With all due respect putting a new engine into an existing airframe is the job
for a professional aerospace engineer (Co) - for a light aircraft
(non-certified)
this might take 3-4 years and gobble up around 200k of funds. Success is
thereafter not guaranteed. At some point you will need to negotiate the
authorities.
My experience is the lower down the food chain the local authority is the more
finickity they are. Our LAA is now hobbled with a CAA A8-26 organisation
approval,
which they seem to interpret as needing to add an additional layer of
conservatism
(and possibly suspicion) to everything they deal with. They are all
sterling chaps, just doing a job, but the iterative process of making MOD/design
submissions to them can try the patience - especially for those of us who
deal direct with EASA, the CAA and other organisations who hold their own
DOA/POA
or hold Form 4 posts themselves.
The Europa is a brilliant aeroplane that performs fantastically well on a Rotax
912S. My advice is to bite the bullet (sign the cheque), buy the Rotax and get
into the air as soon as you can.
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John Wighton
Europa XS trigear G-IPOD
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