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Old 17th Jan 2011, 17:28
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Just to clarify....

1. Factory built Sportcruisers or Pipersports come under EASA and their consequential maintenance regime and are nothing to do with the LAA.
2. All Sportcruisers/ Pipersports, factory built or kits, have as standard equipment a ground adjustable fixed pitch prop.
3. A VP or CS either 2blade or 3blade prop is an optional extra and fitment is technically not an option to a EASA aircraft although I believe a couple may have slipped through the net as it were.
4. A POH is not 'factory supplied' for an LAA kit aircraft due to the many variations/options that are available and that can occur and can affect performance in a kit aircraft build.
5. The trouble regarding the performance figures shown in the factory built EASA POH handbooks which resulted in the temporary grounding by the CAA, of EASA factory built aircraft only,arose when Piper and CSA tried to 'amend' the original standard equipment Sportcruiser figures.
6.Onega Aviation were until the Piper fiasco the UK agent for factory built Sportcruisers and latterly a few, four I think, Pipersports.
7. Sprite Aviation are still, today, the only organisation that is approved by the LAA to supply Sportcruiser kits ( see LAA TADS for the Sportcruiser).
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