Flying Flight Design's New F2 0920

Flight Design is the U.S. market leader for deliver of Light-Sport Aircraft with its CT-series including CTSW and CTLS. Now, from the German designer and manufacturer comes what I consider their third-generation model, the F2. At this year's (very rare) Midwest LSA Expo aviation event, I got to photograph and fly F2. Come along in this short video and get some ideas what I thought. (TRT: 4:14)

[@mauriceevans6546]

914 and 915 will become options in the coming years, spoke with President of flight design usa at sun and fun.

[@oscarharriet7030]

Cuise speed, endurance with 2 on board, useful numbers?

[@Bill3558]

It needs more power.

[@Cyberslug1]

100% not a luxury plane LOL. It has leather seats and interior fit and finish 10X worse than a Chevy cruse !!!

[@andrewmorris3479]

Just remember, heavy materials don't fly well.

[@terrydwelander422]

This stick and rudder pilot likes steam tube instruments; having spent a life time using these regular instruments. Do the F-2 people offer a standard cockpit of instruments? Standard instrument should cost less than those solid state devices? I have had an introductory flight in a Cirrus; so do not have an aversion to solid state devices. I just do not trust solid state devices after the single solid state ignition on a Rotorway helicopter failed forcing an autorotation.
Safety first!!!! And solid state devices unless in duplicate are too risky. Or are there two separate instrument sources in the F-2 so if one fails, the other automatically takes over and perhaps check each other on a regular basis? But what I have just described is no longer basic and probably adds substantial cost to the F-2? With annual aircraft inspections; I have never had a classic instrument fail in flight in 50 years and 1000 plus hours of flying. I did have a standard RPM gauge fail in flight; but just listening to the engine worked just fine for a landing; which a pilot should do anyway rather than spending too much time looking at the RPM gauge. Or listening to the engine should probably be a near continual activity to note any changes in sound to detect any abnormality?