Mark Smith wrote:
wrote:

Mark Smith wrote:

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Hand proping is also done but as a last resort when the battery
is
dead.
They do start easily when hand propped, but it takes a healthy
pull
on a
blade, then staying out of the way.

Some pushers with tails make getting away from the prop a
physical
excercise too.


Thanks, and thnaks to the rest who responded as well.

Supposedly with the adoption of the Light Sport Aircraft regs the
FAA
will soon begin stricter enforcement of the FAR 103 weight limits.


where are they going to get the hundreds of new inspectors to do this
effort,


'Fat' ultralights will have to get an airworthiness certificate
as Experimental Light Sport Aircraft, or be converted to lawn
ornaments.

actually, homebuilt is still available for us, no lawn ornaments.
that
statement was made by an FnAA employee who got canned from the sprot
pile it program, she is no longer around,

I heard it from an EAA guy who recently gave us a very informative
talk on the new LSA regs. He said that 'lawn ornament' was becoming
popular jargon at the FAA.

Don't non-FAR 103 compliant homebuilts require an airworthiness
certificate? (That is what I wrote.) Won't homebuilts now be
Experimental Light Sport Aircraft?, Is that the part I got wrong?

What if the 'homebuilt' was a factory built 'Fat' ultralight?

I heard it from an EAA guy who recently gave us a very informative
talk on the new LSA regs.


So I was thinking about how to get as large an engine
as possible, like maybe a Zenoah G-50 on something like a Sadler
Vampire while keeping it under 254 lbs.

A 'sneaky' way to get a few more lbs might be to install the
lightest BRS possible and then take the maximum weight allowance
for a BRS.

... getting the smallest one may be false safety as it may be too
small for the gross, depending on the pile it weight

E.g. lightest possible should be read lightest that is adequate for
gross weight. Was your spell checker that substituted 'pile it'
for a typoed 'pilot'? Actually a propos considering the context....

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FF