From: BLBISBEE@aol.com
Message-ID: <0.c153aced.2548854b@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:41:47 EDT
Subject: Lightning  protection, speed brakes and larger fuel tanks on ES
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I was reading a pilot report on the Katana airplane and they mentioned it was 
not certified for IFR because it wasn't lightning certified.  I am soon to 
start the wings on my ES and I was wondering if this issue applied to our 
kind of airplanes. That is are we exempt from anything to do with lightning 
certification?  I know many of you have flown your planes IFR and I intend to 
as necessary.  Do static wicks help in this reguard? Has anyone looked into 
this? I know from experience on the big iron that lightning doesn't like 
fiberglass,( punches fairly large holes in radomes, but only puts pin sized 
holes in aluminum) ,and static discharges can occur far from convective wx.     

On another subject I am thinking about purchasing speedbrakes and would like 
to have the larger(90 gal) fuel system.  Is there any space or fitting 
problems with this configuration?     

Thanks  Bob Bisbee (BIZ)
ES
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