Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: I need help

Except some LSA airplanes, most climb just fine at 1320 pounds. 650 to 700 FPM at gross is typical in DA of 3500 feet (which FL reaches regularly in summer).
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "vardonx" <catalina1783@...> wrote:
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> I never suggested exceeding limitations in my post ? The post I was responding to suggested that LSA's could not perform at the 1320 max weight limitation.
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> If you go by the POH for the J230 (which I have never flown), or the Remos GX (which I have), a max weight of 1320 is within limitations as long as it's loaded within the operating CG limitations as well.
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> I have personally flown the Remos @ 1250 lbs max and it doesn't have poor performance at all like the other poster suggested, and this is on a warm (80+) day. I disagree that adding another 70 lbs to load it to max (but still within POH specs) will take it from an 800 ft/sec climb to 0. This is why they publish A/C performance charts.
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> To suggest that *all* LSA's would barely climb at 1320 max is what I was refuting. That may be true for some models, but certainly not all models.
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> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, EDWARD BENSON <FastEddieB@> wrote:
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> > "...but I know from talking first hand with a J230 pilot that it will indeed fly at that weight."
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> > I hear arguments like this all the time.
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> > Weight limitations are typically predicated on structural limitations, NOT performance limitations.
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> > Yes, many light sport planes will perform fine even when overloaded - right up until the wings deform or a strut fails due to overloading.
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> > At 1,321 lbs most LSA's will probably fly just fine. The key word is "probably", and the pilot of such a plane has placed him or herself in the position of test pilot, more than likely without test pilot pay.
> >
> > The Most Conservative Action is to always operate within an aircraft's limitations. Its also what professional pilots do.
> >
> >
> > Fast Eddie
> > Sky Arrow 600 E-LSA - N467SA
> >
>




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