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1. 06:39 AM - Re: Trip from Minnesota to Houston (Larry Austin)
2. 09:20 AM - Re: Rectifer (John Hauck)
3. 09:26 AM - Re: Trip from Minnesota to Houston (John Williamson)
4. 10:28 AM - Re: Trip from Minnesota to Houston aka website for xcs (Bob N.)
5. 04:13 PM - VG's on a Mark III (Larry Cottrell)
6. 04:29 PM - FireFly Fuel Pump (jerb)
7. 04:31 PM - Re: Tini-tach (DAquaNut@aol.com)
8. 04:46 PM - Re: Tini-tach (Bob Bean)
9. 05:12 PM - Fw: [idf-flying] F-14 Ride!!! (Clay Stuart)
10. 05:42 PM - Re: Tini-tach (Jack & Louise Hart)
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| Subject: | Re: Trip from Minnesota to Houston |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Larry Austin" <joandlp@starband.net>
BlankYou know what would be great? If you guys with a lot of cross country
experience would put together a web site with ultralight 'firendly'
airports. Fuel available, transportation, hours of operation, facilities,
etc.
Would probably be a lot of work but it sure would be helpful.
Larry
Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of Dragons...for You are Crunchy & Good with
Ketchup
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: John Hauck <jhauck@elmore.rr.com>
> According to ac spruce the bing pump should be used if the
> motor is much higher than the fuel tank. Do you think the mikuni will be
> sufficient. Maybe you can shed some light on this and enlighten me.
>
> Thanks again,
> Ed Diebel
Ed/All:
The Mikuni will work great. That is what I used
on all my two strokes.
Unless something has changed since I was a two
stroke guy, which has been 10 years.
john h
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| Subject: | Re: Trip from Minnesota to Houston |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Williamson" <kolbrapilot@attbi.com>
A great resource for fuel stop planning is AirNav.com.
I use it to check on each possible fuel stop along the way.
John Williamson
Arlington, TX
Kolb Kolbra, N49KK, Jabiru 2200, 332 hours
http://home.attbi.com/~kolbrapilot
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| Subject: | Re: Trip from Minnesota to Houston aka website for xcs |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Bob N." <ronoy@shentel.net>
Larry,
Yes, that would be a huge amt of work, considering the vast numbers of
xcs across the ZI and even CA and AK--but most guys do the flight
planning with some charts and refs to the various existing URLs that
give you site info for your specific trip. These URLs are frequently
ref'd on both the Kolb and Fly-UL lists.
And speaking of those dragons--are they the ones that are "fire-ndly"?
Bob N.
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| Subject: | VG's on a Mark III |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Larry Cottrell" <lcottrel@kfalls.net>
Brother Pike and Gang,
I got tired of waiting for you to do your VG's so I put mine on this
morning as per Howard Shackleford's plans for a firestar. The result was a
reduction from 36 mph at full flaps to 32 mph. Stall with no flaps was 40
mph. As was with the Firestar it hangs on the tightest turn solid as a rock.
I am very pleased with the results. Slow flights are down to 38 mph with no
dificulty.
I am new to the Mark III and still learning how it handles, so I tried
John's "soft field takeoffs" today. Got it to 30 MPH, popped the flaps and
jumped off the ground. My thanks John, one never knows when he might need
that little trick.
Larry, Oregon
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| Subject: | FireFly Fuel Pump |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: jerb <ulflyer@airmail.net>
Have a FireFly, the Mikuni is just find - just keep the impulse line that
drives the pump less than 12" and use the thick wall (impulse) tubing. Our
FireFly has a welded on bracket for the fuel under the engine. Works fine
for us with a Rotax 447.
jerb
> Thanks for letting me know about the reg/ rectifier. I will call Linda
>Mon. They show what appears to be a bing fuel pump, on the the prints that
>came
>with my fire fly in 99. The pump they sent me is the Mikuni pump which is
>rectangle in shape . According to ac spruce the bing pump should be used
>if the
>motor is much higher than the fuel tank. Do you think the mikuni will be
>sufficient. Maybe you can shed some light on this and enlighten me.
>
> Thanks again,
> Ed Diebel
>
>
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: DAquaNut@aol.com
Group,
Anybody ever try to lengthen the wires on a tini-tach. My leads are
about 18"to short af making it to my panel. I purchased it over a year ago so
i
dont think they would want to take it back.
Ed Diebel
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: Bob Bean <slyck@frontiernet.net>
DAquaNut@aol.com wrote:
>--> Kolb-List message posted by: DAquaNut@aol.com
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> Group,
> Anybody ever try to lengthen the wires on a tini-tach. My leads are
>about 18"to short af making it to my panel. I purchased it over a year ago so
i
>dont think they would want to take it back.
>
> Ed Diebel
>
Ed,
shouldn't make any diff, just make a good conductive splice.
>
In some applications you actually have to put a resistor in series to
get the right result.
-BB, I'm using the northern tool version with hour meter feature.
>
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| Subject: | Fw: [idf-flying] F-14 Ride!!! |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Clay Stuart" <tcstuart@adelphia.net>
Not directly Kolb related but of much interest.
Do not archive
F-14 Tomcat by Rick Reilly for Sports Illustrated.
(From the AOPA board)
Now this message for America's most famous athletes: Someday you may be
invited to fly in the back-seat of one of your country's most powerful
fighter jets. Many of you already have -- John Elway, John Stockton,
Tiger Woods to name a few. If you get this opportunity, let me urge
you, with the greatest sincerity ..... Move to Guam. Change your name.
Fake your own death. Whatever you do, do not go. I know.
The U.S. Navy invited me to try it. I was thrilled. I was pumped. I
was toast! I should've known when they told me my pilot would be Chip
(Biff) King of Fighter Squadron 213 at Naval Air Station Oceana in
Virginia Beach.
Whatever you're thinking a Top Gun named Chip (Biff) King looks
like, triple it. He's about six-foot, tan, ice-blue eyes, wavy surfer
hair, finger-crippling handshake -- the kind of man who wrestles
dyspeptic alligators in his leisure time. If you see this man, run the
other way. Fast.
Biff King was born to fly. His father, Jack King, was for years the
voice of NASA missions. ("T-minus 15 seconds and counting...."
Remember?) Chip would charge neighborhood kids a quarter each to hear
his dad. Jack would wake up from naps surrounded by nine-year-olds
waiting for him to say, "We have a liftoff."
Biff was to fly me in an F-14D Tomcat, a ridiculously powerful $60
million weapon with as much thrust as weight. I was worried about
getting airsick, so the night before the flight I asked Biff if there
was something I should eat the next morning. "Bananas," he said. "For
the potassium?" I asked. "No," Biff said, "because they taste about the
same coming up as they do going down."
The next morning, out on the tarmac, I had on my flight suit with my
name sewn over the left breast. (No call sign -- like Crash or Sticky
or Leadfoot -- but, still, very cool.) I carried my helmet in the crook
of my arm, as Biff had instructed. A fighter pilot named Psycho gave me
a safety briefing and then fastened me into my ejection seat, which,
when employed, would "egress" me out of the plane at such a velocity
that I would be immediately knocked unconscious.
Just as I was thinking about aborting the flight, the canopy closed
over me, and Biff gave the ground crew a thumbs-up. In minutes we were
firing nose up at 600 mph. We leveled out and then canopy-rolled over
another F-14. Those 20 minutes were the rush of my life.
Unfortunately, the ride lasted 80. It was like being on the roller
coaster at Six Flags Over Hell. Only without rails. We did barrel
rolls, sap rolls, loops, yanks and banks We dived, rose and dived
again, sometimes with a vertical velocity of 10,000 feet per minute. We
chased another F-14, and it chased us. We broke the speed of sound.
Sea was sky and sky was sea.
Flying at 200 feet we did 90-degree turns at 550 mph, creating a G
force of 6.5, which is to say I felt as if 6.5 times my body weight was
smashing against me.
And I egressed the bananas. I egressed the pizza from the night
before. And the lunch before that. I egressed a box of Milk Duds from
the sixth grade.
I made Linda Blair look polite. Because of the G's, I was egressing
stuff that did not even want to be egressed. I went through not one
airsick bag, but two. Biff said I passed out. Twice. I was coated in
sweat. At one point, as we were coming in upside down in a banked
curve on a mock bombing target and the G's were flattening me like a
tortilla and I was in and out of consciousness, I realized I was the
first person in history to throw down.
I used to know cool. Cool was Elway throwing a touchdown pass, or
Norman making a five-iron bite. But now I really know cool. Cool is
guys like Biff, men with cast-iron stomachs and Freon nerves. I
wouldn't go up there again for Derek Jeter's black book, but I'm glad
Biff does every day, and for less money per year than a rookie reliever
makes in a home stand.
A week later, when the spins finally stopped, Biff called. He said he
and the fighters had the perfect call sign for me. Said he'd send it
on a patch for my flight suit. What is it? I asked. "Two Bags."
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: Jack & Louise Hart <jbhart@ldd.net>
At 07:30 PM 6/15/03 EDT, you wrote:
>--> Kolb-List message posted by: DAquaNut@aol.com
>
>
> Group,
> Anybody ever try to lengthen the wires on a tini-tach. My leads are
>about 18"to short af making it to my panel. I purchased it over a year ago so
i
>dont think they would want to take it back.
>
> Ed Diebel
>
Ed,
I stretched the lead by splicing in some small diameter microphone cord that I
got from Radio Shack. It is much like miniature coax cable. One can peel the
outside shield back and solder together the inside conductor and insulate it
from the outside shielding with some heat shrink tubing. Then roll the outside
shielding back into place and solder again and cover that splice with larger
heat shrink tubing. No problems with tiny tach operations after the splice.
Jack B. Hart FF004
Jackson, MO
Jack & Louise Hart
jbhart@ldd.net
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