Rotax engines- LSA's hope, or curse?
"Bob O'Rilley" wrote
You must be new in here, so I'll cut you a little slack.
No but I bet you would "set foot" inside an aircraft powered by a
Lycomming (broken crankshafts) or Continental (broken big end bolts)...
I have expressed my reservations about these engines in the past, also.
Statistically, the failures are relatively small.
These two engines have killed more pilots than Rotax or Jabiru.
Only because they have about a bazillion more engines flying! Golly, are
you that dense?
I find it amusing that some people just can't see the forest for the
trees. We had two pilots killed here in Australia in the past two weeks
both flying Lycommings, one failed after take off and the other on
approach to land. Investigations are continuing. Don't kid yourself, all
engines fail for a variety of reasons.
Yes, they do, and many times because of neglect, of one form or another. On
the other hand, the two LSA's that went down with their Rotax engines had
just been through the approval process, and have no doubt received much
attention and scruitiny. I certainly would not have expected a new
demonstrator to fail. But, where there are Rotax, .....
Now, if your anti-LSA, why don't you just say so.
In this use, I think you intended to use the spelling of "you're."
Once again, I will give you a break, but I am hardly anti GA.
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Jim in NC
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