The insurance arranged through FFPLUM has different parts which one can choose from. One is transporting the aircraft on the ground and by road. I haven’t looked into this option but what are others doing about insurance for tailoring?
@Clipperstorch, the practicality’s there for winter season storage etc but the fuel tanks really should be drained to fold the wings. That makes wing folding and trailering too much for every flight. Also the trailer attachment that bolts to the rear fuselage is hard to source (one could make it) and the MLG tires won’t last forever.
That photo was BTW taken when the car and plane was new, circa 1970, so the durability of the type is pretty well established. It’s also a practical touring plane if you don’t need much room. Here’s a similarly old video that shows another capability, but I’m not sure how many people would enjoy an 11 turn spin.
Surprisingly, this type hasn’t been mentioned yet:
I wonder about the practicality though.
I pay 1,19€ at the car station :-)
So do I , or thereabouts, only I keep fit by hauling around two 20-litre jerrycans rather than a complete aeroplane, however light … ;)
Jan_Olieslagers wrote:
PS talking of the Europa and trailering it: there used to be a picture on the Europa website of such a plane, trailered, being fuelled at a roadside filling station
It’s also in one of the videos:
http://www.euroga.org/forums/non-certified/5159-europa-aircraft-advertisement-video-from-around-2000
Zorg wrote:
Any important ones I’m missing?
One field I know of has some type of Pipistrel as a regular trailered – or should I say a trailered regular 
– two seats side by side but I’m not sure of the exact name.
Jan_Olieslagers wrote:
Fazit: if you must, you must, if not: avoid!
I come to a totally different conclusion although it’s true, that it keeps you fit to upload the plane. Concerning refuelling is another advantage to trailer, because I pay 1,19€ at the car station :-)
Jan_Olieslagers wrote:Using a trailer will require more time, if only for driving onto and off the airfield
I’m actually faster, since I don’t have to walk to the hangar
As you see – it depends……
PS talking of the Europa and trailering it: there used to be a picture on the Europa website of such a plane, trailered, being fuelled at a roadside filling station; I always liked it but cannot find it anywhere. Not sure if it wasn’t at a diesel pump, too – one Mr. Wilksch must have been very keen on promoting his engine in that plane.
The EuroFox is a derivative of the KitFox, hence the name, and shares a lot of its characteristics. My own Apollo Fox is a close cousin to it.
For myself I consider the 100 HP 912S as overkill for these planes (except perhaps for applications like glider tow, of which I know nothing).
If I were really in a hurry I could park my van at the airfield, open the hangar doors, roll out the plane, close the hangar doors, unfold the wings, prepare the plane, and take off, in 15 minutes. However I do not like to hurry – not in my job and even less outside. When going for a day’s flying I count 60-90 minutes rather than 15. A good deal of this goes into syphon fuelling, but that time is spent to good use in socialising, checking logbooks, filing the flightplan if required, consulting and printing NOTAMs and meteo, &c &c
Mind you, all this is about having the plane hangared, though with folded wings, not trailered. Here is an image of what she looks like, in rest, hangared.
Using a trailer will require more time, if only for driving onto and off the airfield. It also brings more physical effort, unfixing the plane from the trailer, installing the ramps then winching the plane down, then removing the ramps and remove trailer and its towing vehicle – and all of those to be repeated the other way around after the flight.
Be aware also that I have known some fields where trailer users were slightly looked down upon – to be in the front row, one had to fly a based plane, whether one’s own or from the club. That may have been a local phenomenon, though.
Fazit: if you must, you must, if not: avoid!
The 40 minutes is single handed and includes all checks with oil. Our club aircrafts are stored in the hangar. Only one authorized person is allowed to move them. Sometimes they are in the second or third row, hangar rash……
You can do it with the Mono as well (it is held upright in a cradle). However you should keep in mind, that the Mono’s behavior on the ground is “special”. It is only about 8 knots faster than the TG.
My closed trailer costs about 15k EUR, hangarage at my homebase EDLE is about 330 EUR per months – just calculate….
