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1. 03:05 AM - Slats or no: Willis or Suzuki? (Coen van Wyk)
2. 02:29 PM - Re: Canadian CH-701 Inspection for Amateur Built Category (MacDonald Doug)
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| Subject: | Slats or no: Willis or Suzuki? |
Hi Gary,
I enjoyed your videos, although that flying over water would make me nervous!
The sort of flying I would like to do would include using rough strips, bush strips,
in short the Willis sort of flying!
I like your plane, I just wish I could get back to building soon.
What engine are you using?
Thanks again for the videos,
Coen
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| Subject: | Re: Canadian CH-701 Inspection for Amateur Built Category |
Perry, your best bet if you have questions is to ask your inspector exactly
what he wants to see.- The easier you make your inspector's life, the ea
sier yours will be.=0A-=0AThat being said, my experience with my local in
spector is that you can finish rivet the bottom skins in place.- For the
nose skins you can wrap them around the nose ribs and rivet them except for
the last couple of rivets and the upper spar line.- Leave enough room fo
r your inspector to look inside the nose of the wing.- Inspectors do not
use inspection mirrors to look inside structure-so you have to leave the
things open.=0A-=0AOne other thing I did was to tack rivet my control sur
faces closed for storage(half a dozen rivets on-the inspectable-side).
- This allows you to easily re-open the control surface but means you don
't have to store anything with clecos sticking out of it.- Just prior to
the inspection, insert a few clecos and drill out the tack rivets,-then y
our inspector can see inside.=0A-=0AI hope you have a good MD-RA inspecto
r to work with.- I have heard of some difficult people becoming inspector
s in other parts of Canada.- Locally, the worst part of the inspection pr
ocess-is the inspector's lame jokes.- He does a thorough job of inspect
ing the aircraft but is fair and willing to work with the builder to deal w
ith any deficiencies.- I have been involved with two Zenith product-pre
-closure inspections.- Both were completed with only one pre-closure insp
ection each so you shouldn't need to have your inspector make multiple trip
s.- The MD-RA process is expensive but is worthwhile having a "real" airp
lane as opposed to a Basic Ultralight.=0A-=0AHope this helps.=0A-=0ADou
g M=0A-=0ACH-701 from Scratch=0ANW Ontario, Canada=0A =0A=0A_____________
___________________=0A From: Perry Delano <pdelano@telus.net>=0ATo: zenith7
01801-list@matronics.com =0ASent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:27:48 AM=0ASubje
ct: Zenith701801-List: Canadian CH-701 Inspection for Amateur Built Categor
y=0A =0A=0A=0AHI All,=0A-=0AI have been building the flying surfaces for
my 701; The tail surfaces are complete, riveted on one side the other side
just clecos. I have just finished clecoing the skins to the right wing and
my jugs of A4 Clecos are looking a bit skinny. -My plan has been to have
all the flying surfaces riveted on one side an clecoed on the other, call
the inspector and if all goes well, close up the wings and tail- and move
on to the fuselage. I will do the slats last.=0A-=0AI would appreciate s
ome advice (particularly from Canucks with experience with the MDRA) on how
far I can and should go with the flying surfaces before having them inspec
ted. -The fewer return trips the MDRA has to make the less cost and rewor
k for me.- One area I was curious whether I could fully rivet or not was
the wing nose skins. It seems that except for the slat supports you can see
most of the critical part of the nose skin at the back of the spar.=0A-
=0AThanks in advance for any help you can provide.=0A-=0ARegards,=0A-
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