Paul, 1. Set the torque limit on the torque wrench in the normal way. 1. Use a fixed spanner on the prop bolt. 2. Use a transition piece for the torque wrench that goes into the other end of the span
Rowland, You did not cast doubt on my suggestion, you only wanted to be certain that you fully understood what you might be doing to your aircraft! Your looking at the set-up as one rigid unit explai
The Norwegian CAA will accept a foreign, recognized noise certificate for Europa as basis for issuing the mandatory noise certificate, instead of requiring a noise test to be performed. Do any of you
WARNING: Only for the keenly interested! Philip, I take it that the chart you refer to is unique for each torque wrench (or rather, wrench handle length), and that it gives adjusted torque setting as
Anyone know the ICAO designator (if any) for Europa? Or, what do you commonly use which is accepted when e.g. filing flight plans? Thanks in advance, Svein
Steve, One of the nice things about building our own aircraft is that we can introduce the small personal touches here and there: Instead of wing walk tape, which I fear will accumulate dust and dirt
Paul: Glad to be of help. All: If for some reason you should find the 90 degree orientation awkward for some application, where the spanner and wrench in straight line would be better, here's the equ
All, Late this morning I took my Europa XS trigear on its first flight from Kjeller airfield outside Oslo (ENKJ, known to some of the readers of this forum from visits with their Europas). I followed
Mike, Yes, with respect - assuming you refer to the "spanner and wrench in straight line" method: Conider the case when you set the torque for 25 in lbs: - Assume that the wrench is 10 in long (dista
Mike, Indeed - that is the difference! This thread started with a question on what to do if one could not get the wrench directly onto the bolt because of tight space. That was the concept I had in m
Bob, Interesting thought, but the wash-out is not the cause in my case. I am not familiar with the term "accellerated factory built wings". The kit I bought from the factory 5 years ago came with the
Graham, Appreciate your suggestion re. wing drop cure (may ask you for some more details if I go that route), but what about risk of introducing flutter in the aileron?? I would like to make some kin
All with trigear: I mentioned in my brief report on my first flight yesterday that I experienced shimmy in the nosewheel on touchdown, and assumed that I had loosened the castle nut on top too much.
Hi Terry, Best regards, Svein LN-SKJ Hi Svein, I think it may be a little soon to say you actually have a 'heavy wing', since (as I understand it) you haven't flown with two people of equal weight. E
Hi, Nev, Last time I checked, the price per ounce on the London market was USD 577.80. Balancing the scale for your weight would therefore be a heap worth USD 1,987,632. Yeah, I would say that's abou
Three days ago one of the black nylon brake tubes from the finger brake master cylinder to the parking brake valve popped off when lining up for take-off. I fixed it with a spare brass fitting with t
Has anyone used one of the Aux. inputs to Grand Rapids EIS 4000 for reading the coolant temperature by a probe into the coolant, with output 0-5 V? Would appreciate details with respect to type of pr
Simon, Appreciate this, but Skydrive's coolant temp reading sets are based on VDO sensor and they are all resistance type while the one available input channel to GRT EIS that I have left requires a