SportPilotCO
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Well I just finished attending the RV-12 Expo up here in lovely Sunriver Oregon. What a great event. Tonight the event was wrapped up with a really nice dinner and a presentation by Van himself.
Prior to the event Rainbow Aviation offered the two day class required for E-LSA owners to perform their own annual condition inspections. I attended a full day class on the Rotax 912 engine that was incredibly valuable. The expo included two full days of sessions by folks from Dynon, Lightspeed, and a bunch of folks from Synergy Air. Synergy is the company building the S-LSA version of the RV-12 for Vans. The sessions covered all of the challenging points of the build with pointers from guys who build these things every day. It was great. They also offered transitions training and demo rides. They even had a factory built plane right next to the expo center for one day.
All in all it was a great show. 150 builders and owners of E-LSA and S-LSA RV-12's were there. Several flew their completed planes in. Synergy announced they were ramping up production from 3 to 4 planes per month and by the end of the summer will have produced the 50th factory built RV-12 S-LSA. That is a pretty incredible number given how the overall light aircraft market is these days.
Carl
Prior to the event Rainbow Aviation offered the two day class required for E-LSA owners to perform their own annual condition inspections. I attended a full day class on the Rotax 912 engine that was incredibly valuable. The expo included two full days of sessions by folks from Dynon, Lightspeed, and a bunch of folks from Synergy Air. Synergy is the company building the S-LSA version of the RV-12 for Vans. The sessions covered all of the challenging points of the build with pointers from guys who build these things every day. It was great. They also offered transitions training and demo rides. They even had a factory built plane right next to the expo center for one day.
All in all it was a great show. 150 builders and owners of E-LSA and S-LSA RV-12's were there. Several flew their completed planes in. Synergy announced they were ramping up production from 3 to 4 planes per month and by the end of the summer will have produced the 50th factory built RV-12 S-LSA. That is a pretty incredible number given how the overall light aircraft market is these days.
Carl