DTA Feeling

Feeling
DTA Feeling at the Aerosport air show in 2013
Role Ultralight trike
National origin France
Manufacturer DTA sarl
Status In production (2013)
Unit cost
€24,967 (Feeling 582 Diva model, 2011)

The DTA Feeling is a French ultralight trike, designed and produced by DTA sarl of Montélimar. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.[1]

Design and development

The aircraft has a great deal of parts commonality with the DTA Evolution, but includes a cockpit fairing, windshield, panniers, and a standard instrumentation package. The Feeling was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 450 kg (992 lb). The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of 450 kg (992 lb). It features a cable-braced hang glider-style DTA Diva high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.[1]

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 9.40 m (30.8 ft) span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 engine, with the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912 or 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912S engines optional.[1]

With the Rotax 582 engine, the aircraft has an empty weight of 200 kg (441 lb) and a gross weight of 450 kg (992 lb), giving a useful load of 250 kg (551 lb). With full fuel of 75 litres (16 imp gal; 20 US gal) the payload is 196 kg (432 lb).[1]

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage as well as the Diva wing, including the DTA Dynamic, and the strut-braced DTA Magic.[1][2]

Specifications (Feeling 582 Diva)

Data from Bayerl[1]

General characteristics

Performance

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 210. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. ↑ "DTA - Tricycles - Feeling". Dta.fr. Retrieved 2013-06-05.

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