Hi all! I'm interested in buying a Europa XS Trigear. I have the opportunity to keep it at home. Since the factory advertises it as no problem, rigging the aircraft within 5 Minutes and drive home wi
Thanks a lot for telling your experiences, that make me quite optimistic that my plan will work out in real life. Since I will buy a used aircraft, I won't have any influence on on the building proce
The information I got from the German aviation authority (LBA) is, that it's legal to operate an experimental in Germany on a foreign register as long as it's an "ECAC-country" (to which Great Britai
Rotax extended TBO for the 912 series to 2000 h and 15 years. More than 30.000 built by now. No need to say more. But I have to add, that I cannot say anything against the Jabiru. Read this topic onl
Hi John, you can receive information of TBO-extension on http://www.franz-aircraft.de/Rotax/Franz-e.htm (they have also English pages). In my opinion the comparison between the Ford and Rotax doesn't
Herve, on afors.com is a very nice one: http://www.afors.com/index.php?page=adview&adid=18196 Good luck! Roland Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=329340#329340
Hi all, I bought a trailer which I have to adapt for the Trigear (XS, Airmaster-prop). The trailer-company asked me for the hight of the cabin/door-top (no Hightop-version) and the outer width of the
Pete, of course your rapid answer in metric figures helps-thank you! - also for the useful hint about the variability. The trailer was originally built for a Fascination with a (retractable) U/C-widt
Svein, thanks for those (interesting) ideas of fixing the aircraft. I also have a covered trailer (Anschau), on which the plane is winched up the other way around. The previous owner attached two bol
Pete, thanks again for your help! My homebase will be Essen-Mlheim/Germany (EDLE). Roland G-BZTI Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=329871#329871
Richard, thanks for your generous offer to borrow me your trailer! I hope to have my trailer adapted within a few weeks. Of great interest for me is the hoist point for winching up the plane. Thank y
Svein, comprehensible reasons for choosing the main-undercarriage. I will suggest the trailer-company to check this variant, although they also use some kind of clamps. Since the G-BZTI doesn't have
Interesting and useful discussion in fact. Karl, I'm also interested in a photo of the eye bolts you've mounted behind the U/C-legs (as possible from the in- and outside). My fellow Europa friends, t
Jrgen, I agree with Graham. You have to go to a Rotax specialist. If you are located in West Germany I can recommend Cycloon Holland in Venlo. They know a lot about Rotax. Good luck! Roland [quote="g
Hi all, I have now my Anschau-trailer converted for the Trigear. Everything fits very nice and since the wings are stored on movable trolleys, I can slide the wings out the (closed) trailer by about
Hi all, recently I received the CM where I found an article about possible failure of the wing spar sockets on Europas. It was mentioned by the author, that the last thing to be done is to push in th
Hi there and thanks for your replies. So my understanding is, that there are no concerns about following the manual ("inserting the main wing pins about 1....."). @ Pete: in fact that was what I (mis
Hi all, yesterday something embarrassing (and dangerous) happened to me. After departure (already in 5000 ft) I noticed that the door on the copilot-side was not locked on the rear side (I almost hea
Gerry, Bruno and Raimo, thanks for your thoughts and solutions (and photos of course). The first thing I did was a special mark on my checklist. I think this won't happen again after that horrible ex
Barry, I left a message in your private box. Raimo, check if you need to calibrate your ASI :-) Roland Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=365793#365793