintenance yourself, you can even do minor modifications to your own plane, which save you a ton of money in operations costs.

If your experienced in building things you should have easily understood that their marketing of "anyone can do this" is far from true. This is far from basic garage building

Amazing video man. I was thinking about doing this . VERY enlightening. Thank you very much for this.

Where are your prior videos?

This is such a pain! 😢. (Removes a few dzus fasteners with a quarter twist and the entire plexiglass piece comes off). 😂. Spoiler: drain the gas, pull the pins and fold the wing. Add 15 minutes of drama for effect….

Yikes 1k hours oof.

I tried to make it to the end of this video but just couldn't. Just too much of a d'bag to ignore m

Looking awesome, keep up the hard work. Thank you for the update.

thanks Man .. & best regards from Greece

Seems the issue is your not the builder type your a flyer.... A builder doesn't need to fly, he gets to fly but enjoys the building of the plane too while the flyer just wants to fly and sure he may get some satisfaction from building his own plane it will never be the same as the craftsmans pride.

Rans manual was terrible to correct their mistakes in the manual I found so many mistakes that the plane I built would never be capable of actual flight. I called my airplane the S-10 Lemon.....

Would you mind sharing some specific planes you have in mind when you say there are others better at going "long distances affordably"?

Thanks for the awesome videos. What size tire did you go with? I’m trying to decide what I’m going to go with

Fabric coverings and finishings for aircraft is a black art in itself, all the lotions and potions, all the layers of products and preparation, its ridiculous. There is alot to be said for an all metal or composite aircraft. Its the kind of thing that you only work out how to do it by the end of the job and all the learning mistakes are in your aircraft once you're done

Apparently he’s never heard of Trent Palmer … literally put KitFox on the map… has a 100 videos of what a kitFox is capable of… but yeah let’s hear what a true amateur has to say about a plane he’s barely flown..🤦🏻‍♂️

Go to a helicopter company and look at how we drain fuel out of the Astar. Astar has a nice drain set up, some have a safety lock to prevent inadvertent draining in the bush from the bush or snow pushing up on it.

Do you regret building a STI kit fox vs an S21 Rans?

Extremely helpful video thanks. KitFox novice here. Your words helped me

I appreciate you very much and thank you for sharing your experience . Congratulations on your awesome project I am proud of you 😁🙏🏻

Well that just killed the kit fox for me. The folding wings are a huge money saver for now needing a full sized hangar which costs as much as the plane.

I have no desire to paint an aircraft. Orates fabric is the way to go

Welp.. Guess I’m buying something already built

Fuck all that building shit. 😂😂😂😂. Sounds like way too much hassle.

Having built 4 Homebuilt aircraft and number 5 on order ( been 16 months) I can attest that going experimental is the way to go . No one knows your particular aircraft better than you do. It’s extremely rewarding to build and test fly your own aircraft. With certified aircraft becoming beyond the reach of affordability for the average pilot, home building is the only way to go outside of renting.

Thank you…this was so informative and honest. At the end of it all, congratulations, it’s a hell of an accomplishment that you should be so proud of. I love to think I could do something like this but the reality is that I would very likely lose interest and fail. I love the idea but I have no experience building anything and would require a lot of help. I’ve thought this would be a great retirement project when time was no issue, but I really need to be honest with myself about my skill set. This video was really great to watch, thank you and again, congratulations