Sling Pilots Forum

Here's my kick off video/blog post.

http://firstrivet.net

Looks like Mike is doing a Sling Presentation in March Presenter: Mike Blyth Mike Blyth from Sling Aircraft will cover the Sling series of amateur-built and light-sport aircraft, including their history of development, performance, flight characteristics, and flight testing for the new high-wing air...

Hi everyone. I introduced myself a little while back (Sept) when I did my deposit. As part of my build I started up firstrivet.net and am working on adding content to it at this time. I am also working on getting the peer YouTube channel going as well. I hope to get at least one of the two videos ed...

I was definitely planning on installing parachute in my low wing Tsi. While out in Torrence we flew out to Catalina for lunch and we were parked next to a Cherokee 140... While were parked next to the 140 it was easy to see how much room the parachute was consuming over not. Yes different airplanes ...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the thinking here. I'm all for having backups in place for the rare emergency, but IMHO if you're in a situation where you're in IMC and needing to shoot an ILS and now having to depend upon a hand-held unit that seems like it's asking a lot. So now not only do you need to...

Thanks - I just didn't go far enough into the manual to see it. I appreciate the assistance.

I've been working on doing as much of the pre-work ahead of my kit arriving and the only thing I can think of at this point in time is a jig for doing the wing tanks. I found a really extensive video on YouTube from Vans on their fuel tanks at https://youtu.be/gTl827JWz68 which makes it seem like th...

I guess the overall question is where do you want your weight to be at? I'd have to look at the weight loading for each of the setups. On the O2 generator it looks like they are showing it as a two-person setup, which would work for me in most cases, but it would be nice to build it with a capacity ...

I'm unfamiliar with this product (read their marketing material on the website). Is this something that works in place of the traditional O2 tanks?

I would imagine some of this is subjective, but I'm definitely interested in this topic as well.