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1. 12:43 AM - Re: The Last Flight of The Year 2016 (Richard Lamprey)
2. 03:57 AM - Re: Re: The Last Flight of The Year 2016 (Raimo Toivio)
3. 07:32 AM - CAMLOC Fasteners (jglazener)
4. 07:55 AM - Re: CAMLOC Fasteners (Rowland Carson)
5. 09:51 AM - Re: CAMLOC Fasteners (Raimo Toivio)
6. 10:57 AM - Re: Fractured Engine Mount Bolts (jonathanmilbank)
7. 12:31 PM - Re: Engine rubber mounts (Roland)
8. 03:40 PM - Re: The Last Flight of The Year 2016 (JonSmith)
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Subject: | Re: The Last Flight of The Year 2016 |
Fascinating stories Raimo.
I remember you flew an AN-2 to your airfield in 2015? Is that still operational?
Best
Richard
Classic 5Y-LRY, Kenya (and I spend half the year in Russia)
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Subject: | Re: The Last Flight of The Year 2016 |
Hello Richard!
Thanks about that. Im pretty sure you could also easily write exotic
"Operating Europa in Africa" -stories.
People would love them! I have flown once (2000) C152 in the South
Africa, and it was great.
I have been always quite alone ac builder /Europa operator here in
Finland, but I guess it is
nothing if compared to you in Kenya! I bet you have also used to make
your own decisions, and they
are better to be mostly right! How many experimentals you have in your
country? We have few dozen.
Do you work or make business in Russia? Which part of the Russsia? If it
happen to be west from Ural,
its easy to come to visit Finland one day...
About our AN2; years fly quickly - it was 2012 when we purchased it from
one mafia chief from Nieregyhaza Hungary.
It was so big...just about PPL - in papers MTOW 5570 kg.
We flew it during one night and day to Finland. Here over Riga Bay, me
as a co-pilot on my captains right side.
Visibility was quite poor but the waves were clearly visible.
But it was so fun!
Children were mostly sleeping comfortable with the good company of some
fuel barrells
and our radist (we had no radio in the cockpit and were forced to take
the ground radio from the tower).
We flew during 2012-2014 about 40 AN2 hrs and several times over the
East Sea to Sweden, to the Siljan Airpark ESVS.
We called it then "Camp Antonov" (notice the tent)...
It was many times sooo beautiful and relaxing...
How about this?
Here refueling operation in EFTP. It was sometimes easier to do like
this than taxi to the fuel station...
We converted it here at home EFRT to be an AirCamper, a perfect flyable
summerhouse for 4 person family.
Then we flew it once more to Siljan, and since that it has been our
summer house there.
We have lived in our beloved AN2 "Antsu" now over 6 months all together
during our holidays.
And yes, its still operational and we start the engine then and then to
get some fun.
We havent flown it since 2014. Too expensive and far too complicate to
keep it airworthy to fly only few hours.
However, there are some plans to fly it back to Finland, maybe even this
year 2017.
Today our girls are teenagers enough, that they do not feel themselves
any more comfortable in the same intimate
space with us - me and my wife - any more. So, we are mostly two of us
there, and the girls are up in the tower near by.
In tower they have luxury to have for example 8-persons dining table
made by the wing of the Bravo AS202T.
An electrically heated pitot tube is an exellent hotdog heater btw...
Here are some Youtube videos if you like; first is a flight from EFTP to
ESVS (actually 1h50m). There I fly formation
with my friend Samo from Slovenia - he has a nice Cirrus SR22T. A 2nd
film is a demonstration of our AN2.
https://youtu.be/QdrrpHBplW8
https://youtu.be/tqmk-epJzKo
I hope you are not bored about my story!
Cheers,
Raimo
OH-XRT #417
Finland
allekirjoitus
<mailto:info@rwm.fi>
4.1.2017, 10:43, Richard Lamprey kirjoitti:
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> Fascinating stories Raimo.
>
> I remember you flew an AN-2 to your airfield in 2015? Is that still operational?
> Best
> Richard
>
> Classic 5Y-LRY, Kenya (and I spend half the year in Russia)
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=464683#464683
>
>
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Subject: | CAMLOC Fasteners |
Getting ready to install the cowlings and looking for a more user friendly solution
than the screws provided by Europa.
Camloc fasteners as supplied by Aircraft Spruce (http://www.aircraftspruce.com/search/search.php?s=CAMLOCK+FASTeNER&x=36&y=18) would appear to be a good option. The choice however is overwhelming and I have no idea what to order for the Europa. I assume that cowling - cowling and cowling - firewall also needs different sizes. Has anyone gone through this exercise before and can tell me exactly which part no's I need? If there are other , better, solutions than Camlocks I am of course open to suggestions!
Thanks,
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Jeroen
http://www.europaowners.org/main.php?g2_itemId=44165
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Subject: | Re: CAMLOC Fasteners |
On 2017-01-04, at 15:31, jglazener <j.glazener@planet.nl> wrote:
> Getting ready to install the cowlings and looking for a more user friendly solution
than the screws provided by Europa.
>
> Camloc fasteners as supplied by Aircraft Spruce (http://www.aircraftspruce.com/search/search.php?s=CAMLOCK+FASTeNER&x=36&y=18) would appear to be a good option. The choice however is overwhelming and I have no idea what to order for the Europa. I assume that cowling - cowling and cowling - firewall also needs different sizes. Has anyone gone through this exercise before and can tell me exactly which part no's I need? If there are other , better, solutions than Camlocks I am of course open to suggestions!
Jeroen - have you looked at the LAA standard mod for this? If not, see SM10405/1
Cowl attachment with Southco fastners on:
http://www.theeuropaclub.org/for-builders/europa-mods-sbs/laa-standard-mods/
in friendship
Rowland
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Subject: | Re: CAMLOC Fasteners |
Hi Jeroen,
I used Mil Spec Production C-2000 Fastening system, which is fully
Camlock compatible.
allekirjoitus http://www.milspecproducts.com/
Contact them Sorrento, Florida.
Using these is a real and practical safety mod: if you have original
screws, you will not open the cowls as often you should.
With C-2000, you can open the cowl(s) in seconds. I have done it around
500 times.
And then you are able to leave those hyperugly inspection hatches off
and save building time also!
They are like perforations and facial piercings on the face off a
beautiful woman...sorry.
<mailto:info@rwm.fi>
Cheers,
Raimo
OH-XRT #417
Finland
4.1.2017, 17:31, jglazener kirjoitti:
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> Getting ready to install the cowlings and looking for a more user friendly solution
than the screws provided by Europa.
>
> Camloc fasteners as supplied by Aircraft Spruce (http://www.aircraftspruce.com/search/search.php?s=CAMLOCK+FASTeNER&x=36&y=18) would appear to be a good option. The choice however is overwhelming and I have no idea what to order for the Europa. I assume that cowling - cowling and cowling - firewall also needs different sizes. Has anyone gone through this exercise before and can tell me exactly which part no's I need? If there are other , better, solutions than Camlocks I am of course open to suggestions!
>
> Thanks,
>
> --------
> Jeroen
>
> http://www.europaowners.org/main.php?g2_itemId=44165
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=464691#464691
>
>
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Subject: | Re: Fractured Engine Mount Bolts |
Hi Roger,
I know where there is such a frame, which just might be available. PM me if interested.
Jonathan
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Subject: | Re: Engine rubber mounts |
Hello all,
today I fitted the new (harder) rubber mounts, which were supplied by my mechanic
in Venlo/Netherlands. The rubbers which were delivered by Europa Aircraft back
in 2012/2013 were definitely MUCH too soft, as Remi already discovered. By
comparing the two different types it should have been obvious for us when we
installed them. OTOH - why checking genuine spare parts?
My mechanic says, that the rubbers are standard size for many Rotax-powered aircraft
and that there are just two different types of which the Europa obviously
needs the harder ones.
The rubbers can be delivered by http://www.spreuwenberg.nl/contact.htm , if anyone is interested. He has several sets in stock.
Oh, and a happy new year to you all!
Regards
Roland
PH-ZTI
XS TG 914
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Subject: | Re: The Last Flight of The Year 2016 |
Hey Raimo, you've made my Christmas & New Year, very much enjoyed your stories
and pictures! Nice to read the update on your Antonov. I think you will be
the envy of many of us lesser-mortals with our boring jobs, boring lives etc.
Your lifestyle in Finland looks absolutely wonderful. No matter how nice a place
one lives in it's what you do with it that's important - and I'd say you're
getting it just about right.....!
-One perfect wife,
-Two perfect kids,
-Two perfect aeroplanes!
(The above items to be in the order of one's choice but I suggest something like
that to keep the peace.....!)
Your airstrip at home looks really fun - giving me quite an appetite to come in
my Europa to visit - now that would be an adventure!h
All the best, Jon
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G-TERN
Classic Mono
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