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1. 12:21 AM - Matronics Email List Fund Raiser During November! (dralle@matronics.com)
2. 08:51 AM - Re: Kolb factory (JetPilot)
3. 10:52 AM - Re: More Flying pictures (JetPilot)
4. 06:52 PM - Today's Flight in East Tennessee (Steven Green)
5. 07:42 PM - Re: More Flying pictures (grantr)
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Subject: | Matronics Email List Fund Raiser During November! |
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Subject: | Re: Kolb factory |
Kolb closes at 4 PM if I remember correctly. Its to bad you missed them, you
could not find a nicer bunch of people anywhere.
Mike
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"NO FEAR" - If you have no fear you did not go as fast as you could
have !!!
Kolb MK-III Xtra, 912-S
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Subject: | Re: More Flying pictures |
Hi GrantR,
Great pictures, I looked at the ones on Photobucket also ! What kind of performance
do you get with 2 people on board ? I also notice your large trim tab
on one aileron, are you aware that there is a way to adjust the incidence of the
wings so that the trim tab will not be needed ? Given the angle of that trim
tab, you might get a nicer flying airplane and a little better performance
out of your kolb by fine tuning the incidence of the wings rather than trimming
the ailerons that much. Kolb sells adjustable U joints for the rear attachment
of the wings in which you can adjust the incidence with washers. I did this
with my Kolb and it worked very well.
On the EGT's, 1200 is right on the upper edge, much higher and you will start seizing
things in the engine [Shocked] . You are correct to suspect the accuracy
of the temperature readings, sometimes they can be way off. The big question
is though, which was correct, the 900 or the 1200 degree readings ? Reading
the plugs will help you diagnose this. I would suggest you call Lockwood
aviation technical support, Kerry knows these engines very well and could give
you some very good advice, and its a free call :) One thing I found, pitching
the prop a bit more so that you run a couple hundred less RPM's will result
in a large reduction of EGT's.
Mike
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have !!!
Kolb MK-III Xtra, 912-S
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Subject: | Today's Flight in East Tennessee |
Got the Kolb in the air today, first time since returning home from TNK
in Sep. Flew up the Hiwassee river to Hiwassee lake at Farner then
followed highway 68 through Coker Creek to Tellico Plains then back
across Starr Mountain, made a couple passes up and down the Conasauga
valley then back to MMI for the best landing I have made in at least a
month. It was a beautiful flight.
Steven
MK3 912
do not archive
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Subject: | Re: More Flying pictures |
Mike,
I don't know what the numbers are on the climb with 2 people on board. When i was
taking lessons in my plane My instructor and I weighed in at about 325# together
and the plane performed fine. We had a 3600 foot runway and we would be
about 350 feet by the end of it. Takeoff roll was about 600 feet on asphalt.
We also used the grass from time to time that was 2500 feet long and it was enough
to clear 40 foot trees by a good margin. It climbs much better than a C
150.
Flying solo here at my home base I am using the grass along the runway and it is
950 feet long. The plane is up in about 400 feet on the rough grass. Landing
is about the same with no brakes.
I use the whole runway and its a 6000 foot runway. I am at right around 950 when
I pass the end of the runway. This is starting my climb shallow 65 IAS until
about 100 agl and climbing 55 to 60 the rest of the time.
I wish I could find a cheap VSI just to see what the climb rate is.
My plane weights about 450# empty. Cruise rpm with 2 was 6K now solo its 53 to
5500 rpm.
I weigh 155# and I have 20# ballast flying solo.
The 503 on the MKIII seems to be a good match.
Thanks Mike No I didn't know about the adjustable U joints. I will look into that.
I think I have the egt issue resolved. I should have checked the jets 1st. the
needle and the idler jet were the right size however The carbs had #145 main
jets when it should have had #158s. I didn't have any jets on had so I drilled
those out with a 1/16 drill bit and now egts are around 1100o. The engine is
running just as good with the change. Spark plugs were not very brown from
the last flight before the change. They were more of an off white color.
I personally like my 2 stokes to run on the slight rich side.
I put up some pictures of the egt reading from today on photobucket
http://s340.photobucket.com/albums/o353/grant31781/Engine/
I am going to try those vgs that you have and see how that changes things on my
plane. She handles great now but if I can get it better why not try it!
Grant
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