Light Sport Aircraft survey

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:42:06 GMT, ls wrote:


I have to disagree with your assessment of the Rotax 2-strokes here,
it's just not informed. I've owned 6 of them over the years (just now
got #7 delivered a few weeks ago), 5 503's and a 2 447's. I have
hundreds of hours in front of/underneath Rotax 2-strokes at this point
(500 hours as a rough guess) so I've gotten to know some of their
strengths and weaknesses.


Have you had any engine failures?

Ron Wanttaja

I've had one engine out, with my second 447 on my trike several years
ago due to a bad wiring harness job (by me). This allowed the tach lead
to make contact with ground in flight, shutting the motor down (tach
lead to ground shuts off the 447). Once fixed, the motor went back into
service and flew about another 50 hours until it was sold (new owner
still flies the motor).

I've never had a mechanical failure of any type in any of the Rotaxen
I've flown........ Even the old non-provision points motor I had on my
first plane on which I never checked the points...........


LS
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