Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Designers: Where are the LSA Aerobatic Planes?

Just sitting here at the Reno Air Races and they have 4 SLSA's on display. They have
Cessna's s/n 8, Sonnex, and 2 I'd not heard of before. One is a CarbonCub they have
outfitted with lots of stuff and balloon tires. They wanted 140k for that one. They
have this one ready for SLSA, Kit-ELSA, and ExAB. The same plane when built as ExAB
*can* be placarded at about 1900GW, or at 1320 =)
The other plane I saw was a fresh outta the crate Piper SLSA that was brought in from
the Czech Republic. The Piper is running the Rotax 912.

I also saw the predator with a Rotax 914 and it had a turbo added. They claim 107hp
and I figure the turbo is so they can have most of that at 30k'.

The racing has been great, several MayDay's, but every plane landed and all can be
rebuilt to fly again. No injuries!

There have been several new things, the Marines brought in the Osprey from the east
coast. They still seem quite hesitant flying that, it took forever for the pilot to
land it.

Today after the Snowbirds performed, they treated us to running the race course for a
lap. They even did a little passing and horsing around. The crowd was going nuts, but
the announcer said the biggest smiles were on the faces of the Snowbird pilots. They
had been looking forward to that for quite a while. It is rare for the military to do
laps, but it happens from time to time. The 9 Snowbirds were the largest group to do
it as far as I can remember. Most of the time it is one or two jets showing off their
afterburners, not the pro demo teams.

Strega is the plane to beat, Voodoo overheated today, Rare Bear has been foaming the
oil, and Miss America is ready to win when those 3 blow up tomorrow!

Bill Watson
bill@sportpilot.info

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From: "mdhansen3000" <maddog52@aol.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:46:07 -0000
Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Designers: Where are the LSA Aerobatic
Planes?

> There are no reguations or ASTM standards prohibiting aerobatics in an SLSA.
> The manufacturer sets the operating limitations for the aircraft and they can
> say aerobatics are allowed. +4 and -2 Gs is the minimum required per the
> standards, nothing says they can't build it stronger. Some already build to
> twice that figure. Besides, I can spin, loop, aileron roll, barrell roll,
> Cuban eight and cloverleaf all day long and never exceed +3 and -1 G.
>
> In fact, there is nothing that I can find prohibiting a sport pilot or anyone
> acting as a sport pilot from performing aerobatics.
>
> You're right Helen, FK Light Planes will introduce an SLSA version of its FK
> 12 Comet biplane this autum. It will come equipped standard with a Rotax
> 912ULS prohibiting it from inverted flight. But when equipped with one of the
> two available optional engines, the "No Aerobatic Maneuvers" limitation will
> be removed. It's going to be a blast!!
>
> Mitch
> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "wj18001900" <swferris@...> wrote:
> >
> > From EAA - Oshkosh 365 Forum
> > _ _ _ _ _
> >
> > Joanne Palmer wrote:
> >
> >
> > I think the rules for LSA preclude aerobatics.
> > _ _ _ _ _
> >
> > Looks that way. I scanned through the ASTM standard, and only a single value for
load limits is given. Didn't see any sections on aerobatics.
> >
> > If the operating limitations for the SLSA includes a prohibition on aerobatics,
the FAA may well include it in the limitations if you decide to put the plane in
Experimental LSA category.
> >
> > Ron Wanttaja
> >
>
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