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Wondering What Light Sport Can Do For You?
The ONLY dammage (other than the curly prop) was an antenna on the belly.
Heck, the pain wasn't even scratched! If I landed a 210 on its belly, I can guarantee you my pain will be more than scratched. But if it has a curly prop, chances are good it will need an engine teardown. Jose -- The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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Wondering What Light Sport Can Do For You?
"Jose" wrote in message . com... The ONLY dammage (other than the curly prop) was an antenna on the belly. Heck, the pain wasn't even scratched! If I landed a 210 on its belly, I can guarantee you my pain will be more than scratched. But if it has a curly prop, chances are good it will need an engine teardown. Jose Actually chances are not "good" it will need an engine teardown. The FAA has issued a circular to all IA's stating that "any prop strike, even one where the engine is not stopped but only suffers a loss of RPM" is likely to cause unseen internal damage and will require an inspection teardown to be returned to service. Using a dial indicator on the prop flange to check for runout is no longer considered sufficient inspection. I recently saw a Lycoming where the prop flange was as close to perfect as they get. No runout at all. However the crank was in two pieces. It had broken between the two rows of cylinders. The break was diagonal and the engine still ran and developed power. However, it did stop pretty quickly when you pulled the mixture out! Highflyer Highflight Aviation Services Pinckneyville Airport ( PJY ) |
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Wondering What Light Sport Can Do For You?
Da Monk wrote: ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sport_Aircraft/ Is that guy landing that thing "wheels up" on the grass or did he retract them that early in the takeoff? Retractable landing gear are not permitted on Light Sport Aircraft. Supposedly the FAA has approved at least one exemption for an amphiban and may extend that to all amphibians. Otherwise, someone needs to work on designs for retractable floats... -- FF |
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Wondering What Light Sport Can Do For You?
IIRC (Ron, back me up on this?) dual-position gear are permitted for
amphibian LSAs. You don't need a case-by-case exemption. wrote: Da Monk wrote: ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sport_Aircraft/ Is that guy landing that thing "wheels up" on the grass or did he retract them that early in the takeoff? Retractable landing gear are not permitted on Light Sport Aircraft. Supposedly the FAA has approved at least one exemption for an amphiban and may extend that to all amphibians. Otherwise, someone needs to work on designs for retractable floats... -- FF |
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Wondering What Light Sport Can Do For You?
CB wrote: IIRC (Ron, back me up on this?) dual-position gear are permitted for amphibian LSAs. You don't need a case-by-case exemption. wrote: Da Monk wrote: ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sport_Aircraft/ Is that guy landing that thing "wheels up" on the grass or did he retract them that early in the takeoff? Retractable landing gear are not permitted on Light Sport Aircraft. Supposedly the FAA has approved at least one exemption for an amphiban and may extend that to all amphibians. Otherwise, someone needs to work on designs for retractable floats... Another point of contention was the distinction between retractible and in-flight repositionable gear. -- FF |
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Wondering What Light Sport Can Do For You?
But in the wisdom of a government career employee, they
can't be changed in flight, makes it rather hard to take-off on the water with the wheels down so you can land on terra firma. "CB" wrote in message oups.com... | IIRC (Ron, back me up on this?) dual-position gear are permitted for | amphibian LSAs. You don't need a case-by-case exemption. | | wrote: | Da Monk wrote: | ... | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sport_Aircraft/ | | Is that guy landing that thing "wheels up" on the grass or did he | retract them that early in the takeoff? | | | Retractable landing gear are not permitted on Light Sport Aircraft. | | Supposedly the FAA has approved at least one exemption for | an amphiban and may extend that to all amphibians. | | Otherwise, someone needs to work on designs for retractable | floats... | | -- | | FF | |
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Wondering What Light Sport Can Do For You?
On 25 Jul 2006 13:33:46 -0700, "CB" wrote:
Retractable landing gear are not permitted on Light Sport Aircraft. Supposedly the FAA has approved at least one exemption for an amphiban and may extend that to all amphibians. Otherwise, someone needs to work on designs for retractable floats... IIRC (Ron, back me up on this?) dual-position gear are permitted for amphibian LSAs. You don't need a case-by-case exemption. As a couple of other folks have mentioned, the FAA approved *repositionable* gear, not retractable gear. If you took off in the float mode, you had to land in the float mode. This has ticked off a number of people, especially those selling the little amphibs. As another poster mentioned, the FAA recently approved the Czech Aircraft Works' "Mermaid" as an LSA even though it has the retractable gear. http://www.sportaircraftworks.com/exempition.html It's likely that the FAA is going to make this a general policy...if not, the other manufacturers are likely to quickly apply for the same kind of exemption. Ron Wanttaja |
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Wondering What Light Sport Can Do For You?
Ron Wanttaja wrote: On 25 Jul 2006 13:33:46 -0700, "CB" wrote: Retractable landing gear are not permitted on Light Sport Aircraft. Supposedly the FAA has approved at least one exemption for an amphiban and may extend that to all amphibians. Otherwise, someone needs to work on designs for retractable floats... IIRC (Ron, back me up on this?) dual-position gear are permitted for amphibian LSAs. You don't need a case-by-case exemption. As a couple of other folks have mentioned, the FAA approved *repositionable* gear, not retractable gear. If you took off in the float mode, you had to land in the float mode. I heard a couple of times at my local EAA chapter (maybe both times from the same person) that the FAA would allow gear that could be repositioned *once* in flight. I suppose that could be accomplished by designing gear that would automatically lock in either the up or down position but could only be unlocked from outside of th ecockpit. But one would be hard pressed to find a designer stupid enough to design such a thng, at least on purpose. This has ticked off a number of people, especially those selling the little amphibs. As well as anyone comtemplating taking off from water and then having to make an emergency landing on land, or vice versa. IIUC this came about as a result of trying to avoid 'complex' systems in LSA. Retractable landing gear were considered to be 'complex'. And so more pavement was added to the road to hell. -- FF |
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