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Old 22nd Jan 2011, 18:43
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gasax
 
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Silvaire you are barking up the wrong tree.

The Rotax actully makes MORE power. Well to be precise more usuable power. Having run the same airframe with an O-200 and 912S this is definitely true.

At 100% the engines do indeed produce the same power. However apart from in a dive the O-200 cannot make the 2750rpm needed to produce 100hp. Of much more importance is the 75% figure - which from my Continental manual was 2475 - an rpm figure which again it could not make in level flight.

So the most it could manage was about 55% static and 70% in level flight - so 55hp to get off the ground and 70 odd in level fight.

In very, very, stark contrast the 912S can turn up to 85% in level flight - giving significantly higher speeds. Static it produces close to 70% - giving much better takeoff performance.

And whilst it is producing this extra performace it averages 4 lt/hr less consumption!!!!
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