All the Savages are delivered in SA as factory built, and have a CAA Type Acceptance, meaning they can be used for Part 62 (LSA) training. We train on our Bobber under a Part 62 LSA ATO, with MAUW of 600kg's. They can obviously be flown with a PPL or NPL, but not used at this stage for PPL training, unless you complete your NPL and credit hours towards a PPL through a Part 61 School using their aircraft (if I'm not mistaken, you will need to do a minimum of 10 hours through a Part 61 school) and do the PPL exams.
Even through the Shock Cubs coming to SA soon will be registered as LSA and 600kg MTOW, in their test process the aircraft and newly designed wings were cleared for 680kg's at +6-3G's.
The first Shock Cub for Alaska flew this week, in Italy, and will shortly be shipped in time to compete in the Alaskan Valdez STOL competition coming up in a couple of months, as a standard factory delivered aircraft. In fact the "standard" factory specs of the Shock Cub are mostly in line with the highly modified and "souped up" Super Cubs that participate in the competition. In early test flying, the prototype SC landed in 6.8m in a 5kt headwind, just 20cm off last year's Valdez winning Glacier Cub flown by Bobby Breeden...so it's right up there in STOL performance with the records..
I know Ian did mention prices from R1.7m,but that would be for the absolute top of the range. Prices range from about €85000 - €100 000 for a well equipped Shock Cub with either a Rotax 914, 912uls with Supercharger, or new 915is. So for less than a new Sling 2 for example, you can get the best STOL aircraft out there...100mph cruise, 20mph stall, as mentioned earlier, flying a fixed wing aircraft cannot get safer than this.
Craig
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