Gerry, now i have something you don't have- but could enjoy!

http://i.imgur.com/Hz18lD1.jpg

Getting it mounted and hooked to my G3X by end of month

Yeah, I can do that. I'll post it to youtube and give a link here.

Hehe, yeah there are plenty of people loving the plane. A lot of people have mistaken the RDD guys for Lancair since all of the planes in their booth are Lancair planes.

Haha, yeah there have already been some fun commentary by ATC on the few flights I've had. When we were flying in to Boca earlier in the week the controller said "69A are you a jet?" Made my day, lol.

The 4P's are great airplanes and fast as well. RDD is doing a REALLY cool conversion for the 4P to make them a LOT safer while maintaining speed and making them as insurable as a Columbia. It's really a great idea that they are doing. They call it the LX7 conversion.

Gerry, I was drooling over your Evolution yesterday at Sun-N-Fun. Well done sir. I did ask the Lancair rep about the -42 and he gave me the standard line about it not working with their Garmin suite. It's too bad they're taking that position when the -42 seems like a better choice.

Yes, I'm not sure why they are so against selling kits, which is what they are supposed to be about instead of selling false information and driving customers away, which I know they have done. Either way, it's a fantastic airplane and I'm glad I bought one. The G3X is the way to go anyway so the fact they say the -42 doesn't work with the 900X wouldn't concern me one bit if I were to do it all over again.

Thanks for the compliments! I really am happy with the way it's turned out. Looks like we are going wheels up tomorrow morning. I'm missing the family and I'm ready to see my boys and wife.

I question anyone's judgment who spends 1.5m on a plane with a g900x, if lancair has a stack of them and -135s to sell, then it makes sense why they have an agenda

I've been following this with rapt attention, someday... maybe a Legacy first while i save up. Actually, I've been reading about your journey since you had that thread on the Rocket Bonanza. All very interesting stuff and thanks for being so open about sharing your experiences.

Regarding Lancair's devotion to the -135 and G900x, I've been assuming that it has to do with pricing/volume agreements that Lancair has with P&W and/or with Garmin. For instance, they get a certain price from the suppliers assuming the -135 and/or G900x is the exclusive engine/avionics package. Could even extend to insurance agreements they made years ago involving consistency across the fleet. I've been assuming their seemingly irrational devotion to the engine and panel are due to past contracts to which they are beholden (rather than the market, engineering, etc.), but perhaps I'm wrong (ask my wife, it's happened at least once before).

Gerry - have you heard anything about whether some sort of exclusivity contract is their motivation?

Why would the engine affect the avionics, or vice versa? I can only think that it might be difficult to mount a sensor on one type of engine but not another, and that seems a stretch.

Ashley

PS. Somehow I missed the preceding post when I wrote mine. Some sort of contractual arrangement seems a more likely explanation. Gerry, it must have been tempting to accept the advice of the manufacturers - they would seem likely to know best. Congrats on thinking it through - your airplane is that much better as a result.

I've had conversations with people that worked at Lancair before and according to them, Lancair wanted to push the -135 so hard because they make a lot of money off of them. Saying the 900X wouldn't work with the -42 was a way to try and sway customers to not buy a -42 and go with the "factory" setup. I'm thinking some of it also was to have some conformity and by having some conformity you make the product a bit safer, but if your goal is to have a fleet of all the same airplane then certify. This is the experimental world where people are free to do and try their own things. Your just shooting yourself in the foot if you try and take that away because one way or another the info gets out and it will turn people off.

There is a rumor that Garmin won't allow Lancair to have the G3X to be installed in the Evo because of this (even though they let them have it for the Legacy). That's a rumor and I can't say how much validity there is to that.

Here is the walk around video some of you asked for. Took quite a while to upload, hehe.

[youtube]https://youtu.be/JWOSWvAs3z8[/youtube]

Stinks because the video has a lot of quality loss with the upload. Too bad because it makes it hard to see the colors well.

Super cool!

1. Did you stand by the plane and when anyone came up to look, said, "Yes, that's my plane"?

2. I notice they had it pretty close to the Daher tent with the TBM.

3. Who is that getting into your plane as you're filming?

4. What is the cockpit mockup in front of your plane? Looks very similar to the Lancair but a trapezoidal back window instead of an oval one.

And oh yeah, suhweeeeeet ride.

Is the electric deice blended into the wing or did you go without?