Funny how Diamond supposedly won't take new orders for the DA62 from you or I until the backlog is cleared and they know how to appropriately price them going forward with inflation. But they will take a massive order from these folks. I'm sure this big carrot of a P.O. isn't going to effect anyone ...

I'm going to fly out to Detroit commercial and meet with clients in the suburbs there. Will go to the factory day 1 to do some flying and systems checks, as suggested. A few days later, Jonathan Smith will meet me there and fly it home with me. He owns a DA62, does MEI training in it at Flight Dogs ...

Good advice, thanks!

Russ,
Do you have a checklist that you used or suggest?

Thanks,
Bryce

I was following OE-UDB on FlightAware the past couple of days. I got confirmation from Canada that 69.269 arrived to the Canadian Factory yesterday. Will be interesting to see how long it takes for all of the paperwork to go through before it's ready for me to fly up there and pick it up.

I think that the silver props look really good with the colors you have. Black props would look off without black paint on the airplane. I'm 62.269.

Mike,
I feel your pain. Mine will still be sitting there next week, please snap a few pictures of it for me, hopefully with the black props/spinners. What paint/interior did you select?

I opted for Dash. The funny thing is I found a picture of that exact scheme about 2 years ago and asked if they could paint it, but at that point it was a custom option. So I engaged Evoke to do up a custom scheme for me. I ended up not following through with the final design once Diamond offered th...

Yes, it is the Premium Bisque. The 6 seat option looks great!

An update on my delivery. Was scheduled for the ferry flight from Austria on Feb 12th. When I requested pictures I noticed something wrong. I ordered the airplane with black props and spinners, but silver ones were mounted. Apparently this is their first install of the new interior and black prop op...