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@BowsacNoodle @cjd This was it! All the boomers were floored they just listed these engines like they're selling T-shirts. It's refreshing, really. No "request quote", no "email Brandon@hotmail.net for sales", just a checkout process and a flat price.

It's all pretty fresh though, I'll ask around, but I can only think of the booth guy at fly-ins talking them up. For a normie it's a bad idea, but they won't be approved for S-LSA or TC aircraft so the only guys who would buy them will be the kinds of old guy who can pore over every detail - basically doing his own quality control. If he knows how it all works, and he checks it over thoroughly, it should be fine, since he'll be tearing it down frequently enough to catch failures before they occur. Hopefully, maybe. Really depends on whether it's worth the hassle just to save money....the 145-hp here is within spitting distance of a 915 and 916, so who knows if it's really worth it. When they were announcing it I got the impression they'd be half the cost of a rotax, but that doesn't seem to be the cost street.

But the basic rotax design is great, after hearing so many haughty naysayers as a kid the system has proven itself quite well. I can't really think of a big problematic bird with a 912, all the downtime is for other stuff, and we've helped out w/ a couple training operations that ran nothing but rotaxes. They do require some TLC though, fairly frequent oil changes, and you have to get someone who really knows carbs, but that's not too different from standard Lycomings and Contis

The company does have a fun little thing though, a wannabe balsa wood LSA with a pusher rotax in the rear. You'd think it's gay but IRL.....it's actually cool in a cringe fun way. https://shop.ckd.aero/collections/zonsen-aero-engine

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