More On Lsa Safety
I enjoyed your LSA accident review article in the August 2018 Aviation Consumer. I was a Light Sport pilot examiner (DPE) for many years until I retired at the end of January this year, so I have more than a passing interest in the category.
Conspicuous by its absence is any mention of the Evektor Sportstar. We had (past tense) several of them here in southern Indiana, and I administered a lot of checkrides in the Sportstar. I believe that the Sportstar is a major player in the LSA community, with a couple hundred of them flying in the U.S. At one point I think they were the third most numerous LSA, behind Flight Design and Legend. That would put them in the middle of the pack of the ones you considered. And I know the Sportstar had its share of accidents. Why did you omit the Evektor from your accident statistics?