No doubt that helps but there must still be a bump. I abandoned carpet in this area anyway as the edge is impossible to trap under the door rubbers. In fact it's almost impossible to trap anything un
I'm surprised at that, as the innards are only foam. I was envisaging a tube solidly embedded in it, without interrupting the glassing except at the entry and exit holes in the narrow sides where it
Having limited space nearby, I have been in the habit putting the aircraft on the trailer without the wings attached. Although I use dummy wing spars with stabilising wheels, these have to be removed
Or have there been two types of door rubbers supplied ? (surely not two fuselage wall thicknesses !). I couldn't get newspaper under mine until opening the slot ! Graham C.
There have been one or two messages and articles on Europa handling, but I have not seen anything much on ground handling. Those of us used to "standing on a brake" and pumping the power to turn an a
Well yes, I can understand that if the turn is in the direction where prop wash hits the fin, but would not expect it to work both ways. Taxied about in G-EMIN for the first time today. Very surprise
In the Europa the passengers are forward of the c.of g, (cog) while the fuel and the baggage are well aft, the numbers being -4, 16 and 28 respectively (from a nominal 60"). While any particular set
Hopefully not. Stage 1 has minimum instrumentation to get airborne and there is a big vacant space in front of me waiting to be filled at stage 2. Judging --From the diffculty there was in just pokin
Thanks for posting the Europa cg's. I see 6 out of 16 are over 60". It would be interestsing to have the auw. or aps moments as well for comparison.. My own aps.cg is 60.8" (dare I say "at the moment
You can do it all with the door on the bench as long as you measure accurately the span of the door when in the fuselage, then restrain it with strips clamped to the bench to keep the same curvature.
I wrote <10 lbs of instruments will move the cg back .. to 59.5"> Before anyone notices, there was an input error there. It's not that much. But the important point is that 10 lbs of instruments at 3
Yes I will, but some rear ballast has yet to come from computing power.. I researched an extra generator for the Rotax for this, but was only offered one giving 40a , weighing a ton, costing a bomb a
On 18.3 Roger (of Europa) supplied a list of APS c.of. g's for flying Europas. The new Europa Flyer carries a list of empty weights( Ron ?). Is either of these authors able to merge the two , prefera
There are numerous elaborations on this theme beyond Peter Kembers "rod in the slot" method, involving ratchets, plungers etc. but at the end of the day why not adopt the "lever in gate" principle us