The insurance market is changing—and the buzz word is "hardening". That means higher rates and insurability issues for aging pilots. Plus, your choice of aircraft can have serious ramifications for the cost and type of insurance coverage you can get—if you can even get the coverage you need.
Originally planned live for AirVenture 2020, we've taken the insurance market roundtable event to Zoom to hear what underwriters are demanding for experience, training and what owners can do to stay insured at affordable rates. As a follow-on to the Insuring Experimentals article in the September 2020 Aviation Consumer Magazine, we gathered Avemco's Marci Veronie, insurance broker Jon Doolittle and Experimental-category expert Scott Smith to talk it through.