Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Cruising speed

Hello An ELSA as a factory model home assembled would have its specs tightly laid out. As such it will have the big influence on cruise items specified Its unlikely they will find much apart from getting the most out of a carefully assembled airplane EXAB flow under LSA will be owner certified as to compliance with max continuous cruise  and as long as it looks right you wont be looked at too hard. Fly a Pulsar XP with a 914 and expect them to at least check the prop and do a quick calculation on speed. I'm sure they will have a prop calculator in the laptop Peter --- On Wed, 3/10/10, Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@verizon.net> wrote: From: Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Cruising speed To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 1:31 PM   Well for the SLSAs the manufacturer is responsible for making sure the plane is compliant when it comes off the line. As an owner, you can't even change the brand of tires on the plane without factory authorization and I seriously doubt you'd get authorization to do any mod that the factory might think would take the plane out of compliance. Perhaps the homebuilders on this list could answer about the ELSA? Helen On 3/9/2010 6:38 PM, blueriverday wrote: > Ok, what I was referring to are various aircraft which have been slowed down by modifications such that they will meet the performance limits for LSA. The Arion Lightning, Pipersport, and > Pulsar XP could all easily go much faster depending upon how you > set them up. > > So I guess what I'm trying to ask is...who and when does a plane get checked to assure that it's slow enough? And, should I accidently find myself clipping along at 140kts, would anyone make an issue out > of it? > > --- > Mark > > --- In Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com, "apollonorthamerica "<apollonorthame rica@...> wrote: > >> 138 mph or 120 knots is a performance limit Vh set for LSA. This means at maximum continuous RPM listed for the engine you should not be able to go faster than 120 knots (138 mph). >> In light of that fact, your question is not making sense to me at least. By definition a LSA cannot "cruise effortlessly" at 120 knots. That's Vh. >> Abid >> >> --- In Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com, "blueriverday" <blueriverday@ > wrote: >> >>> Hello. >>> >>> Is anyone here actually cruising at 138 mph with no effort, and, if >>> so, is there anything other than "obedience" which keeps you from pushing it just a teeny bit faster, say...140? >>> >>> thanks, Mark >>> >>> >> > > > > ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >

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