Richard
Congratulations on getting the testing finished.
The Europa stall warner does have its idiosyncrasies. It will "bleat" at
you taxing down wind, parked tail to wind, gusty day and in the hanger with
the doors open etc. Personally I have it connected after the master switch
so avoiding the hanger problem. In general it works well and my definition
of a tidy landing is when the wheel touch on velvet and the stall warner
goes off at exactly the same time.
The stall strips do help define the stall, seem to offer no performance
penalty and are worth putting on.
Ian Rickard G-IANI XS Trigear, 300hours
Europa Club Mods Specialist
e-mail g-iani@ntlworld.com
From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Collings
Sent: 06 August 2012 21:57
Subject: Europa-List: Europa XS Trigear G-CGZV Update
Andy Draper has now completed the test flying and conducted a full flight
test all is now OK and I am waiting for the Permit to fly.
We did have a lot of trouble calibrating the ASI,the problem was traced to
the static probe, my original had only 2 holes in the plastic end where as
the drawing shows 4. My thanks to Ian Rickard for having a spare which once
fitted reduced the error to +2 kts at 60 IAS from 2.5 and -3 kts at 120 IAS
---From -6 kts.
We also have had a lot of trouble setting the stall Warner, its fine in the
air and we have set it up to sound about 8kts before the stall, however it
comes on in the hanger on its own. I reached a decision that we were never
going to get the stall Warner to work properly so fitted stall strips as per
the "Owners Manual", we now have a very predictable stall with buffet about
2-3 knots before. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
The only other thing we had to do was reduce the max cause pitch setting on
the Woodcomp SR3000 prop so as to attain the min climb performance of
300ft/min required by the LAA.
I have bought a covered trailer to store ZV in which means that I now have a
purpose built open Tri-gear trailer for sale. its in good order freshly
painted and serviced anyone in the UK interested?
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