With so many things to look at, sometimes it’s good for the soul to simply relax and take in the beauty of the glimmering lines of airplanes gracing the Homebuilt Parking at Sun ‘n Fun.
The BD-5's reputation precedes it: long in development, company bankruptcy, investor losses, challenging to fly, early accidents. With an introduction like that, who would think this micro plane would be such a positively straightforward blast to fly?
The rules around Letters of Deviation Authority are labyrinthine, which helps explain why they are relatively rare. But the problems could be—and should be—corrected through a few regulatory changes. By Roy Beisswenger.