---------------------------------------------------------- Kolb-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 06/20/09: 7 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:51 AM - Re: Re: Rotax 503 running problem (Brad Stump) 2. 09:36 AM - Re: Rotax 503 running problem (dalewhelan) 3. 11:40 AM - Re: Re: Rotax 503 running problem (John Hauck) 4. 12:59 PM - Re: sweltering summer (cristalclear13) 5. 05:00 PM - Re: sweltering summer (lucien) 6. 07:09 PM - Re: Re: sweltering summer (John Hauck) 7. 08:05 PM - Re: sweltering summer (lucien) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:51:12 AM PST US From: Brad Stump Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem Sounds like you had plenty of lubrication.LOL I have found that in this world,we should learn from other peoples mistakes,most safety rules are put in place because someone else has been hurt or killed.If you play bt the rules than most of the time you will be fine.BTW "can't we all just get along" > -----Original Message----- > From: possums@bellsouth.net > Sent: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:16:22 -0400 > To: kolb-list@matronics.com > Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem > > > Try putting five gallons of diesel in it sometime. > I did that once when I used the wrong "green" handle at > the gas station where they have both gas & diesel > at the same pump and I had a hangover. Of course I had already added the > requisite amount of oil to the can so .............. don't know > what mixture that might have been. > > The sucker started and smoked like a mosquito fogger. But it ran. > I finally figured out what I had done after about five minutes > of smoking up half the county. I actually think it > helped lube up the bearings, but you could never rev it up > high enough to take off. > > > > >> > >To oil ratio I think giving it a bit more oil will improve its > >reliability. I guess you can wonder if there is any point to it, to > >make more smoke and less power. Once you reach the point where the > >motor gets all the lube it needs then we ain't doing it anymore good > >tossing more oil into it. > >We just need to be careful. >> > >Ron @ KFHU > >-=========================================================== > > ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 09:36:35 AM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem From: "dalewhelan" [quote="John Hauck"]> I like the direction this thread has started to move in. > Because I told you so has never been reason enough for me. > I prefer to understand why. > > -------- > Dale Whelan > > Experience is not gained behind the keyboard and monitor unless you are striving to improve your computer skills. I am sorry but I am not sure what you are trying to say. You quoted me but I don't see the continuity to your response. Just to clear the air I am not riled up and on a scale of 1 to 10 the most I have been on this board is about 1.5. I can question people without being riled up. Are you saying the only place to improve my flying skills is flying my plane? Are you saying you are tired of hearing from me? Didcompletelytly miss what you were trying to say? -------- Dale Whelan 503 powered Firestar II Projection, A simple and interesting Psychological concept Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=249224#249224 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 11:40:26 AM PST US From: "John Hauck" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Rotax 503 running problem > You quoted me but I don't see the continuity to your response. > -------- > Dale Whelan Dale: My screw up. Was not intended to reference your post. Sorry about that. john h mkIII ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 12:59:16 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: sweltering summer From: "cristalclear13" JetPilot wrote: > > 1000 feet, did you take your oxygen with you crystal ;) I think I go that high in the pattern just to stay legal, but I never stay that high long enough to get cool or hypoxia ! My Kolb is really happy flying around 10 feet over the middle of nowhere like John W. used to do in his videos. Glad to hear you having a good time, thats what its all about. > > Mike Our "middle of nowheres" are nothing but pine trees and swamp. I prefer to stay high to be able to get to some landing point if need be. Besides, I love heights. I love to get on a high mountain (of which we have none for hundreds of miles) and look out across the valley to the towns and countryside below. Flying gives me that same pleasure. I've always loved and collected miniature things and the earth looks so miniature from 1000+ feet. I love it when the trains (of which we have tons here in Waycross) are moving around while I'm up flying. It makes the earth look like a miniature train set. The cows and horses appear so small you almost can't tell them apart. Coming in for a landing today I saw some baby goats jumping around in a field. So cute. I went to the airport early and went up for a bit but it was already getting pretty bumpy and it was oh so hot and humid. Had a small piece of metal on the corner of my windscreen/door break. It is too hot to work on it. After having some cake and ice cream with some pilots at the airport, I left and noticed the temperature at Walgreens said 100. My car confirmed it (see pic). Feels worse than that with the humidity. Maybe it's just getting us ready for summer so that 90-95 won't feel so bad. Wish I had 2000 dollars to buy one of those big outdoor air conditioning units they sell at Tractor Supply. I'd put one in my hanger and work on the little squawks that are beginning to annoy me. -------- Cristal Waters Kolb Mark II Twinstar Rotax 503 DCSI Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=249249#249249 Attachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/june_20th_100_degrees_662.jpg ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 05:00:11 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: sweltering summer From: "lucien" [quote="cristalclear13"] JetPilot wrote: > > > Our "middle of nowheres" are nothing but pine trees and swamp. I prefer to stay high to be able to get to some landing point if need be. Besides, I love heights. I love to get on a high mountain (of which we have none for hundreds of miles) and look out across the valley to the towns and countryside below. Flying gives me that same pleasure. Ah, so nice to hear of another pilot that prefers the "up" experience to the "over there" one ;). Most of my flying miles are vertical and few are horizontal. Flying for me is like a science fiction transporter, with this little machine literally taking me to another world. The higher up I go, the further into that other existence I go. I've lost count of the routine trips to someplace X I've cancelled in favor of going up because the cloud formations were particularly good at my takeoff point. My routine mission nowadays is at least 2000' AGL. The only reason I don't go higher at the moment is the 10,000' MSL limit (barely 3000' AGL around here). Never got much of a charge out of long grinding xcountries, or low flight over the ground. Seems I always just use the pickup for that experience. Can't explain it. The plane, tho, is for taking me up up and up.... LS -------- LS Titan II SS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=249286#249286 ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 07:09:23 PM PST US From: "John Hauck" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: sweltering summer > Never got much of a charge out of long grinding xcountries, or low flight > over the ground. Seems I always just use the pickup for that experience. > Can't explain it. > > The plane, tho, is for taking me up up and up.... > > LS Maybe you don't know how to enjoy a good, long cross country flight. Did you know you can fly high, low, or any where in between, in a Kolb? Did you know there are some beautiful cloud formations encountered on almost every long cross country flight? Did you know you can encounter some of the most beautiful early mornings flying over the mountains of Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, when the ground fog is in the valleys, the air is crisp and clear without a single bump in it anywhere? Do you know of the excitement of flying nap of the earth for miles and miles of desert, watching antelop, coyote, mustangs, jack rabbits, in their element? Have you discovered a herd of elk in a meadow above 10,000 feet where the snow is still in the shadows, and the valley is 100F? Do you know the challenge of making decisions to get yourself across the Rockies when the weather is not the best it could be? Have you shared the above, with your flying friends, after a long day of flying, sitting around the airplanes and tents, waiting to go to bed, get up and do it again tomorrow? There's a lot more to flying cross country in a Kolb aircraft than grinding out the miles. My questions, above, only scratch the surface. Last month I, and a lot of my buddies, experienced all the above and much, much more. Some of us do it every year, at least. Sorry you get tired of hearing of cross country flying. If you hang around the Kolb List you are prone to hear a lot more of it. john h mkIII Woodville, Florida, without my Kolb. ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 08:05:58 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: sweltering summer From: "lucien" John Hauck wrote: > > Maybe you don't know how to enjoy a good, long cross country flight. > No, just don't enjoy it a great deal. I've done a lot of it, mostly back in my GA days, just doesn't float my boat. Done it since then, in my FSII and a hefty one in the titan. Still doesn't. Couldn't tell you why. [/quote] Sorry you get tired of hearing of cross country flying. If you hang around the Kolb List you are prone to hear a lot more of it. john h mkIII Woodville, Florida, without my Kolb.[/quote] Who said I'm tired of hearing about xcountry flying? Just because I'm an "up" man, doesn't mean all you "over there" guys are doing it wrong (or vice versa ;)). I love to hear about em, keep em coming! 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