Europa-List Digest Archive

Wed 01/04/17


Total Messages Posted: 8



Today's Message Index:
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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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    Time: 12:43:57 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: The Last Flight of The Year 2016
    From: "Richard Lamprey" <lamprey.richard@gmail.com>
    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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    Time: 03:57:31 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: The Last Flight of The Year 2016
    From: Raimo Toivio <raimo.toivio@rwm.fi>
    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: > > 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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    Time: 07:32:30 AM PST US
    Subject: CAMLOC Fasteners
    From: "jglazener" <j.glazener@planet.nl>
    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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    Time: 07:55:39 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: CAMLOC Fasteners
    From: Rowland Carson <rowlandcarson@gmail.com>
    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 | Rowland Carson ... that's Rowland with a 'w' ... | <rowlandcarson@gmail.com> http://www.rowlandcarson.org.uk | Skype, Twitter: rowland_carson Facebook: Rowland Carson


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    Time: 09:51:20 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: CAMLOC Fasteners
    From: Raimo Toivio <raimo.toivio@rwm.fi>
    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: > > 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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    Time: 10:57:51 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: Fractured Engine Mount Bolts
    From: "jonathanmilbank" <jdmilbank@yahoo.co.uk>
    Hi Roger, I know where there is such a frame, which just might be available. PM me if interested. Jonathan Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=464699#464699


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    Time: 12:31:45 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: Engine rubber mounts
    From: "Roland" <schmidtroland@web.de>
    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 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=464703#464703


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    Time: 03:40:52 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: The Last Flight of The Year 2016
    From: "JonSmith" <jonsmitheuropa@tiscali.co.uk>
    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 -------- G-TERN Classic Mono Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=464709#464709




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