what's stopping you from building and flying your own flying machine?

I can barely replace the cables on my bike without fucking something up and taking it to the shop, I'd rather not darwin award myself with a DIY airplane like they do in oshkosh every year

>>2040375 (OP)
The EASA

>>2040375 (OP)
Nobody is stopping me but i simply dont care about flying or planes in general.

>>2040375 (OP)
Time and space. My dream is to build a Long EZ with fully retractable gear.

>>2040375 (OP)
Cost and space. Anything I'd be interested in would cost at least $50k and probably closer to $100k by the time I'd be done.

>>2040375 (OP)
As fun as flying is, hobbyist/homebuilt aviation often seems like a death cult. We can't go two weeks without someone falling out of the sky, often taking others with them. Investing so much time, money, and effort into some hobby just to end up in a burning pile of wreckage. Just a few days ago a recreational pilot crashed in a thunderstorm after writing his own obituary. Was it really worth it? Better to just ride a bike at that point.
https://youtu.be/SqEIDvWAvJU

>>2040463
As evidenced by that story, it's pretty much always bad decision making and taking stupid unnecessary risks that does it. There are over three quarters of a million licensed pilots in the US, most of them amateurs, and only a small fraction of them ever have a serious incident while flying, much less get killed doing it.

>>2040375 (OP)
plural of aircraft is aircraft, no s

>>2040375 (OP)
I own a home. Combined with work it easily takes up all of my /diy/ energy.

Christmas break 2023 I set out to replace a leaking shower pan, expecting it to take a few weeks. 14 months later I have an entirely new tiled shower.

There's a reason that homebuilts are sort of a retirement hobby.

>>2040375 (OP)
Someday, somehow, I will construct my own Zeppelin airship.
Not a blimp. RIGID.

>>2040375 (OP)
i'm simply too retarded to do that

I've always wanted to build a Gyrocopter, the relatively short takeoff and landing and the ability to perform unpowered landings similar to a traditional aircraft always made them stand out to me as far as DIY aircraft go but I've also heard they can be more dangerous that traditional airplanes.

>>2040375 (OP)
>>2040463
This, death happens way too often.

https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/plane-crash-kills-two-in-petaluma/
https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/couple-killed-in-petaluma-plane-crash-idd/

>>2040375 (OP)
Not wanting to die a horrible death

>>2040463
This kinds of posts are so stupid. You realize you are going to die too right? There is nothing you can do to stop it and you will die one day.
People who built their own aircraft are acquainted with the risks of flying and choose to do it anyway because they love it. I don't see how that is any worse than dying in a nursing home of late stage alzheimer's with your diaper full of shit or whatever your plan is.

how do you afford something like this

>>2040375 (OP)
the man
he be keepin me down

>>2045483
make the bank pay for it

>>2046831
they said no

>>2046863
He didn't say ask them. He said make them.

>>2046864
brb in about 10-15

>>2043471
Pusher type gyroplanes have some inherent dangerous flight characteristics.
The old De la Cierva style tractors are quite safe, but they cost nearly twice as much to build, compared to pushers.

Homemade stuff simply isn't as nice as bespoke construction.

>>2040375 (OP)
The cost of becoming licensed.
The cost of the various club fees, insurance costs, plane shares, fuel costs, hangar fees and various other miscellany.
Flight is for rich kids and retired dentists.

I'm not a magnificent men.

Why arent you flying a microcopter RIGHT NOW?

>>2049465
holy cope

>club fees
you don't have to join any club
>insurance costs
depends on the country, could be very low
>plane shares
stop making thing up
>fuel costs
literally lower than average car
>hangar fees
you don't have a garage?
>various other
there's nothing other

>>2049476
oh and
>The cost of becoming licensed.
you literally don't need a license for an ultralight in US, but keep coping lmao

>>2049475
There are cheaper ways to commit sudoku.