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     1. 06:14 PM - Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 7/9 - 7/15 (budyerly@msn.com)
 
 
 


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    Time: 06:14:02 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 7/9 - 7/15
    From: "budyerly@msn.com" <budyerly@msn.com>
    After two months of home duties and sick grandchildren wife and myself, I was asked to confer with a few instructors on realistic stall training yet still stay within the FAA and the Global Air instructor guidelines. I also did a Powerpoint for the local EAA Chapter on retaining proficiency. These instructors have flown with me before and we often work on how to's, techniques and many questions on why the plane behaves as it does, and what's that for's. By late morning I was able to haul 12AY out of the back of the hangar, wash it, lube it, service IAW my engine Troubleshooting guide, ground run the engine/systems and do a proficiency ride before supper time. 12AY responded nearly as ideal as I could hope. My repair of a delamination in my classic wing is starting to raise up but is still solidly attached to the foam underneath. It is an odd issue. Flap rig was slightly off due to onlookers at Sun 'n Fun sitting/leaning on my flaps and wings. I bent the flap a bit and although it was windy, rainy and hot I decided a cool drink and a quick flight would be within my energy reserves. I flew a typical profile for me: (See my website techniques section for a paper on gaining and staying current Power Point is too large for my website and the matronics attachments.) After a normal takeoff and climb to the working area I did slow flight, stalls, accelerated and configured, and found I needed to repeat some of these exercises to get the rust off. I was sloppy and flap rig was still off. It was cloudy, gusty and very hot and humid, and I only shot two touch and goes and a full stop. The last one scared a couple of instructors watching and grading landings, as I made a quick short final nose down and back up to correct a sloppy glide path. Landings were good but the flaps required attention. I was burnt out by the time I landed. Today I adjusted my flaps and repeated the scenario and was impressed how much better the airplane flew the profile. It was still terribly hot, but the winds and clouds allowed me to work up about 5000 feet in the cool air. Tomorrow, I have grandkids swimming in the pool (birthday party) but intend to re-fly again on Thursday to check a drop of oil on the bottom of the cowl (most likely from the air filter full of oil and a pesky valve cover gasket) and to get some more short field and no flap landings dialed in. I overworked my stall warning horn on today's flight, and it decided to stop working (the light is working fine but my cheap Amazon/Chinese piezo electric buzzer died). I have another, but I think I may add an intercom audio tone or a voice warning circuit. Instead of a buzzer, I may use an ISD 120 voice recorder/playback and pipe a soothing voice saying ("Oh Pilot, you are stalling, unload, and start doing some of that pilot stuff to get us out of here.) During the Zoom meeting Tuesday night I misspoke about Mod 74. It is a Classic Mandatory mod but at Custom Flight I did this mod for a number of our clients with XS aircraft that were really heavy as a shop mod (Europa did not want to do this on the XS fleet but the glider has it as standard due to higher stresses, so I considered it as an option for the XS). The XS does not require Mod 74, but if the wing is damaged, I consider it an upgrade worth doing especially if the owner has a fat Europa with a MTOW of 1450 pounds. Best Regards, Bud Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=507470#507470




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