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 Let's say you have Silicon Valley money.
 You spend all your time filling your garage with exotic play things.
 $200,000 is an afterthought.
 You want something with great design, but performance.
 You could add another Ferrari to the stable, but I have another proposition for you.
 The Icon A5.
 Basically a sports car for the air.
 It's made by an outfit called Icon that's based in California, and they are exploiting
 a new FAA rule which is meant to encourage new pilots to get in the air.
 It's less than $250,000.
 In my world, that is a drop in the bucket when you're talking about a plane.
 So instead of buying that Ferrari, you could buy the A5, spend 20 or 30 hours of flight
 time and potentially get your sport license.
 It's got all the carbon fiber, it looks great, great design aesthetic, and it's very simple
 apparently.
 Now, you can't fly during night, you can't fly over 10,000 feet and only in good weather
 in these conditions, but basically I could take this out, head out five hours someplace
 and have an amazing time.
 Obviously it's amphibious.
 You can land on your private lake in Wyoming or here on the Hudson.
 The wings fold back so you can transport it on a trailer really easily, and best of all,
 if things go badly, it's got a parachute.
 Dude I am going to cause as much trouble as I can.
 They're going to give me the yolk and I can't speak for what might happen.
 Rock and roll, man.
 This is awesome.
 I'm going to do it on the left side.
 It's mostly visual, right?
 You're not in that much tower contact?
 No, we stay away from that stuff.
 We stay away from control towers.
 You can take this airplane there and you can go there.
 The visuals, it's obviously designed so you have really, how much you can actually see
 is incredible, right?
 It's awesome.
 Yeah, just like full wide field of view everywhere around.
 Oh, it's so good.
 Right back down.
 It's so good.
 The plane is such an unusual shape, you know?
 Yeah, I mean it's designed to have that visceral emotional response, right?
 And this, just the fact the windows are open, man.
 How cool is that?
 Yeah, it's so cool.
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 Yeah, you can fly windows out actually.
 Any altitude this airplane can go through.
 It's not pressurized, right?
 Right.
 Yeah, if you go really high and it's getting cold, yeah you're going to want the windows
 in.
 So really the ceiling height on these are what?
 10,000, 15,000.
 15,000.
 The sport pilot 10,000.
 10,000.
 Still hands out.
 Hands out, kind of look around.
 Just go off the boat base and reverse and close.
 When we're on the water, we're considered a boat.
 No shit.
 Yeah, so literally when we're on the water, we're a boat,
 so we follow the rules of boating.
 If we're a foot off the water or higher,
 we have to follow the FAA rules.
 Just glided on in.
 Oh, that is so cool.
 Do you have fun?
 Oh, no.
 I didn't really enjoy that at all.
 Oh, good.
 Yeah, that's no fun at all.
 Why would you want to fly like a bird around New York City?
 You know, you're skipping all the traffic.
 It's like kind of like a sports car.
 Not a really fast sports car, but it's all.
 It's everything I want to do.
 It's awesome.
 I want more.
 All right, so Icon A5 is, it actually felt easy.
 It's sort of drama-free.
 Was not having to talk to the tower.
 Just making sure you don't run into stuff.
 But the good thing is, in the air,
 there's not that much stuff to run into.
 So that is the best of both worlds in so many ways.
 Dude, I totally want one.