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Old 20th Sep 2011, 09:47
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Originally Posted by A and C
A slip of the keyboard I should have said LSA rather than ultralight, but it still fails to get away from the fact that this class of aircraft are very limited in terms of payload and getting more limited by the day as the manufactures find that they are under built for day to day service and so have to beef up parts of the airframe increasing the weight as they do so.
Neither LSA nor ultralight exist in Britain.

However it's certainly true that most aeroplanes under 600kg MTOW, regardless of legal classification, are pretty short of useable payload.

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