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cdewey6969(at)yahoo.com
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:39 am Post subject: Grass Landing Strip- Distance Required?

Hi all,

    Do you any pros out there know how many feet are

required for a grass landing strip for a Lightning

(not LSA)? I have a friend who has a 600' strip that

has almost no obstruction on one side, and am trying

to figure out if safe landings and take-offs can be

made there.   Charles

--- Daniel DW <ddw55(at)hotmail.com> wrote:



[quote] 

 <ddw55(at)hotmail.com>

 

 Pete,

 

 you are right, not in Europe ...

 I thought that a certificate was required in the USA

 under "14 CFR Part 36 

 Appendix G"???

 If this is not required in the USA it is unlikely

 that I will find a similar 

 configuration somewhere else.

 

 Thanks for your reply and have a great weekend.

 

 Daniel

 

 

 >From: "Pete" <pete(at)flylightning.net>

 >Reply-To: lightning-list(at)matronics.com

 >To: <lightning-list(at)matronics.com>

 >Subject: RE: Noise certificate

 >Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:02:44 -0500

 >

 >

 <pete(at)flylightning.net>

 >

 >Daniel,

 >

 >I don't know of another Esqual with that prop

 flying in Europe.  There are 

 >a

 >few in the USA but no certificate is required.

 >

 >Pete

 >

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flying(at)qdea.com
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:09 am Post subject: Grass Landing Strip- Distance Required?

I have a Titan Tornado II which stalls clean at 40 mph. With flaps 

the stall speed is about 35 mph.



I wouldn't consider attempting to land on an arbitrary grass runway 

shorter than 1000 feet, except for very special circumstances.



The Lightning stalls faster and has less drag.



The Lightning folks have said that although they would bring a 

Lightning into the sun and fun grass strip (which is about 1400' 

long), they would only do it with no passenger and lightly loaded.



I'll bet they'll tell you that anything shorter than 1500' is 

probably not safe.



Hugh Sontag



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Hi all,

     Do you any pros out there know how many feet are

required for a grass landing strip for a Lightning

(not LSA)? I have a friend who has a 600' strip that

has almost no obstruction on one side, and am trying

to figure out if safe landings and take-offs can be

made there.   Charles



--- Daniel DW <ddw55(at)hotmail.com> wrote:

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pete(at)flylightning.net
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: Grass Landing Strip- Distance Required?

I used to fly my Titan II / Jabiru 2200 into and out of a friend's 800 ft

strip all the time.  No problems.  The Titan will stall a bit slower than

the Lightning but does not land any slower because if you try to slow the

Titan to land close to stall speed it is in a nose high attitude where the

tail wheel will hit the ground when the mains are still a foot or more in

the air causing the aircraft to slam down on the mains as soon as the tail

hits.  Touchdown speeds are actually about the same between the two

aircraft.



I would not advocate flying into a 600 ft strip, though, although it

probably could be done.  Piloting skills would have to be top notch and any

little misjudgment would result in running off the end of the runway.



Pete



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