I did mis-spoke with my earlier post. As John Martindale points out, the CASA Jabiru restrictions are just a proposal at this point and also in contention (as John also mentions) is whether CASA even has the authority to restrict aircraft licensed in Australia's equivalent of the Experimental category.
I realize the vast majority of the Jabs (and Rotax's as well) go into the Tupperware planes and don't affect many of the KR fleet, however Colin is flying around the world with one, and Richard Shirley has the hottest KR ever built flying behind one, so it's a relevant subject for our group. It's a gorgeous engine to look at but over the years my impressions have been they always seems to have cooling problems and idiosyncracies of one kind or another. Colon obviously trusts his. Anyway, I'll leave this subject to others after this post. If anyone wants to get into great depth on the Jabiru situation please go to the link below. A number of highly knowledgable people, many if not most from down under, commenting on all of the issues and ramifications. If Juno breaks the link just take out the space and patch it back together. http://www.pprune.org/pacific-general-aviation-questions/551168-jabiru-en gine-failures.html I'm re-posting below one of the submissions on the pprune.org thread linked above which gives some data. Mike KSEE Reported data for 2014 year to date (January through October) Hours flown Jabiru 41,834 Rotax 71,626 All 131,227 Landings Jabiru 92,735 Rotax 145,638 All 260,383 Engine failures (full or partial) Jabiru 28 Rotax 16 All 51 That makes Jabiru 0.67 per thousand hours, Rotax 0.22 and others 0.39. Jabs way in front, if the stats are complete (which they may not be, based on track record). Even if they aren't, it's a wide margin. ____________________________________________________________ Odd Trick Fights Diabetes "Unique" Proven Method To Control Blood Sugar In 3 Weeks. Watch Video. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/547ae77212d11677129d7st01vuc
