Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Avionics Equipment

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "rstar447" <rstar447@...> wrote:
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> >If you have any modern engine such as a Rotax that has the >CAPABILITY of generating electrical power, whether it is connected >to the battery or not, the exeption does not apply.
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> Mike, if a single seat pull-start LSA, without a battery, has a Rotax 447 engine, you are saying that a transponder is required when flown within the mode C ring? What about a single seat ultralight flying in the same airspace with the same pull-start engine w/o a battery?
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> Ralph

The key words here are "engine driven electrical system".If you don't have an electrical system, then you don't need a transponder.

That's an exemption they made to the rules in order to accomodate the antiques and homebuilts that are flying around with engines that were never designed without generators or alternators. A lot of these guys installed a simple little elecrical system and charged the battery by adding a wind-driven generator to keep the battery charged.

Rick

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