Just be careful. Many of them start to fall apart right about the time a 150 would be broke in.
Be careful. Weight is such a bigger thing in LSA. Usually when I see all these bells and whistles on LSA, the useful load is approaching 0. LSA needs to be a bare bones crazy basic aircraft. If mine weighed a pound over 700, I wouldn't own it.
I have not read of this. Have anything to link to?
Be careful. Some of them arent built to handle modest winds or firm landings. I initially looked at the flight design and skycatcher but ultimately decided on the Piper Sportcruiser(Czech) because the Evektor used market doesn't exist. They're virtually the same so doesn't really matter.
I'm not sure but what I am sure of is if you throw enough money at anything its definitely possible. My concern in doing that would be resale value or if used in a training environment the look it gives the school.
Do you have an electric fuel pump? Generally the Rotax doesn't require one but it generally will prevent any vapor lock issues. On for takeoff and landing like any plane.
I think the swift 94 is gaining traction. Might look into that.
See, that kind of shiz is what gives LSA/homebuilt a bad name “oh, yeah, it just kind of quits on takeoff if the temperature is wrong”.
Hi Don! Whats new? I haven't looked yet. I may give that a try.
Yup
I can give you more than a dozen examples of accidents happening in 121/135 ops for issues they never saw coming. Off the top of my head: British Airways B777 losing power on final approach. Had to do with lower than usual temps up at high altitude. Don't generalize.
Yeah it has an electric pump. I've been keeping it on anytime the PSI starts dropping off. I threw in a few gallons of 100LL today. The tanks were almost full so I could only add about 5 gallons but I intend to add another 5 tomorrow to top it off. The blend will be about 33% 100LL so I'll monitor the situation and the temps.
So does a lycoming or continental if you use the wrong fuel.
So if you use LL, or a lot of it, I'm pretty sure you have to rebuild the gearbox rather often. I can't remember exactly, but there should be something in your engine manual/mx manual or maybe it's a service bulletin. Either way, find it and comply. Also make sure you use 100% dino oil. Nothing synthetic at all. 25 hour oil changes with LL to iirc.
Yeah, and then they traced down the problem and made a solution so a new operator of the type didn’t have the same thing happen and “oh, heh, yeah, sorry shoulda warned ya!”
Which is why they’ve got all kinds of placards and warnings about using the right fuel instead of letting people figure it out by trial and error and word of mouth.
