In defence of the UK LAA, they have a legal responsibility for all aircraft granted UK permits to fly.
The LAA represents the interests of UK fliers in many ways including fighting an endless battle over loss of airspace, EU rules harmonization. Whilst not perfect, the LAA largely run by unpaid volunteers does a great job. If an aircraft crashes in UK, it always crashes close to somewhere, so attracts a lot of media attention - leading to all sorts of negative publicity for the LAA, this undermines all the good work. The LAA engineering dept consists of 4 blokes who look after all aspects of design build and maintenance of 2000+ planes so time spent looking at one design proposal affecting a single project has to be balanced again the time needed by all the other work. For example an A/D for an RV6 could affect a hundred or so planes. So you can see its not so simple for the LAA to spend several days evaluating a single use mod. The LAA engineering dept is funded by member subscriptions and permit fees, so the cost of their work has to be born by all members of the Association, so I hope you see why the engineer says NO unless he gets a well researched and documented proposal. Pete -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Patrick and Robin Russo <patru...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: Change the paragraph below to DOWNWARD FORCES FROM REPEATED HARD LANDINGS AND YOU HAVE IT. The fellow who wrote that paragraph below hit it right on. I could put a 400 pound/275HP chevy up front of my KR and the final analysis is I may not have an aircraft rated at more than 1.5-3 "G"'s at most.....wether it's flying, landing or taking off. Also, the persons or organization that said they would not allow a Jabiru because "it is too powerful" has the obligation to demonstrate or prove that it is indeed so. It is an absurd statement without the math and back-up data to educate us. It is a "weight issue, not a power issue" > ----- Original Message ----- > > It's the downward force of a hard landing that might separate the engine > > and > firewall from the fuselage, not just pulling it through the air. That's > why > it's more a weight issue than a power issue. Just improving the load path > from the mount to the outer edges of the firewall (near the longerons) > goes > a long way to strengthening that setup. > _____________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
