RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Rule Question

Alex,
 
Thanks for the reply.  I used to work wirth Brian and live about 30 miles from his home aitport.  I will have to stop by there and see the airplane.  I have read some about it and it's quite a project. 
 
The reason for this inquiry is I am looking at a future project involving a Custer Channel wing aircraft using a Titan, or similar, fuselage as a start and single engine driving two props, one in each channel.  Just blue sky at this point.

Vince Homer
(760) 375-4554
(626) 497-8735 (C)

 

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To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
From: acensor@fastmail.fm
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:32:34 +0000
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Rule Question

 

Hi Vince,

See ---
http://www.electricmotorglider.com/index.html
-- where it reads
"FAA regulations do not require a pilot to possess a multiengine rating when flying a single place [mulitengine] experimental aircraft. A multiengine rating would be required for the carriage of passengers."

In short, you could fly a two propeller single engine two propeller experimental single seat aircraft with a sport pilot license as long as it complied with the rest of the LSA definition.

By the way, that link is a very interesting site about a two prop electric powered motor glider being developed currently by Brian Carpenter.

Alex

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> From: Vince <vhhomer@...>
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:35 PM
> Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Rule Question
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>
> The LSA requirements state, "single engine and fixed pitch or ground adjustable propeller." Does the use of the singular term, "propeller," limit a builder to only one?
>
> Does anyone have an opinion, or better yet, an official ruling on the use of one engine and two propellers either in the contra-rotating or or separate configuration like the Wright Brothers Flyer?
>

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