Mega-Major Congratulations, Roger !!! And all the sufferings of those building months are forgotten in a minute. Tell us more - how does she feel, what will you do next ? Sincerely, <Thomas> N81EU
I used one turnbuckle. I attached one side without turnbuckle so that the weight would point slightly to that side and then put a turnbuckle to the other side and tightened it so the weight would be
Is this Mod 52 mandatory ? Will we crash if we don't modify our planes ? Is there any merrit (max weight increase or the like) associated with the mod ? Sincerely, <Thomas N81EU>
I was wondering whether we could get an update on the planned Fly-Out to Prague in may this year. I'd like to join in, but being based in Germany wouldn't want to fly to GB to join up with everybody,
Thank God nothing happened to your aeroplane ! This type of incident has been waiting to happen. When you look at the load and the rpm the trailer wheels are subjected to it comes out that these are
It's a little quiet on the Europa News List. Allow me to take the opportunity and send you some transcripts of European Aviation Radio contacts...... enjoy ! <Thomas> LH741: Tower, give me a rough ti
Keith !! You went top bed before your layup had cured fully ???? And then you admit to sleeping in public ? Anyway, this is a good time to remedy the bubbles. You could go ahead and (1) heat up the a
The bubbles occured on the underside of the flap. That is an area which possibly would only be exposed to tensional forces. In that situation the bond to the underlying foam is of a lesser importance
Sorry to once more come up with this matter - I have a Mani-pressure gauge installed (with a fix-pitch Warp Drive prop), however, I cannot understand the function of the meter. How by all means does
While reworking my instrument panel I was planning to connect the headset(s) to a mobile phone through a throwover switch. To this end I purchased a "hands-free-set" for the phone to be used and cut
understand it is illegal in most countries to operate a mobile phone while in-flight. There are two possible reasons given: (1) it could affect onboard-systems (2) the phone reaches too many ground s
I'm planning to fly my Europa, N81EU, to Marocco, Africa over Eastern and would welcome any suggestions regarding friendly airfields and experiences with flying over France, Spain and Marocco (fligh
I second this opinion. The navaid device is a good addition to a Europa. Makes long legs easier or will allow you to go and search for items in the baggage department of your aeroplane whithout flipp
but then, why not go for the Navaid-Servo ? It is strong enuff to move the entire aileron and it reacts much faster than a spindle-motor motor affecting only a small tab. Don't get me wrong. I unders
Yep, I understand they serve different missions: The Trim Tab is really trimming out differences in weight distribution or in the building of the wings and is something that doesn't need to be moved
but only when your GPS has no CDI-output, isn't it ? Or is the Smart coupler doing anything else than translating NMEA183 into an analog voltage ? Sincerely, <Thomas, N81EU> PS: thanks for the url fo
You probably heard that for military reasons the GPS signal had been degraded for many years. Now I heard news stating that as of May 2, 2000 the SA (selective availability) has been switched off per
Another shock went through the Europa community. Any of our beloved planes could melt in front of our eyes - just because a spark formed. Here is a mail I received from Kim Prout many months ago - re
When I was flying my Trigear to Southern France over the weekend I had a failure of one brake: the brake line jumped off the elbow fitting on the port wheel. We fixed the leak but doing so we had los