Martin
We at Europa are very disappointed that we are not able to get hold of Warp
Drive/ NSI prop's at the moment as we do feel that they best suit the
Europa. However, as this lack of availability seems to be long term we have
decided to throw some more money at the issue and will be revisiting the
Arplast which we previosly found had a similar performance. The Arplast
prop' we tried before was in its early stages of development so we look
forward to trying the mature version.
The Ivoprop we tried, about 5 years ago, caused overheating problems on the
Europa. This was probably due to its very low pitch angle at the root
blanking the inlets each side of the spinner.
Regards
Andy
>VP Props
>
>I spoke to Warp Drive a couple of days back about the availablility of
>their NSI/Warp Drive VP prop and they said that it was currently
>unavailable pending the investigation of the one that failed on the
>Lancair. So although no service action was required for Rotax 912/914
>installations they seemingly remain unavailable.
>
>Favoring the Warp Drive/NSI (well, Europa seemed to think it was the best
>all round propeller they had tested to date [May]), I asked about the
>Digital Readout so I could at least get my panel finished but apparently
>there is an availability problem with those too.
>
>Got me thinking about alternatives and remembered reading the piece on
>props in the No. 17 Newsletter. Although it said that a variety of props
>had been tried out including Ivoprop (early version), Rospeller, Arplast
>(prototype and production version) and Airmaster with Warp Drive blades the
>only results described were for the Warp Drive/NSI hub which later appeared
>in the XS price list as an option.
>
>I saw Graham Singleton's recent message about the Arplast (but
>unfortunately hit the Delete button instead of Save - perhaps you could
>send it to me again Graham?) and realized that I know little about the
>Arplast other than that published on their UK Web site - which isn't much.
>
>Are they available/manufactured in the U.S? Is there a U.S distributor?
>What is it like mechanically? Does it feature a panel mounted position
>indicator (the Ivoprop one doesn't)? What is the spinner diameter and
>length (i.e. how will it look on the front of a Europa with the new XS
>style cowlings)?
>
>Anyone have any experience with Ivoprops?
>
>Grateful for any answers to the above.
>
>Regards
>
>Martin Tuck
>N152MT
>Wichita, Kansas
>(awaiting 912 and new style Stage 4 kit - next week?)
>
>
|