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Who's Europa was it to the ESE of Colerne at 12:18 UTC (2 Jan '23)? It was the first time that Skyecho has given me a meaningful traffic alert, although nothing recorded on FR24 for either a/c! But at ...

This is an interesting subject.
The question is asked what the bungee actually does. I replaced my bungee a couple of years ago and did some retractions without it (aircraft jacked in the hangar so n ...

@Dave, do you or anyone have a 3D Model of the fuel tank? ( autocad, solidworks, STL file) I submitted the PDF to Fuel Safe .... crickets so far. Would love to have at least one bladder that didn't ...

Hi dmac,

Take a good look at the thread below, I've been there, done that and got the 'T' shirt!!

The only way I could find the leak in my tank was by cutting the access panels. Believe me, I tr ...

Hi Mallard,

I just cut some strips of material from the panel I cut out. I figured that it's the same material so should be OK. From the pic you can see that I was able to use the panel to practice ...

Hi Mallard,

I use the aircraft electric pump to pump out as much fuel as possible, then remove the fuel tank access cover and mop out the rest. Leave for an hour for fumes to evaporate then do what ...

Hi Will,
Sorry to hear about your tank problem. My tank developed a split back in 2016, at first, I explored installing a bladder inside the tank as I really didn’t like the idea of installing a ne ...

Hi Mike,

A couple of suggestions for you.

1. see if you can get hold of a copy of the original approved propeller list, the LAA might help with this. If I remember correctly it had some individu ...

Hi Mike,

Your choice of propellers is governed by the LAA. They have a document 'LAA Propeller Type List - PTL/1 listing approved props for the Europa/engine combinations, getting approval will be ...

Hi Jonathan,

I'm just replacing the fuel and oil lines on my aircraft. I ordered 3m of Parker Push-Lok 836-8 from Listers (01215256485), cost was £100.61 incl VAT and del. I had about 400mm left o ...

Hi Griffo,

I agree with most of what you say, especially about vapours returning through the fuel return line to the tank if there are any in the system hence my comment about assisting starting es ...

Reply for Griffo:

For information I'm in the UK.

I agree that having the fuel pump on will not prevent vapour lock, but having positive pressure in the fuel system will help reduce the chance of ...

Hi Jonathan,

I would be very surprised if a garage forecourt was selling 'stale' fuel and if I suspected the forecourt supply I would have gone back and bought 5 litres in a clean container and ha ...

Hi Jonathan,

My understanding is that the Rotax 912 series is perfectly OK using E10 fuel, it's the other items in the fuel system that you need to consider such as the fuel tank, fuel lines, elect ...

As a matter of interest I seem to remember reading that on the RV12 they leave the electric fuel pump 'on' all the time. I now do this and only turn it off at height to check that the mechanical pump ...

As a matter of interest, has anyone recorded the station points for the various bulkheads in the Europa such as 'front of seats', 'seats rear vertical face', 'forward face of baggage bay', 'aft face o ...

Hi Keith,

Contact me offline and I'll tell you where I am with this.

Regards
Dave Disney
G-RJWX

Hi Paul,

I don't have his contact details, but the aircraft is G-MLXP and is is now owned by Michael Davis. You are correct the original design was by Miles who is now my inspector and John did the ...

Hi James,

Sorry to hear that you may have a leaking fuel tank. I had had this problem back in 2017 but I didn't change the fuel tank even though I found that the tank had split causing the leak.
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