"BD5ER" wrote in message
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I'm just wondering if these manufacturers know something we don't about
the
final rule or on the other hand, are they building airplanes to a rule
that
they don't understand?

Maybe after watching all the "fat" ultralights fly around vertually
unmolested
they think they can bend the new rules as well?

I'd almost bet that Rotax will introduce a derated 912, somewhere around
75-80
Hp, and call it something like a 912LS just for the new LSA's. And one
wonders
how long before the owners discover that it's probably pretty easy and
inexpensive to convert them back to "normal" 912's.

"course that wouldn't be legal, at least not any more than 350lb
103's.........

It doesn't matter what the HP is rated at. In the last version we saw, the
new rule only cared how fast it would go, level at WOT.
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---Jim in NC---