For this family, sky is not the limit

Ashok Thamarakshan needed a four-seater plane to fly with his wife and kids. So, this is what he did next... ✈️

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00:30This particular model is one of the latest designs so the whole design is only from 2018

00:40and the engine is relatively new as well so it's quite fuel efficient and quite reliable.

00:46I mean you can fly for 5-6 hours and just not feel tired or anything just land and yeah

00:52so it makes that long inter-distance journeys possible especially with young children.

01:22There's a wealth of information online on YouTube and other channels many people who've

01:29done similar sort of builds have documented their builds and posted online so that always

01:34helps I mean that's the big thing in aviation you try to avoid other people's mistakes.

01:53Tara helped build a lot she helped with that like she understood she knew even while homeschooling

01:59when the schools were closed there was a demo she gave of the wings and she turned the laptop

02:06all of a sudden and all her teachers were like what your dad is building an aeroplane

02:09and she's like yeah look I'll show you.

02:22When we started off we didn't have the funds to fund the whole project so I was planning

02:32that we'll try and you know tighten our belts and save and all that plus maybe include some

02:38partners if we can't fund it ourself to try and get to that finish line but managed to get there.

02:52In the UK itself there's a rich tradition of home-built aircraft and this particular

03:20organisation Light Aircraft Association have been doing this for 80 odd years helping people

03:24may build and maintain aircraft. These aircraft are a bit more sophisticated with the modern

03:30avionics and you know more capabilities especially the four seats so there are a lot more stringent

03:36requirements to meet and so the inspections were catered to that we had multiple stages.

03:50Like constantly looking we even tell the girls if you can see is there any any other one yeah

04:10which you can see them on the radar but not all of them. So there are so many places far

04:19and wide remote in the UK which we haven't seen because it's yeah I mean with young children it's

04:26not easy to go there so yeah and when the when the weather is good you can literally just go

04:30I like that sense of it.