RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Rotax engine mechanic training?

So I guess to summarize what I have learned from this discussion is:

 

1. Drive Continental or Lycoming and leave the 912 Rotax to the experimental builders.

2. We should be able to fly IFR at night  if we choose to equip the LSA with what is needed for the training.

3. No one who wants any of the above should never hire a sub K instructor.

4. Of course buy American to put people back to work. That is what Cessna is doing.

 

Did I miss something?

 

 Gary O.
 N181RL
 661 746-4780

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James Galvin
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:46 AM
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Rotax engine mechanic training?

 

Well Jay I take a look at these engines and I can't understand why anyone would want one and not just because they are so inefficient. They can't even start properly. You get into a Jabiru or Rotax powered plane, turn the key, and bang the engine starts instantly. You get into a Lycoming or Continental powered plane, turn the key, and the engine chugs over and over then coughs. You shut the key off. You try again. Chug chug cough and wow it actually started this time. Good God man they are pieces of junk.

Aside from the last statement which is debatable all the rest are facts.

> A 16-year record (and not all of that is stellar) is not the same as a
> 60-year record. Is it enough? That's a decision every pilot needs to make
> for himself.

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