REFLECTOR: Catto prop for 260hp and up.

[Scott Derrick]

I flew my StdRG with a Catto for 350 hours and loved it.  Because of the
high altitude of my home airport, Density was 8500 yesterday on a cool day
in spring, I'm doing an engine upgrade to a 520 from an IO360.

I have my "new" Catto for the 520 hanging on the wall.  76x105

While I love the ease of operation of a CS Prop, I also love the
simplicity and ruggedness of the Catto fixed pitch prop.

I think somebody said that "You had to have a CS", I don't know....

Scott

> Thanks Brett for removing the CS from the subject line. I did know that
> they
> were fixed pitch props, I guess I had CS props on my mind since I had just
> e-mailed Catto asking if they were going to produce a CS prop for our
> Velocities in the future. I agree with you assessment of trying one and
> being able to change to a CS latter. Like you were saying, I'm not ready
> to
> fly yet either, just looking at my options and wanted some feedback on
> anyone flying one of the Catto new style fixed pitch props.
>
> Andy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brett Ferrell" <bferrell at 123mail.net>
> To: <reflector at tvbf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:38 PM
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Catto prop for 260hp and up.
>
>
>> Andy,
>>
>> The catto props aren't CS, they're fixed pitch (so I've removed CS from
>> the
>> thread title).  I've got one, but won't be flying until later in the
>> year
>> (hopefully).  There are some flying examples, though, and all of the
>> reports I
>> got before buying mine were very favorable.  I can't remember now who
>> all
>> has
>> them on XLs (Dave Dent?), but locally Bill Stockman has one on his 4
>> cylinder
>> Standard and seems very happy, as does Jack Morrison on his e-racer.
>> Craig
>> does nice work, and all of his props are custom-designed for the
>> aircraft,
>> and
>> he predicts slightly better top end and acceptable take-off distance for
>> my
>> aircraft, based on my engine's dyno testing.  We'll see, but I'm
>> hopeful.
>> They're so (relatively) affordable, I figure even if I go CS later,
>> it'll
>> be a
>> great spare should I need to send an MT to Germany later or something.
>>
>> Brett
>>
>> Quoting Andrew Ellzey <ajlz72756 at yahoo.com>:
>>
>>> Is anyone on the reflector using the New design (2005) Catto Velocity
>>> pusher
>>> prop that is being shown on the Catto web site? If so, can we get a
>>> report.
>>>
>>> www.cattoprops.com/html/velocity_xl_props.html
>>>
>>> Andy
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