How does it mow down willow bushes?
Can it munch through snow when you are buried up to the cowling?
When you hit that unexpected ditch hundreds of miles from anything bend the hell out of the tips can you cut it off at the stripes and still get home?
Will i have to spray it with RAID to keep the spruce bark beatles away?
guess you will always have a hunk of firewood with you until your buddy delivers your no good 1a175
How does it mow down willow bushes?
Can it munch through snow when you are buried up to the cowling?
When you hit that unexpected ditch hundreds of miles from anything bend the hell out of the tips can you cut it off at the stripes and still get home?
Will i have to spray it with RAID to keep the spruce bark beatles away?
guess you will always have a hunk of firewood with you until your buddy delivers your no good 1a175
How does it mow down willow bushes?
Can it munch through snow when you are buried up to the cowling?
When you hit that unexpected ditch hundreds of miles from anything bend the hell out of the tips can you cut it off at the stripes and still get home?
Will i have to spray it with RAID to keep the spruce bark beatles away?
guess you will always have a hunk of firewood with you until your buddy delivers your no good 1a175
Just got an email response from Craig. No news, they're still waiting on the FAA. I asked him about an odd combination - a PA-18-95 first certified with a C90-12F, but later swapped to an O-200 via 337. He said even that scenario would be covered under his type certificate.
But it's still a sudden stoppage.Actually, these composite props cut down willows with enthusiasm, and suffer far less damage than an aluminum prop, due to the hard metal leading edge. Same for snow. That aluminum prop gets in much snow or especially water, and you'll be filing meat off it at the next annual, and eventually, it'll be out of spec and need to be replaced. The composite props with a metal LE don't suffer ANY damage from these causes. Eventually, you may have to have a new leading edge installed, but I've seen some of them that've been run through a LOT of gravel and looked pretty gnarly, and still working great. An aluminum prop used like that would be gone in short order from filing out dings.
As to a prop strike, it's one of those things where it all depends on just how hard the strike was. If it's a sorta mild strike, as you say, you MAY get away with sawing off the tips and flying an aluminum prop home, but you're buying a new prop when you get home in any case. So, you may save a few bucks in not having to have a spare prop flown out to you.....which is good.
But, take that prop strike just a little further, and that composite prop will probably save your engine. One of our airplanes got itself upside down (with the assistance of a crappy instructor on the brakes) on a sand bar, and that MT prop was destroyed....as in splinters. BUT, the crank on the engine dialed out perfect. I doubt that would have been the case if it'd had a metal prop.
So, it's kinda like the arguments about whether the PPonk gear mod is worth it....depends on how bad you screw up. Crankshafts are a WHOLE lot more expensive than a fixed pitch prop in any case.
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=skipster;594204]But it's still a sudden stoppage.
Those "smarter than us Russians" have built an olympic village where the happy tourists cannot flush TP down and feral dogs roam the streets, or street, don't know if they built more than one as I have only seen one on the news, but we should follow their lead on prop strikes?
Thanks Steve, that was a good one! I have started making David remove the tic-tacs from his pockets and fill them with rolls of quarters. Gonna try and convince him next week that the new Adkins all pizza diet will make him much healthier. Greg is fun to fly with too, it's a wonder that anyone gets in the back seat with me.
Next time I'm down I'd like you to fly 8RZ, the vibration isn't as pronounced with the 82/42, but it seems to exist in all rpm ranges, whereas with the cruise prop, it only existed in the 2100-2400 range.
Thanks Steve. Don't want to overpaint the picture, it's not horrible, surely able to keep my feet on the pedals. It just has a higher frequency and broader range of vibration than the cruise had. Everything I read said the longer prop was supposed to smooth things out. Probably need to ride with David again for comparison. We'll just send you up in it and run it through various power settings and see what you think.