Pipistrel Panthera - Review, Specs and Comparison!

Pipistrel Panthera might be your best new family plane with a single engine! It has powerful avgas engine, carbon ultralight fuselage. This plane might be best in ultralight class too, but in this video we do pipistrel panthera walkaround and test flight of pipistrel panthera and compare Panthera to Cirrus SR22 and Diamond DA40. We review pipistrel panthera interior, going inside pipistrel panthera. We review specs of pipistrel panthera hybrid and electric variants too!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 History
02:54 Design
04:36 Interior
05:49 Specs
08:01 Safety
08:32 Costs

[@5Djoe]

Great video, thanks!

[@bigmetalbirds]

welcome! glad you enjoyed it!

[@BradleySpahn]

FYI, diamond lists useful load of the day 40 NG as 897 lbs.

[@freddy7700]

I can imagine, that the Rotax 916 iS with 160 HP could be a economic engine for that plane, which could also reduce the price a lot. And the speeds would ba also enough by that extraordinary aerodynamic design. Maybe as an option.

[@RR-kl6sl]

Such a shame they're not going to get this CERTIFIED... This would have been such a great competitor amongst Cirrus, Diamond etc.

[@MaxRovensky]

Re: price, there's one for sale in Slovenia right now for $400k so there's hope
The real question is whether they'll actually ever get the damn thing certified

[@RR-kl6sl]

Never gonna happen 😞, from what I hear Textron bought pipistrel just for the patents of the other models & technical inventions. The Panthera is just something they got in the deal but not taking to certification :-//. Would have been the coolest 4 seater in the market..... Maybe someone else will some day....

[@MaxRovensky]

@@RR-kl6sl sigh
SR-22 it is then

[@RR-kl6sl]

@@MaxRovensky hahah and have fixed gear? no way :)! For a million bucks I’d rather get a Baron or Bonanza and retrofit it with Garmins & some new paint & interior. Faster, Cheaper, more payload and way more bad ass & sturdy ;)

[@MaxRovensky]

@@RR-kl6sl I'm very intent on having the chute though and retrofit options for BRS are limited :/

[@RR-kl6sl]

@@MaxRovensky Well you know what they say: if you want to use a chute don't be a pilot, be a skydiver ;). You can upgrade your Bonanza to 2024 standards easily with the whole Garmin line-up

[@josh_sulli985]

Wonder if America will make a similar contender besides Cirrus, an aircraft with muscle car resemblence and a better price tag and on par performance

[@christenu]

Would be nice to know wether it is fully certified and ready to purchase ?

[@lookts_6458]

At this moment you can buy it as Experimental.. The certification is already in process, but not there yet..

[@fifi23o5]

There is one big misconception, even a myth about Mr. Boscarol and the beginning of Pipistrel, beside one inaccuracy in this video.
They started their activities in times of late Yugoslavia, so, it would be Yugoslav, not Slovenian government "prohibiting" it. Which brings us to the myth. Production of aircraft wasn't "strictly prohibited", it was just not regulated and, yes, there were some bureaucratic burdens associated with it.

[@bigmetalbirds]

oh, yeah thats true, thanks for the info!

[@daszieher]

If you are out for an apples to apples comparison, you must compare the different aircraft's cruise speeds at the same fuel burn and payload.
Just reading the manufacturers' recommended settings doesn't actually increase knowledge.

[@bigmetalbirds]

and fly them at the same altitude and in the same day, time and geographical location. Would love to see someone do that ;)

[@daszieher]

@@bigmetalbirds it doesn't have to be that complicated, I understand the dilemma between pie-in-the-sky wishes and a more easily achieved comparison.
The different engines dictate further a more mathematical comparison as mission weight (engine+fuel) does not scale linearly between the more efficient but heavier AE300 and the "big blocks" in the other aircraft or even a (more comparable, albeit fictional) FADEC-equipped TIO-360.

[@MikhailStarkov]

How much fuel consumption it has on lower speeds?

[@ChristianOspina]

I think I saw like 11 gph

[@fifi23o5]

What is an US mile?

[@jamesh7876]

Around 5600 feet.

[@fifi23o5]

​@@jamesh7876there is no such thing as US mile....

[@critical_always]

600k is rediculous in the extreme

[@fifi23o5]

Pretty normal price in the aviation, nowadays.

[@pietrooliani3251]

a new 172 is just 100k less

[@lv7603]

It’s been the norm for a while.

[@flox8342]

just hilarious. you need to be multimillionaire to even think about flying tech that is not 50 years old vintage oltimer… what a sad world.