Introducing myself...

[Clayton Harper]

2i2,
Before you count yourself out for a 3d Class, Join the AOPA Medical Group. It cost you about $100 per year, I think. If you have not had problem in years, it may not take that much for a Special Issuance. As retired ALPA, I have access to a group AeroMedical that get pro pilots their 1st Class back, all the time. I heard they were even able to get a "heart replacement pilot" his cert. back (that's what I heard, don't know if I believe it, but....).
The A&P takes about 2000 hour of class (6 hours 4 days a week for 18 months). I do some part time instructing in an A&P school, and it is a grind to do school and a real job at the same time.
Like Stephen, I'd vote for a Stinson too.

[Steve Pierce]

I really like the Vagabond, lot more than a Chief, more room, flies better and better supported. Great airplane.

[kloudking1]

My buddy is 6'9" and can get into my Colt. Flies from the right seat. Colt isn't light sport though.

[Cub Junkie]

Most of these aircraft mentioned will take tall people. It's a matter of getting in and out gracefully. The only time you don't have to be careful and watch your step is when you are bailing out in an emergency.

[Stephen]

My buddy is 6'9" and can get into my Colt. Flies from the right seat. Colt isn't light sport though.

Where does he put his legs? In a J3 you can rest them outside on the strut.

[Pacer 24C]

[QUOTE=Steve Pierce;69105]I really like the Vagabond, lot more than a Chief, more room, flies better and better supported. Great airplane.[/QUOTE

Steve I agree I would take 1 Vag over 10 Chiefs - just hard to come by]

[kloudking1]

Stephen,
It's cramped for him but he gets in there. I think he puts left foot on left side, left rudder pedal and right foot on right side right rudder pedal.

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[andya]

When I was looking at what I might purchase for my LSA days, I looked at every small certified single on the ramp at Fairbanks back in '09
Great assortment of ships to examine. T-crafts, chiefs, Luscombe, Champs, Cubs, Vags. The Vag had the best entry and inside room for my
ever getting worse creaky, 6ft, 210# body. Everything else was too small or too hard to get into.

[Clayton Harper]

I was thinking Swick T-craft conversion.

[2i2]

I'm going to plan a trip to Lock Haven next month, unless I come across something to look at and sit in in the interim. Planers are like a pair of pants in a way- you have to try them on to see how they really fit.

Since I was curious, I ordered the Vagabond drawings from the SWPC to look over. Those title blocks reminded me of my mechanical drawing days. I enjoyed reading the BOM's and revisions.

By the way about Chiefs. My Mom's cousin married a pilot (he's the one that took me up in the 170 when I was 3). When they got married in 1955, they had their honeymoon in Mexico City. How did they get there? They left Dayton in a 65 HP Chief- beleive it or not! as far as navaids, there was a radio, and that was it. He wrote up the flight for AOPA Pilot back then. I asked him about it a couple of years ago, they had a really nice flight and a good time- he was a bit puzzled why I'd not pich a 150 or 172 so I explained LSA to him.

Anyway you can go quite a distance and an altitude with 65 hp...

Dennis