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1. 03:39 AM - Maintenance flight (SPURPURA)
2. 06:12 PM - Re: Maintenance flight (Area-51)
3. 06:33 PM - Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 7/2 - 7/9 (Area-51)
4. 06:47 PM - Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 7/2 - 7/9 (William Daniell)
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| Subject: | Maintenance flight |
Yesterdays test flight to dial in the pitch setting on the Whirlwind CS propeller
was interesting. I was at 8500 in an expanding orbit around the airport, theres
a loud bang followed by severe vibration about 7 miles from the runway. Immediately
turned towards the airport watching the ASI drop from 120 to 65 and the
VSI indicator showing a 1500 a minute decent. Reducing the power settles some
of the vibration and lots of forward stick keeps the airspeed about 65 and sink
rate about 1000 FPM. I landed safely on a dry lake about 4 miles short of the
airport. Made a great landing with no damages.Looks like one of the propeller
blades went into a beta position. Approximately 3 hours on propeller since
overhauled.
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N951EU - Tri-gear & 912ULS, N77EU- Mono & 914
I'D RATHER HAVE A BOTTLE IN FRONT OF ME THAN A FRONTAL LABOTAMY.
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| Subject: | Re: Maintenance flight |
Good landing; you walked away... great landing; the aircraft survived...
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| Subject: | Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 7/2 - 7/9 |
Got to the field for a local flight... started my daily inspection by rolling the
prop over by hand; 3 out of 4 cylinders presented compression... ripped the
lid off and started pulling plugs; #2 cylinder... turned on compressor and got
the leak tester out; compressor died, offgrid hangar battery drained to zero...
had enough air to run a diagnostic... marginal air escaping into crankcase
and exhaust... bolted it all up and rolled it over again; some progressive improvement
and still low on compression... finished DI and rolled 181 out of the
hangar for ramp checks; started and ran perfect as normal (possibly just a fleck
of carbon caught under a valve seat on previous shut down)... increased rpm
to 2500 and got minor vibration, pulled back to idle and no vibration... increased
rpm to 3500 for runnups, ran normal no vibration, increased rpm again
to 2500, vibration... checked again with aux fuel pump on and also with fuel
taps off; no change in vibration status... entered the field for some WOT ground
runs; ran great... decided to not fly until source of vibration found... will
start with propeller tracking... looking forward to rolling the prop over again
when cold and see what presents!
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| Subject: | Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 7/2 - 7/9 |
Way back in 2017 on test flying i had weird fuel pressure readings...so
fuel pumps filters etc...weeks of work chasing the issue until by
coincidence i found the nut on the bottom of my fuel pressure regulator
lose. The regulator is supposed to come from the factory with the right
setting.
So anyway i set the pressure and it has stayed rock solid at 4.7 ever
since. (Max pressure is 5.08).
I finally got around to adjusting it to the correct pressure of 3.6. 5
minutes. Proving yet again that difficult is in inverse proportion to
dread.
William Daniell
+1 786 878 0246
On Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 10:37 h&jeuropa <butcher43@att.net> wrote:
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> Starting thread for Holiday week. Surely some of you have done cool
> things with your Europa this weekend!
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> We're AOG until our EFIS is repaired, hopefully Tuesday.
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> Jim
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=507399#507399
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