Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Can anyone read German

First .... PLEASE TRIM!!!! This thread had grown to over 800+ lines!!!!

Now Bruce, Number one is that Turbines are specifically denied in LSA! So
suitability of operation is a moot point. They are NOT allowed!

Secondly if for the unlikely event that the FAA changed it's stance on this.
They still have a very poor fuel economy which negates a lot of the advantages
of it's lightweight and power to weight advantages....

John

On Saturday 25 December 2010 02:14:09 pm b d wrote:
> Abid,
>
> I appreciate your opinion and I can accept and respect that as your opinion
> however I also respectfully disagree.
>
> Out of curiousity, why do you say "turbine engines will not be very
> efficient on LSA"? I don't agree but I'd like to hear why you think that.
>
> My opinion:
> We have many examples today of successfull power technology that can be
> scaled up or down to fit any need. Gas Turbine is only one. We know that
> the weight to power ratio fits the aviation application. We have working
> examples of heat recovery and noise elimination that would be conducive to
> light aviation (for lack of a better term for GA and LSA and UL) and even
> heavy aviation. If we combined just the knowledge and technology we
> already have and scaled it to fit the application, I believe we can have a
> far more advanced power unit than we presently have and many varieties. We
> have few choices today and that shouldn't be the case.
> I can list what we have, or what I know we have. You may know of more.
> If we were then to take that list and scale each technology to the size,
> weight and power that we need for a given aircraft (1, 2, or 4 place
> aircraft) we would see that we far more choices than are available today.
>
> I won't go into all that right now but I would be happy to explore it with
> you if you would like. We can do it off line so as not to bore the people
> on the list. It can be an interesting exercise.
>
> The main thing is to not be negative about anything and to examine
> everything objectively.
>
> Be back shortly, have to get my grandson.
>
> Bruce
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM, apollonorthamerica <
>
>

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