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The photo looks very bad. They are so lucky men!

Yes very glad they were able to walk away from this one given what that crash site picture shows. If I'm not mistake that looks like the Air Creation that Jeff Hoff owned and flew from Kona airport. As a CFI Jeff had a trike instruction business there at Kona and I flew with him there back in 2010 in that trike. I was aware that he wanted to sell his trike and close down his business but I never found out who bought his trike. I guess it is possible that this guy Charles also setup an intro flight and instruction business there with this trike he bought from Jeff. I believe Jeff was a member at some point with the original Sky Gypsies group. Any way, I found it quite intimidating flying a trike in Kona area with rough course lava every where and very few potential LZs (an occasional golf course). Not a great place to have an engine out for sure. Although a tragedy, very glad to see there was no fatality or serious injury.

Ah yes - I recall that business being announced as "for sale soon". I even considered it for a while....

Nice! What did you replace? How do you like the performance?

I replaced it of because my old prop (Ukrainan Aero) is 13 years old and it iis a little damaged. This new has the same power of climb 9m/s solo but in the cruising speed it works on 3600rpm and the old one was 3800rpm. And it is much more quiet. But the date... Is a mistake :) &nbs

Awesome video and breathtaking views

Thanks for the feedback Gilles and Joz.  Yes scenery is unbelievable.  Millions of years of ice, water and wind erosion carving a very rugged terrain.  Yes a bit scary.  One has to be willing to temporarily give up the "always keep a suitable LZ within glide" mindset in order to fly a trike over the central portions of the park.  On the other hand, with greater risk comes potentially greater reward.  From what I have been told, there are less than 10 trike pilots that have ever flown the park so that gives some perspective on how many have been willing to take on the additional risk.

Breathtaking video Joe, thanks for sharing that day with us!