I’m as safety conscious and risk mitigating as any reasonable person would be, and I don’t want to really wade into the stall-no-stall back and forth discussions, but I do know for a fact that what one guy does or doesn’t do plays out for the rest of us. By this I am referring to the fact that despite my IV is not particularly hard to fly- I have over 1200 hours on it, and I basically consider myself an average pilot (the flight instructors say I’m great, but somewhat cynically I think they just want the repeat business down the road) I don’t see a need to operate it near the envelope and invite trouble. I rarely exceed 230KIAS (even though its been test flown to 274KIAS) and almost always I am wings level looking at a runway below 100KIAS Others may disagree and I can respect that, but if they fail and bend something, or kill somebody or hurt somebody on the ground, needlessly so, we all grieve the losses, patch up what can be fixed, and then I land up paying double for insurance. Until the insurers say we’re done with this market sector. This has happened.  10 months ago with 1100TT my insurance was doubled due to loss rates on a IV. I wonder if they’re doubling down again as we speak.  I can imagine what they’re talking about with the turbine market.

Michael D Smith