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1. 03:00 AM - Re: Recent Kolb Trip (PATRICK LADD)
2. 03:29 AM - Re: Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying (PATRICK LADD)
3. 06:31 AM - Re: Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying (Don Gherardini)
4. 06:31 AM - Re: insurance in the UK and US (bryan green)
5. 06:39 AM - Re: Oshkosh 2005 (John Hauck)
6. 07:03 AM - List Protocol (John Hauck)
7. 10:23 AM - Re: Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying (robert bean)
8. 11:20 AM - [ Denny Rowe ] : New Email List Photo Share Available! (Email List Photo Shares)
9. 11:33 AM - Re: [ Denny Rowe ] : New Email List Photo Share Available! (Steve Cooper)
10. 11:51 AM - [ Mike Pierzina ] : New Email List Photo Share Available! (Email List Photo Shares)
11. 01:15 PM - Exhaust tune (Herb Gayheart)
12. 01:47 PM - Fw: Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying (David L. Bigelow)
13. 02:12 PM - Re: Fw: Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying (bryan green)
14. 02:47 PM - Taxi Requirement? (John Hauck)
15. 03:06 PM - Re: Exhaust tune (Don Gherardini)
16. 06:02 PM - Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. (Herb Gayheart)
17. 06:38 PM - Re: evening flight in England (GeoR38@aol.com)
18. 06:38 PM - Re: Rotax 503 Failure Poll (GeoR38@aol.com)
19. 07:12 PM - Re: Subaru Engine (GeoR38@aol.com)
20. 07:31 PM - First Flight From I22 (Jack & Louise Hart)
21. 07:40 PM - Re:Taxi Requirement? (Mike Pierzina)
22. 07:49 PM - Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. (Beauford)
23. 08:06 PM - Re: Recent Trip (GeoR38@aol.com)
24. 08:13 PM - Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. (Don Gherardini)
25. 08:20 PM - Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. (Don Gherardini)
26. 09:14 PM - Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. (Herb Gayheart)
27. 09:31 PM - Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance./die spring thrust tester (Herb Gayheart)
28. 09:53 PM - Re: First Flight From I22 (DAquaNut@aol.com)
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| Subject: | Re: Recent Kolb Trip |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "PATRICK LADD" <pj.ladd@btinternet.com>
How does insurance work on something llike that? If the inspector was to go
down in your ship (heaven forbid), whose liability is it? It sounds like
you have to jump through a few more hoops in the U.K. than we do here. What
about crow-hopping? Will both you and the inspector be doing some of that
too?>>
Hi Steve,
Good questions, and this being the the UK and not the USA, not something to
which I have given much thought.
I assume that Inspectors, who are appointed by the PFA, have some cover
through the organisation..
Jumping through hoops? .Maybe. Seems to be swings and roundabouts You have a
bit more freedom in one place and we have a bit somewhere else.
Our system seems fairly logical, at least to us.
The government, in the form of the CAA, has handed over the running of some
sectors of the flying game to responsible organisatons. Light a/c,
homebuilts are the resposibility of the PFA. Gliding goes to the British
Gliding Assoc. and ultralights are Brit. Microlight Assoc. There is some
blurring around the edges but that is generally correct. Each organisation
runs an engineering section, inspectorate, instructors etc.,
In the PFA`s case when a new machine is designed, or imported, supporting
paperwork and calculations must prove that it conforms to `Section S`, which
is the bible, and this guarantees that it wont break. This sometimes
precludes machines with many designs with thousands of flying hours which
is often annoying if you want to import one for yourself.
The PFA engineering dept. will scrutinise, test fly, check that the machine
is legally what it is supposed to be,check for acceptable flying
characteristics, and check the quality of any kits. Wing loading and MAUW in
the case of ultralights and the noise levels.
Approval of `TYPE` will then be issued and the import or production can
start.
The purchaser will then select a local Inspector from the PFA`s list and he
will oversee the construction. If early on you prove that your workmanship
is acceptable he will not bother you much but he will make a few calls and
ensure that you have not departed from the plans (much). If you produce bad
work he will make you do it again. Sometimes inspectors charge, sometimes
not.When construction is finished you KNOW that it will fly and not kill
you.
When I built the Challenger, I was a fairly early buyer, the dealer and his
test pilot turned up, checked it over, checked the C of G and flew it. I had
already taxied it around and (accidentaly) bounced into the air a couple of
times. Then I flew it myself. But that is another story.
With the Kolb my inspector will check fly it and I have an arrangement with
Kiwimick ( our dealer) for 3 hours conversion as part of the deal. Being
with another pilot I do not expect to do crowhops, just lots of take offs
and landings.
You seem to have much more latitude, change engines, rejig angles of wings,
tailplanes, weight distribution etc., . Truly `Experimental`. There is some
pressure here for an Experimental category also.
Sorry this is a bit long. Anyone not interested just hit the `delete`
Pat
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| Subject: | Re: Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "PATRICK LADD" <pj.ladd@btinternet.com>
I lengthened both struts to get several degrees wing dihedral >>
Hi,
this is the sort of thing I meant when I suggested that you had much more
room for manoeuvre in the US.
Doing this would require a `major mod` approval here as it would alter the
flying characteristics. Also lengthening a strut may well require increasing
its diameter as well to maintain its strength. Engineering calculations
would be required.
Cheers
Pat
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| Subject: | Re: Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Don Gherardini" <donghe@one-eleven.net>
Dave,
I fly my firefly in wind up to 20...thats about the max for me...but on a
sunny day with spotty clouds...I might stay home due to rough air,with
little wind. Thats alot worse on me than just wind..when it gets too "bumpy"
so to speak.
Let me share a short story with you.
I decided to make a short "around the patch " video of flight in my Kolb.
The day was pretty windy, but slightly overcast. I decided to wait till
afternoon, maybe the wind will lay.
Went to the airpark and several fellas were standing around waiting to get a
flight but it was way to windy for them...challengers, Teams aircraft
(minimaxs, V-maxs, and a Eros) and quicksilvers were their birds. The wind
was just not cooperateing...getting on in the day but wind up to 20mph
steady, and directly 90 degrees from our 2500ft grass strip..Well these guys
were all talking about the terrible wind and getting kinda disgusted. Now, I
did not want to be accussed of being a daredevil or reckless, so I just
stood and listened to the jawin. I kept thinking that jeez, when I learned
to fly wayback when in Oklahoma,(30 years ago) we were happy to see just 20
mph of wind..and I thought no reason to look like a show off in front of
these my hangar mates. IF I just wait they will all go home and I will get
in my short flight and see if this video idea will work.
Some of the guys went home but some of the longer winded types just kept
talking. Finally I slipped away and pushed out the Kolb.
Wind now 20 and better ..but fairly steady. I made my flight..nary a hitch,
got my neat little video and when I landed They were all gone but the
airpark operator. I asked him where everybody went, and he said....well...2
left kinda disgusted...one said he was going to find a phone to call the
nuthouse for you, and the other 2 left talking about building a Kolb next!!!
Here is a link to the video I made that day, it on on my brothers RC model
website, as I couldnt figure out how to get it on my builders pages.
http://www.dgmodels.rchomepage.com/index.htm
scroll down and look for.."take a ride in the Flagfly" THe video quality is
not the best, but look at the windsock at the begining of the video..taken
from the cockpit getting ready to launch.
Just let me say this, with the comparatively heavy wing loading of a
FireFly, and its better than average controlability compared to other very
light designs. Its cross wind capacity is will let you fly when most other
cannot.
Don Gherardini
FireFly 098
http://www.geocities.com/dagger369th/my_firefly.htm
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| Subject: | Re: insurance in the UK and US |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: bryan green <lgreen1@sc.rr.com>
There you go guys I changed the topic for you have a happy 4th. :~)
Bryan Green
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PATRICK LADD wrote:
>--> Kolb-List message posted by: "PATRICK LADD" <pj.ladd@btinternet.com>
>
>How does insurance work on something llike that? If the inspector was to go
>down in your ship (heaven forbid), whose liability is it? It sounds like
>you have to jump through a few more hoops in the U.K. than we do here. What
>about crow-hopping? Will both you and the inspector be doing some of that
>too?>>
>
>Hi Steve,
> Good questions, and this being the the UK and not the USA, not something to
>which I have given much thought.
>I assume that Inspectors, who are appointed by the PFA, have some cover
>through the organisation..
>Jumping through hoops? .Maybe. Seems to be swings and roundabouts You have a
>bit more freedom in one place and we have a bit somewhere else.
>Our system seems fairly logical, at least to us.
>The government, in the form of the CAA, has handed over the running of some
>sectors of the flying game to responsible organisatons. Light a/c,
>homebuilts are the resposibility of the PFA. Gliding goes to the British
>Gliding Assoc. and ultralights are Brit. Microlight Assoc. There is some
>blurring around the edges but that is generally correct. Each organisation
>runs an engineering section, inspectorate, instructors etc.,
>In the PFA`s case when a new machine is designed, or imported, supporting
>paperwork and calculations must prove that it conforms to `Section S`, which
>is the bible, and this guarantees that it wont break. This sometimes
>precludes machines with many designs with thousands of flying hours which
>is often annoying if you want to import one for yourself.
>The PFA engineering dept. will scrutinise, test fly, check that the machine
>is legally what it is supposed to be,check for acceptable flying
>characteristics, and check the quality of any kits. Wing loading and MAUW in
>the case of ultralights and the noise levels.
>Approval of `TYPE` will then be issued and the import or production can
>start.
>The purchaser will then select a local Inspector from the PFA`s list and he
>will oversee the construction. If early on you prove that your workmanship
>is acceptable he will not bother you much but he will make a few calls and
>ensure that you have not departed from the plans (much). If you produce bad
>work he will make you do it again. Sometimes inspectors charge, sometimes
>not.When construction is finished you KNOW that it will fly and not kill
>you.
>When I built the Challenger, I was a fairly early buyer, the dealer and his
>test pilot turned up, checked it over, checked the C of G and flew it. I had
>already taxied it around and (accidentaly) bounced into the air a couple of
>times. Then I flew it myself. But that is another story.
>
>With the Kolb my inspector will check fly it and I have an arrangement with
>Kiwimick ( our dealer) for 3 hours conversion as part of the deal. Being
>with another pilot I do not expect to do crowhops, just lots of take offs
>and landings.
>
>You seem to have much more latitude, change engines, rejig angles of wings,
>tailplanes, weight distribution etc., . Truly `Experimental`. There is some
>pressure here for an Experimental category also.
>
>Sorry this is a bit long. Anyone not interested just hit the `delete`
>
>Pat
>
>do not archive
>
>
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: Oshkosh 2005 |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Hauck" <jhauck@elmore.rr.com>
Hi Scott:
Thanks for the invite.
Not sure what I am going to do for Oshkosh, but if I get up your way,
I will certainly stop in for a visit.
Are you going to be able to fly down to OSH|?
john h
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Hauck" <jhauck@elmore.rr.com>
|
I've never even considered the idea that somebody might have a
reason for keeping them rigidly on topic. I'll do what I can to honor
your request but I can't guarantee it because I won't always know that
it's your thread. |
| Steve
Steve/Gang:
I believe the primary reason for sticking to the subject is to enable
us to find information in the archives.
A lot of dribble gets placed in the archives because we forget to
place DO NOT ARCHIVE at the bottom of our posts.
There is a comprehensive list of rules, guidelines, posted by Matt
once a month. I need at read and comply with his wishes as well as
the rest of the members of our List.
Happy 4th of July to all!
john h
titus, AL
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| Subject: | Re: Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: robert bean <slyck@frontiernet.net>
nice video Don. Felt almost like flying.
-BB do not archive
>
> http://www.dgmodels.rchomepage.com/index.htm
> scroll down and look for.."take a ride in the Flagfly" THe video
> quality is
> not the best, but look at the windsock at the begining of the
> video..taken
> from the cockpit getting ready to launch.
>
>
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: Herb Gayheart <herbgh@juno.com>
Guys
Haven't flown my Firefly for a while. I consider the fact that it will
not turn up to normal rpm's with a 66 inch two blade or a 60 inch three
blade IVO to be a problem. It boggs down at 4k rpms with a 66 inch two
blade. Abt same with three blade.
The engine is a brand new "old" points 447 that came with an exhaust
wye but no muffler. Noticing that the mufflers were the same across all
engines; I installed one that I had from a 532 rotax.
The length from the exhaust port to the ball joint is 11 inches. From
there to the muffler is 20 1/4 inches. Muffler is 15 1/2 inches long and
the exhaust stub is 1 and one half inches long. I am wondering if I have
the wrong combination of exhaust parts installed?
I am in the process of checking seals, compression and timing. Herb
in Ky
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| Subject: | Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "David L. Bigelow" <dlbigelow@verizon.net>
Sounds like we all have come pretty much to the same conclusions regarding how
much wind we like to fly in. I generally avoid anything above about 15 mph unless
it is down the runway and fairly steady. I've flown my Firestar with wind
up to 25 mph, and had no problem with control, but it just isn't much fun.
Taxiing crosswind or downwind with that much wind is a challenge. Also, I'm reluctant
to park nose into the wind and get out with anything above 20 mph - too
much of a chance of a gust picking up the nose and blowing the plane over.
Parking tail into the wind works, but the ailerons bang around a lot. I've thought
about making an aileron gust lock to carry in the plane. Single handed
rigging when exposed to wind over 15 is pretty exciting too.
I didn't like the spiral instability with my Firestar rigged with just the little
bit of dihedral per the plans. I set the dihedral at 3.5 degrees, which takes
away a lot of the busy work of keeping the wings level in turbulence and still
allows a nice snappy roll rate. I do find the VG's give a better and more
solid control feel in rough air. My Firestar is the best flying and most controllable
ultralight I've flown. It's well designed, tough, and I don't worry
about in flight structural failure. Hats off to Homer!
Thanks for all the feedback.
Dave Bigelow
FS 2, 503 DCDI
Kamuela, HI
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| Subject: | Re: Maximum Wind for Kolb Flying |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: bryan green <lgreen1@sc.rr.com>
David L. Bigelow wrote:
>--> Kolb-List message posted by: "David L. Bigelow" <dlbigelow@verizon.net>
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>
> I've thought about making an aileron gust lock to carry in the plane. Single
handed rigging when exposed to wind over 15 is pretty exciting too.
>
> Hi Dave I carry a bungee cord with me when you park take a few turns around
the stick to get the right tension then attach it to the tubes on eather
side of the cockpit. It makes a nice light cheap control lock that you will not
forget to remove.
>
>
Bryan Green Elgin SC
Firestar 447 BRS
>Thanks for all the feedback.
>
>Dave Bigelow
>FS 2, 503 DCDI
>Kamuela, HI
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| Subject: | Taxi Requirement? |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Hauck" <jhauck@elmore.rr.com>
Mike/Gang:
Sorry, I do not understand the requirement to taxi as a prerequisite
to a complete homebuilt inspection. For some, it may be the first
time the builder/owner has had a chance to taxi his new airplane. Be
a shame to break it at that time. I always felt better about feeling
out a new airplane by doing it when I am alone at my airstrip or other
strip that is not busy.
john h
Ft Campbell, KY (temporarily)
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| Subject: | Re: Exhaust tune |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Don Gherardini" <donghe@one-eleven.net>
Herb,
might be the weather, if it is as hot and sticky there as it has been in
illinois...
I flew last weekend in 97 degreee heat....real high humidity...noticed 6250
WOT on climbout instead of the 6500 I usually see the way I have the prop
adjusted. When I set it all up a few months ago, it was in much cooler temps
and lower humidity...so I resisted the temptation to unload the prop a tad
(Crank out a little pitch on that Ivo)
All that said....you still might have it a tad rich at midrange if it wont
"get over the hump" of 4k...which in that case, I might lower the needle a
notch...but watch the temps at cruise rpm setting.
BTW I am still running a 60 inch 2 blade....I dont have quite the room to
install the 66, thinking about cutting it back to 63 or 64 and trying
it....love those red blades!!!
Don Gherardini
FireFly 098
http://www.geocities.com/dagger369th/my_firefly.htm
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| Subject: | Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: Herb Gayheart <herbgh@juno.com>
Don and all
This 447 has been this way from day one. I have flown it for 5 hours
with a 62 inch ivo but only get 6200 or so max. Plugs look just a bit
rich. One piston was completely covered with carbon and the other has a
splotchy pattern with completely clean areas. . One head was clean as new
and the other has carbon/oil build up.
I am in the process of checking it out today. I cannot find a method
to check crank end seals. Is it: close off exhaust port, install plug
and pressurize the case through the intake port. Piston all the way up?
Anyone know how much pressure to use? Cannot be much?
Herb
Ps Glad you liked the blades.
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:08:48 -0500 "Don Gherardini"
<donghe@one-eleven.net> writes:
> --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Don Gherardini"
> <donghe@one-eleven.net>
>
> Herb,
> might be the weather, if it is as hot and sticky there as it has
> been in
> illinois...
> I flew last weekend in 97 degreee heat....real high
> humidity...noticed 6250
> WOT on climbout instead of the 6500 I usually see the way I have the
> prop
> adjusted. When I set it all up a few months ago, it was in much
> cooler temps
> and lower humidity...so I resisted the temptation to unload the prop
> a tad
> (Crank out a little pitch on that Ivo)
>
> All that said....you still might have it a tad rich at midrange if
> it wont
> "get over the hump" of 4k...which in that case, I might lower the
> needle a
> notch...but watch the temps at cruise rpm setting.
>
> BTW I am still running a 60 inch 2 blade....I dont have quite the
> room to
> install the 66, thinking about cutting it back to 63 or 64 and
> trying
> it....love those red blades!!!
>
> Don Gherardini
> FireFly 098
> http://www.geocities.com/dagger369th/my_firefly.htm
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: evening flight in England |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: GeoR38@aol.com
In a message dated 6/24/2005 4:18:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
pj.ladd@btinternet.com writes:
when the sun gets low the air stills.>>
Hi,
your post just hit the right note. Here is last nights flight.
It has been hot, by our standards, 80 to 90 for a week but with with a
strongish gusty South wind which unfortunately did not drop in the evening. No
flying.
Yesterday was the same except that the wind ceased. In the evening it was
beautiful.
My inspector had done my annual C of A the day before, leaving me to do the
flying checks. A timed climb from 1 to 2000 ft and a flight to VNE. This
should be done in smooth conditions and last night was perfect.
Flew at 7.30 pm from my strip, which really is a strip at the moment as the
runway is the only cut bit in a field of mowing grass. Climbed into a
cloudless sky with just a few little tickles from fading thermals. Did my climb
by
my stopwatch and then pushed the speed up to 100 mph. All straightforward.
Landed to check the plane over after pushing up to VNE and to read my
stopwatch. The dial of my cheapo imitation Brietling is too small to read without
changing glasses, a complication I can do without in an open cockpit.
Took off again, in shirt sleeves and shorts about 8.15pm. Did the climb
check again to confirm my stopwatch reading and then wandered of in a slow climb
to 3000ft agl.along the edge of Salisbury Plain looking for Crop Circles. The
visibility was around 20 miles with the lowering sun casting long shadows
across deep green fields. Columns of smoke from garden bonfires rose straight
up and there were a few tractors working on the farms below, getting in the
hay..
I flew along the Ridgeway, an old neolithic track, old when Stonehenge was
built, which stretches for miles across the rolling hills and with the
shadows being cast I could see the shapes if the hillcamps where the local tribes
lived before the Romans came, and the hillocks of the tumuli where their
warriors are buried.
Silbury Hill, the largest man made hill in Europe showed up to port. No one
knows what it was for but the Roman Road from Londinium to Aque Sulis (Bath)
goes ROUND it.
Just over there is the town in which I live, soft yellow limestone glowing
in the sunlight. Saxons lived there on the side of the river about 600 years
after Christ was born, and built one of the first churches in England. It is
still there. A Roman later built a fine villa overlooking the river. We know
because the tiled floor and the hypocaust and the foundations were discovered
under the school playing field a couple of years ago.
Just below me, in those hay fields, is the site of the battle of Ethandune,
now the village of Edington, where King Alfred defeated the Danes. A couple
of miles away is the old 1940`s airfield where I learned to fly and from
which as a boy, I watched the Stirlings and Horsa gliders leave for the Normandy
beaches and for the catastrophe of Arnhem
There is the huge ditch and embankment which runs across the Plain as far as
the Severn, more than a hundred miles. There is a legend that a ghostly
carriage and four black horses are sometimes seen galloping along it as the body
of a Queen of England is taken to her final resting place.
One of the eight White Horses cut in the chalk of the Wiltshire hillsides
drifted by underneath as I turned back towards the setting sun.
Peering into the sunset I could just make out about 15 balloons drifting
across the sky 10 miles away so I put in a dogleg so that I wasn`t flying blind
into the sun and throttled back for a quiet easy drift slowly downwards to my
field. Slight mist was just beginning to form in the valleys.
One of the other ultra lights on my strip was being tucked away in the barn
and another was just taxying in as I drifted on the downwind leg.
I made a long approach over a trailerload of hay which had been left right
in the way.
Smooth touchdown and taxy in.I cut the engine and enjoy a quiet moment
listening to the birds before climbing out and pushing my plane into its hangar.
Slight mist just condensing on the windscreen. It is 9.15pm.
Exchange a few words with the other pilots about a fly-in this weekend and
then home to a beer on the porch to watch the full moon come up, blood red and
huge, over the distant hills. It was so bright that watching the moon rise
was like watching a sunset in reverse. What a day!
Cheers
Pat
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and to this, I must add .............................wow!
George Randolph
Firestar driver from the Villages, Fla
ps I'd like to say ... been there done that, but, indeed, .... I've never
been to England, then, ....have I?
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| Subject: | Re: Rotax 503 Failure Poll |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: GeoR38@aol.com
In a message dated 6/21/2005 4:51:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
muso2080@yahoo.com writes:
I believe I'll have to concede that point and thank-you for setting me
straight. It makes perfect sense. I'll never be able to prove it though as I'm
not willing to intentionally turn off a perfectly good running Rotax 503 and
risk stuffing my airplane for the sake of practice or anything else. The REAL
event, unplanned and possibly over hostile territory, is going to have a
decidedly different flavor from anything you could stage anyway. I don't know
if
there is anything you could do that would adequately prepare you for it.
I've landed "out" (away from the airport) a handful of times flying
cross-country in 1-26 gliders and each time was a totally unique experience.
Steve Kroll
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| Subject: | Re: Subaru Engine |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: GeoR38@aol.com
In a message dated 6/21/2005 11:37:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
rswiderski@earthlink.net writes:
My SPG-2 gear reduction is rated at 135hp
(4-stroke) & will work on either the 3 or 4 cyl as is, & on the Suburu with
a different adapter. The Suzuki's are fuel injected & have a bullet proof
reputation, though they will not have the smoothness of a flat 4.
Richard Swiderski
Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel & gaining on Big Lar
Is this a Malapropism ....er.....what??!!
George Randolph
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| Subject: | First Flight From I22 |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: Jack & Louise Hart <jbhart@ldd.net>
Kolbers,
The Victor 1+ is back together, and the FireFly is back in the air. A ten
minute flight which included a couple turns over my house and then over my
daughter's house, and then back to the airport. It was great to get back
into the air.
Jack B. Hart FF004
Winchester, IN
Jack & Louise Hart
jbhart@ldd.net
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| Subject: | RE:Taxi Requirement? |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: Mike Pierzina <planecrazzzy@yahoo.com>
Hey John/Guys,
That was my "Beef" too.....Why did I have to taxi it???? I already
did
the required taxi before the airworthiness inspection was set-up.....I
taxi'd it at my Granny's field....slow taxi only...I didn't want to fast taxi
til after
my airworthiness inspection....just incase it should get airborne...
My primary FAA (mido) inspector Eldon Griffin , who was a SOB about everything....
because he looks at REAL AIRPLANES....yeah, get over yerself Eldon...
Anyway , he told my DAR to witness the plane taxi...he said "to check the brakes"...
I told my DAR ( Tim Mahoney - Good Guy ) My plane doesn't even need to have brakes.
I have brakes but their not required....When Tim told my Primary Inspector that
he
could look at my plane...set-up in my yard...and it wasn't nessesary to watch
it
taxi....He was THREATENED that if he didn't do exactly what he (Eldon) wanted ,
he wouldn't be inspecting any planes in the future....
I'm just GLAD IT"S OVER.
It did taxi pretty good ...I have good tention on the tailwheel springs (compresstion)
Thanks to monitoring the "list"
Gotta Fly...
Mike in MN N381PM
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "John Hauck" <jhauck@elmore.rr.com> Mike/Gang:Sorry,
I do not understand the requirement to taxi as a prerequisite to a complete
homebuilt inspection. For some, it may be the first time the builder/owner
has had a chance to taxi his new airplane. Be a shame to break it at that
time. I always felt better about feeling out a new airplane by doing it when
I am alone at my airstrip or other strip that is not busy.john hFt Campbell, KY
(temporarily)
My Web Site:
http://www.geocities.com/planecrazzzy/Planecrazzzy.html
Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down...
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Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football
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| Subject: | Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Beauford" <beauford@tampabay.rr.com>
Brother Gayheart...
Ah, the mighty 447.... I cannot explain why your engine will only produce
6200...you didn't mention whether that was full throttle in level flight, or
whether you had tried adjusting the IVO to finer pitch, or whatever... I'm
no Rotax guru, but I would venture to offer that I don't believe 5 hours
should have already produced appreciable carbon buildup on a 447 piston
crown. It did not on mine. I can offer that I have verified and
re-verified the info and advice provided to me on this list to the effect
that jetting, prop loading and carbon accumulation are all interrelated
(BFOO). As for the uneven distrubution of the carbon, have you checked to
make sure the carb is aligned so as to be perfectly vertical to the
engine...? (Not the airplane, but the engine...)
My Bing seems exceedingly sensitive to this alignment, and will deliver
uneven mixtures to the cylinders if tilted off-axis just the slightest
amount.
Good luck, Sir...
Beauford
FF #076
Brandon, FL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Herb Gayheart" <herbgh@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance.
> --> Kolb-List message posted by: Herb Gayheart <herbgh@juno.com>
>
> Don and all
> This 447 has been this way from day one. I have flown it for 5 hours
> with a 62 inch ivo but only get 6200 or so max. Plugs look just a bit
> rich. One piston was completely covered with carbon and the other has a
> splotchy pattern with completely clean areas. . One head was clean as new
> and the other has carbon/oil build up.
>
> I am in the process of checking it out today. I cannot find a method
> to check crank end seals. Is it: close off exhaust port, install plug
> and pressurize the case through the intake port. Piston all the way up?
> Anyone know how much pressure to use? Cannot be much?
>
> Herb
> >>
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: GeoR38@aol.com
In a message dated 6/23/2005 10:32:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
kolbrapilot2@comcast.net writes:
It wasn't quite as primitive as I was ready for. I know John H. was worried
about me not getting my milk and donuts for breakfast, so check out this
picture of breakfast this morning:
http://home.comcast.net/~kolbrapilot/100_3882.JPG.
John W, I can't thank you enough for this very revealing picture of a moment
in the life of....
Although I already know you from Swiderski's campfires at Sun n Fun ......
Now I REALLY think I know you!!
George Randolph
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| Subject: | Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Don Gherardini" <donghe@one-eleven.net>
Herb, check the jet , those washed off areas on that piston are a definate
indication of to rich a mix...
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| Subject: | Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Don Gherardini" <donghe@one-eleven.net>
Herb,
ANother thought...
the washed off area on that piston...fuel not burning.raw fuel washing off
the piston..to rich..or...maybe weak spark on that coil....or the
plug......still a turn or 2 on the Ivo prop hub bolt should unload it and
then see if it will really wrap out...if not...I bet a buck its too rich or
a weak spark for either above reason
Don
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| Subject: | Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance. |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: Herb Gayheart <herbgh@juno.com>
Don , Bro. Beauford, all
The complicating factor is that it was run really rich for the first
few hours. The needle/clip was on the wrong side of the plastic keeper!
Bro. Pike diagnosed that for me. I tend to think that the carbon build
up was from that? I thought that finding the needle in the wrong
location would solve the problem? No luck.
Piston and rings and jugs are in good shape. Carb is aligned.
Compression was 117 and 120. How does that sound?
Straight and level, I see abt 6200 rpms. 62 inch two blade. Ivo.
Late this evening I buttoned it back up and moved on to timing and
ignition. Gonna make an insert for my dial indicator in the morning.
Thanks a bunch guys! :-) All asistance is appreciated. I haven't
flown for a month or more. Working on an N3 Pup also. Herb
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:15:56 -0500 "Don Gherardini"
<donghe@one-eleven.net> writes:
> --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Don Gherardini"
> <donghe@one-eleven.net>
>
> Herb, check the jet , those washed off areas on that piston are a
> definate
> indication of to rich a mix...
>
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| Subject: | Re: Exhaust tune/447 mal performance./die spring thrust tester |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: Herb Gayheart <herbgh@juno.com>
Don , Bro. Beauford, all
You are correct, Don, in that it was run really rich for the first
few hours. The needle/clip was on the wrong side of the plastic keeper!
Bro. Pike diagnosed that for me. I tend to think that the carbon build
up was from that? I thought that finding the needle in the wrong
location would solve the problem? No luck.
Since this is a new, old ,points ign engine, it is possible the end
seals are bad. One guy who repairs them. promises me that that is the
problem.
Piston and rings and jugs are in good shape. Carb is aligned.
Compression was 117 and 120. How does that sound?
Straight and level, I see abt 6200 rpms. 62 inch two blade. Ivo.
Late this evening I buttoned it back up and moved on to timing and
ignition. Gonna make an insert for my dial indicator in the morning.
Thanks a bunch guys! :-) All asistance is appreciated. I haven't
flown for a month or more. Working on an N3 Pup also. Herb
ps something that might be of interest--In replacing the bungee gear
on my Pup with die springs; I came across some interesting info. Turns
out that an 10 inch , blue die spring, deflects one inch per hundred
pounds. should make a good, cheap, static thrust tester. Just make it
like a die spring gear leg and attach a 6 inch rule that reads in tenth
of an inch. Should be good to 450 lbs or so.
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:15:56 -0500 "Don Gherardini"
<donghe@one-eleven.net> writes:
> --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Don Gherardini"
> <donghe@one-eleven.net>
>
> Herb, check the jet , those washed off areas on that piston are a
> definate
> indication of to rich a mix...
>
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| Subject: | Re: First Flight From I22 |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: DAquaNut@aol.com
In a message dated 7/2/2005 9:32:18 P.M. Central Standard Time,
jbhart@ldd.net writes:
It was great to get back
into the air.
Jack B. Hart FF004
Jack,
Great to hear your problem was not major, and you were able to get her
going so quickly
Ed
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