Great, Carl! Congratulations! I envy you for that. Now you can visit any fly-in, no matter what the weather is like ;-) Roland (still limited to day-VFR with the Europa, although in the process for t
Hi Jeroen, I have my Trigear stored in an enclosed Trailer from Anschau. It's about 2,5 m wide and 8,5 m long and I suppose it's about the "worst case". Regards Roland PH-ZTI XS TG 914 Read this topi
Hi Tony, I'm afraid you're too late - I've bought my Europa back in 2011 in Perranporth ;-) Best of luck! Regards Roland PH-ZTI (was G-BZTI) XS TG 914 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matro
It's the Europa of Bruno Reith, the german Europa representative who unfortunately died in 2015. It's (contrary to the Ad and AFAIK) completely an XS Kit, not a Classic and is/was nicely finished fro
Hi Will, if only the upper door frame gets in contact with the roof/fuselage and leaving the plane for a couple of days for settling doesn't work, you can just file the upper door frame a little. A f
Hi Carl, what will be the the decision hight during ILS-approaches? Any specific limitations in the LAA-Permit? Regards Roland PH-ZTI XS TG 914 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.co
Good morning Bob, thanks for the explanation and the interesting link. I'm currently in the process of obtaining the EASA EIR. My Europa is dutch registered and thus limited to day VFR for the time b
Folks, it's time to make some planning and register for the important dates to come... http://www.texelflyin.nl/ I hope to meet many of you on the Texel-island in August at the most friendly airfield
Hello Rick, I'm sorry to hear about your accident and also wish you a speedy recovery from your injuries. I find it frightening, that the occupants get trapped in the cockpit when the Europa flips ov
In this context I ask myself the question of what use if any is an emergency hammer, which I have in the baggage compartment. From the picture I'd suppose, that there is sufficient space between the
That's very interesting, Pete - thanks for that information. I didn't want to test it on my Europa-door after I once managed to close it in flight with great efforts a couple of years ago. This optio
And another question pops up: Why is it, that the fuel is flooding the Cockpit in an inverted Europa? The breather vents on top of the fuselage and the only open end of the fuel filler hose/filler ne
Friends, this https://stephancassel.wixsite.com/samso will be fun! I hope to meet some of you there! Roland PH-ZTI XS TG 914 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=4
Hi Martin, here comes my story: Damn thing wouldn't start, not even with lots of swearing. Removed one spark plug and I could smell fuel. Warmed the ignition boxes with a hairdryer for 3 minutes and
Dear Europapilots, who's going to join the Le Touquet fly out? https://www.theeuropaclub.org/events/le-touquet-france I hope to meet many of you! Regards Roland PH-ZTI XS TG 914 Read this topic onlin
Hi Ivor, I won't make it 09:30, so it would be good to meet somewhere later in the town or at the beach or so. I've also contacted David Joyce/Europa Club as well to put me on the participant list. M
Hi Folks, anyone in for the Experimental Days Belgium next weekend? Come on, we have to increase the Europa presence a bit against the Van's ;-) I'm there from Friday evening until Sunday morning - c
That's interesting. Especially how this larger radiator improves the cooling (issues). I went through a lot of tinkering in the first years of ownership of my XS-914-installation and finally found a
FWIW I have a Trigear with original Europa wheel pants and I don't have this overheating problem even in very high temperatures >30C and long taxi distances. However I don't have a parking brake inst
I agree with Mike, that it should be difficult to say the least to store a Trigear in a car garage on ist Trailer, especially an enclosed one. My Trigear lives in an enclosed trailer from Anschau and