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Ron,
That gives an interesting picture, but you should remember that you must
either file IFR or request flight following to show up on flight aware. I
don’t think many experimental pilots do that. I would probably estimate
that at any given time that 90%+ of the experimental planes aloft will not
show up.
Bill B
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From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Ron
Laughlin
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:51 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Certified vs Experimental Flight Hours
Hmmm, You might want to check FlightAware's website from time to time
and see how many experimentals are in the system at any given time. I
find only 2 Glassairs and one Lancair at the moment. There are a bunch
of certifieds (62 Cirrus's and 51 SkyHawks, etc.).
<http://flightaware.com/live/aircrafttype/>
Ron
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Ted Noel <tednoel@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
Interesting observation, but not adjusted for age. Experimentals are
generally newer than production A/C, and those thousands of hours
represent
how many last year???? It's possible for both observations to be true.
Ted Noel
N540TF
On 7/13/2011 8:19 AM, rwolf99@aol.com wrote:
Randy writes:
<<I believe there are more flight hours per plane for experimentals that
certifieds...>>
I don't see how that could be. One year at Oshkosh there was a special
display area for homebuilts with over 1000 hours. There were just a
handful. Bill Hannahan's Lancair was one of them. On the other side of
the
runway were thousands of spam-cans, all certified. I'll bet that none had
less than 1000 hours, and most had more than 2000 hours.
Further, every experimental for sale in Trade-a-Plane or ASO.com seems to
have between 100 and maybe 500 hours. Virtually all spam cans have
thousands.
As to the real question -- do homebuilt owners fly their airplanes more
hours per year than spam can owners -- I have no idea.
- Rob Wolf
p.s. I do not use the term "spam can" as pejorative. I used to own one
and
had a lot of fun with it.
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