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, offering excellent slow-flight handling and high resistance to unintentional stalls, significantly improving upon its predecessors.
It features a modern avionics suite (Garmin G3X Touch, GFC 500 autopilot option), unique safety innovations like AmSafe panel-mounted airbags, and a standard BRS ballistic airframe parachute.
Under new ownership, the F2 boasts enhanced build quality with a carbon-fiber airframe, a robust landing gear system, and intuitive controls, including a single-lever throttle-and-brake system.
The F2 is presented as a versatile and forgiving aircraft, ideal for both recreational pilots and flight training, due to its comfortable cabin, student-error-dampening features, and user-friendly design.

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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.