Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Flying the seaplane of the future, the Icon A5”.
Let’S say you have Silicon Valley money you spend all your time. Filling your garage with exotic playthings $ 200,000 is an afterthought. You want something with great design but performance, you could add another Ferrari to the stable, but I have another proposition for you: the icon. A5. Basically, a sports car for the air, it’s made by an outfit called icon, it’s based in California, and they are exploiting a new FAA rule which is meant to encourage new pilots get in the air it’s less than $ 250,000.
In my world, that is a drop in the bucket when you’re talking about a plane. So instead of buying that Ferrari, you could buy the a5 spend 20 or 30 hours of flight time and potentially get your sport license. It’S got all the carbon-fiber. It looks great great design, aesthetic and it’s very simple. Apparently now you can’t fly during night. You can’t fly over 10,000 feet and only in good weather and these conditions.
But basically I could take this out head out five hours someplace and have an amazing time. Obviously, it’s amphibious, you can land on your private lake in Wyoming or here on the Hudson the wings fold back, so you can transport it on a trailer really easily and best of all things go badly. It’S got a parachute dude. I am going to cause as much trouble as I can they’re gon na give me the yoke in brought the rope. Joey Nichkhun is mostly visual right here: okay, you’re, not that much to our contact. We stay away from that stuff. We stay away from control towers. You can take this airplane there and you can’t go there dividuals. It’S obviously designed to use really. You know how much you can actually see is incredible.
Right is awesome, yeah, just like whole wide field of view. Oh, it’s so good. It’S so good that the plane is such an unusual shape. You know: hey Abby, it’s decide to have that visceral emotional risk all right and this the windows are open.
Now, Gabby, you can fly with those out actually I’ll. Do this this airplane to go to a stop pressurized right, so yeah yeah! If you go really hide it’s getting cold yeah you gon na! Let the widows in go in really about the ceiling height on this or what gets out 15,000. It shows a sport pilot obey to the vertical the free, if you’re on it we’re on the water.
We were considered a boat, okay, yeah, so literally when we’re on the water with those. So we follow the rules of boating. If we’re foot off the water or higher, we have to follow the FAA rules, just glide it on it.
Oh that is so cool yeah, but oh good, yeah, that’s no fun at all! Why would you want to fly like a bird around New York City? I you know you’re skipping all the traffic, it’s like kind of like a sports car at a really fast sports car, but it’s all it’s everything I want to do awesome. I want more all right, so icon a5 is uh. It actually felt easy. It’S sort of drama-free was not how to talk to the tower.
I just making sure you don’t run into stuff, but the good thing is in the air there’s not that much stuff to run into, so that is the best of both worlds. In so many ways dude, I totally want .