Return-Path: Received: from mail.viclink.com ([66.129.220.6] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1) with ESMTP id 2513916 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 23:45:54 -0400 Received: from viclink.com (p110.AS1.viclink.com [66.129.192.110]) by mail.viclink.com (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id h773jnf67409 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 20:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F31CB18.7090702@viclink.com> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:44:24 -0700 From: Perry Mick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Legal Gross Weight References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030217) (mail.viclink.com) Ed Anderson wrote: >Message >Rusty, FWIW I agree in general with the comments about "legal" gross >weight. My RV's design gross weight is designated by Van as 1650 lbs. >however, the tail plate and my aircraft airworthiness paperwork has its >"legal" gross weight as 1800 lbs. That way when I'm loaded to 1651 lbs. on >the way to Sun & Fun, I am legal. The way insurance companies are now a >days, I don't want to give them any technicality to hang there "no payment >of claim" on. Also, I make it a point not to land at gross weight {:>). > >Ed Anderson > > > > I did the same thing, set gross at 1800 because all the other LEZ guys do it (this is much higher than Rutan's original GW). But with my power level 1600 is really the limit I feel comfortable with. -- Perry Mick Custom Composite Props mick@bridgingworlds.com http://www.ductedfan.com