Anybody in the Southampton area who wants to come and borrow my optical
tacho for the day is very welcome. I am installing the EIS.
Flying Hi - Wish I was
jerry@flyinghi.demon.co.uk
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> From: James Thursby <jthursbyeuropa@mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: Rev Counter
> Date: 19 October 1998 23:46
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> Hi Folks, For what it's worth, we have two tachometers in our XS
> demonstrator here in Lakeland. One of the analog variety, and the rotax
> flydat. The analog is not even close. Coming home from Georgia today,
> showing 5,100 rpm on the flydat, only displays 4,750 rpm on the rotax
> analog. Very easy to overrev it! The flydat has been checked and
verified.
> Now I know why there's two.
>
>
> Jim Thursby
> N814AT
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> >After all the chat recently about inacurate rev counters on our Europas,
> >admittedly of the annalogue variety, it got me to windering about our
> >aircraft. We have got one of the Grand Rapid EIS Engine Monitors which
is a
> >completely digital affair.
> >Yesterday I took my hand held optical tachometer flying with me and to
my
> >relief (as I in fact really expected) the EIS is very accurate over the
> >whole engine RPM range. I in fact found no trouble in obtaining readings
> >through the windscreen in flight with the hand held unit.
> >
> >Dave Watts 'XDY
> >(Now with 190 hours on the clock and 2 weeks to go to our 1st birthday
> >party. Will we get past the 200 hour mark in that time?)
> >
> >
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