Flight Design's F2 is An All-Around, All-Composite Light Sport Aircraft

Flight Design’s F2 is An All-Around, All-Composite Light Sport Aircraft

Julie Boatman

Monday, April 05, 2021 at 03:58 PM ET

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The clean-sheet design that comprises the F2 comes from the rebirth of the company that created it. Glenn Watson

Key Takeaways:

The Flight Design F2 is a new light-sport aircraft designed with advanced aerodynamics and avionics, praised for its exceptional stability, resistance to stalls, and ease of handling, especially in slow flight.
It features robust safety systems, including AmSafe panel-mounted airbags and a standard BRS ballistic airframe parachute, alongside an intuitive single-lever throttle-and-brake system.
Developed under new ownership by Lift Air, the F2 showcases improved all-carbon-fiber manufacturing quality and is well-suited for both recreational pilots and flight training due to its docile characteristics and comfortable, technology-rich cockpit.
Powered by a fuel-injected Rotax 912iS engine, the F2 offers good performance and efficiency within LSA parameters, blurring the line between light-sport and traditional single-engine piston aircraft.

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The angle of attack readout on the PFD wasn’t the first thing that caught my attention. No, that would be the unending cry of the audible stall warning as we just couldn’t catch a break. We began a steady descent, nose high, and slowed somewhere below 39 knots.

We were flying rather well, all things considered; I could maneuver the F2 around within this part of the envelope, practically begging it to fall off and drop its nose past the horizon. It didn’t comply. Instead, with a little push of the stick and throttle, we flew right out of the deep end of the slow flight regime as soon as the airplane was asked.