I'm not a customer of Powersport or a current builder of a rotary installation.  I have

been a daily reader of this net for 6

months.  I was continually puzzled by the lack of discussion regarding the Powersport

product, but given the obvious hostility,

I now understand. The only reason I am/was  interested in a rotary powerplant was the

existance of a firewall forward package

like Powersport's. I am an engineer and recognize the tremendous amount of work that must

go into every component of a firewall

forward package.  I put myself through college as a mechanic and have no fear of things

mechanical.  I'm under the cowl of my 6A

every weekend. Perhaps I am gutless and don't have the gene, but I don't see anything

wrong with letting someone, for $30,000 or

more,  put in the time to produce a package that has been wrung out.  I want the

advantages of a flying behind a rotary, not the

R&D the experience of building one.   I am often shocked at the lack of knowledge in what

I read here (in addition to the very

creative, well thought out, state of the art work). But, I do fear that rotaries won't

catch on because of fatal amateur efforts

giving them a bad name.   Tedd, I would be very interested any sort of a similar forum for

your product or a way to keep

updated.

[ No signature. ]

We had an extensive discussion on here when one Power Sport installation failed during
one of the initial flights resulting in a crash. Must have been just before you joined.
To be fair about it the exhaust that failed was not made by Power Sport but if I were Power
Sport management I would have made a concerted effort to inspect the installation before
I signed off on the first flight. Assuming of course they know what to look for. I know
for a fact that the Velocity company does exactly that. The failure was such that
many on here with experience could have predicted the failure. The owner
of the airplane would be well advised to have been on here and submitted
pictures of his installation for our collective review as the installation
progressed. Unfortunately that was not the case. I have, at my own
expense, run ads in the classified section of EAA Sport Aviation magazine
every other month advertising this free internet news letter for the past five years.
Obviously Power Sport did not advise their readers of this free service as
we never heard from anyone installing a Power Sport firewall forward
package.

Each type of airplane is a unique installation so there are many possibilities
for design failure.

I notice Eggenfellner is focusing on RV's so that decreases the possibility
of a design flaw. I would say Power Sport set out with an almost impossible
task accommodating all types of aircraft. IMHO The only possibility for
success is to work with this type of forum. Thank God for the internet.

Paul Lamar

I would like to see Powersport succeed, and I agree that a lot of re-invention
of the wheel occurs with every "amateur" installation. A FF package would be
a benefit.

But I disagree with [No signature] about amateur efforts giving the rotary
a bad name. Just in the last couple years we've seen 4 or 5 RVs at east coast
fly-ins with rotaries, more than any other auto conversion. And the safety
record of us "amateurs" is very good so far too. It is made much safer by
the existance of this forum to share problems/solutions. If [No signature]
is shocked by the lack of knowledge here he should pipe up more often and
correct us or educate us.

Perry

 
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