Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Covering

Hello
If you are building an EXAB to fly as A Light Sport its worthwhile begging borrowing or buying a copy of the specs
Continuous cruise Stall ect are at sea level on a "standard" day If it cruises at 180 @ 8500its the pilot is simply flying out of spec
The plane specced below just needs its gross listed at 1320 and everything else seem ok At that it still has a great useful load provided it doesnt get fat
Peter
--- On Sat, 5/21/11, UltraJohn <japrice@mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: UltraJohn <japrice@mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Covering
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 8:49 AM
> Most KR-2's are capable of flying
> considerably faster than LSA but the spec is
> for speed at max continuous power and the VW is generally,
> no matter it's max
> power, a 40 to 45 hp engine and limited by CHT for
> continuous power. Actual
> speed for most these days ('cause they're built heavy) is
> more like 140 to 145
> mph and the real limit is stall speed.
> John
>
> On Friday 20 May 2011 10:17:22 am you wrote:
> >  In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com,
> "Richard Williams" <rkwill@...> wrote:
> > > Bob,
> > >
> > > Maybe I missed it, but I do not remember seeing
> anything that states >the
> > > airplane meets the requirements of LSA.
> > >
> > > R. Williams
> >
> > Apparently depending on what engine it's built with,
> etc, it MIGHT fall
> >  within LSA specs. Here's one I found that looks
> to be LSA except being
> >  overweight on gross weight (A bit puzzling that
> its gross weight is so
> >  much higher than empty weight):
> >
> > Horsepower: 150 hp
> > Fuel Capacity: 30 gal 114 L
> > Range: 500 nm 926 km 575 mi
> > Cruise: 110 kts 204 kmh 127 mph
> > Stall: 29 kts 54 kmh 33 mph
> > Takeoff Distance: 500 ft 152 m
> > Landing Distance: 400 ft 122 m
> > Gross Weight: 1,550 lbs 703 kg
> > Empty Weight: 700 lbs 318 kg
> > Useful Load: 850 lbs 386 kg
> > Wingspan: 32 ft 9.75 m
> >
> >
> > By the way:
> > IANAL, but am reasonably sure of the following
> reality:
> >
> > If you are the builder of an experimental and do the
> 40 hours of
> >  certification it is you who certifies the stall
> speed, weight, maximum
> >  cruise speed (VNE doesn't count re LSA specs),
> etc, and those numbers come
> >  in within LSA specifications it then as far as
> the FAA is concerned IS an
> >  LSA. That is, perhaps the aircraft actually
> COULD safely cruise at 160MPH
> >  if you crank the engine up to maximum rated
> power per the engine's factory
> >  spec, but if you specify, say, maximum cruise as
> 120mph (which is within
> >  LSA and sport pilot limits), and you specify
> it's MTOW as under the LSA
> >  limit that's what it IS officially.
> >
> > For example, I heard from credible sources of KR-2
> experimentals out there
> >  that actually can cruise well over the LSA limit
> that are certified as
> >  ELSAs but that sort of approach by the
> builder/certifier.
> >
> > -------------
> >
> > As someone suggested if you consider the aircraft to
> be "parts" and that
> >  you're building and experimental under a
> different model name and are
> >  willing to take it through the whole FAA
> experimental certification
> >  process that might be a way to do it.
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
>
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