Monsoon

Introducing the Monsoon weight-shift-control aircraft from Apollo North America, Inc. This is a trike designed in the USA with sports car like flying qualities, and comfort and styling in mind. Special attention has been given to make back seat comfortable for hour after hour of training for the instructor or touring flight operations.

A weight bearing floor board meets the easy (low) entry and exit points and the contoured wide cushioned seating takes off any pressure points in the seating position. ASTM compliant and ready to be S-LSAed.

Angled mast with a roomy back seat makes for an excellent training and touring platform. A tall windshield provides very effective protection against the wind. It is possible to fly simply with headsets in the front seat at 80 MPH. Tundra tires on all three wheels provide the spring leaf suspension extra give and absorption. Large wheelpants with fins provide cleanliness to the Tundra tires and act to add directional stability to the flight even at highre airspeeds. All wheel hydraulic aircraft disc brakes with parking lock provide great stopping capability as with all Apollo trikes.

The large airscoop on the bottom of the trike fairing routes air to the radiator.

Wing Choices:

You will not find better handling wings whether you are into doing trike cross-country, flights around the patch for sport, mid day flying with convection turbulence and thermals or simply a little bit of everything. It would be very hard to beat the choices of combinations offered by us and to match the delightful handling offered by these wings on our trikes.
Aeros Profi Classic / Strutted
Reflex 11
Reflex 13

 

Usage and Specs (As obtained during test flights):
Aeros Profi Classic / Strutted
Reflex 11
Reflex 13
USE All Around Wing / Trainer / Cross Country Speed Wing / Turbulence Handling / Sport All Around Wing / Turbulence Handling / Sport / Cross Country
SIZE(S) (SQ. METERS) 14.5 10.9 13.5
SPECIAL FEATURES Great first wing, also enjoyed alike by intermediate and advanced pilots. Electric trim option opens up in flight trim speed setup with this wing. Its strutted version is lighter handling and a bit faster than the classic counterpart One of the fastest wings in the world with light handling and fast roll rate. Honest wing, smoothly point and shoot and carve up the sky Nice handling, lighter in roll than Aeros Profi or TL but yet docile and predictable. Good for training, sport and cross country flying
TRIM SPEED RANGE (MPH) 47 - 62 / 50 - 89 56 - 100 55 - 83
PREFERRED TRIM SPEED (MPH) 56 / 65 - 80 70 - 95 75
VNE (MPH) 81 / 89 115 90
MAX GROSS WEIGHT ALLOWED (POUNDS) 1040 1040 1040
STALL AT 750 POUNDS (MPH) 29 37 35
STALL AT MAX GROSS (MPH) 32 41 38
WING SPAN (FEET) 32.8 27 30
WING WEIGHT (POUNDS) 106 / 115 115 119
       
PRICE Profi classic is included in standard pricing of Delta Jet AS-III $2500 option on the Delta Jet AS-III $2500 option on the Delta Jet AS-III
STRUTTED Add $800 for Profi TL (Top Less) Standard Standard
OPTIONS Electric Trim - $1250 installed (adjust speed from 50 to 89 MPH at the touch of a button) Electric in flight trim system - $1000 Electric in flight trim system - $1000

Safety:

Utilizing aircraft grade Aluminum alloy tubing, welded steel brackets, gussets and supports, the Monsoon trike is put together with metric class 8.8 hardware that is custom plated. The main landing gear is one piece 7075 T-6 Aluminum solid leaf gear similar to what you'd find on many GA airplanes. The very first flight will show the amazing suspension to the pilot reducing peak loads transferred to other components including the wing on not so nice landings in a training environment.

One of the most important safety aspects of the trike in flight is the wing and all three wings exceed ASTM design standard requirements and two have also passed the DULV German certification. To further keep the fleet safe, a fully documented manual set and bulletins for safety directives and service are part of the on-going airworthiness regimen.

There is a quick drain valve for fuel drainage and pre-flight fuel contamination check under the trike and back seat instructor engine kill switch and remote instructor engine push button start are standard on all Monsoon AS-IV trikes along with Aero-Tuff ASTM compliant seat belts and re-coil shoulder harness. A tall windshield is standard. 5-position adjutsable back steering (removable) comes standard and a cruise hand throttle reachable from the back seat for instructor along with regular trike pilot foot throttle is standard in every machine, however, an instructor may want to lock out the pilot front foot throttle as well as front brake pedals for those very first hours and that's easily possible with the Monsoon. In training environments at towered airports, instructors will welcome this feature with new students. The front foot pedals have 6 positions adjustable in less than a minute for pilots of different heights. There are circuit breakers to isolate eletrical faults. Optionally FAR 23 lighting (position plus anti-collision lights in one) can be installed on wheelpant fins for safety and visibility.

The color EFIS option can do a terrain look ahead and provides terrain warnings. It can also provide detailed 3D wire mesh view of the terrain. Imagine going into Eastern Tennessee and being able to see mountains ahead before you reach them. That's a feature you'd have trouble finding in the trike market. Imagine having a blackbox recorder for selcted portions of your flight that records all your engine and GPS parameters and then can be re-played on a PC showing your track and engine parameters over Google Earth in 3D.

These are powerful tools for training, cross-country touring with comfort that clearly puts AS-IV ahead of the game while the rest of the trike market tries to follow.

Ballistic Recovery System whole aircraft parachute is STANDARD and its installation is kept very clean and thought out into the design of the aircraft from the start. Monsoon was designed with training in mind and as such we decided to supply BRS as standard equipment on the Monsoon. This is the first and only LSA trike with standard BRS offering in the US market.

Engines:

Monsoon is offered with the following ASTM compliant engines:

Propellers:

There are three props offered with our trikes:

Avionics, lighting, electrical wiring harness and choices:

Monsoon AS-IV comes standard with Stratomaster Ultra XL monochrome glass panel that provides everything from engine monitoring to fuel flow calculation to all VFR flight instruments. All engine sensors culminate cleanly at a remote unit called the RDAC (Remote Data Acquisition Computer) that is located closer to the engine and then one data cable runs from the the RDAC to the actual panel screen that carries data in serialized binary format. Ultra XL allows a user to remove items that are not needed on the screen and change position of the items on the screen as well as change some fonts on the screen. For more information on Stratomaster Ultra XL please take a look at this link.

But that's not where things end. At least not for Monsoon trikers.

Color EFIS:

This option makes being able to see the instruments a snap because of contrast and flashes a light when a parameter is out of bounds. An aviation GPS and True Airspeed calculation is included in the Enigma color EFIS. In addition the EFIS provides a fuel flow sensor that allows you to monitor your fuel burn per hour and 9 different fully programmable easy to use screens. Want to set frequency of your factory installed Apollo aircraft radio from the glass panel and are not even sure what the frequency of the ATIS is of this close-by airport? Click here to see how you can accomplish that using the glass cockpit easily. Too much to list here. Nothing packs in as many features for such a small upgrade price. This option is also one of the options required for night VFR operation for the WSC-Land private pilot.

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Glass cockpit with optional solid state AHRS sensor can show attitude and HITS (Highway In The Sky)

Programmable screens. A sample VFR screen shown. Take a close look at the engine monitoring bar graphs. They are EASY to see at a glance with yellow overlay indicating currnt reading over a green and red (caution) area. This is much different than engine monitors offered in many planes that are monochrome and you have to actually read your oil temperature and know the range in numbers for your engine. Upto 9 different programmable screens available at a touch of a button. Use what suits the current flight requirements with "ease" and switch in a second if needed with changing requirements.

Aviation GPS with Terrain Awareness

 

Aviation GPS on the glass cockpit. Press shift 1 and select the airport from the list to "Go To". What could be simpler

Both ways you get beautifully crafted aircraft grade wiring harness made with tefzel coated aircraft wire and milspec crimps that runs all the way from the engine compartment to all avionics. The wiring harness is protected with on dash circuit breakers for every single component. A ground seeking aircraft master solonoid shuts everything cold for safety. These characteristics are not so common in your every day garden variety trike. Not even some of the most expensive trikes offer such aircraft standard craftsmanship and avionics choices.

Panel options:

Panel options available for the Monsoon AS-IV lead the industry in this category of aircraft. You will simply not find these choices in state of the art elsewhere. These include, color EFIS with aviation GPS built-in, AHRS sensor for the color EFIS for attitude and turn and bank indication, MicroAir T2000 mode C transponder, MicroAir M760 transciever radio or XCOM transciever radio that can work on changing frequencies from color EFIS screen, panel mounted intercom from Flycom UK if provided by the customer before delivery.

Please note that Flycom UK does not have dealers and sells direct to customers. As such we recommend that customers buy this excellent open cockpit communication system directly from Flycom UK and send it to us so that we can install the intercom in for you. The intercom interfaces via a custom wiring harness with the transcievers.

 

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