Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Cruising speed

The problem with illegal isn't ramp checking (never seen a FSDO inspector yet with a radar gun) but insurance.  In the case of an accident, if the insurance company gets wind of anything illegal, they aren't paying out.  A pilot at my local field found this out te hard way when he had an accident 1 day out of annual.  I suspect that many owners of Cessna and Piper Sport planes and other LSAs with low useful load who will be tempted to fly these planes over gross will find this out as well.  Insurance companies are loosing their shirts insuring LSAs right now and are going to increasingly be looking for ways to avoid paying claims.  Why give them such?

Helen

On 3/9/2010 8:14 PM, Jim Bair wrote:

OK, maybe I'm missing something that seems totally obvious to me, so apparently this is more complex than I thought.  Illegal is illegal.  If you're screwing around with wheel pants or props to make your aircraft illegal, why not just buy and RV-8 and fly it and enjoy it?  What am I missing here?  Yes, this is a serious question.  I mean, are you thinking that if I'm just a little illegal, no one will care?  Or it reduces the odds of being caught?  If that's the case, your odds of being caught if there's no problem are very small in any case.  I have never been ramp checked in 35 years of flying.  My son got ramp checked in his first year, go figure.  What are the odds?  But I digress.  If there's a problem, things get checked pretty closely.  Illegal mods will be glaringly apparent.  Your lack of appropriate license will be glaringly apparent.  If no problems, then probably no getting caught.  In that case, we're back to the RV-8.  Or whatever cool plane you desire. 

 

Jim

 

 

From: Donald

Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:00 PM

To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.co m

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

 

I recall one of the European import LSA had to remove the wheel pants for the American market to slow them down to LSA restrictions. I thought that buying one and putting the pants back on would be a slick trick.
Also along those lines, Jabiru has lowered the "cont rpm rating" on one of their 3300 models just to make a LSA model engine. That engine is EXACTLY the same as the 3300 with the higher RPM cont rating except for the data plate.
I have considered putting a varible pitch prop on my Ercoupe to enhance performance. (All illegal of course)

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogr oups.com, "Bill C" <bczygan@...> wrote:
>
> If he wants to go faster, wouldn't one option to be to find an LSA that is slick enough that it's speed is limited by it's prop, and change the prop to maximize speed past the legal limit? So, which LSA has the fastest inherent airframe design?
>
> Bill
>
> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogr oups.com, Bob Comperini <bob@> wrote:
> >
> > On 08:54 AM 3/9/2010, 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?
> >
> > I didn't quite understand the question. By definition, an LSA can't have a Vh greater than that number. The 120Kts is a performance limit. There is no "speed limit" imposed on Sport PIlots. If your plane has a Vne higher than 120Kts, you are welcomed to go faster than 120 Kts (in a dive for example).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bob Comperini
> > e-mail: bob@
> > WWW: http://www.fly-ul.com
> >
>

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