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> I have a friend at my airport who finished his tri-gear Sonex last summer. After getting his airworthiness cert. it took him six months to get his Aerovee to run properly so he could fly it. Countless tear-downs, tweaking, electronics fiddling, carburator fiddling, fuel line fiddling, jet fiddling... you get the idea. He's now getting some fairly consistent performance and he has come to hate the airplane... primarily because of the lousy view. Perhaps I jaded his thinking because I opined as to how I'd never own another low-wing airplane because I don't like looking at the top of the wing all day. It's a beautiful piece of work but I wouldn't trade my tornado for one.
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> Tim Hansen
JMO, but poor views is why I lost interest in general aviation shortly after I got my ticket. So I know how I react to planes where you have too much airplane in the view and not enough outside and avoid those designs.
It's amazing how even something simple like the view can be really critical in your mission profile and can make or break even a otherwise really good design and flier like the Sonex.
The only low wings tractors I'd consider are the RV 3,4 or 8. The tandem seating helps with the view a little bit and they're great for travel. But they're still borderline on the view. And since I won't hold a medical again in this lifetime those are out for me.
Really, after years of researching it all the top choices in 3-axis LSA if you like to look outside are the Tornado and the Kolb. If you go weight-shift, the trikes are good for this too especially the 912 equipped planes.
If your main objective is travel, tho, which is about 2 or 3 from the very bottom for me, the choices widen a bunch including the sonex.
BTW, we had a sonex with jab 3300 based here for a while. It easily performed on the level of an RV, particularly in climb. Amazing performance....
LS
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