Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Avionics Equipment

_EVERY_ Rotax engine out there has an engine driven electrical system. Period. Leads capped away, chopped off, epoxied shut ... doesn't matter. You can do what you want but this is what the reality is and this is what will come down from FAA in Oklahoma.
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "gmichaelhuffman" <sportaviation@...> wrote:
>
> Ah, yes, the debate starts once more. There was a long-running Internet debate over these questions about four years ago when the light-sport program began and now the points being brought up here are the same as then. I hesitated to even bring up the subject for that reason.
>
> No matter what one's personal definition of an "engine-driven electrical system" might be, the FAA Light-Sport office says the exemption does not apply to any engine that has the capability of supplying electrical power, whether or not it is hooked up.
>
> One more thing: someone asked about transponders in ultralights. The answer is that FAR 91.215(b) applies to "aircraft" (by the official FAA definition). An unlicensed ultralight under FAR 103 is not an aircraft; it is an "ultralight vehicle" (by the official FAA definition). Therefore, 91.215(b) does not apply to ultralights. FAR 103 prohibits operation of an ultralight within Class B airspace, but not merely inside the Mode C ring. Thus, an ultralight with an engine-driven electrical system would seem to be legal operating without a transponder/encoder under the floor of the Class B inside the Mode C ring.
>
> Of course, as I said, all this is tempered by the real-world facts that Approach Control often does not want to know about low-and-slow aircraft out near the edges of the Mode C ring.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Mike
>
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> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "r" <lightflyer@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "apollonorthamerica" <apollonorthamerica@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Rotax 447 has an engine driven electrical system. Its has a lighting coil comes with the engine and can be hooked up using a rectifier.
> > > Abid
> >
> > Yes, you're right.
> >
> > On the Rotax 582 I had a regulator, battery, electric start, radio, strobes, nav lights and GPS all powered by the lighting coils.
> > That airplane had an engine driven electrical system.
> >
> > On my 377, the lighting coils were there but the leads remained capped and stowed.
> > That airplane didn't have an electrical system.
> >
>

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