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1. 11:44 AM - Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/21 - 2/28 (tennant)
2. 01:10 PM - Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/21 - 2/28 (n7188u)
3. 01:20 PM - Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/21 - 2/28 (n7188u)
4. 02:15 PM - Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/21 - 2/28 (Area-51)
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| Subject: | Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/21 - 2/28 |
Hello Chris,
I remember one memorable takeoff in Saarbrcken with a runway 27 some years ago
When I lined up the lovely lady in the tower said "Clear for takeoff, wind 200
deg, 18 - 26 knots!!"
The Europa ran down the the centre line and was in the air very quickly!! When
you have a couple of hundred hours on your bird you will not want to fly anything
else.
Have fun
Barry
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Barry Tennant
D-EHBT
At EDLM - Germany
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| Subject: | Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/21 - 2/28 |
Nice work on the model. For a moment I thought it was for one of the flight sims,
in which case I would have been very interested in obtaining even if for a
fee!
Good story Barry. That's a 24 knot crosswind component! Quite gutsy (and gusty
I guess).
I do need to clarify (and not to brag) that I am airplane, helicopter and glider
rated (ATP, CFI) and have flown all kind of aircraft from airliners to paragliders
(including high and low performance GA, competition gliders, helicopters,
etc). I learned to fly in the Andes in South America (kind of like the Alps)
with winds blowing at 30 knots all the time so talk about crosswind, rotors
and gusts. The runway sides used to be littered with broken airplanes. So it's
not a lack of skill.
However, I think the effort to build the Europa, the fact that I am liking this
airplane a lot and becoming a little more risk-averse as I age left me with a
sort of anxiety about scratching my baby :) However, I am overcoming that one
step at a time. So far my mono has not done anything to me that I would consider
a departure so I guess it's all just in my head :)
Best Regards,
Chris
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| Subject: | Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/21 - 2/28 |
And back to the port subject:
This week I installed and connected an old Garmin Aera 500 I have.
Why you may ask.
I live in a very busy airspace and have noticed that lately people are trying very
hard to collide with me in the air. A few weeks back I almost had a P-51 hit
me from behind in the traffic pattern! (I fly from a VERY busy uncontrolled
field.
So I was wondering why my Garmin GDL39 with Garmin Pilot was not providing aural
alerts even though it would highlight the traffic on the screen. I tried hard
but at the end concluded that technology sometimes sucks and it was just too
much effort, end settings and ETC to make this buggy software work. And then
I remembered how simple and amazing the older Aera 500 algorithms worked when
it came to traffic and obstacle alerts.
So I wired my Aera to airplane power, the GDL39 and to the audio system. Works
like a charm (the only probelm is that my PM3000 intercom is an older model and
doesn't have additional audio inputs so I have to use the entertainment input,
which is less than ideal, but it works.
The bad news is that my tablet has now lost it's place in the panel and is relegated
to being a knee device. Oh well, can't have everything.
Tomorrow we have a flyi-in breakfast in Central Florida so will get to continue
testing.
Best,
Chris
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| Subject: | Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/21 - 2/28 |
Chris it seems prudent to have some modern glass tech in the instrument panel...
i still have not decided what would be best; so many choice, so little space!
Could do with some ideas and user experience on this task; would love having
terrain and traffic on tap... regarding the model, i did ask around the site
for existing 3d models and was told one had been developed for Xplane however
nobody has shed any further light on this mythical information; so i just went
off and did it myself. It wouldnt need too much more to be operationally usable
in Xplane and getting a functioning interior added is another arm of development,
then there are all the visual texture skins to add at the final stage for
a lifelike appointment; it can be done; maybe somebody out there is a wizard
in texturing!! So far with Xplane i have fudged things successfully using an
SF50 as a test platform and modified the airframe to what i required; so i got
all SF50s garmin 5000 cockpit and turbine tech! That said i do intend to fly
the model in Xplane to try out some ideas...
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