I received an (unsolicited) issue of AOPA Pilot, where they have an article about Jabiru J230. It says: "Flight operations are not permitted above 104 degrees F." But it hits 110F in places where I live or lived every summer (in Tracy, CA, it was 117F one day). I understand that density altitude is very unfavourable anyway, but still... 104F seems a bit low. Is that an issue?
Jabiru and the 104F limit
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You may want to browse this online copy of the J230 Pilot Operating Handbook:
http://www.jabiru.net.au/Manuals/Pilot Operating Handbooks/JP-FM-09_J230-D_POH_Rev2.pdf
Page 54 has the environmental restrictions - 38 degrees Celsius. I make that to be 100.4 Fahrenheit, not 104. I guess if you can climb to cooler air before the wings fold up you'll be OK.
But as Henning notes, Australia has a lot of desert and that is where a bunch of them are flown, and that's fair dinkum (I hope I got that bit of Strine correct.)
Intriguing planes - I've pondered building a J230 or J430 from their kits (don't need LSA as such) as a way to get most of the capabilities of a newer glass panel C-172, but at the price of an LSA. One of these days I'll need to fly one to see what I think of their control layout - a bit different than what I've trained in.
http://www.jabiru.net.au/Manuals/Pilot Operating Handbooks/JP-FM-09_J230-D_POH_Rev2.pdf
Page 54 has the environmental restrictions - 38 degrees Celsius. I make that to be 100.4 Fahrenheit, not 104. I guess if you can climb to cooler air before the wings fold up you'll be OK.
But as Henning notes, Australia has a lot of desert and that is where a bunch of them are flown, and that's fair dinkum (I hope I got that bit of Strine correct.)
Intriguing planes - I've pondered building a J230 or J430 from their kits (don't need LSA as such) as a way to get most of the capabilities of a newer glass panel C-172, but at the price of an LSA. One of these days I'll need to fly one to see what I think of their control layout - a bit different than what I've trained in.
I've had a Kitplanes subscription for a few years and have read that series of articles. For anyone else interested, they were written by Bob Fritz and titled "To Launch a Light Sport." There were ten articles starting from the September 2008 issue to July 2009.Cap'n Jack said:
Kitplanes also had a flight review article of the SLSA J230 by Marc Cook in the January 2010 issue.
If Jabiru has corrected some of the problems Bob Fritz ran into (as suggested by Cook's later article,) then a new builder might be less likely to get burned with a more recent kit.
