do a search on: difference ls4 ls4b and you wil find some answers.

Here are the one I found:
RFR wrote:

Automatic control hook-up
Instrument panel raises with the canopy

All I can think of now.

Regards,
Rod

My club is owning both, so I can speek from own experience. Beside the
aforementionned differences:

- canopy hinge is different, the LS4 has a quadrilateral linkage like the
LS1-f, the b model has a conventinonnal single pivot hinge much stronger
in wind;

- gear lever is different, the LS4 has a long lever lying in horizontal back
position when retracted, nearly at 45 degrees forward when extended. In this
position it is quite impossible to open the airbrakes, which may be considered
as a gear warning feature. On the b model the lever is shorter, moves from
horizontal back to horizontal forward when retracting (180 deg), and has no
interference with the airbrakes.

- on the LS4 the seatback is adjustable in flight, not in the b model.

- although the wheel brake is actuated on both models by pressing both rudder
pedals, on one of them you push only on the bottom of the pedals, on the other
on the whole thing, don't remember which way pertain to which model.

- Vb and VNE are higher on LS4-b.

- when flying the b model I am able to circle at lower speed than on the others,
but this may be due only to instrument error.

Regards

Diederik

"Waduino" wrote in message ...
We're getting totally buried in the old thread...

So, as a newbie I have a few questions...

There seems to be almost consensus (!!) that the LS4 is a great ship. Good
performance. Very kind behaviour for low time pilots. Is someone actually
producing new LS-4s? Where and what is the price? Is the price really just a
little less than a LS-8? How dependent are the costs on the Euro?

Why is it that the 4, and to some degree the 3a get rave reviews but I've
hardly heard anything about a LS-6, 8, etc. Are they not as "good" or are
they just a lot more expensive, since they are newer?

And for the really knowledgeable... assuming new 4s are being produced, what
other new ship compares most closely in terms of performance and
behaviour... and at what price?

I'll sit back and learn from the responses...

Wad