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d-m-hague(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: Ultrastar weight, folding in wind

With everybody saying "an Ultrastar will make weight no problem" or "an 

Ultrastar with ANY additions will be fat", I finally weighed my US 

today.  Mine is pretty much stock, Cuyuna, no fairing, with the silver 

coats, Freebird brakes, basic instruments (ASI, Alt, compass, CHT, and 

EGT/Tach), handheld GPS and radio clipped on.  Came in at 277 

lbs.  Allowing for the 4 gallons of fuel in the tanks, that's 253 lbs, so I 

guess I'm legal!



Finally got my flying fix tonight after 3 weeks of windy weekends.  The 

limiting factor for me seems to be when it's too windy to fold or unfold 

the wings solo, the flying is no problem.  That space of time when the wing 

is resting on the support while I fiddle with the rear pin and the strut 

seems to be the danger zone.



				-Dana

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rowedenny(at)windstream.n
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject: Ultrastar weight, folding in wind

dana,

you can subtract the portable radio and gps frm the weight also.



denny

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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject: Ultrastar weight, folding in wind

At 09:30 PM 11/11/2007, Denny Rowe wrote:



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		  you can subtract the portable radio and gps frm the weight also.


	


I know, it'd probably save me all of one pound... though the FAA can be 

stuffy about anything that's "mounted" to an aircraft.  The nice thing is 

to know (within the accuracy of my scale, anyway) that it's reasonably 

close to the proper weight instead of 20 or 30 lbs into "fat" territory.



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