Trigear tires

[mccool]

Building a Legacy trigear, (unless I can find a standard gear mount before I get to the stage where I have to mount the gear).
I fly out of a grass strip so I'm going to use 500:5's on the mains. What have others done with the nose gear tire? Gone bigger as well, or kept the original size?

[GraemeSmith]

Don't know what others have done - but if lifting the mains and not doing anything on the nose - you are going to reduce the prop tip clearance. So you might want to consider that.

[mccool]

Good point, though the amount it would change, given the location of the nose wheel would be pretty minimal.

[BRS]

I'm curious. Can the trike get off the ground sooner than a conventional gear Sonex? Seems a trike would be able to rotate to a higher angle of attack while on ground roll than a tail wheel version.

Same thing with landing. I find the ground gets in the way of the tail wheel when trying to land slow.
Just something I noticed while flying last week.

[Bryan Cotton]

I'm curious. Can the trike get off the ground sooner than a conventional gear Sonex? Seems a trike would be able to rotate to a higher angle of attack while on ground roll than a tail wheel version.

Same thing with landing. I find the ground gets in the way of the tail wheel when trying to land slow.
Just something I noticed while flying last week.

It seems likely the trigear could have an advantage. On slow landings I stick the tailwheel first and then stall it onto the mains. Good video on the last YouTube link I posted in my Waiex 191 thread.