- 21. Re: aircraft destroyed (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:54:17
- I found 2 sites with excellent explanations and advice concerning fueling fires: www.chevron.com/prodserv/bulletin/product%5Fsafety.html www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/prevention/flammable_static.html Chevr
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-05/msg00116.html (8,741 bytes)
- 22. Re: Static Safety (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 23:30:51
- Steve -- Might not work always. On a newly painted and/or freshly-waxed, ya gets only water beads. Sounds dubious anyway, as static also arrives in the fuel itself, if running through a nonconductive
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-05/msg00124.html (7,428 bytes)
- 23. Re: Stiff Choke Cable on 914 (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:38:15
- Hi, all -- How stiff is the choke cable pair on the Rotax 914 (912, I guess too) supposed to be? I just installed them, and I can't close the chokes easily at all. It's not the cables. Although they'
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-05/msg00156.html (7,435 bytes)
- 24. Re: Landing gear mounting frame alignment (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:52:06
- William McClellan wrote (in part): to know how finally aligning the engine comes into play. The installation procedure for the Rotax engine has you verifying the cant of the engine to the right by 1.
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-05/msg00174.html (8,146 bytes)
- 25. Re: Home made antenna's (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:44:12
- Yes it is. If it is unbalanced, only a fraction of the signal makes it way to the RF input (law of reciprocity, they call it). Jim Weir of RST Engineering is a proponent of the beads and says yes. Bo
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00005.html (8,789 bytes)
- 26. Re: Static discharge (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 12:00:41
- Hi, Paul -- I would guess that the type of IMC conditions that would charge the airframe up enough to disable avionics would be of the heavy-duty variety. I have experienced failure, in an aluminum A
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00007.html (9,315 bytes)
- 27. Re: Static discharge (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 18:15:31
- Steve -- Night/VFR only? Oh....I get it. Ya' live in Texas; plastic airplane -- low radar cross-section; and I'll bet you have little access doors to all the lightening holes in the blue foam. But be
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00010.html (7,466 bytes)
- 28. Re: The Certified Europa - or not as is the case (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:00:16
- Interesting how adding a few inches around the middle makes a noticeable difference....just like people. I like that folding wing option...wonder what's in my box of spare parts and stuff to accompli
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00018.html (7,873 bytes)
- 29. Re: Plastic Brake Lines (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:27:23
- Has anyone else had such a failure? I am a bit suspicious of these plastic lines for my tri-gear. Is this black, nylon-like stuff used on the monowheel? Besides the integrity of the connection, I've
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00057.html (8,021 bytes)
- 30. Re: Plastic Brake Lines (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:06:06
- Larry, Hal -- Thanx for your input, especially as it based upon actual experience. It sure sounds like plastic is just fine for wing spars, but not brake lines <g>! However, I do want to use aluminum
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00061.html (9,186 bytes)
- 31. Re: AW: Plastic Brake Lines (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:00:06
- Thomas Scherer wrote (in part) -- I agree generally with your conclusions (have AA-5 with free-castering nosewheel), but I was thinking as long as I haven't installed the lines yet, is there a better
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00069.html (7,773 bytes)
- 32. Re: Forward cockpit module footwell flange (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:29:56
- Hi, Steve -- The rudder pedal "floor" needs to level, fore/aft and, especially, left/right. So, you need only one measurement -- at a corner of the rudder pedal floor. On mine, the height from the ho
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00110.html (7,746 bytes)
- 33. Re: Cockpit Module (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:05:53
- Heather & Jim -- Yeah, I found that strange, too. But it gets cut off. Minimum gaps in the bonding process means less Redux ($155.00/qt., I hear, if you run out) and less weight. Regards, Fred Fillin
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00120.html (7,762 bytes)
- 34. Re: From the land of SAN (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:40:20
- Welcome to the club, Nic -- Don't publicize that San Diego weather stuff! Everybody and their in-laws will want to live in San Diego, followed by more sprawl, traffic, and outrageous real estate pric
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00128.html (8,956 bytes)
- 35. Re: Color Moving Map and Multi-Function Display (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:47:03
- Hi, all -- Check out www.controlvision.com. They have Windoze CE software for (virtually) all hand-held and panel GPS, using any of the new color pocket PC's. Ya' gets moving map and a bunch of other
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00132.html (7,593 bytes)
- 36. Re: Rudder pedals (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:49:01
- Hi, William -- For the crosstubes, it looks like you can go forward about an 1" - 1-1/4". Beyond that, there's interference with the cooling duct (presuming Rotax 91X engine). Note also I have the ol
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00133.html (9,687 bytes)
- 37. Re: Rudder pedals (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:35:12
- "Temperfoam," aka "Astronaut's Couch" stuff may be good also. It compresses slowly when weight is applied. Instantaneously, like pounding with a fist, it gives much less. The mfr's missive that comes
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00141.html (7,468 bytes)
- 38. Re: Pre-skin Floxing (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:56:07
- I can make three points: -- I've experimented with bonding together pieces of cured and sanded fiberglass with the laminating resin (Aeropoxy), Redux, and a structural adhesive called Epolite. Very e
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-06/msg00160.html (8,588 bytes)
- 39. Re: Fuel Tank Grounds (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:11:16
- You need three things to ignite gasoline vapor. (1) Air (i.e., oxygen), (2) proper air/fuel vapor ratio, and (3) a spark. The spark needed for ignition isn't much, less than 1 milliJoule in the right
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-07/msg00015.html (9,710 bytes)
- 40. Re: Tufnol Blocks (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Fillinger <fillinger@ameritech.net>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:16:33
- Hi, Tony -- Re the sloppy bearing, sounds like a bad part. Europa here in the States, at least, will gladly replace it. I put grease fittings in the aileron torque tube Tufnols in the cockpit module.
- /europa_forum//html/europa-list/2000-07/msg00032.html (8,467 bytes)
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