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Martin Pohl

Joined: 30 Jan 2006
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Location: CH-8645 Jona SG, Switzerland

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 6:23 am Post subject: Flying CH601XL in LAX or SFO area

Hi Zodiac flyers



Is there anybody in the LAX or SFO area who has a flying CH601XL and would take me for a flight with his or her airplane?



I am building an XL here in Switzerland and hope to get the plane flying next year, but never flew in an XL (nor any other Zenith-design) yet. Working as an F/O for Lufthansa I fly to LAX and SFO regularly (e.g. next week to SFO, free day on Sunday 20th may). I can either rent a car in San Francisco or rent a plane at Torrance airfield, so anything within 1-2h-driving range from San Francisco or 1h-flying range from LA would be perfect.



Martin

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Gig Giacona

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: El Dorado Arkansas USA

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 6:47 am Post subject: Re: Flying CH601XL in LAX or SFO area

Martin you might get in touch with quality sports planes.



http://www.qualitysportplanes.com/



They are in Cloverdale which is north of SFO.

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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: Flying CH601XL in LAX or SFO area

In addition to Quality Sports Planes in Cloverdale, Dragonfly Aviation

offers instruction in an XL in Santa Rosa (about a half hour closer to SFO).

Dragonfly and QSP work together.



Depending on traffic Santa Rosa is about 1.5 hours from SFO.



www.qualitysportplanes.com 

http://dragonflyaviation.com



I've attached a picture of Dragonfly's XL.



-- Craig

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Gig Giacona

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Location: El Dorado Arkansas USA

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Flying CH601XL in LAX or SFO area

Craig, have you flown in that plane at Dragonfly? If so how did you like the Dynon set-up?

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Gig Giacona

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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: Flying CH601XL in LAX or SFO area

Also, how do they rent it? It registered as an experimental.

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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject: Flying CH601XL in LAX or SFO area

Yes, I did during QSP's Jabiru FWF class last fall. The Dynons were fine -

somewhat dim in the direct sunlight but still legible. Dynon now offers a

brighter screen as an option. I had never flown behind glass before but had

no problem adapting. Bob Archibald was instructing from the right seat and

was able to read the display in front of me. We figured out that (unlike

mechanical gauges) LCD displays don't suffer from parallax 



I recommend seeing an EFIS in direct sunlight before buying. This is one

good reason to attend a show. Dynon has a D10 with an internal battery that

they let me take out into the sun at SnF. And I was happy with my Enigma's

screen when I tried it in the sun at home.



-- Craig

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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: Flying CH601XL in LAX or SFO area

I don't know how it is registered but I flew with Bob Archibald instructing

from the right seat.



The FAA database gives the classification as "Experimental":



http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=601ba



What are the regs on instructing in an experimental?



-- Craig

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Gig Giacona

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Location: El Dorado Arkansas USA

Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:42 am Post subject: Re: Flying CH601XL in LAX or SFO area

Just for the record I received an e-mail from Mr. Archibald and the aircraft is ELSA.



As I responded to him the FAA really should change the way they display that information in the registration so we can tell the difference between ELSA and E-AB.

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