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Well you clearly have much more experience than me.
I have flown only 1260 and 1220's and been satisfied.
So i will hold my horses until i have tried the 1450's as well.

akflyer

Well these are the floats that full lotus recommends for this plane as far as i know. And 100 hp on this setup seems perfect to me.
However i could do it your way if i wanted to, but i pre ...

I have 1260's and don't recognize any of these descriptions.
i use full throttle and at full load it takes 3 seconds of nose up before i push the stick forward and get on the step.
after that i neu ...

I think it supposed to squeek only when you stop the engine.
Mine is quiet when i turn the prop by hand.
If your carbs are unbalanced it could possibly squeek a little at low rpm but thats just a gu ...

The slipper clutch makes a squeeky noise when you stop the engine.
They are all like that.

it's just the sound of the clutch

Ok thanks for answering and forgive me for asking but
could you elaborate a bit more.

I have already built a setup for the main wheels that is strong and good.
But I am not quite sure if the rear ...

OK, but do you have any experience with this.
Have you seen them in use or used them yourself?

W

Dave

Can you explain a bit more or post a picture of how you do it.

Regards
W

Hello

Has anyone seen, or used, or heard of anyone using the full lotus tail wheels.
The ones that are mounted on the rear of each float.

If so, do you have any info to share, or best of all, s ...

Dave

What are you using instead of nicopress then?
Do you just tie a knot or do you have some other clamping device?

W

I think some of the rotax mechanics on the forum could answer this better.
But it is obvious that the longer the line is, the stiffer it must be.
The best thing is to keep it as short as possible wi ...

I think that if one would use a soft fuel line as a pulse line, the tube would collapse and produce less energy to the membranes of the fuel pump.
I suggest that great care is taken when installing a ...

I bought 2 new Lightspeed Zulu headsets.
And from the day they arrived about 4 months ago i have been mailing lightspeed to try to get them to fix them.
With no luck so far.
Really bad customer ser ...

He said that the kievprop made a lot of difference to the performance.
He used to have a different prop, I can't remember which, and this one was a lot better.
I have ordered one myself.

However, ...

He has a 582 with a C box with 3:1ratio
and a 3 blade kiev prop, pitched so that he gets 6800 rpm at climb-out.
And cruising at 6000 rpm.
We measured the whole setup and i made notes and drawings. ...

Thanks for that akflyer.

I took my rating in a IV 1200 582 on 1220 floats.
This plane had the standard kitfox rigging and got up on the step quite ok.
According to the owner he's able to operate ...

Hello fellow aviators

I am in the process of rigging full lotus floats 1260
to my Kitfox IV 1200 with a Rotax 912S.

Of course many questions arises during the process even though i have the man ...