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what's the fuel consumption? and cost of ownership?

Like going from a car to a motorbike. 😎

Sorry, but you are very wrong about many things. Microlights have flown to Australia, so where is the cross country problem? Many microlights also fly around Europe. There are fixed wing microlights that have a cruise speed of 300+ kmh, not slow, and much faster than many group A aircraft. The one thing that you notice from that video is that the autogyro has a Rotax 914, a very powerful, very thirsty and very expensive engine and it need this. The little yellow microlight that you show has a small cheap 2 stroke engine. The Rotax 914 will cost about the same money as 10 of those little microlights. This video could have been so interesting, instead you are comparing a feet of busses with some Ford Fiestas and a Ferrari.

Here in Germany there was a huge hype about gyros, but the hype is over. There are some disadvantages compared to fixed-wing aircraft. Range, no rescue parachute, very loud, high maintenance costs. The noise in particular has led to gyros no longer being welcomed or even banned at some airports. It's a fun device, but not for the long term. Please take a look at high-performance Ultralights. VL3, WT9, Blackshape, Risen... You can forget about your dinosaurs.

I wouldn't want to spend 4 hours in this thing going cross country.

Fuel consumption of rotary winged aircraft compared to fixed wing.

I am a fix and rotary private pilot, in 2007 I bought a Magni 16 gyro which I flew 700 hours in 8 years. If you get proper training and fly by the book there should be no problems at all.

I realize that I'd never be able to afford or be able to get in one (poor and weigh 345 lbs), but I love them!

You don't need to "disengage" the Rotor system in a helicopter, It's automatic. Fixed wings fly one way, Helicopters fly their way And Gyroplanes do it different from the both of them. Flown all 3 and I prefer helicopters, 45+ years at it...

My uncle flew gyros his whole life. He would do these flippy-spinny stunts over the house that I can't explain but the nervous family members would rush inside not to watch. National Geographic asked him to do an expedition with gyros in Antarctica in the late 80s, he declined. Know the song "Red Barchetta" by Rush? That's how I always thought of my uncle - he's got treasures out behind the property in the garages no one's ever been. I think it's time to visit my uncle

Little Nellie

These are safe, as long as the main rotor is attached of course 😁

Cool video! While flying is amazing which I do on a Diamond DA40 TDI, you have inspired me to try this one too.

you should try a paramotor 🙂

7:25 you do not look happy about this lol

The low flying is fun but I've always flown at under 10 ft in both flex and fixed micros.

Had a couple of goes (at Popham and Cromer). They're great but can't quite get used to the constant vibration. I know it's perfectly safe but still unnerving. Noisy and thirsty. Guy at my airfield has one, he's quite new and not yet offered me a go.

Usually it's the ground that ruins flying for people. No you don't _have_ to pre-rotate the rotor. It's advantageous to do so as it greatly reduces the take off run. But it is not compulsory.

Weird? What the heck is weird about a run-of-the-mill autogyro?

A friend and I built a Benson Gryocopter and I personally flew it for 66hours. I will say the copter is one adrenaline pumping S O B. I decided to sell it because my friend was taking to many chances with flying it and I didn't want to see him killed. I will say it was sure fun. I had an engine out over an interstate highway. I flew over a bridge on it and landed in a muddy field not turning a wheel on it. My friend and I picked it up and carried it out of the field.

gyros have a dangerously underrated phenomena: the stall speed relares to g load and rotor rpm, not necessarily related to airspeed...... hence those many accidents (stalling the rotor) followed by a deadly not recoverable tumbling rapid descent. u hv to understand that and at all times keep ur rotorspeed above a min. In a tight turning manoeuvres u can easily loose oversight and..... impact rapidly!

These are vastly underrated unfortunately. The is now a vertical take off gyro for sale, has a clutch to adjust blades for correct angle of attack vie a simple button on the cyclic. These aircraft are perfect for the newer, lighter, 500wh/kg now available. Batteries offer massive /instant torque that a gyro begs for. The gyro future looks bright,eco clean, affordable.

Nice toy. Can it take bags and passengers a meaningful distance in all weather?

I take it that the Gyrocopter Girl content in my history has brought me here 😃

Very Cool! However, I am suprised / concerned whether regulations permit low level flying - such as over farm fields around the 10 minute mark in the video. Please educate me - is there a minimum altitude when not taking off or landing? Thanks.

Now I want to fly one

Mad Max they are dangerous

I wonder if there are models available that are light enough to qualify as ultra light aircraft that do not require a license...

those animated hardsubs are annoying.

yeah. but they have a design flaw, they can (rarely) go into an un-recoverable flat spin.

When i was a kid i wanted to build a helio centric auto gyric sparrow copter. a completely made up name for a fictional craft.

Oh look! Someone with their face + pointing in a thumbnail! How original! Just think about how many more clicks you’ll get now that you look exactly like every other unimaginative lemming moron on TH-cam! 😂

Never has someone sounded more landed gentry

Gyros are fun to fly and try to stay within the banks of meandering rivers and canals, but not really an aircraft that is practical for transportation since it goes so slow... It really sucks when you are at cruising speed and you look down and see cars on the highway passing you... My fixed wing aircraft can do 130 kts (about 150 mph), so I don't usually have cars passing me... :)

Too many chicken arround here

I'll never forget my trial lesson in a gyrocopter out of Rufforth Airfield. Swooping low over Castle Howard's lake and snaking down the River Derwent after flying through the centre of York. Truly amazing (and safe).

I rode the skids of a huey many times, I never got tire of it,,,that gyrocopter can take off inside 100'

I flew in a MAgni m24 2 weeks ago and same happened to me! I couldn't care about planes anymore!

Its like riding a motorcycle, but in the sky. A very interesting video.

Very nicely presented video.

Technically it is powered rotor....without the engine spinning it up to 200 rpm you are just tootling down a road.

Correction not a Microlight it’s an auto gyro.

That’s the same engine as the Kitfox isn’t it?

Shame your to young to have met wing cmd Wallace. Absolute nutter had us a cracking up in his house at 89 odd 😂

Apparently this is THE most dangerous form of aviation, especially if you change type from fixed wing. If it all goes quiet, you need to pull back, not push forward.

these things are noisy as hell, every so often in the weekend they fly over ...and sometimes, I really wished the crows took him down

It only really a bad bounce if you get charged two landing fees.

I was a PPL A pilot with a slightly sniffy attitude to microlights when I started. However, after learning a little more, realising they were better in almost every way, I converted, bought my own (several) & never looked back.

I have flown the several airplanes not only stationary in the air, but also drifting backwards (17kts backwards is my record) Your statement that "no airplanes are capable of that" is busted.

So, a guy went for a gyro ride. You paid for it, yes? On your day off? OK, U made content.