Dads new work ride

[gotyacovered]

Made by found aircraft, it's basically their expedition 350

Lycoming IO 580/330 hp

[Pistol Pete]

Man! he's roughing it!!!

[bvillepig]

Wow .  Can you put floats on it.

Nice !!

[gotyacovered]

Yes. http://www.expeditionaircraft.com/Our-Aircraft/Amphibian.aspx

it's performance is sick.

[fdx flyer]

Sweet!  I read about one of those a while back. That's some serious utility!

[gotyacovered]

its a beast. it has synthetic vision, first time i have seen that, its sweet. it also has vortex generators, the slow speed performance was unbelievable. its also about 10kts faster than his 206.

i need a turbo prop lanceair and one of these, tail dragger config with 36" bush tires on it. nowhere i couldnt go. 

i might actually have to start buying powerball tickets now.

[gotyacovered]

[gotyacovered]

dad got his plane back from canada after getting the AC, carpet and a few other little tweaks and thought i would post a pic of the panel powered up.

left to right is the 700, 650, 500...

he was on his way to Houston yesterday and left KLIT about 9:30 yesterday, he ran into the boomers in between Hope/Shreveport, he said it was about 800 over, so he did about 20-25 miles of scud running back to Hope to each lunch with me, said that synthetic vision was awesome from an operational standpoint.

[bvillepig]

That my friend is an awesome panel !!

[Bluehog007]

wow...really really nice! congrats!

[HawgPilot]

If you dont mind my asking, what kind of work does your dad do?

Btw, sweet plane!

[Pulled(PP)pork]

in that one pic.....which one was the gas pedal and which one was the brake?


Pulled out...

[gotyacovered]

If you dont mind my asking, what kind of work does your dad do?

Btw, sweet plane!

Sorry just saw this... He flys pipelines...

[gotyacovered]

in that one pic.....which one was the gas pedal and which one was the brake?


Pulled out...

Take a guess, dont need brakes

[gotyacovered]

dad just picked up the 2nd one of these and ordered the 3rd. if obama gets re-elected they will probably stop there. if we get a new admin there will be a new line put in and he will get 3 mo