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1. 12:28 AM - Re: Re: Europa- Touring in France (Bob Fairall)
2. 01:06 AM - Re: Re: Europa- Touring in France (Frans Veldman)
3. 06:49 AM - new subs payment failure mechanism (Rowland Carson)
4. 07:52 AM - Re: Re: Europa- Touring in France (David Joyce)
5. 11:24 AM - Re: Re: Ditching checklist (Raimo Toivio)
6. 02:24 PM - Re: Re: Ditching checklist (Martin Boyle)
7. 04:24 PM - What a fine airplane! (Frans Veldman)
8. 07:47 PM - Re: What a fine airplane! (Fred Klein)
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Subject: | RE: Europa- Touring in France |
Many thanks Gerry!!
I've just loaded it and from an initial glance seems a great solution.
Thanks again.
Bob
From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-europa-list-ser
ver@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Gerry Holland
Sent: 06 May 2010 07:02
Subject: Re: Europa-List: RE: Europa- Touring in France
Bob Hi!
Try Aeroweather for your iPhone. http://www.aeroweather.ch/ It will give M
ETAR and TAF for named Airports or ICAO Codes and is very quick to update
with whatever communication channels the iPhone can find or use. I also ha
ve Memory Map CAA Maps loaded as standby. You may find you can get French
Air Charts too.
Regards
Gerry
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Subject: | Re: RE: Europa- Touring in France |
On 05/06/2010 07:25 AM, Bob Fairall wrote:
> Can anyone experienced in French touring recommend a practical source of
> aviation weather information while in France please?
Try http://france.meteofrance.com/
The language if French, but the pictures speak for themselves.
You can toggle the main display between temperatures and winds ("vents").
The menu column is for the days of the week (just learn the names of the
days in French and you are good to go).
They also have an aeronautical section, but you need a password for
that. They will send you that free of charge if you ask for it.
We found this website very valuable for our trips in France.
Frans
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Subject: | new subs payment failure mechanism |
I have discovered while working on the Europa Club system that some
card transactions had failed, with the reason for failure to complete
given in the transaction log as:
5051 : The Contact Number contains invalid characters.
I'm not sure what message the member would have seen as a result of
this, as it has not arisen before. It appears that our payment
processing partner Sage Pay has tightened up the cross-checking of
information and is no longer prepared to accept phone numbers
containing a period (full stop, decimal point).
So before you try to renew your membership online, I suggest you
check how your phone number is shown and change any "." characters to
the more internationally-acceptable space characters. You should
probably do the same with your FAX number if you have one.
When we changed the system a few years back to allow website card
payments, we also allowed members to enter and amend their own data.
This was intended to reduce work for the Membership Secretary, but
has caused a few headaches when people enter unexpected data - it's
hard to predict all the possibilities that could cause problems and
protect against them!
in friendship
Rowland
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Subject: | Re: RE: Europa- Touring in France |
Bob, A lot of the middle sized airfields as well as all the large ones have
their own French Meteo man there who is generally extremely helpful. That
apart Ifind the various resource/links at
www.guernseyaeroclub.com/weather.htm to be more than enough. In particular
xc weather, orbifly,Met Office 415, European Tafs & Metars provide most of
what you need on the day and either the USAF, the XC or the NOAA 7day
forecasts are good for planning ahead. One other resource not on the
Guernsey site possibly worth looking at is Jeppesen's one:
www.jeppesen.com/aviation/personal/aviation-weather.jsp In particular I
like the weather depiction page which gives a Europe wide indication of VFR
or various IFR conditions.
Have you by the way found the Europa Club Guide to Flying in Europe
on the Club web site - it has all of the above & a fair bit more.
Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Fairall" <Bob.Fairall@fairalls.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 6:25 AM
Subject: Europa-List: RE: Europa- Touring in France
I'm planning on flying to France next week to visit family and friends in
various locations.
Can anyone experienced in French touring recommend a practical source of
aviation weather information while in France please?
I will have iPhone with me, but would prefer to leave the laptop at home.
Thanks.
Bob Fairall - G-BXLK
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Subject: | Re: Ditching checklist |
They say it would be a good practise to lock the wheel[s] by brakeing
before ditching.
So the gear will act a little bit longer as a water ski before sinking.
With mono, I would take the flaps and gear out to lower the speed and to
get a normal landing attitude.
When the flaps hit water masses w speed of say 40 knots, they will act
as a water brake for a while and separate I assume almost immediately.
My boat=C2=B4s top speed is around 58 knots and when jumping from one
wave to another wave I am happy it=C2=B4s stern is 2 inches thick
laminate.
When moderate or more waves (and wind): would you still prefer to land
headwind (and towards waves) or do you elect maybe landing sidewind (and
90 degrees to waves)?
Raimo OH-XRT
From: GRAHAM SINGLETON
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Ditching checklist
The mono is much less likely to dig in, think of the pitching moment
that the gear exerts as it hits the water.
Graham
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From: Frans Veldman <frans@privatepilotsnl>
Sent: Tuesday, 4 May, 2010 15:26:36
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Ditching checklist
<frans@privatepilots.nl>
On 05/04/2010 03:13 PM, rampil wrote:
> For the case of the trigear, one can only imagine a worse case.
> It seems unlikely that a trigear can be prevented from digging
> in at the nose and possibly cracking the canopy.
Why does it seem that? Statistics show that tri gear aircraft have no
higher tendency to nose over than rectractables. Unless the Europa has a
feature not found on other tri gear airplane, I don't think it is worse
than comparable aircraft.
Contrary, I think the monowheel is worse in this aspect. It has a
tendency on land already to nose over if you brake firmly, and I don't
see why this would be different on water.
With the tri gear, before the nose is able to touch the water, the gear
has dissipated already quite some of the energy (either due to drag in
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Subject: | Re: Ditching checklist |
The way we were taught in Australia was to touch with one wheel and the
wing tip
This than makes the aircraft turn to that direction and enersa will
cause the other side of the plane to ditch into the water and uses the
wing to stop it from rolling
Also if you go straight in and the plane rolls forward you will wear the
windscreen in your face at great speed not pretty
Martin Boyle
North QLD Australia
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From: Raimo Toivio
To: europa-list@matronics.com
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Ditching checklist
They say it would be a good practise to lock the wheel[s] by brakeing
before ditching.
So the gear will act a little bit longer as a water ski before
sinking.
With mono, I would take the flaps and gear out to lower the speed and
to get a normal landing attitude.
When the flaps hit water masses w speed of say 40 knots, they will act
as a water brake for a while and separate I assume almost immediately.
My boat=C2=B4s top speed is around 58 knots and when jumping from one
wave to another wave I am happy it=C2=B4s stern is 2 inches thick
laminate.
When moderate or more waves (and wind): would you still prefer to land
headwind (and towards waves) or do you elect maybe landing sidewind (and
90 degrees to waves)?
Raimo OH-XRT
From: GRAHAM SINGLETON
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:41 PM
To: europa-list@matronics.com
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Ditching checklist
The mono is much less likely to dig in, think of the pitching moment
that the gear exerts as it hits the water.
Graham
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From: Frans Veldman <frans@privatepilotsnl>
To: europa-list@matronics.com
Sent: Tuesday, 4 May, 2010 15:26:36
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Ditching checklist
<frans@privatepilots.nl>
On 05/04/2010 03:13 PM, rampil wrote:
> For the case of the trigear, one can only imagine a worse case.
> It seems unlikely that a trigear can be prevented from digging
> in at the nose and possibly cracking the canopy.
Why does it seem that? Statistics show that tri gear aircraft have no
higher tendency to nose over than rectractables. Unless the Europa has
a
feature not found on other tri gear airplane, I don't think it is
worse
than comparable aircraft.
Contrary, I think the monowheel is worse in this aspect. It has a
tendency on land already to nose over if you brake firmly, and I don't
see why this would be different on water.
With the tri gear, before the nose is able to touch the water, the
gear
has dissipated already quite some of the energy (either due to drag in
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target="_blank">http://wcom" = -->
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Subject: | What a fine airplane! |
Flying the PH-DIY is much easier than we could imagine.
May 5th we made our first real trip with the PH-DIY: we went to
Helgoland (EDXH).
(Helgoland is a very small island about 30nm North of Germany).
The longest runway is 480 meter, fairly small, and for that reason only
allowed for pilots with a minimum of 100 flying hours. Well, the PH-DIY
came to a stop halfway down the runway. ;-)
It is just about 1 hour flying from our homebase EHHO.
Our review can be found at www.vfrflights.nl/verslagen/helgoland
Fuel consumption for an economy cruise of 110 knots IAS is 13 liters per
hour, not bad!
With 13 hours on the hobbs we now appreciate the avionics we installed
and the "user interface". So, for the "not-yet-flying" people, this is a
list of things we found very usefull:
- The SmartASS (Talking Airspeed Indicator of Smart Avionics) is a real
"must have". Apart from a non-panel-space-consuming redundanct backup
airspeed indicator (I gave it its own pitot), it is a real assistant
during take off and landing. During take off we set it in talking
airspeed mode so we can focus on the outside world while monitoring the
airspeed auraly. During landing, on final, I press and hold the green
button on the stick for a moment to capture the airspeed, and it
announces periodically "speed good" if I remain within 5% of the target
airspeed, or "slow", "very slow", "fast", "very fast" if I stray off
that speed. It becomes very easy to keep the eyes focussed on the runway
all the time and correct any speed deviations immediately. It is one of
the reasons we find landing this airplane so easy: it is like flying
with a teacher who is telling you what to do all the time. ;-)
- We have the flaps switch on the stick as well. This worked out as
planned: during take off and landing we keep one hand on the throttle,
and the other hand on the stick, and it is convenient this way to adjust
the flaps without moving your hands. It feels natural to adjust the
flaps with the same hand that also controls the speed and pitch. The
other hand is for power, prop and brakes.
- The Smart Avionics prop controller works perfectly! Easy to use as
well. The mode button is duplicated on the stick, and the pitch toggle
is duplicated next to the throttle, so it can be operated with the hand
resting on the throttle.
- The Trio Avionics autopilot is another favorite piece of equipment.
The auto pilot release is connected to the "trigger" of the stick. This
works particularly intuitive for the Pilot Command Steering: while the
auto pilot is active, pull the trigger, change heading and release the
trigger, and the auto pilot continues on the heading just set with
releasing the trigger. (And of course the auto pilot can also follow a
programmed GPS route, or direct to a GPS target).
- The overhead vent is a real winner. Works perfectly and is very
convenient. A close second are the "ultimate ventilators" at the corners
of the wind screen. They work, but it is impossible to direct the air
and regulate the amount of air at the same time. Still we like them.
The windows at the side are nice for making pictures and avoiding the
visual distortion of the canopy. Ilona doesn't like these windows so
much, because they suck her hair out!
Of course there are also things that didn't work out so well:
- Forget about an aileron trim. I never used it, except for confirmation
that it works, and to discover that precisely in neutral the airplane
flies straight and level. There is nothing to trim. Thinking about the
time invested to devise this trim tab, what a waste!
- I don't like the Andair gascolator so much (I have the bigger one). It
needs to be wire locked (making it less attractive to "field clean" the
gascolator) and the rubber O-ring breaks far too easily. I spoiled
already the spares I had, if I break another one this means I'm
grounded. :-(
Well, this is it for now, hope it is usefull to someone.
Frans
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Subject: | Re: What a fine airplane! |
Thanks for the inspiration Frans, and your review of your flight is
lovely, though my "Americanishe-schnell-Deutsch" did not allow for
much understanding of your text...perhaps I missed the English prompt.
Fred
On May 6, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Frans Veldman wrote:
> Flying the PH-DIY is much easier than we could imagine.
>
> May 5th we made our first real trip with the PH-DIY: we went to
> Helgoland (EDXH).
> (Helgoland is a very small island about 30nm North of Germany).
> The longest runway is 480 meter, fairly small, and for that reason
> only
> allowed for pilots with a minimum of 100 flying hours. Well, the PH-
> DIY
> came to a stop halfway down the runway. ;-)
> It is just about 1 hour flying from our homebase EHHO.
>
> Our review can be found at www.vfrflights.nl/verslagen/helgoland
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