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1. 12:37 AM - Re: Cold weather (Roland)
2. 06:46 AM - Re: Re: Cold weather (William Daniell)
3. 03:51 PM - Re: Re: Cold weather (Kingsley Hurst)
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| Subject: | Re: Cold weather |
Hi Will,
if only the upper door frame gets in contact with the roof/fuselage and leaving
the plane for a couple of days for settling doesn't work, you can just file the
upper door frame a little. A fellow Europa friend suggested that after I almost
lost the right door in flight, thus pulling it close very hard to get it
locked again. After that incident the door was deformed a little bit.
As for your flight to the US: well done!
Regards
Roland
PH-ZTI
XS TG 914
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| Subject: | Re: Cold weather |
Roland thanks,
actually it wasnt that bad just a loud "clack" on opening the door. The
door would open fine if I just pressed down on the top between the doors or
up on the inside of the door. However I thought it was interesting and
worth sharing. I will file it down a bit when I get round to it.
The prop pitch issue argues that if you set the pitch stop for Florida you
wont develop full take off power on a cold day in Alaska which is
potentially a safety issue. Luckily I was taking off from long paved
runways on my trip round the gulf but even so the engine sounded labored
under take off power 37" MAP at 5200.
Will
William Daniell
LONGPORT
+57 310 295 0744
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:39 AM Roland <schmidtroland@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Will,
>
> if only the upper door frame gets in contact with the roof/fuselage and
> leaving the plane for a couple of days for settling doesn't work, you can
> just file the upper door frame a little. A fellow Europa friend suggested
> that after I almost lost the right door in flight, thus pulling it close
> very hard to get it locked again. After that incident the door was deformed
> a little bit.
>
> As for your flight to the US: well done!
>
> Regards
> Roland
> PH-ZTI
> XS TG 914
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=487453#487453
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: Cold weather |
On 06.02.19 12:46 am, William Daniell wrote:
< actually it wasnt that bad just a loud "clack" on opening the door.
The door would open fine if I just pressed down on the top between the
doors or up on the inside of the door. However I thought it was
interesting and worth sharing. I will file it down a bit when I get
round to it.
Hello William,
Firstly, congratulations on your achievement with respect to your epic
journey. That's what I call a trip!
Regarding your door problem, I had this trouble when I fitted my doors
and found I was making very little progress trying to sand the edge of
the doors for clearance. It suddenly dawned on me that a small spacer
placed midway between the hinges on top of the door surround should work
and to my delight it fixed the problem immediately. The packing has to
be thick enough to ensure the surface of the top of the door is level
with the corresponding surface on the fuselage. Try a piece of
cardboard with sticky tape first if you have any doubts about it working.
See photo attached.
Regards
Kingsley in Oz
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