Sport Pilot Talk

I personally have flown the SportCruiser, (now PiperSport) several times and feel that it is a great little airplane that should have been much more popular than what it was, unfortunately due to some of the internal issues. But, with Piper now distributing this roomy and nice flying aircraft, I wou...

This is a restart of the original thread started by KSCessnaDriver that veered off topic. Let's hope this one stays on the topic of discussion about the aircraft and the company forrey into the LSA market. Original post from KSCessnaDriver "I saw this on one of the various aviation forum's that...

I Light Sport limitations, has a 39" wide cabin and over 500# useful load.

Has anyone heard of the SwickClipT?

www.swickt.com

Good, bad?

Got some email from the guy who owns the company and the aircraft look like a good one!

What do you guys think?

I have about 55 hours in Sportstars, both the model with the fuel in the fuselage, and the newer "plus" model with the fuel in the wings and an extra 55 lbs of useful load. The Sporstar has no real vices. It accelerates fast on takeoff, and requires attention to right rudder to keep it on...

LightSportFlyer: With all due respect, count the number of people agreeing with you, and the number that disagree. That should give you a hint as to if you should hijack a thread and continue argue with those who were discussing another topic? I don't believe you are trolling, but people with a less...

For you guys that fly CTs. Can you tell me what the brand and model # of the flap position selector switch that is mounted in your airplane? I think it is 4 position?

Thanks
Jim!

I thought I would hear more from people that attended the show?

What did you guys think? Any new and exciting aircraft?

CharlieTango wrote:the jabiru is harder to keep cool

Actually the Jabiru is no harder to keep cool than a Lycoming, or any other air cooled engine. It also can use auto fuel just like the Rotax and is much easier to service due to less parts.

I think you guys are missing the original question. My confusion does not rest in wether the Sonex is LSA compliant or not, it is. My confusion is with the builder saying that he only needs to fly off 5 hours because the aircraft is registered as LSA? He said that if it was registered as an experime...

Thanks for the update on the Sonex. The thing that I am still struggling with is that this guy could build the Sonex himself and then have it legal after flying off only 5 hours?

But I didn't know that a Sonex was a SLSA?

Ok, but what confuses me is the comment,

"FAA requires only 5 hours flight time for aircraft registered as an "LSA"

Only 5 hours of flight time?

I was looking at a Sonex and asked about the owner flying off the hours of the newly built aircraft along with the newly built Aerovee engine kit. Here was his reply which confused me a bit... FAA requires only 5 hours flight time for aircraft registered as an "LSA". If the same aircraft w...