what's stopping you from building and flying your own flying machine?
I can barely replace the cables on my bike without fucking something up and taking it to the shop, I'd rather not darwin award myself with a DIY airplane like they do in oshkosh every year
>>2040375The EASA
>>2040375Nobody is stopping me but i simply dont care about flying or planes in general.
>>2040375Time and space. My dream is to build a Long EZ with fully retractable gear.
>>2040375Cost and space. Anything I'd be interested in would cost at least $50k and probably closer to $100k by the time I'd be done.
>>2040375As fun as flying is, hobbyist/homebuilt aviation often seems like a death cult. We can't go two weeks without someone falling out of the sky, often taking others with them. Investing so much time, money, and effort into some hobby just to end up in a burning pile of wreckage. Just a few days ago a recreational pilot crashed in a thunderstorm after writing his own obituary. Was it really worth it? Better to just ride a bike at that point.https://youtu.be/SqEIDvWAvJU
>>2040463As evidenced by that story, it's pretty much always bad decision making and taking stupid unnecessary risks that does it. There are over three quarters of a million licensed pilots in the US, most of them amateurs, and only a small fraction of them ever have a serious incident while flying, much less get killed doing it.
>>2040375plural of aircraft is aircraft, no s
>>2040375I own a home. Combined with work it easily takes up all of my /diy/ energy.Christmas break 2023 I set out to replace a leaking shower pan, expecting it to take a few weeks. 14 months later I have an entirely new tiled shower. There's a reason that homebuilts are sort of a retirement hobby.
>>2040375Someday, somehow, I will construct my own Zeppelin airship.Not a blimp. RIGID.
>>2040375i'm simply too retarded to do that
I've always wanted to build a Gyrocopter, the relatively short takeoff and landing and the ability to perform unpowered landings similar to a traditional aircraft always made them stand out to me as far as DIY aircraft go but I've also heard they can be more dangerous that traditional airplanes.
>>2040375>>2040463This, death happens way too often.https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/plane-crash-kills-two-in-petaluma/https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/couple-killed-in-petaluma-plane-crash-idd/
>>2040375Not wanting to die a horrible death
>>2040463This kinds of posts are so stupid. You realize you are going to die too right? There is nothing you can do to stop it and you will die one day.People who built their own aircraft are acquainted with the risks of flying and choose to do it anyway because they love it. I don't see how that is any worse than dying in a nursing home of late stage alzheimer's with your diaper full of shit or whatever your plan is.
how do you afford something like this
>>2040375the manhe be keepin me down
>>2045483make the bank pay for it
>>2046831they said no
>>2046863He didn't say ask them. He said make them.
>>2046864brb in about 10-15
>>2043471Pusher type gyroplanes have some inherent dangerous flight characteristics. The old De la Cierva style tractors are quite safe, but they cost nearly twice as much to build, compared to pushers.
Homemade stuff simply isn't as nice as bespoke construction.
>>2040375The cost of becoming licensed.The cost of the various club fees, insurance costs, plane shares, fuel costs, hangar fees and various other miscellany.Flight is for rich kids and retired dentists.
I'm not a magnificent men.
Why arent you flying a microcopter RIGHT NOW?
>>2049465holy cope>club feesyou don't have to join any club>insurance costsdepends on the country, could be very low>plane sharesstop making thing up>fuel costsliterally lower than average car>hangar feesyou don't have a garage?>various otherthere's nothing other
>>2049476oh and >The cost of becoming licensed.you literally don't need a license for an ultralight in US, but keep coping lmao
>>2049475There are cheaper ways to commit sudoku.
>>2046867Years?
>>2040375Got the blueprints. Just need a hangar to get started.
>>2040375i would looove to but am poori could maybe do paragliding one day tho thats juust within my price range if i save
>>2049465>>2050656sorry but flying is reserved for motivated ambitious people who look for solutions, not for excuses
Just a quick FYI, it's 2025, and we actually, finally have real flying cars on the commercial market. No license required in the US since it's classified as an Ultralight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZpWTHtwceE
>>2043967Agreed. Dying in a plane crash sounds gay, but dying in a plane you built and are flying sounds based as fuck.
human powered aircraft
>>2049465ultralights don't need license but yeah they can cost
>>2050749The image is cropped like that cause 10 inches below it is the ground. Also, the ground is either an airport or a body of water with a support boat directly below in case it crashes.
>>2050749>>2050757Has anyone ever attempted to make a human-powered paramotor? It seems very doable, since you can take off in a paramotor in a standstill if there's a strong enough wind, and so would just be a matter of maintaining relatively low airspeed plus you have a wide enough glide ratio to act as a buffer when you're not pedaling similar to a bikes freewheel, at least on paper.
>>2050757once it starts lifting no reason it can't go up a few hundred feet which is pretty good
>>2050769Below 20 feet you get a lot of help from the ground effect, which is incidentally the maximum altitude a human powered aircraft reaches.
>>2050771maybe you could do this before you have the balls or the money for an actual engine lel
>>2040375>what's stopping you from building and flying your own flying machine?I don't own enough land or live close enough to an airfield I could fly one out of.I took a ride in an ultralight while visiting Puerto Rico and realized the idea of owning one was more interesting that then practical realities of it.
>>2050880you know not every pilot has his own little airfield, right?
>>2050901>or live close enough to an airfieldHow about reading the comment you reply to?
Who wants to weld
>>2040375I would build an RV-10 but I live in a third world country with a $500/mo salary
>>2050769I saw this and tried looking for max altitude for human-powered craft, but apparently nobody tracks it (no records for it in the FAI or the US NAA lists). Just records for distance, duration, and speed. I'm not sure if anyone has gotten a human-powered craft out of ground effect.
>>2053864FAI requirements for human-powered distance and speed records require just that the aircraft be at least 2 meters above ground at some point during the flight
>>2053866Found a NASA-MIT report on flight testing the Daedalus aircraft, it reached 5.3 meters (17 feet)
>>2043471If life was a video game, these things would only work due to exploiting a glitch in the physics code.
