Morgans wrote:
"rpellicciotti" wrote in message


Jim,
I appreciate your comments. Obviously, we think the airplane is a
winner or we would have bought a different one. Would you mind
expanding on your comment a bit?


See my post, and the other posts from other people. They all raise (or
most, anyway) some good points.

Actually, those points that have been raised are not so good, because
they don't jive well with what we're seeing out in the field with these
motors.

The Jabiru in particular is actually working out _very_ well locally,
which is a kind of nice surprise. We have a few of these flying in our
area and the results are actually very good. A friend of mine is using
one on his 2-place kolb and it may actually outlive the airframe itself
I think the motor is now at 400 hours or something in that region and
it continues to give the owner very low maintenance service.

I personally don't like the 3300 typical rpm and thus the teensy prop,
but I can't argue with the performance of that plane, even in climb.

The 912, well, its record is even longer and it's also known as a very
reliable and long-lasting motor (there's even a certificated version,
the 912S I think it is).

As far as the 6 thousand, I could live with that. The useful load is a
problem, but that is tolerable, too.

The continental and lycomings are good motors, but needlessly expensive
and heavy choices for light a/c with the 912 and now the Jabiru as
reliable options. That's why we're starting to see these motors used on
an increasing basis........

LS
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