Hi All;
I originally built my XS as a mono wheel.- I was very unhappy with the co
nfiguration and converted it to Tri Gear which I love.- I take off and la
nd much more like a Mooney than a Cessna- with full flaps on a Cessna you s
imply point the nose higher and higher while with a Mooney (and my XS) I ho
ld a configuartion and let the speed bleed off.
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And in case any of you don't know, my tri gear is for sale- email me for de
tails off list if interested
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Paul Boulet, Malibu, California- N914PB
--- On Fri, 8/22/08, jimpuglise@comcast.net <jimpuglise@comcast.net> wrote:
From: jimpuglise@comcast.net <jimpuglise@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Mono or Tri-Gear, what to choose?
Date: Friday, August 22, 2008, 1:54 PM
Zwakie-
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The other thing you need to keep in mind is insurance and resale of the air
plane.- Both will be much more difficult for the monowheel.- All of us
have had to make the choice.- I have a bunch of monowheel time in gliders
but the Europa is quite a bit different than them.- I went the trigear r
oute, which I think was the right way to go for me.
-
Jim Puglise A-283
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From: "zwakie" <marcel@zwakie.com>
>
> I'm new here, so let me first introduce myself: my name is Marcel, 45 yea
rs of
> age and from The Netherlands. I am a private pilot license holder since a
couple
> of years, currently about 125 hours in my logbook and thinking about buyi
ng my
> own plane. I have decided to go for an Europa (I guess you all the know t
he
> reasons why :wink: ), and instead of building one myself I will be lookin
g for
> one that is for sale.
>
> During my search on the web I also visited the Air Accidents Investigatio
ns
> Branch website, and what kind of struck me there is the high number of
> incident-reports involving Europa's, even though the trend seems to b e f
ewe r
> incidents occur over time. I have read most of these reports (don't ask!)
to
> learn more about Europa's and what to expect from this type of aircraft.
>
> One picture that evolved from these reports was that a relative high numb
er of
> incidents occurred with the mono-gear type.
>
> Besides incidents with technical causes, a significant number of mono-gea
r
> incidents were caused by pilot error: not lowering and locking the gear o
r not
> being able to properly deal with cross- and/or gusty winds seem to be the
two
> most common causes.
>
> What surprised me was that of these pilot-error incidents occurred with
> experienced pilots on the controls (experienced as in: lots and lots of h
ours,
> quite often also with hundreds of hours on type).
>
> Obviously incidents also occurred on the nose wheel types due to cross- a
nd/or
> gusty winds, but the number of incid Searc
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