NPPL (M) Information Please?

[Mickey Kaye]

Pretty well every C150 and C152 flight is overweight and they have less performance than a C42 to start with.

Also remember that alot of so called UK microlights are actually certified to higher weights abroard.

[BEagle]

Which makes them safe, if unlawful.

Hence an internationally agreed 600 kg limit for such aircraft would be no bad thing if and only if the associated pilot licensing remained out of the hands of the meddling €urocrats trying to strangle sub-ICAO flying with their pointless red tape.

[Rod1]

Very few advantages to a micro over a VLA. A VLA MCR01 / P300 etc will cruse at 130kn+, burn 16lph Mogas and you can typically lift 50kg more weight. You can add toys like CS props and full glass, but you are restricted to day VFR just like a micro.

Rod1

[batninth]

My two penneth on the wind issue - 15kt is the C42 crosswind limit, although it can cope with a little more.

In the Pilot flight test (December 2004) it says that the book limit then was 15kt at 90 degrees to the runway, but the instructor at the school where it was being tested claimed to have landed at 26kt with full flap before the control limits ran out. He also claimed not to have found a limit at 1st stage flaps!

Confession time, it wasn't the crosswind limit that made me elect to learn in a C42, it was one of the few microlights for training on when I started that had a heater in it.