> Mark Steitle wrote:

Paul,
Another rotary gets axed by the insurance co's. What's going on...

anybody? Are we going

 to be forced to form our own insurance co-op just for rotary

installations?

MS

Lets check with Ed Anderson. Ed? Has avemco canceled your insurance?

Paul Lamar

No, at least not yet, Paul

   Talked with them a year ago and made certain they knew I was flying an
auto engine conversion.  They indicated then that they were taking losses on
Subaru power aircraft.  Their  problem was  - no definitive answer as to
what the problem was causing the engines to quit.  The company's
representative told me that they suspected that high heat was temporarily
disabling the ignition system, but did not know for certain.  As a result
they told me that except for one line of Subaru conversions, they were not
insuring auto conversions.

I then pressed them about my insurance and they basically said that  since
they had insured me in the first place with my auto conversion revealed they
would continue to do so.  I suspect that they had not had any clients with a
downed aircraft flying a rotary.  Also, Van, the man himself has been
reported to say that if any auto engine looked like an alternative to the
Lycoming it was the rotary.  I think that viewpoint was based on the work
Everett Hatch had done with the rotary up near Van base of operations.

Ed Anderson

 
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