Hi Greg, We have been flying over 7 years, but only about one year since installing the mixture control. My partner, Dave DeFord did most of the testing, so he knows the specifics better than I do. A
Hi Remi, It is quite possible that I got the front and rear mixtures mixed up. I will check my notes when I get home tonight to see if this is the case. The point I was trying to make was that; 1) th
Hi Frank, There is the story of a white Europa with a dark blue stripe down the centerline of the fuselage. On a hot day in Phoenix the heat on the stripe warped the fuselage sides. A Europa builder
Europa may indeed just be a mini-U2. Check out the video on landings, been there, done that. regards, Terry Seaver A135/N135TD, long wing, MONO-wheel XS http://tailspinstales.blogspot.com/2009/02/tam
Hi Fred, I am happy with the long wings in most respects, we get almost 26:1 glide ratio and decent minimum sink. The handling is pleasantly light compared to the Katana Extreme MG I trained in. We a
Hi Ron, We installed a Borgelt vario with a TE probe about a year ago, near the top of the fin. When building the plane (7-8 years ago) we left some PVC pipe installed in the fin to act as conduit fo
We chose a 25 Amp hr battery with the assumption that we would eventually build long wings for our Europa (which we eventually did) and that we would need plenty of battery capacity to run various av
We spent nearly a year looking into and fixing our cooling problems. We installed temperature probes throughout the engine compartment and performed data logging on those temps, as well as engine par
Hi Mike, Our cooling problem was temps reaching 450 deg F in the lower engine cowl, near the exhaust. The heat melted tie wraps into drops of nylon, took the temper out of the springs holding the exh
Hi Mike, I forgot to mention that we also have the Singleton firewall, although we have since gone back to the standard stainless firewall in the lower half. This allows easier inspection of the moto
Mike, We have not seen similar problems on 914 installations, which are different from the 912S. The key to look for are the spark plug wire marker bands. On ours, the ones on the lower plugs quickly
Hi Ron, We also used American fittings to allow the use of stainless braided brake lines from Summit Racing. We used an American standards pipe thread tap to clean out the threads on the master and s
Hi, For those of you who have the Airmaster prop: I went flying yesterday for the first time in 6 weeks. During the run-up, I normally check for ignition drop at 4000 rpm, then place the prop in 'man
Hi Ira, I had also heard it was not possible to air-start a 912S, but it can be done. We have done it with the Whirlwind prop and with the Airmaster, both at about 110 knots. We were concerned about
Hi Gary, Dwight, My partner, Dave DeFord, and I have a monowheel XS with the 912S and Airmaster prop. We built it first with short wings, with our first flight in 2001. We have since built the long w
We have been having problems with sticking trim, both directions, but only from the rocker switch in the instrument panel. The trim buttons on our pilot's stick never seem to have that problem. Since
Hi Frans, Ours did that as well, so we adjusted the sensitivity until it stopped beeping on the ground. It still gave us the in-flight margin we had originally set it for. I suspect the stall 'speed'
Hi Bud, Ira, We have a 39 foot hanger and a 47 foot MG (some of the time). My partner on the plane, Dave DeFord, built a pair of wheeled dollies that allow us to remove the starboard wing and wheel i
Hi Ron, I don't have anything I could send you right now, but it there is interest in this we could look at getting some pics and a description a little later. Regards, Terry Hi Terry "We have a 39 f
Hi Bill, We have slipped with both the short wings and the long. It does help increase sink rate, certainly not as effective as in a Citabria, of course. The air brakes on the MG wings are rather ine