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Tue 10/25/11


Total Messages Posted: 16



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     1. 07:23 AM - Re: Landing at Indian Springs (Richard Pike)
     2. 07:30 AM - Re: Landing at Indian Springs (Richard Pike)
     3. 07:53 AM - Re: Landing at Indian Springs (Dennis Thate)
     4. 08:59 AM - Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet (Kirby, Dennis Civ USAF AFMC AFNWC/EN)
     5. 09:22 AM - Re: Re: Landing at Indian Springs (Pat Ladd)
     6. 09:49 AM - Re: Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet (Dana Hague)
     7. 09:58 AM - Re: Original Firestar II for sale.........thumbs (FIRESTARII)
     8. 12:46 PM - Re: Re: Hangar Security Systems ()
     9. 03:35 PM - Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet (mburdge39)
    10. 03:36 PM - Re: Trailers (Gary Aman)
    11. 03:55 PM - Re: Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet (robert bean)
    12. 04:52 PM - Artical in the paper... (ces308)
    13. 05:29 PM - Re: Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet (Dana Hague)
    14. 08:26 PM - Re: Artical in the paper... (Richard Pike)
    15. 09:01 PM - Rotax 912 for sale... (Nick Cassara)
    16. 09:52 PM - Kolb MKIII video (Richard Pike)
 
 
 


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    Time: 07:23:30 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: Landing at Indian Springs
    From: "Richard Pike" <richard@bcchapel.org>
    Camera is a Kodak Zi8, shoots in HD, battery life about 90 minutes. That's the good part, the bad part is that it's flat shape makes it very difficult to come up with any sort of external mount that doesn't get severely buffeted by the wind, making the pictures jerky. So I made a headset mount, the theory is that whatever I am looking at, the camera is pointing at. The problem is that I do keep my head on a swivel while flying, so the camera panning action is not smooth. I shot about an hour and a half of video, and most of it I was not satisfied with for that reason. Here is the mount: and old headset and a scrap of aluminum angle. -------- Richard Pike Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops) richard (at) bcchapel(dot)org Kingsport, TN 3TN0 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=355950#355950 Attachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/p1210283_medium_347.jpg http://forums.matronics.com//files/p1210282_medium_117.jpg


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    Time: 07:30:42 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: Landing at Indian Springs
    From: "Richard Pike" <richard@bcchapel.org>
    SEASTARSR(at)aol.com wrote: > Great video! > How much runway do you regularly use? > What do you consider the minimum? > Bill Rice > N505BR > I have 750', in the summer with a passenger I like having all of it, in the winter I could probably get by with less. Bear in mind that landing is uphill and takeoff is downhill into the prevailing wind and that is a great asset. If it was flat land then I would consider it minimum, because the terrain in the immediate area is not very forgiving and there are tall high tension lines to cross or turn to avoid right off the end of the runway. Here is my page from our Mountain Empire Sport Flyers club website; if any of my friends drop in who have not thoroughly scouted the place out first, this is a sort of heads up - http://www.bcchapel.org/MESF/3TN0.html -------- Richard Pike Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops) richard (at) bcchapel(dot)org Kingsport, TN 3TN0 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=355952#355952


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    Time: 07:53:02 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: Landing at Indian Springs
    From: "Dennis Thate" <retroman@frontier.com>
    Nice Post ! 8) -------- Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern These flying machines are just a fad and will never catch on Unknown Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=355955#355955


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    Time: 08:59:21 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet
    From: "Kirby, Dennis Civ USAF AFMC AFNWC/EN" <Dennis.Kirby@kirtland.af.mil>
    "mburdge39" wrote: << I would really like to hook up a PTT from my radio(Icom IC-A14) to this helmet. Would anyone know which adapter I would need? I am assuming I need the adapter and I need to get a PTT hand-grip for the control stick. Any other suggestions/recommendations? Thanks -------- Mike >> Mike / Kolb friends - I went thru the same exercise - trying to adapt a headset with a single jack plug to a handheld radio, which accepts TWO separate jack plugs. Most standard general aviation headsets have two jack plugs - one for the phone, and one for the mic. And most radios are designed to accept these two plugs. However, there are some headsets (like maybe your Vietnam era helmet?) that combine both mic and phone functions into a single jack plug. My Comtronics flight helmet is the same way: a single jack plug. So when I wanted to connect this helmet directly with my handheld radio, I needed some kind of adapter cable. I ended up purchasing a special patch cord from Comtronics, which combined a PTT switch (button) with a one-plug-to-two-plugs adapter built in. Cost was under fifty bucks. I would recommend contacting the Comtronics ... see if they can help with your setup. Dennis Kirby Mark-3, 912ul Sandia Park, NM do not archive


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    Time: 09:22:23 AM PST US
    From: "Pat Ladd" <pj.ladd@btinternet.com>
    Subject: Re: Landing at Indian Springs
    Camera is a Kodak Zi8,>># Thanks Richard, The pic on your page is pretty good too. Pat


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    Time: 09:49:25 AM PST US
    From: Dana Hague <d-m-hague@comcast.net>
    Subject: Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet
    At 11:56 AM 10/25/2011, Kirby, Dennis Civ USAF AFMC AFNWC/EN wrote: >I went thru the same exercise trying to adapt a headset with a single jack >plug to a handheld radio, which accepts TWO separate jack plugs. Most >standard general aviation headsets have two jack plugs one for the phone, >and one for the mic. And most radios are designed to accept these two >plugs. However, there are some headsets (like maybe your Vietnam era >helmet?) that combine both mic and phone functions into a single jack plug. > > My Comtronics flight helmet is the same way: a single jack plug. So > when I wanted to connect this helmet directly with my handheld radio, I > needed some kind of adapter cable. > >I ended up purchasing a special patch cord from Comtronics... The Comtronics helmet (which I have, too) uses a single plug with three contacts. The military helmets have a single connector with four contacts. The female connector to match is a little harder to find, you won't find it at Radio Shack but it is available online. I ended up making my own adapter cable to work with my Icom A24 (dunno if it's the same wiring as the A14). It's permanently installed in the plane, with the PTT inside the control stick tube. The military helmet microphone will probably not have the correct impedance to work with the newer Icom radio. -Dana -- The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.


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    Time: 09:58:38 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: Original Firestar II for sale.........thumbs
    From: "FIRESTARII" <CCMFarms@aol.com>
    :D That price sounds pretty fair to me provided its registered and has N-Number and airworthyness certs. Everybody Beware if it does not!!!!! I nearly bought the blue one in Penn. If you guys remember it was the one FSII that had been modified to be side by side seating and had that weird looking "Beak"(thats what my boys named it anyway)! I told the seller that I wanted to purchase it after looking at and was ready to put money down to hold it but after some "Due Diligence" and a "Ramp Check" in Zeli later that day I backed outta the deal! I would never wish a ramp check on my worst enemy however, in this case it was a blessing! I was flying a super nice T210 and my wife and I were out in PA looking at 2 different Unregistered Kolb FSII's that day and I had parked it next to the FSII sittin in Zelinople. The FAA came over badges in hand and my heart dropped [Rolling Eyes] Every thing checked out fine on my end and the FAA guys were super duper nice and I told them I was looking at buying that FSII and he "Informed" me about the consequence of no registration. As an ATP, ME-CFII, I had never been more greatful to run into a Fed. Whew dodged a 5500 dollar bullet that day :D Good luck every body fly safe. -------- Low and Slow FireStar II Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=355970#355970


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    Time: 12:46:48 PM PST US
    From: <ulflygirl@mysky.us>
    Subject: Re: Hangar Security Systems
    One thing I have experimented with is ICAM for the iphone. The software on a laptop detects rapid changes in contrast of the video. Then it records the video and sends you an alert. You open the software on the iphone to see what is going on. Then if you see a problem, you can call the cops or whatever. Best of all, there is no service charges. Its all free. You do need internet service at the hanger though, possibly high speed. Just throwing out ideas for people to do more investigation. Renee On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:40:03 -0700, "SS568" <david@PaulowniaTrees.com> wrote: > > Camera systems are nice and flashy but what do they do . Show a > picture of some one removing you engine from the plane. If it is > monitored that is different, but 24 hr monitoring of video is > expensive. > Break in alarms are effective but need to be monitored. Cost 15 to 35 > $ per month. > An un monitored break-in alarm helps run them off. And that is what > you want. Usually by the time law enforcement arrives the would be > thieves are gone anyway. > > In short alarms help but are by no means 100% > > -------- > Kolb Mark IIIX 582 Blue head > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=355620#355620 > >


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    Time: 03:35:49 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet
    From: "mburdge39" <mburdge@windstream.net>
    I will probably use my Comtronics helmet as well. I do believe the connector was called a U174 for the old helmet. Thanks! -------- Mike Firefly Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=355993#355993


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    Time: 03:36:16 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: Trailers
    From: Gary Aman <zeprep251@aol.com>
    John, Have you been to OH2fly.net web site?He is a Kolb flier and has put togethe r a good collection of Kolb info including Kolb hauling trailers.You really should check it out. G.Aman MK3C Jabiru 2200A 670hrs w/over 10000 miles trailered -----Original Message----- From: JC Gilpin <j.gilpin@bigpond.com> Sent: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 1:05 am Subject: Kolb-List: Trailers Gday All, I've bought a FireFly! It's in Mississippi, and luckily I have a friend near enough to there to ch eck it out for me, and he reckons it's very tidy. But no trailer with it.. .... I just did a search on this forum for 'trailers' and got 2200 hits. I'm no w x-eyed and head spinning after sorting through 1200 of them back to the y ear 2000..... It seems that there's liable to be really serious aircraft d amage if you don't do it right. But some good solutions have been worked o ut and proven by owners. Some excellent home-built trailers and fittings h ave been developed from experience, but it doesn't sound simple. The same questions are still being asked on the forum today that were being asked in 2000. Some very patient contributors are answering those questions over and over.... But new-comers like myself are still asking where we can bu y a suitable trailer. Looking on the latest Kolb site, I was disappointed to find that they don't know of any suitable trailers, and only link to a c ouple that they admit are too heavy. Following those links I only find tra ilers built for carrying loads of 5000 lbs! Doesn't sound suitable at all for a 254 lb aircraft plus a few tools and a couple of jerry cans...... Considering that the Kolbs have by far the best wing folding design, and th at aspect attracts a lot of us to the Kolb, I would have thought that the c ompany would have made arrangements with a trailer builder, or maybe better a small welding shop, to produce exactly the right trailers to fit the Kol bs - right size, right weight, right springing, right aircraft attachments and good streamlining. Working with the experience of owners who have done it, wouldn't be all that hard.... Once the shop has got the details all s orted out, they could be built at a reasonable cost. Not a big market, but could be a good side-line for the right shop. Seems it'd be good marketin g for Kolb, no one else can really offer a 'Trailaplane' package. Talking to friends who build Legal Eagles, they're envious of my flying/camping pla ns, and are now working on adapting their aircraft to that use. I reckon i t could be pretty popular if it was a tidy complete package ready to go. Or if good detailed proven plans were available, so we could build ourselv es or take those plans to a local welding shop for a quote. If we have to go to a welding shop with only a vague sketch, they're going to have to quo te high enough to allow for all the unexpected hitches that will be encount ered... If we build it ourselves and each have to figure it out all the de tails and source the right materials, it's a big, long job....... But in t his case I'll be living out of a suitcase so don't have the chance to build one...... So, does anyone have an enclosed trailer suitable for a FireFly for sale?? j.gilpin@bigpond.com Must be light and easy towing and suitable for long hauling, cause my purpo se is to tour the USA towing it behind a camper van. I won't get over ther e until about March, but can't leave it to the last minute to start looking .... If there's something suitable I'll arrange to buy it and store it unt il I get there. Tailwinds Always, JG


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    Time: 03:55:49 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet
    From: robert bean <slyck@frontiernet.net>
    All those connectors and adapters is what have kept me from using a radio. I admit that, since I fly few hours out of my own strip, there is no urgent need, but what the hey! -shouldn't I be able to plug my old headset into my icom? What were these folks thinking? As far as I'm concerned it's all a bunch of overpriced BS. If it were mainstream you could buy a complete setup, ready to go for $50 at dollar general. -I have more important priorities. BB MkIII, suzuki, flies great, no BS On 25, Oct 2011, at 6:33 PM, mburdge39 wrote: > > I will probably use my Comtronics helmet as well. > > I do believe the connector was called a U174 for the old helmet. > > Thanks! > > -------- > Mike > Firefly > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=355993#355993 > > > > > > > > > >


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    Time: 04:52:21 PM PST US
    Subject: Artical in the paper...
    From: "ces308" <ces308@ldaco.com>
    Hi all... About a month ago I took a reporter from our local paper for a ride in my airplane and this is what she wrote about me and another fellow in the area that has a Firestar..the other link is the flight I took her on... http://www.houghtonlakeresorter.com/news/2011-09-22/Features/WARNING_Experimental_Aircraft.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nEUAc6R_ic Have a good week everyone ! chris ambrose M3X/Jabiru A-2200 236.hrs N327CS Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=356000#356000


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    Time: 05:29:30 PM PST US
    From: Dana Hague <d-m-hague@comcast.net>
    Subject: Re: Icom IC-A14 & Vietnam era helmet
    At 06:52 PM 10/25/2011, robert bean wrote: > >All those connectors and adapters is what have kept me from using a >radio. I admit that, since I fly few hours out of >my own strip, there is no urgent need, but what the hey! -shouldn't I be >able to plug my old headset into my icom? The old GA microphones used a telephone standard microphone and plug, and the standard stuck. There's no room in a modern handheld radio for that great big plug, so Icom and others had to use modern small plugs... and they provide an adapter (at least they did with my A24). Along comes Comtronics and others and it's a lot less cumbersome to use a single plug, so another adapter is needed (and of course the military helmet uses a different standard. So it goes. -Dana -- A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.


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    Time: 08:26:28 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: Artical in the paper...
    From: "Richard Pike" <richard@bcchapel.org>
    Great video! I enjoyed that. -------- Richard Pike Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops) richard (at) bcchapel(dot)org Kingsport, TN 3TN0 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=356010#356010


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    Time: 09:01:22 PM PST US
    From: "Nick Cassara" <nickc@mtaonline.net>
    Subject: Rotax 912 for sale...
    Kolbers, FYI.if you are looking for a Rotax 912UL 80 hp, there is one for sale on "Alaska's List.com" under aircraft. There are over 400 items on the list so search Rotax 912 and it will come up. Alaska's list is the Alaska version of Craig's list and it allows guns. The 912 is in Fairbanks and is said to had some repair work done. I do not have a personal knowledge of the seller or the engine. They say they are willing to ship. Price asked is $9500 Good luck, Nick Cassara Palmer, Alaska


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    Time: 09:52:55 PM PST US
    Subject: Kolb MKIII video
    From: "Richard Pike" <richard@bcchapel.org>
    Had a perfect evening to fly, and the video turned out good. This is intended to be a motivational video. If you are thinking about building and flying a Kolb, this is what it is like. If you are already building a Kolb, and it is not done yet - then you need to get your rear in gear and get it done so you can be doing this. If you already have a Kolb and you are not doing this - WHAT IS WRONG WItH YOU?!?!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2SeONVmlB8 (Please watch full screen & HD 720P) -------- Richard Pike Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops) richard (at) bcchapel(dot)org Kingsport, TN 3TN0 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=356014#356014




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