anybody else planning to fly to Airventure next year? I'm thinking about it for 2022. Very keen to have a flight to Iceland and Greenland, so why not go the whole way across. How do you deal with insurance at the USA end for a non N-reg aircraft? insurance should not be a big problem.. either for f...

I have done it with a friend a number of times.. all in all it is not too difficult... - at the end you stop in Scotland and Iceland. Then there are 3 airports in Greenland and 2 airports in Canada where you typically go through.. has been done many times before.. one can leverage the experience - t...

Well... in 2013 I had the fantastic opportunity to fly with a DA42 from Europe to Oshkosh.. a fantastic experience that led to several further transatlantic crosses.. I decided that 2022 is a good year to do it again.. we will fly in with two planes from Europe (DA42 TDI + Piper Malibu). Departure i...

and to answer your questions 1. Are you interested in upgrading your DA42 TDI to G1000 NXi with GFC700? -> YES, as it seems to be the only viable upgrade path 2. If you're interested, what is the maximum amount you're ready to invest in such upgrade? -> 100.000€ 3. If you're ready to invest in upgra...

Hi Emir, thanks so much for opening this survey... Although there are no major issues today.. they will show up in a few years.. I know that a group of DAN members (I think including yourself) has pushed this topic two years ago to Diamond Aircraft.. but Diamond Aircraft really did not do anything i...

Just received the feedback from Diamond, that LED lights are not available.. Diamond suggested to replace our old (5+ years) with brand new ones.. hoping that new lights are brighter.. any experience with this?

Like many others we are unhappy with the poor performance of the DA42 Landing and Taxi lights (somehow it feels like they are not even working at all). This threat discussed two years ago the option to install LED lights or strong power supplies. Did anyone of the DA42 owners found a solution meanwh...

Done but I wonder how many owners are aware of the survey at all because there's a lot of them out there (especially in Europe) who don't participate at this forum. This is also a big worry for me.. I tried several times to find an easy way to identify European Diamond Owners... but there is just n...

my 2 cents on the agenda.. - great ideas already in there! - I would remove the topics on Diamond Parts Service in the US... Garmin can not support there.. it's a separate topic, that should be addressed in a separate meeting.. full focus should be on "how to deal with airframes that can live 7...

Hi Phil, I am also not expecting a solution within the next months.. today our birds still fly ok.. But it is obvious that having no access to LNAV GPS approaches and newer G1000 software will dramatically limit the usage of our planes in the years to come. The life time of planes often ranges from ...