Dodged the thermals and puffy white clouds to zip over to Casino with some other home field flyers for a cup of tea! Then zipped back out off 28 with a 7kt xwind and 1600fpm climb out under the puffy
Has anyone recorded the weight of their wings and stabilators whilst derigged? I need to engineer some cradles and wanting to know how lite the design and materials can be whittled down to... Thanks
Awesome pics of your season final!! Thanks... CAD up completed and sent off this morning for laser cutting. New instrument panel plate where the AV-30's will do their thing... Read this topic online
Completed the CAD model of the instrument panel this morning at sunrise after yesterday's tuning session; lots of walking between the cockpit and laptop with a ruler pencil paper and scissors then co
Clever idea above for extra panel space; one of the reasons 181 is getting a couple of AV-30's... Crap flying conditions this week, so lots more time at the screen... Finishing off the interior for t
Very exciting and intense sessions at the design table all week... finished off modelling the instrument panel and interior cabin environment; adding takeoffs for fixings and control lever slots... t
No flight data available on a 915 in a europa; this is all work undertaken in a 3D modelling environment... a limitless sandpit. W&B is just that. More weight up front means more required in the rear
Agree; there are better options available offering more power with less mass up front. Some fun for a change today, getting creative adding a few hundred grams of rigidity with an upgrade to the cock
Meet Lars... he is a software analyst from Hlstebro and will soon be certified to operate the undercarriage lever on his own and receive a retract rated endorsement! Lars has only recently taken up f
Brian the Edge Performance engines are worth looking at if forward mass is a concern... the Gen4 6cyl Jabiru is said to finally be showing reliability but i would still choose Edge over Jabiru Read t
Agree with Pete regarding accumulated hours v's reliability; only time in the sky will definitively answer that one. What about UL Power? Has anybody user feedback on these? They seem like everything
Peter its not a hard task to decompress an engine for forced induction. It can be done by changing the piston crown height with another set of pistons or fitting decompression plates between either t
That's so true; Joe Dougnuts is always ready to screw up a well balanced set of carbi's... Lost count of how many times customers would come back with their SU and Stromberg setups complaining the en
More flight time in the digital tube... door frames are finally done and installed; starting to look like a finished aircraft... Doors should be a fairly fast process now with all the root surfaces h
No, something better. Decided to bypass this situation all together and produce a better tailored 3D printed solution. All three stick diameter sizes to suit. Read this topic online here: http://foru
This week instead of driving three hours through crap traffic, 181 got hauled out and taken into the sky to do the journey in just 75 minutes; without traffic or idiot drivers to deal with. The journ
Hi Ron, The FART is smelling Oxygen.. whether its CO1 or CO2 is irrelevant to me; i just want the FART to tell me how much Oxygen it is smelling; if the FART says 14.5 then i know its a happy FART. A
A very productive week now... finished off the doors on the 3D model; perfect glass and perfect panel gaps in the perfect computer world.. gave the interior some more detail. Some cleanup tasks, a fe