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1. 12:30 AM - Official Usage Guideline [Please Read] [Monthly Posting] (dralle@matronics.com)
2. 04:30 AM - Prop Parts and Pitch (Craig Payne)
3. 05:51 AM - Re: Nikoly (Chanock Richka)
4. 11:09 AM - RPA Member News (Drew Blahnick)
5. 04:13 PM - Round Engines (KingCJ6@aol.com)
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| Subject: | Official Usage Guideline [Please Read] [Monthly Posting] |
DNA: do not archive
--> Yak-List message posted by: dralle@matronics.com
Dear Lister,
Please read over the Yak-List Usage Guidelines below. The complete
Yak-List FAQ including these Usage Guidelines can be found at the
following URL:
http://www.matronics.com/FAQs/Yak-List.FAQ.html
Thank you,
Matt Dralle
Matronics Email List Administrator
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Yak-List Usage Guidelines
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| Subject: | Prop Parts and Pitch |
I'll admit that I'm always learning something new about these aircraft....no matter
how long I'm around them. Since purchasing a brand new Vperiod B-530 TA six
years ago I have learned lots of *stuff* about it, which parts interchange
with the CJ prop, what is under the paint on the blades, etc. I have always known
that the Russian paddle blades came in different blade diameters but I had
assumed that everything in the hub was the same between different versions.
And, I always wondered why I was unable to reduce RPM down to the Cruise II setting.
Turns out that there are different sizes of that little metal ring that
is attached to the end of the prop dome piston with those flat cotter pins. "Duh",
my brain said when I measured the amount of coarse pitch travel that this
removeable ring limits. Just 1/8" difference in ring thickness makes a big difference.
Now, I'm going to get some real economy :>)
Craig Payne
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--> Yak-List message posted by: "Chanock Richka" <crichka@hotmail.com>
Thank you very much for the info. now I can get my training.
Chanock
Born to fly, Forced to work
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DO NOT ARCHIVE
The RPA website, especially the log in home page, has updated member news of some
significance. Subjects include Board elections, E-Com, Newsletter, 2006 Volunteer
list.
New web due out in a few days.
Drew
Drew A. Blahnick
RPA
305.803.9158
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Just passing along.....
DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO FLEW BEHIND ROUND ENGINES
> We gotta get rid of those turbines, they're ruining aviation and our
> hearing...
>
> A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery.
> The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn't pick up
> any of the pungent fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat.
>
> Anybody can start a turbine. You just need to move a
> switch from "OFF" to "START" and then remember to move
> it back to "ON" after a while. My PC is harder to start.
>
> Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. You
> have to seduce it into starting. It's like waking up a horny mistress.
> On some planes, the pilots aren't even allowed to do it...
>
> Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof
> and start whining a little louder.
>
> Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click, BANG,
> more rattles, another BANG, a big macho FART or two, more clicks,
> a lot more smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that.
> It's a GUY thing..
>
> When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can
> concentrate on the flight ahead. Starting a turbine is like flicking on
> a ceiling fan: Useful, but, hardly exciting.
>
> When you have started his round engine successfully your Crew
> Chief looks up at you like he'd let you kiss his girl, too!
>
> Turbines don't break or catch fire often enough, which leads to
> aircrew boredom, complacency and inattention. A round engine
> at speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow any minute. This
> helps concentrate the mind !
>
> Turbines don't have enough control levers or gauges to keep a pilot's
> attention. There's nothing to fiddle with during long flights.
>
> Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman Lamps.
> Round engines smell like God intended machines to smell.
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