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1. 01:46 PM - Tailwheel (TBYH@aol.com)
2. 03:30 PM - Re: Tailwheel (Richard Navratil)
3. 06:36 PM - back to the piet finally (tmbrant1@netzero.net)
4. 08:24 PM - Re: aircraft repairman - need info (Bert Conoly)
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I want to build my own tailwheel -- don't want to use a tailskid. Would like
to avoid buying a commercial tailwheel assembly. What makes the best
tailwheel? Should I use Bernie's design for the strut and attachment but simply
attach
a wheel at the end of the spring steel? What kind of wheel? I think I read
that one fellow used a hockey puck....Am open to suggestions...
By the way -- had to prove it for myself -- bought a nice piece of 5-ply
birch plywood from Home Depot. Stuck a little piece in boiling water -- after two
hours I peeled it apart like a banana! Not that any Piet would be exposed to
boiling water for 2 hours, but I won't be using that stuff in my plane...
Hope you all had a nice Christmas! And will have a happy New Year! "Here's to
the duck that swam in the lake and never lost a feather -- may this time in
another year we'll still all be together..."
Fred B.
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I usedc the leaf spring with a Matco wheel assy. I don't like it and will be changing
it over the winter. I am going to the design in the plans with a much
lighter wheel. Keep us posted on what you find for a wheel, I will be looking
also.
Dick N.
----- Original Message -----
From: TBYH@aol.com
To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Tailwheel
I want to build my own tailwheel -- don't want to use a tailskid. Would like
to avoid buying a commercial tailwheel assembly. What makes the best tailwheel?
Should I use Bernie's design for the strut and attachment but simply attach
a wheel at the end of the spring steel? What kind of wheel? I think I read that
one fellow used a hockey puck....Am open to suggestions...
By the way -- had to prove it for myself -- bought a nice piece of 5-ply birch
plywood from Home Depot. Stuck a little piece in boiling water -- after two
hours I peeled it apart like a banana! Not that any Piet would be exposed to boiling
water for 2 hours, but I won't be using that stuff in my plane...
Hope you all had a nice Christmas! And will have a happy New Year! "Here's to
the duck that swam in the lake and never lost a feather -- may this time in another
year we'll still all be together..."
Fred B.
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Subject: | back to the piet finally |
--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "tmbrant1@netzero.net" <tmbrant1@netzero.net>
Well, first off - Merry Christmas and happy New Year to everyone.
It's been a long while since I've participated in the group or even worked on the
piet, but because I received a generous gift from a relative, some money will
be spent on wing rib material. Wondering what's the best place to purchase
rib material. I'll probably order online thru wicks of AS&S unless there are
other recommendations.
Tom B.
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Subject: | Re: aircraft repairman - need info |
--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Bert Conoly" <bconoly@earthlink.net>
Merry Christmas (and I'm not afraid to say it that way) everybody.
I need some information. As you all may have noticed, I've been concerned
that some Federal Aviation Regs regarding the application for Repairman
Certificate may be either fraudulently or at least inconsistently be being
applied. I have first-hand knowledge that the Atlanta FSDO, in some cases,
is not requiring the builder to come in to the FSDO and be interviewed as
part of the Repairman Certificate application. I live about 15 miles south
of the Georgia border in Florida and I am being told I have to drive 600
plus miles (at least 8 hours round trip) to be "interviewed" by the FAA
Airworthiness Inspectors in Tampa to receive my repairman certificate.
Now, I don't mind the "interview" - hell I built this sucker from DIRT and
know it a helluva lot better than some FAA desk-dude. But I feel that there
is such an unreasonable inconvenience here that I'm not willing to take off
work, spend the travel time and money, and jump through their hoops to do
it. Especially since THEIR DAR has signed off on the plane and confirmed
that the airplane is airworthy, I built it, and I am who I say I am. So
basically I payed $400 for a DAR to show up 2 hrs late, chat for 2 hours
and, give me a partial process. If it's so d*** important they need to get
off their a**es into the field and do some "airworthiness inspecting".
That's what MY federal tax dollars pay for - yours , too.
I plan on writing the head of the FAA and asking for some answers - such as
why I am being mandated to do something somebody else - 15 miles north of
me- is not- to meet the same FAR requirement. I don't know if this is
discriminatory or why - it's at very least inconsistent and bureaucratic.
If you have received your Repairman Certificate on a project you built in
the last 5 years, please e-mail me off-line to tell if you had to "visit"
your FAA office for an "interview" - where it was- and how far your travel
was. Also please estimate out of pocket costs and time away from work if
possible.
Thanks, Bert
----- Original Message -----
From: <Rcaprd@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: aircraft repairman - ahhhh... more FAA CR**
> --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Rcaprd@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 12/21/04 8:14:46 PM Central Standard Time,
> ashcan@earthlink.net writes:
>
> << You may be suffering the tail end of the the Southeast Region trying
to
> get some credibility back by unreasonably tighening up on dotting all the
i's
> and crossing the t's. >>
>
> That explains a lot.
>
> Chuck
>
>
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