Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: I need help

pwr,

A detail that needs to be remembered is that LSA limitation is 1320 MTOW.

So naturally, any LSA is not going to have a 'official' MTOW that is higher.

One of the side effects of overloading is the rating for the +/- max G force
goes down.

R. Williams



---------- Original Message -----------
From: "pwrsport@ix.netcom.com" <pwrsport@ix.netcom.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:12:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: I need help

> I was just thinking, if a manufacture could demonstrate g loads that
> exceed the numbers you show, could then result in having their sport
> plane with gross weigh over 1320. Could be your plane did exceed
> those numbers? Say you load up your plane to 1400 and still meet the
> requirement? You now have marketing advantage over others. There are
> planes out there that can handle over 1320. Having a plane with higher
> published g loads is good, but does not necessarily translate into
> useful condition for the consumer. I suspect if that could happen,
> then the race would be on.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: apollonorthamerica
> Sent: Apr 26, 2012 9:06 AM
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: I need help
>
> Ed
> I am not sure what you mean.
> All ASTM compliant LSA airplanes have to meet the design criteria and
> they have to show &#43;4G and -2G at gross weight as allowed max load
> (working) and ultimate being with a multiple of 1.5 (&#43;6, -3).
> These loads are to be sustained for certain number of seconds only as
> these are not aerobatic airplanes.
>
> There are various ways of showing this via static load tests or
> dynamic testing. Abid
>
> That’s correct. I would like to see (but will never happen) the
> LSA criteria for gross weight be established on a standard G load, say
> 2 and 4 which would allow a 1320 gross. If a manufactures aircraft has
> a G load capacity exceeding that then the gross weight could be higher
> until a force of 2 and 4 is reached. Not sure what is going on out
> there right now with manufactures, but some aircraft have low G load
> ratings, could some of those still list a 1320 max weight just to fit
> in the field of all other light sport craft?
>
> Ed
>
>
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