Thread: Flight Design CT Pilot Handbook United States Version

Flight Design CT manual for the United States version of the CTsw.

Hi Guys,

Rotax has two very good maint. manuals online that can be download and printed. Go to the Rotax home page. Select the Kodiak website for the distributor. Then select tech info on the bottom left. This will open to different engine manuals. Go down and you will see "Line Maint. Manual" and "Heavy Maint. Manual". You can open and save or print these. It is well worth the printing to keep these in a 3 ring binder at your hanger. Lots of good info on how to and pictures.

P.S.

I tried to download these for you, but I think the file size was too big.

Hi Roger H.,

I too had the wrong manual. I got mine sent e-mail to me by Jonathan Carter of FD USA. He knows the one online is out of date, but hasn't posted the new one. He said he was a little behind. I do think both FD in Europe and the US could be more up to date and monitor all their internet communications.
I printed all three manuals and have them in a 3 ring binder in the hanger. It sure is nice to have the reference material.

Hi Roger H
I think it needs to be mentioned that these are the US manuals as Australia and other countries have a different POH due to the better performance figures that are allowed.

Thanks for the tip Ian but did you have to bring up the fact that yours perform better then ours!!!! (and just exactly how to you get from 6 to 12)

Roger H

Roger, I will let you in on a secret that we do down here to get from -6 to -12, what we do is we get a big rope and tie one end of it on to the Flap Selector, loop it over the top of the aircraft and tie the other end on to Ayres Rock - that does it, it forces that little flap selector up to -12 degrees with no problems

Actually, I organised the head guy of VOZ (you will know what that is if you are into Flight Sim) to go up for a ride in a CT the other day and his comment was: To feel the plane accelerate with -12 flap is something to behold

Just as a matter of interest.... cruising with Flaps 0º with 5100 RPM/24.5" MP/approx 20 ltrs/hr fuel flow gives me 113 kts indicated... pull the flaps up to -12º and almost instantaneously I see 120 - 122 kts indicated - it's that quick. This invariably comes out at 130 kts TAS.
With a little more fuel in the gut (21.5 ltr/hr) we see an easy 126+ kts indicated = 135 kts TAS approx. Makes C182 drivers eyes glaze over!
Please remember we have an electric constant speed unit on the Neuform prop.

Originally Posted by Waggles

[...] cruising with Flaps 0º with 5100 RPM/24.5" MP/approx 20 ltrs/hr fuel flow gives me 113 kts indicated... [...]

In my manual, at section 7.3.7 "Wings Flaps" it's a warning about "an individual maximum airspeed defined for each flap setting". I've considered that this speed is defined in section 2.1 "maximum flap extended [!?] speed", which is 184km/h / 100kts IAS for flaps 0 degrees. Am I wrong if I assumed that above 184 km/h / 100 kts IAS the flap setting MUST be below 0 degrees [-6 or -12]?

Alec

Originally Posted by gisurvey

In my manual, at section 7.3.7 "Wings Flaps" it's a warning about "an individual maximum airspeed defined for each flap setting". I've considered that this speed is defined in section 2.1 "maximum flap extended [!?] speed", which is 184km/h / 100kts IAS for flaps 0 degrees. Am I wrong if I assumed that above 184 km/h / 100 kts IAS the flap setting MUST be below 0 degrees [-6 or -12]?

Alec

You are correct at speeds above 100kts you must have -6 or -12 flaps. This is to reduce the loading on the trailing edge of the flaps. Tom

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