Around 820K for the piston???!!! Thats pretty insane!!! Pay a little more and yu can get a brand new DA62 that has 2 engines and extremely safe and easy to fly...
The LX-7 is also 80 knots faster, has a higher ceiling and climb rate, has only one engine to manage, has a BRS, is pressurized, lower takeoff and landing distance, and that's just what I could find with a glance at the spec sheet. The LX-7 is obviously a niche aircraft which isn't meant to do the same job as a twin or these cabin class airplanes everyone is comparing it to
Agreed… a million for a tbp version. There’s a TH-cam video of a 725 shp Walter powered propjet doing 328 Ktas cruise… why pay a million for 280ktas when you can pay $600k for 328?
@@curtchapman3658 If you're willing to die flying it, sure, no one is stopping you from buying a flimsy unpressurized home built aircraft( poor resin bonds) that is severely stressed and powered by sus turbine, fine
crowded market? maybe the least crowded for a, all intensive purposes, new $1mil turboprop. The Eclipse jet for $1mil will be a well used much higher cost to maintain alternative, for 20% more speed. 300kn at 33/gph compared to 360kn at 62/gph not to mention one is 15 years old and with 2 powerplants you will spend more.
Reposted video. Cool wing and rebuild. Not cheap at $1M. Who is listed as manufacture on these rebuilds? They use existing plane to get around 51% rule it sounds like.
@@israelkozlik7554 Cirris SR22T is way way overpriced, poor value. Used Cirrus SR20 is $200k. You can get a used TBM700 cabin class single engine turboprop $0.75M to $1.0M. A very nice TBM 850 $1.5M. You have a certified plane which you could Charter or lease back. Cruise speed of TBM700 is 300Kts plus, TBM850 330Kts at FL310. If I was in the market for a single-engine turboprop I'd find a really clean TBM 700, not a boutique rebuilt experimental lancair.
@@gmcjetpilot out of 45 TBM's for sale on Controller.com(they had by far the most) one listed for less that$1mil $950k for a Mexican registered 1995 700 with a damage report. A next was a 5500 hour 1999 for $1.3 average of $2.5mil and up is not even close. The closest to $1mil is a 1500-2000TTAF 10-15 year old Piper Meridian.
This plane makes no sense. You can buy a gently used Evolution that is much larger and has a pressurized cargo area for 1M. You also get much better avionics integration (G900 with turbine support, keypad and digital environmental controls) vs this cooky G3X setup that doesnt even support turbines requiring an additional engine monitor. Just look at that panel, it's so messy and cramped, and that was a piston setup!
@@matthewjob9424 Why go with a PT6? A used one costs as much as a brand new Walter. Half the cost of this airplane is going towards the engine! The whole point of the lancair turboprop was to get an engine in there for 125k.
@@codmott286 many people consider the Walter "unknown" and rather not trust it. But most people crash because they drive it into the ground, get spatially disoriented at night or bad weather, or run out of fuel. I was always told: buy a cheaper aeroplane which you will fly more often and thus remain more proficient in. I haven't even managed to keep my R/C hobby alive 😅
Nah! Take a nicely used IV/IVP & slap a turbine on it with EEPC & it’s half the price yet still a true 4 seater cruising @ 300Kts true! This is a toy for the spoiled rich boy!
This is obviously not a marketing guy. He just answers the questions accurately and succinctly. How refreshing.
Give the information and the let their airplane sell itself.
Love it.
Nice length baggage area
$1mil is used TBM money. I get it that some people want/like the smaller size of this LX7, and that is is an almost new ship.
20 year old used TBM money
Serious IFR requires some ice reduction feature on flying surfaces and prop, so that kind of sinks the concept.
Around 820K for the piston???!!! Thats pretty insane!!! Pay a little more and yu can get a brand new DA62 that has 2 engines and extremely safe and easy to fly...
The LX-7 is also 80 knots faster, has a higher ceiling and climb rate, has only one engine to manage, has a BRS, is pressurized, lower takeoff and landing distance, and that's just what I could find with a glance at the spec sheet. The LX-7 is obviously a niche aircraft which isn't meant to do the same job as a twin or these cabin class airplanes everyone is comparing it to
Agreed… a million for a tbp version. There’s a TH-cam video of a 725 shp Walter powered propjet doing 328 Ktas cruise… why pay a million for 280ktas when you can pay $600k for 328?
da62 is like 1.15
@@curtchapman3658 If you're willing to die flying it, sure, no one is stopping you from buying a flimsy unpressurized home built aircraft( poor resin bonds) that is severely stressed and powered by sus turbine, fine
And is beyond slow
Company was not formed to make this conversion. They made aftermarket accessories for experimentals.
I wonder how loud the insurance company would laugh at me as they say no.
crowded market, for that price consider an eclipse
crowded market? maybe the least crowded for a, all intensive purposes, new $1mil turboprop. The Eclipse jet for $1mil will be a well used much higher cost to maintain alternative, for 20% more speed. 300kn at 33/gph compared to 360kn at 62/gph not to mention one is 15 years old and with 2 powerplants you will spend more.
Does an eclipse have any where near that range?
Reposted video. Cool wing and rebuild. Not cheap at $1M. Who is listed as manufacture on these rebuilds? They use existing plane to get around 51% rule it sounds like.
gmcjetpilot a 280kt pressurized turboprop for the same price as an sr22t.....not a bad deal...
@@israelkozlik7554 Cirris SR22T is way way overpriced, poor value. Used Cirrus SR20 is $200k. You can get a used TBM700 cabin class single engine turboprop $0.75M to $1.0M. A very nice TBM 850 $1.5M. You have a certified plane which you could Charter or lease back. Cruise speed of TBM700 is 300Kts plus, TBM850 330Kts at FL310. If I was in the market for a single-engine turboprop I'd find a really clean TBM 700, not a boutique rebuilt experimental lancair.
@@gmcjetpilot out of 45 TBM's for sale on Controller.com(they had by far the most) one listed for less that$1mil $950k for a Mexican registered 1995 700 with a damage report. A next was a 5500 hour 1999 for $1.3 average of $2.5mil and up is not even close. The closest to $1mil is a 1500-2000TTAF 10-15 year old Piper Meridian.
This plane makes no sense. You can buy a gently used Evolution that is much larger and has a pressurized cargo area for 1M. You also get much better avionics integration (G900 with turbine support, keypad and digital environmental controls) vs this cooky G3X setup that doesnt even support turbines requiring an additional engine monitor. Just look at that panel, it's so messy and cramped, and that was a piston setup!
the N4YB shown is a turbine PT6-20 with the engine monitoring
@@matthewjob9424 Why go with a PT6? A used one costs as much as a brand new Walter. Half the cost of this airplane is going towards the engine! The whole point of the lancair turboprop was to get an engine in there for 125k.
@@codmott286 many people consider the Walter "unknown" and rather not trust it.
But most people crash because they drive it into the ground, get spatially disoriented at night or bad weather, or run out of fuel.
I was always told: buy a cheaper aeroplane which you will fly more often and thus remain more proficient in.
I haven't even managed to keep my R/C hobby alive 😅
Nah! Take a nicely used IV/IVP & slap a turbine on it with EEPC & it’s half the price yet still a true 4 seater cruising @ 300Kts true! This is a toy for the spoiled rich boy!
and then die. quickly
you did get that they re-designed the wing with several important goals in mind, yes?
Not impressed