Hi Dan, One thought comes to mind; The phenolic blocks at the front end of the stick torque tubes can get cocked to an odd angle, caused by tightening the four phenolic block fasteners (bolts or nuts
Hi Dave, I am shocked to hear some moron would question your choice to install a safety feature like the Skydrive carb heat. Providing carb heat via the engine coolant is superior to the more common
I'm afraid I will have to disagree here on one point. It is only necessary to get the carb temperature above 0 deg C to melt the ice. I find it hard to believe a standard XS with 912S installation (w
No one has said anything about the XS cowl. I would bet that is where the most improvement in drag reduction could be made. Besides having rather poor cooling characteristics, I believe it has rather
Hi Dave, I have long believed that moving the chin back to just in front of the radiators could help improve cooling on the ground, placing the opening behind a more outboard section of the prop (mor
Hi Dave, I am surprised Chris actually increased the gill openings. We found them very harmful to engine cooling (in flight) and closed them off (three of the four). The air from the two round inlets
Hi, We try to regularly switch to the reserve side for several minutes in order to verify that the reserve still 'works'. We do this of course at altitude in a safe part of the flight, in case the re
It would take several minutes to flush 'main' side fuel out of the system before being able to verify the reserve side is indeed good, with the coolant heating up in the meantime due to poor ground c
Hi Paul, We have one in N135TD which works just fine. They do tend to stick a little when the engine is not running. The compass mechanism has a finite amount of drag which takes a little engine vibr
Hi Patrick, We had problems with vibration in that rpm range that had us stumped for a while. It turned out to be a mis-match in the prop blade incidences on our Airmaster prop. As I recall, one blad
Hi, We have a mono-wheel XS with 912S and Skydrive carb heaters. We initially left the carb heat on all the time, but found it can cause hot starting problems if left on prior to shutdown. We then in
We flew over 100 hours with a Whirlwind 2-blade prop which looked much 'heftier' than the Warp Drive/Airmaster props. We later-on converted over to the Airmaster prop with Warp Drive blades. We were
Hi Steve, Regarding the fine pitch stop, it needs to be adjusted until you can get about 5700 rpm full throttle, with the airplane tied down (we put a rope around the tail wheel axle spacers and park
We had a similar problem during our build. After staring at the geometry for a long while, we came to the conclusion that the height of the servo on the bulkhead contributes to size of the ratio betw
Hi, We have a mono-wheel XS with 912S and have had the Skydrive carb heat since first flight, 5 years and 450 hours ago. At first we had the carb heat on all the time, but after a year or so installe
Hi Duncan, We did not have carb ice very often, and as I recall, the carb temp was always just a few degrees above 0 degC. I am not an expert in this area, but I believe you are referring to air temp
Hi Steve, I believe what you are seeing is what I have been calling print-thru, not heat/expansion related. Print-thru happens on foam cored surfaces that have something glassed to its back, like the
Hi Steve, A picture IS worth a thousand words, this does not look like ours. Our 'print-thru' areas are exact replications of the glass bonded to the other (inside) side of the skin. Yours seems more
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. Even with two people of almost the sam
We mounted a 25 Amp hour battery under the starboard side baggage bay access panel, and used 4 gauge wire up under the door sill and through the firewall, using the Europa optional wiring kit. We hav