Dynamic Impression

In aviation, very few good things happen after someone says "watch this!" So I was a touch apprehensive when instructor Michael Xeni took over the controls of WT9 1783 and proceeded to configure the aircraft for a rate of descent a dive-bomber would be proud of. We went down at ear-busting speed, but the aircraft was stable and pliable through the whole exercise.

I learnt that the latest embodiment of this speedy Slovakian LSA is as docile as it is fast; an impressive combination at a time when people are looking for LSAs to perform better without sacrificing the ease of handling.

My first encounter with an Aerospool WT9 Dynamic was in 2013, when I did a flight test for Australian Flying. Had you told me then that it would take nine years for the second aircraft to be delivered to this county I would have laughed in your face. The WT9 Dynamic contains a lot of what new LSA customers were looking for, so why wouldn't the type be adopted here in numbers?

But reality is sometimes very different from perception, and a lack-lustre marketing campaign kept the Dynamic in the LSA shadows. That was until Aerospool handed the agency to Xeni’s company AvXen. For the first time, Australia has an agency of its own and a demonstrator to back it up.

It was that demonstrator that I strapped myself into in February this year, full of excitement to see how Aerospool could possibly have made a better aeroplane in 2021 than the machine I tested in 2013.

Settling in

For those new to the Dynamic, the WT9 is a composite, low-wing tricycle undercart aeroplane with fixed or retractable gear pulled along by a Rotax 912 ULS, 912 iS or