Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group 912 pre-flight video from Avweb archives

Helen, you're right about the "bad reputation". Coming from the "certified world" you remembers about the Rotax 912 developing a "bad reputation" when it was first brought out in the Diamond Katana. (But I think you might be wrong about the Lycoming.)
They also had a whole string of AD's and Service Bulletins in the 90's and early 2000's that didn't help. http://www.lightsportaircraft.ca/912rotax-servicebulletins/index.html

They seem to have fixed their problems and are on the road to being accepted by the American people. I'll probably use one next time I build.

Rick

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@...> wrote:
>
> Coming from the certified world, I believe he was fully right on number
> 1 (although you are right that "afraid" would have been better
> wording). Untrained people on the certified side lump all Rotax
> together. Look at the Diamond Katana. Totally flopped when it first
> came over here because it had a 912S on the front. No one would fly
> it. Even today you can pick hose up in trade a plane for virtually
> nothing. Instead diamond had to rush a Lycombing into production (a
> model still plagued with issues because it was rushed into production
> for this), and then increase the fuel capacity for the new gas guzzler,
> then increase the useful load to haul the gas, just because Americans
> wouldn't fly behind a Rotax. Even years later I caught a story in a
> major aviation magazine about the Katana that explained that the
> original flopped in the US because it has a 2 stroke snow mobile engine
> on it!
>
> Helen
>
> On 2/2/2010 9:55 PM, Bob Comperini wrote:
> > On 06:34 PM 2/2/2010, apollonorthamerica wrote:
> >
> >> I think Bob C. can comment well on that.
> >>
> > Ok, lets pool our observations. Mine:
> >
> > (1) He indicates that the 912 had a "bad reputation". I don't believe that's true at all. Yes, its true non Rotax people were probably "afraid" of the engine. Maybe that's what he means
> >
> > (2) When he gets in to the discussion of the carbs, he also mentions the "independent ignition systems control the left and right bank" of the engine (as opposed to top/bottom)
> >
> > (3) I'm not comfortable with the "two carbs in one" statement, where he talks about the "staring carb" (choke).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bob Comperini
> > e-mail: bob@...
> > WWW: http://www.fly-ul.com
> >
> >
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