Today's Message Index:
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1. 04:23 AM - Re: Kolb Amphib Floats (N27SB@aol.com)
2. 05:22 AM - Re: IVO with Power Tips (Thom Riddle)
3. 06:10 AM - Re: Tube caps and covering (garvelink)
4. 06:14 AM - Prop tips (Terry)
5. 11:18 AM - Alaska (jhauck@elmore.rr.com)
6. 12:38 PM - swiveling tailwheel (Pat Lavigne)
7. 07:32 PM - Hello From Alaska (jhauck@elmore.rr.com)
Message 1
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| Subject: | Re: Kolb Amphib Floats |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: N27SB@aol.com
Things went well on Tues, retract system reassembled, floats connected with spreader
bars. We moved the floats to a nearby pond and were lucky to find 1200lbs
of self moving,self destructive ballast. (teenagers)
The floats handled both gross weight and empty weight loads. after which they were
subjected a variety of creative impact and twisting loads. Nothing can wring
out a landing gear system like a half a dozen wet teenagers.
More later
Steve Boetto
At Chestnut Knowles
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| Subject: | Re: IVO with Power Tips |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Thom Riddle" <jtriddle@adelphia.net>
Jack and others,
Verifying TAS by using the average of upwind and downwind GPS groundspeeds is valid.
Doing this across the prevailing winds is not valid and will always show
a higher average groundspeed than your TAS. The error is due to the cross-wind
component and is a function of both the value of the x-wind component and the
actual airspeed. The higher the TAS the less this matters and the higher the
x-wind component the more it matters.
The groundspeed average is equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of
the x-wind component and the TAS. GS (XW
2 + TAS
2)
.5 So, as long as there is a cross-wind component the average groundspeed will
be greater than the TAS. For up and down wind averages, even when you are several
degrees off, the x-wind component is so small that it is insignificant. Some
folks say you have to do a triangular course to get precise TAS from average
GPS groundspeeds and that indeed is another way to do it, but for all practical
purposes up and down wind GPS groundspeed averages yield very accurate TAS
as long as you hold all the variables as constant as possible.
Thom in Buffalo
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| Subject: | Re: Tube caps and covering |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "garvelink" <link@cdc.net>
May keep the dirt dobbers out!
Srglink
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronnie Wehba" <rwehba@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Tube caps and covering
> --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Ronnie Wehba" <rwehba@cox.net>
>
> Hi, will why should anyone be offended?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <WillUribe@aol.com>
> To: <kolb-list@matronics.com>
> Subject: RE: Kolb-List: Tube caps and covering
>
>
> > --> Kolb-List message posted by: WillUribe@aol.com
> >
> > Greetings,
> > I used aluminum tape to cover the ends of the tubes.
> > Take a look;
> > http://members.aol.com/WillUribe/tape01.jpg
> > http://members.aol.com/WillUribe/tape02.jpg
> >
> > Regards,
> > Will Uribe
> > El Paso, TX
> > FireStar II N4GU
> > C-172 N2506U
> > http://home.elp.rr.com/airplane/
> > Do not archive and my apologies to anyone who is offended by this post.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com
> > [mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Giovanni Day
> > To: Kolb list
> > Subject: Kolb-List: Tube caps and covering
> >
> > --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Giovanni Day" <gde01@bellsouth.net>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am finally about to start covering those MKIII wings. Can someone tell
> > me if it is advisable to use those little metal caps in the ends of the
> > tubes before covering? If so where did you find them? Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > Giovanni Day
> > MKIII 912 80566
> >
> > Do Not Archive
> >
> >
>
>
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: Terry <tkrolfe@usadatanet.net>
Jack,
Glad it worked out for you. I have been very pleased with the change and wouldn't
go back to
the original square tips. As I stated before, so much improvement in sound and
performance for
so little change!
Post pictures when you can, I want to see how you went about it. Did you contour
foil the tips
as well as cutting them at an angle? How are you going to protect the tips on
your IVO? Not
an issue with my wood prop.
Terry - FireFly #95
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: jhauck@elmore.rr.com
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Hi All:
Still waiting for forest fires to burn out in the Bettles area before departing
for the North Slope.
I have been here in North Pole going on 5 days now. Getting antsy and ready to
go. I got the airplane ready to fly a couple days ago: Cleaned and regapped
spark plugs, cleaned fuel filter, changed oil and filter.
Yesterday I flew 1.5 hours out over the flats west of North Pole, across the Tanana
River. Saw a lot of moose mamas, a few papas, and 4 babies. They are so
ugly they are pretty. Had a little wind blowing, but not bad. Ever once in
a while I would hit turbulence that would literally knock the crap out of the
airplane. When I got home I discovered I had flown through invisible "dust devils".
No dust out on the Tanana Flats, therefore the dust devils are invisible.
Will certainly get ones attention.
If it looks like the fire problem in the Bettles area is going to be with us for
a few more days, I will fly south and visit the areas of Alaska I have not had
the priviledge to fly in the past, the Kenai Peninsula and areas around the
Alaska Range east and southeast of Delta Junction. Then head back up to North
Pole and try to make Point Barrow and other points inbetween.
Yesterday's high was 85F. This is 10 to 20 degrees hotter than the average for
this area. I am wearing shorts and T-shirt, same as Alabama uniform. Impossible
for the new Wal*Mart Supercenter to keep AC window units in stock. Normally,
ACs do not sell well in Alaska.
I am extremely fortunate to have a good friend to stay with here in North Pole.
They treat me like family. There are an awful lot of good people left in this
old world.
Take care,
john h
DO NOT ARCHIVE
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| Subject: | swiveling tailwheel |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Pat Lavigne" <pjl53@hotmail.com>
I purchased a swiveling tailwheel from TNK when I was there for
transitional training.
After I put it on the plane I noticed that it canted to the left. I thought
I drilled it wrong, so I took it off and drilled as straight or plumb as I
could.
Put it back on and the same thing.
When I i land the plane goes off to the right into the weeds or whatever,
and no amount of left rudder will stop it. (no fun).
I'm just wondering if anyone has had a similiar problem.
Thanks,
Pat FS2 driver in Rochester,N.Y.
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| Subject: | Hello From Alaska |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: jhauck@elmore.rr.com
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Hi All:
Will get up early in the morning, load the MKIII, and fly down to Mount McKinley,
Talkeetna, Willow, Wassilla, and Palmer, AK. Have a friend to stay with in
Palmer, which is a few miles from Anchorage. From here I will be able to make
day flights down the Kenai Peninsula to Homer, Seward, Kenai, Soldotna, Anchor
Point and other places I have not had the pleasure to fly to. Also plan a
flight to Valdez, McCarthy, Gulkana, Eureka Lodge and Skelton's Airstrip, where
I spent the night on my flight up here 10 years ago.
The airplane is full of 90 octane car gas. That's as high an octane as it gets
up here. I think the 912S will operate ok on it. There was also some 100LL
in the tank to bring up the octane and I will stop and get some airplane gas at
Talkeetna.k
Hope the big mountain, Mt McKinley, is clear tomorrow. This is the fourth trip
up here and have never seen the highest mountain in the North American Continent.
Still hot as blue blazes up here, but worse in Alabama.
Take care,
john h
DO NOT ARCHIVE
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