Clark, I'm curious of a couple of things.
Are there now 3 RG kits?
- The standard one that is carbon on the outside skins, but the main spars and inside components are eglass (spar caps are still carbon)
- The carbon upgraded one for 9K - were you get what in carbon? I'm going to assume the parts that are to be bonded in during the build. this would include the center console? The load pads? the rear tunnel? I'm also going to assume that the rear seatbacks, and bulkheads (firewall, etc) are still eglass?
- Then the version that is *all* carbon, this includes all the spars, ribs, bulkheads, etc plus the items above and they usually do the "reno wrap" on this one (an extra wrap from the rear windows to the tail of 1 or 2 bids), and last I heard, it's *way* more than 9K work of upgrade costs and probably a significant lead time.
As an aside, you can get milled carbon, but I suspect it's wickedly expensive and I have no idea if it's as structural as flox. If you are doing for weight reduction for as much flox as you'll use, I doubt it's significant.
Just curious.
Alan
I will soon be starting my all carbon Legacy RG kit. After spending an extra $9k to have all the components made in carbon fiber (the standard Legacy RG kit has a material amount of e-glass), I started wondering if there was a carbon fiber equivalent for the traditional flox (milled cotton). There is a not insignificant amount of heavy flox in our aircraft.
Has anyone used a carbon fiber flox and have any comments, or know of any suppliers?
Regards,
Clark Baker
LNC2 360, 775hrs