Sport Pilot Talk

Nice toys, but the toy chest (hangar) looks way too clean!!

One thing you missed is Insurance.

hink wrote:That looks like a good option. Love the sliding canopy! Any idea about the quality of the kits and builder support?

Take a look at the Rans Clan forums here: http://www.ransclan.com/forums/

Take a look at the Rans S-19. Can do it E-AB with a Jabiru 3300.

Paul,

My dad's name was Edwin Fane, and went by Ed. He was there from 1968 until he passed away in early 1983. He worked with and was good friends with Rick Berg and Bob Crestoff. Maybe you knew them. Rick Berg had a PP cert.

drseti wrote:Later I got involved with the Wild Weasels, but that was as a civilian engineer.

Paul,

What company were you with? My dad worked for Applied Technologies on the Wild Weasel projects.

As far as the extra 40 lbs affecting payload and range, take a look at the Tecnam Eaglet which is offering the IO-233 as an option. According to their own figures its standard weight is 730 lbs. Lets be generous and add 50 lbs extra for the IO-233 for a total EW of 780 lbs. It carries a full fuel l...

Hi Krish, Welcome to the forum, and to flying. There are no CTLS's at all at RHV. There is only 1 CTLS registered in California, and it's in Los Angeles. There are 3 or 4 CTSW's at RHV, but all privately owned and not being rented out. Aerodynamic Aviation has been mentioned here already, and I woul...

zaitcev wrote:The biggest thing that determines the demonstrated crosswind is the landing speed. With very low Vs0 mandated for LSA, they cannot have good crosswind capability.

That's why I prefer to use no flaps and keep the speed up in higher wind conditions.

Have never ever heard of one. When someone tries to sell you on one, just remember when someone (brother, cousins, friends, uncle) took you Snipe hunting. It's like that.

Are there people out there looking to partner up on buying an LSA? ($40K is still a lot of money!) Not seeing much LSA action anywhere near Tucson or Ruidoso, our summer home. Yooo hooo, are you out there? There are quite a few LSA owners that are based at Ryan Field (KRYN) in Tucson. One of them i...

S-LSA are authorized to enter Canada also, and if you have a PP or higher, with a valid medical you can fly one there. SP isn't yet approved in Canada, but they are supposed to be working on it.

I agree with Jack that you need to fly some LSA.

There is a Flight Design dealer in Cedar Rapids. Also looks like they might have a CTLS available to get checked out in. Here's a link to their website: http://iowaflighttraining.com/index.html

I like Jabiru because it was certificated in Australia at 1500 lbs so I'm confident it was built to handle more than I'll put in it. The CTLS's used in last year's round the world flight, had special permission from the EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) to fly with 1654 lb maximum takeoff weig...

This doesn't mean that you have to run those RPM's 100% of the time. Slow down as needed for the situation, but don't run it slow as a normal thing.