Re the standard broad tipped Warp drive prop blades , My understanding was that the "standard" warp drive prop for the 80hp 912ul was the narrow or tapered blades, the wide blades were for the 100hp
Alan. You are , in this instance wrong , the bar between the rear drag pins is designed to be in tension not compression. Frans is completely correct , Sometimes eyes are not enough. Tim
Hi Alan. A few comments, 1, wings that have been demonstrated to fly OK for many thousands of hours do not usualy fail in normal flight , it should only happen in extreme circumstances so forget abou
Hi. At the Europa club marquee today someone picked up the wrong bag of goodies. If you were there today and had some shopping in a white plastic bag could you check the contents and if it contains a
Ferg I've told you a million times not to exaggerate, A Zillion indeed. I bet you come from a time (like me) when if a program did not fit into a 2 k ram it was considered profligate. In fun :<) Tim
Hi Alan. So you can't do it on a current C172 ? ADF is so last century I doubt if any aircraft made this century has a VOR and ADF. BTW Airbus 319;s certainly do not have either a VOR or an ADF. I co
Hi Gerry. I bet you will find that his Ryanair bomber has a simulated ADF derived --From INS and GPS systems I doubt they have an ADF receiver fitted. Knowing Ryanair I bet they charge the crew to us
HI Fran. Having had a regulator failure recently I agree with your message though in my case the capacitor then failed within a few minutes and vented its internals past the windscreen. Just for info
I can confirm what Steve has said about the Schicke regulator. I purchased one last October directly from the manufacturer. I include a quote from an email from Schicke. my only comment would be that
Following on from the regulator item have a look at this on their web site http://www.silent-hektik.com/UL_912_1.htm My German is non existent so I may have got this all wrong. Tim
Hi David. One thing to bear in mind is that there are, as I understand it, several modes of failure of the Ducatti unit the most benign being that it just stops charging the battery and feeding the s
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I have an Arplast PV50 propeller that uses the standard manual control box and has now become faulty. Anyone who has now fitted the Smart control constant speed system to their PV50 will now possibly
And thats exactly what happened when my regulator failed, The only unanswered question is why do these failures happen when there is 70 miles of sea to cross. I have to thank the Europa club people w
Hi Graham. I think you may have put the decimal point in the wrong place. I appreciate what you are suggesting but 20 seconds ? I bet the real figure is much less than a second. Mind you how would yo
Hi Graham. We may be talking apples against pears here BUT if what you say is true then on takeoff I would be at 100' thinking about retracting the undercarriage before the ASI has moved from zero. I
Hi Graham. I agree with your comments about the availability of AOA indications, I have not looked in depth at this but my understanding is the systems available are both very expensive and difficult