Been flying with my brake system seven years and 525 hours without any prob
lems.=C2- sounds like your connections on the end of the tube are flawed
is some way.=C2-
ken carpenter=C2-=C2- N9XS=C2- mono 914=C2-
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From: "ploucandco" <ploucandco@YAHOO.COM>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 12:21:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Europa-List: Monowheel Brake
Hi all,
I would like to hear your experience with the monowheel brake system. I pur
chased my Europa XS monowheel from the builder about 1 year ago (N205CN has
its 1st flight on May 2006) and had all the issues that I could imagine wi
th the brake system till now.
After bleeding the master cylinder at least 5 times (leaks with air coming
in), I decided to completely replace the whole system beginning of this yea
r: master, slave and tube.
Europa first sent me a leaking master cylinder that was replaced for free.
So during the 20 hours that I flew after this replacement, I already got 2
times the tube to come out from the slave cylinder connection. Today I got
the tube to come out of the master cylinder.
I became a master in flushing the whole system and reconnecting everything
as well as bleeding from the slave cylinder in less than 15 minutes. That's
not the issue.
But, this system is not acceptable from a safety point of view. Today, I go
t no brake at the end of the runway (400m concrete). Good that I stopped th
e engine and that there is 50 meters grass after the runway...
2 months ago, I was doing the mag check at 3000RPM when I lost the brake! I
luckily touched nothing but finished my course 2 meters from the hangar do
or.
Am I the only one who is facing such issues with the monowheel brake?
Potentially, do someone of you have a solution that enhance the safety of t
his system?
Thanks for your input, Jacques.
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=245151#245151
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