Congratulations Alan,
I wished I would be there. Started about the same time but still only half
way there. Thanks for your website. Very good resource and motivation for
other builder.
Regards
Michael Grass
A266 Trigear, Detroit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan" <alan_milner@totalise.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:59 AM
Subject: RE: Europa-List: First flight - G-REJP - thanks to all
>
> Thanks Brian
>
> For the record:
>
> Build time: 2400 hours !!
> Kit: 582T
> Weight: 860
> PFA Inspector: Tony Kay
> Painted by: Murray Flint - Kings Lymm
> Decals: Paul Sistern - www.partsforaircrafts.co.uk
> Interior: Europa supplied kit
>
> Prop : PV50 with constant speed controller - 64inch
> Engine: 912ULS
>
> Panel: Dynon D100 EFIS, D10 EMS, AVMAP IV GPS, garmin SL40 com and gtx320a
> transponder - trutrak digitrak wing leveler
>
> Mods:
> Europa factory:
> - cockpit width increase
> - door gas strut
> - nosegear springs
> - finger brakes - just fitting the matco cylinders today - 'given up on
> the
> old ones
> - all the usual mandatory mods
>
> Europa club:
> - removable metal panels
> - cap fuel sender
>
> PFA mods:
> - trutrak digitrak autopilot
> - andair fuel tap, dynon fuel pressure sender, replacement of sight gauge
> nylon vent tubing with 5052 ali tubing (so the interior does not have to
> be
> removed when replacing fuel hoses)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
> [mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Brian Davies
> Sent: 12 July 2007 08:41
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Subject: RE: Europa-List: First flight - G-REJP - thanks to all
>
>
> Congratulations Alan,
>
> A very pretty aircraft. You must be itching to get your hands on it!
>
> Just for the records, can you please send me the final build hours, empty
> weight, prop details, plus any other significnat mods that you carried
> out.
>
> Best regards
>
> Brian Davies, Europa Club membership sec.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
> [mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of milnera
> Sent: 11 July 2007 23:56
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Subject: Europa-List: First flight - G-REJP - thanks to all
>
> --> <alan_milner@totalise.co.uk>
>
> G-REJP finally took to the air this Monday under the very professional
> hands
> of John Brownlow at Cambridge, UK.
>
> It was a long slog but always enjoyable - OK maybe not the mountain of
> sanding I left until the end :)
>
> Thanks to everyone who helped me along the way with advice and tips. In
> particular a big thanks to Tony Kay, my PFA inspector who kept me on track
> and had a seemingly supernatural ability to anticipate my mistakes.
> He's the scary one in the hat coarsening up the prop as I was smiling too
> much to touch a screwdriver.
>
> http://www.antsol.com/europaphotos.nsf/plinks/AMIR-74ZUDR
>
> Alan. XS Trigear, 912ULS, PV50, Dynon panel, Cambridge. UK
>
>
> Visit - www.EuropaOwners.org
>
>
> 17:44
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>
> 17:44
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