---------------------------------------------------------- Europa-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 03/06/08: 6 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 06:14 AM - Re: Mod to pilot (Alan Burrows) 2. 06:38 AM - Re: Door Hinges (Rob Neils) 3. 07:03 AM - Re: Mod to pilot (Gilles Thesee) 4. 09:26 AM - Re: Mod to pilot (Alan Burrows) 5. 12:34 PM - Re: Mod to pilot (raggi6771) 6. 12:48 PM - Re: Mod to pilot (Gilles Thesee) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:14:33 AM PST US From: "Alan Burrows" Subject: RE: Europa-List: Mod to pilot Kate and I are still in the USA and thought it was a joke when we were told by the FAA that we also need to have an "official" document to confirm we are able to speak English before we can fly internationally ie to the Bahamas (aprox 60 miles away) Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we teach the rest of the world OUR language. Now we have to prove to their satisfaction that we can speak it ? Ah well spose I'll ave to start talking proper from now on "n that" Alan So, we have to do one of these: http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/SRG1199.pdf before we're allowed to make international flights again? Duncan McF. do not archive -- 18:50 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:38:31 AM PST US From: "Rob Neils" Subject: Europa-List: Re: Door Hinges I've got 178 trouble-free hours on my Europa tri-gear motorglider. I constructed a unique "egg" solution to the bowing of the canopies. No extra latch or moving parts are needed. Europa "egg" door latch. I've installed a wooden egg to prevent the cabin doors from bulging in flight. A wooden egg is trimmed and afixed to each door so that as the door closes the pointy end of the egg inserts into a circular hole in the fuselage. The shape of the egg draws the door to an exact fit with the fuselage and holds it there securely. Here's how. Buy a wooden egg at your wife's favorite craft store and while you're there get some modeling clay too if you don't have some alread. It takes a chunk about the size of your fingers tightly squeezed. A glue gun might be the third purchase. They're inexpensive and really helpful in all kinds of tasks around the shop. Hot glue sets much faster than 5-minute epoxy so it's really great for holding things in place. Drill a hole into the fuselage at the center, half way between the shoot bolts that hold the door closed and centered on the fuselage lip. The width of the hole is determined by how far you want the egg to drop into the hole. I used ~ 1"circumnference so the hole squeezes the egg about a third of the way up it. To determine what to cut away from the egg to shape it into a plunger put the egg pointy side down into the hole you've cut. Warm up some modeling clay and squeeze it around the implanted egg. Pull, twist and cajole the egg out of the clay. Close the door tightly on the eggless clay. This presses the clay and defines the space you have between the fuselage and the door. When you open the door the egg's hole has been squished back into where the egg used to be, partially filling the hole. Being an artist, razor out the hole in the clay so you can place the egg's pointy end back into the clay. Push the egg back into the clay. With a marking pen draw a line around the outer half to three quarters of the egg where the clay contacts it. Take the egg out again and close the door. Look down through the window and note on the clay where the egg should not be trimmed so that it will be flush with the inside of the door for added adhesion contact. Open the door, push an indent into the clay where the egg should not be trimmed. Put the egg into the clay, mark the egg's forward and rear side where you made the indentation into the clay. Take the egg out and freehand a verticle arch on the egg giving you a cut line. I used a belt sander to trim the egg to gross fit. Just hold it against the front of the belt sander as the sander is held upside down in a vise. The cylindrical front of a belt sander grinds away most of the wooden egg you don't want. To fine-trim the egg hot glue it into the hole in the fuselage. Use a dremel a wood file and some disclosing paper to shape the egg exactly to the contour of the door. Close the door gently on the egg while you hold the disclosing paper in the gap between the egg and the door. Pull the disclosing paper slowly out thereby leaving a mark on the gg where you need to grind it back. Grind away where the disclosing paper shows the egg contour is high. When you have the egg contoured enough to completely close the door feel the bottom of the door to be sure it is flush with the fuselage. If it's not, then use a couple of studs, wooden studs - not masculine buffons, and some carpenter's wooden door wedges to squeeze the fuselage-door planes to proper fit. If your egg is still hotglued to the fuselage twist it out leaving the remaining hotglue on the surface of the egg so it can be reinserted into the fuselage correctly. When you're satisfied with how everything goes together, mix up the smallest accurate batch of Epibond 420 to afix the eggs to the doors. It doesn't take much at all. Add a little cotton fiber to make some stiff flox. Paint some Epibond onto the carved out egg and onto the area on the door where the egg will be afixed. Smear some vasolene wherever the Epibond could foul up this whole project! Put the egg into the fuselage hole, smear on some flox and close the door. Leave it to dry completely. Open the door. Use some more Epibond and Bid to secure the egg onto the door. I didn't glass up the fuselage hole to make an egg-holding cup. I don't think it's necessary and besides it'd add weight. The egg solution weighs ounces, has no moving parts and works like a charm. Who could ask for anything more? ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 07:03:07 AM PST US From: Gilles Thesee Subject: Re: Europa-List: Mod to pilot Alan Burrows a crit : > Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we teach the rest of the world OUR > language. > Hello Alan, Most people in "the rest of the world" have their OWN language. We're just using yours because your not using ours ;-) No offence meant, Messieurs les Anglois... Best regards, -- Gilles http://contrails.free.fr ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 09:26:07 AM PST US From: "Alan Burrows" Subject: RE: Europa-List: Mod to pilot Hi Gilles Point taken. But it still makes me mad that we have to prove our ability to speak our own language. My apologies to any non English speaking members (who probably can't read this anyway without the correct paperwork). I console myself with the fact that we presently have clear blue sky's and temps in the 80f range here in Florida :-) Kind Regards to all. Alan -----Original Message----- From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Gilles Thesee Sent: 06 March 2008 14:58 Subject: Re: Europa-List: Mod to pilot Alan Burrows a crit : > Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we teach the rest of the world OUR > language. > Hello Alan, Most people in "the rest of the world" have their OWN language. We're just using yours because your not using ours ;-) No offence meant, Messieurs les Anglois... Best regards, -- Gilles http://contrails.free.fr -- 18:50 ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 12:34:39 PM PST US Subject: Re: Europa-List: Mod to pilot From: "raggi6771" I wonder if the ATC operators are required to "upgrade" as well lets face it some of them have such heavy accents you could hardly call it english any more. craig do not archive Visit - www.EuropaOwners.org ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 12:48:25 PM PST US From: Gilles Thesee Subject: Re: Europa-List: Mod to pilot Alan Burrows a crit : > > Hi Gilles > > Point taken. But it still makes me mad that we have to prove our ability to > speak our own language. My apologies to any non English speaking members > (who probably can't read this anyway without the correct paperwork). > > Alan, I was just kidding ;-) In France, due to Civil Aviation Authorities immense generosity, we are dispensed with the mandatory 3 year exam in French, and will be granted the French language qualification for life. 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