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Re: Need a Taylorcraft CFI (or at lease a tailwheel CFI)
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 8:28 pm
by drseti
Pity.
Re: Need a Taylorcraft CFI (or at lease a tailwheel CFI)
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:35 pm
by 3Dreaming
There are several of the Champ models that are too heavy. The current LSA offering by American Champion was evolved from a model that was too heavy. They changed the type certificate stating any serial number after a certain point has a max gross weight of 1320 pounds.
Re: Need a Taylorcraft CFI (or at lease a tailwheel CFI)
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:59 pm
by drseti
Hey, the 7AC Champ I started training in back in 1961 (a 1946 model, same as me!) was 800 pounds empty, 1220 max gross. Same useful load as the heaviest of today's SLSAs.
Re: Need a Taylorcraft CFI (or at lease a tailwheel CFI)
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 10:38 pm
by TimTaylor
7AC is LSA, 7FC is not.
Re: Need a Taylorcraft CFI (or at lease a tailwheel CFI)
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:11 am
by 3Dreaming
drseti wrote:Hey, the 7AC Champ I started training in back in 1961 (a 1946 model, same as me!) was 800 pounds empty, 1220 max gross. Same useful load as the heaviest of today's SLSAs.
There are several different models in the 7 series of airplane, all the way up to the Citabria 7ECA. The current Champ is a 7EC IIRC, and early versions had a gross weight to high to be LSA.