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    Canards in turbulence

    What's the difference in flight from the typical light civil ? How much weather will they take, rain Ice Etc.

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    Your question is very vague since the handling characteristics are going to depend upon the specific configuration. If they aren't certified to fly into icing, then you have no business being there. To be quite honest, there really isn't a single engine light plane I would fly into anything beyond very mild icing. There's nothing we do in GA that is important enough to chance it instead of waiting for it to pass.
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    Tom - from what I understand turbulence isn't any more of a problem than in any other light aircraft.

    I seem to remember that the original airfoil design used for the canard on the Long EZ did have a problem with losing a lot of lift in the rain, the Roncz canard is supposed to fix that issue.

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    Tom, they have a few idiosycracies but then all airplanes do. So you just get the proper training and pay attention. I don't think it's something I would want for hard IFR flying and like any non-equipped airplane, structural icing is an emergency situation requiring immediate action.

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    Quote Originally Posted by martymayes View Post
    Tom, they have a few idiosycracies but then all airplanes do. So you just get the proper training and pay attention. I don't think it's something I would want for hard IFR flying and like any non-equipped airplane, structural icing is an emergency situation requiring immediate action.
    Some aircraft are more tolerant of a little ice, and allow you more time to get out of it, how would you rate the canards. Will a little light ice cause you to come out of the sky like a lawn dart? or will you have time to safely retreat?

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    Last edited by Tom Downey; 01-17-2012 at 04:45 PM.

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    Agreed - time to let it go.

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