On 5/17/2011 7:28 PM, Jim wrote:
really? i found a pdf of the flight and maintenance manual online as
well as the faa type certificate and didn't see anything about a life
limit. there are no AD's against the IS-29 that I can find in the FAA
database.

Thanks for the comments, do you have a link to the online manuals?

I owned an IS-28 years ago when the life limit issue became a big deal
but don’t remember anything being said about the 29.

Has anybody that’s flown one want to comment on flying qualities?

Thanks,
Jim

If you haven't already searched for such, I seem to remember at least one RAS
thread involving some 1st-hand feedback about IS-29 flying traits,
specifically a quirk involving the all-flying tail (which my Zuni also exhibited).

As with all 'flying qualities related' input, it's up to the savvy reader to
put it into some sensible context. Example: 'Over the years' I'd heard/read
about IS-28's being 'abrupt stallers' and 'eager spinners.' When I eventually
got some time in one, I didn't find either ship-trait to be abbie-normal or
alarming or worrisome. This particular one communicated (in the usual
manners), long before serious wing flow separation occurred, that Joe Pilot
was asking it to fly near the slower end/higher AOA portion of its flight
envelope. But then I've found the 2-32's I've asked to do the same to be good
communicators, beforehand, too. Never spun an IS-28, though both 2-32's I'd
experience with *required* properly-sequenced, positive, anti-spin control
inputs in order to break their spins...definitely not the case (say) for any
1-26s I spun.

Regards,
Bob W.