Look up Champion Lancer
http://www.bellanca-championclub.com/ scroll down middle of
page

O-200, fixed gear and props, Vyse is down at 200 fpm







"Sylvain" wrote in message
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| Mxsmanic wrote:
| Don't you adjust props and deal with landing gear in
single-engine
| aircraft, too? Or do I need a multiengine certification
just to have
| retractable gear??
|
| depends. Basic trainers (single engine) have fixed
landing gear,
| fixed pitch props. It makes them cheaper and simpler for
initial
| training (there is enough already to worry about before
adding
| extra goodies); to add retractable gear / variable pitch
props
| you need a 'complex' endorsement; it is not a license or
certificate
| or rating; it consists in additional training from an
instructor (see
| 14 CFR 61.31(e) for details) who then endorses the
logbook, it's a
| one time thing. There are similar endorsements required
to fly
| 'high performance' aircraft (engine with more than 200hp),
| tailwheels aircraft and for some high altitude operations.
|
| Now a multi- can be complex or not (rare but it exists),
| high performance or not (note that it is not the sum of
the
| power of the engines that count, whether or not it has
any
| engine with more than 200hp -- i.e., you could have an
| aicraft with ten 200hp engines which would still not
qualify
| as 'high performance' :-) ), tailwheel or not,
pressurised
| or not, so do single engines. It is orthogonal if you
| like.
|
| --Sylvain