Click Here To Help Improving This Blog !The DA42 recently received its FIKI certification from FAA. FIKI ? Flight Into Known Icing conditions. Happy owners of DA42 equipped with the TKS system can now legally fly in clouds at temperatures below zero. Legally. But would that be a sound decision ?
Ice impact on performance is really strong. My experience of icing is […]
In a previous post about the various kinds of aviation I mentionned air-police. This is probably one of the smallest niches in aviation, and obviously conservative as it is under state control. Despite that, modern aviation is reaching it, and this is a strong sign to me that nothing can stop its development.
Diamond anounced on […]
Here is a quoted text following the belly landing of a DA42 after a double and simultaneous engine failure.
“Twinstar take-off crash divides Diamond and ThielertDiamond Aircraft Industries and Thielert Aircraft Engines are at loggerheads over the cause of a double engine failure involving a DA42 Twinstar during take-off in Germany last month. The incident, in […]
