REFLECTOR: Insurance

[Scott Derrick]

Brian,

I'm not surprised they want 15 hours.

You being such a low time pilot, its good advice.  Do you have "any" 
High performance experience?   Fast glass experience?  Do yourself and 
your loved ones a favor and get some HP before flying your V.

I just had an friend play lawn dart with a newly refurbished VariEze. 
Low time pilot with no HP or fast glass experience.  Destroyed the 
airplane on his first flight.  He was at least a mile behind the 
airplane, if you get my drift.

As much as the factory likes to sound off about how easy these planes 
are to fly they are not Cessna 172's! Everything is happening much much 
faster..

Scott



Brian Michalk wrote:
> I'm weaving my way through the last of the details to get to first flight.
> 
> I managed to get a quote from Aerospace Insurance Managers through Falcon.
> They want 15 hours of training in a Velocity.  I'm fairly low time at 
> just under 250 hours.
> I'm trying to optimize my $$ with insurance, factory checkout, DARs, etc.
> 
> Strange, my technical counselor visits did not help a bit.  AIM is also 
> not requiring a factory checkout.  I feel somewhat disrespected by the 
> EAA at this time.  I thought they would be more helpful.  In trying to 
> figure out the FAA paperwork that I needed to file, I called them up, 
> really just needing a simple checklist.  Not that I was not able to find 
> them online, but they all conflicted in one way or another and I knew I 
> could trust the EAA checklist.  They made me buy a packet, $20 after 
> shipping that included crap I didn't need like a dataplate, adhesive 
> stickers, etc.  I just needed the darn checklist.
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