Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Skyscraper...

John,

Actually, the latest medical information I have been reading says the average adult these days, in the U.S. is over 200 pounds.

The 170 pound average was good until the late 50s, early 60s, when the average weight began to climb.

Given that most SP students are in their 60s-70s, and weight 200 or more pounds, the 346 pound limit is not acceptable.

Even my last trike instructor weighted in at 240 pounds.

R. Williams



---------- Original Message -----------
From: "John A. Price" <japrice@mindspring.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:27:50 -0400
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Skyscraper...

> Correction FAA standard person is 170 so that would be 340... 6 pounds to spare ;-)
> Richard unfortunately you are quite on the high side of the average and those in that
> situation are in the definite minority. Economics being what it is manufacturers of almost
> all consumer products design for what the perceive as the "average". They are in it for the
> money and they won't make the  profit designing for the outlying....
> John
>
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 16:37:58 Richard Williams wrote:
> > Gary O,
> >
> > Irregardless of what the PR  people say, the skycatcher is not going to be
> > a great primary trainer. With a useful load of only 346 pounds
> > (pilot+student) there is no way for most adult Americans to be two-up in
> > this plane.
> >
> > The load limit does not even accommodate the FAA standard weight for two
> > persons of 350 pounds.
> >
> > A prime example, I'm 300 pounds, where are we going to find an instructor
> > of less that 50 pounds?
> >
> > According to wiki, the latest design crashed, in a very similar mannerto
> > the first model, when control was lost during a spin test.
> >
> > The skycatcher is an expensive joke.  At over $110,000.00 it will only be
> > useful for a pilot plus a young kid.  Humm... the EAA CAP program could use
> > this plane.
> >
> > R. Williams
> > ------- End of Original Message -------
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