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Hi Kelvin,
May I suggest that you allow for a bit of sag initially as like you I had some old isolation rubbers that I replaced with new a short time before first flight and have since had to shim th ...

Just an observation but Nev's mount still has the isolation rubbers between the undercarriage frame and the extension to the ring mount as I see it. On an XS more so than a classic as I have experienc ...

dmac7, I think this might be possible, but you might think they would have checked where the fuel pickup was located in the tank. What about a big slug of water seeing the tank was so empty, a lot of ...

Hi Pete,
I just put gear down, roll 60 degrees, centre stick and pull until it stalls. G force is proportional to speed. I have the Europa stall warner which in my opinion is actually AOA and was tes ...

Hi Pete,

Will have a go at crossed control stalls one day and report back, but as an aside I was quite surprised at the difference in accelerated stalls gear up and down(mono). In mine anyway if o ...

Hi all, glad to see the list up and going again, thought it was just me that had been retired.
Firstly, kit A217 is now a flying Europa. Started in US by Steve Dunsmuir and completed and flown a few ...

Thanks Chris I had a classic nearly twenty years ago and thought it was a great little aircraft so heres hoping my memory has served me well.

Cheers Peter

Great write up Chris, congratulations on finding your performance. I'm only a few weeks away from liftoff and you have just given me a bit more confidence that I too might be able to achieve some dec ...

Yes James, exactly as Erich has said but bear in mind I have a piece of thin ply as a base sitting on top of the control tube cover.

Cheers Peter

Hi James,
Have a search for confor foam. I have just received some from Wings and Wheels in the US and very happy with their service and price.
They offer standard size of 400 x 450 x 12.5 or 25mm ...

Thank you to everyone for the replies and help. Hopefully sometime this week the wings will go on, ready for first flight and just wish to check that it all works so that there might be a second fligh ...

Thanks fellas,
Will lift it with the engine hoist as per Tim’s photo.

Cheers Peter

A question if I may, can you jack a mono off the wings or should it be lifted from the fuse/engine frame. Wishing to check flap/gear retraction.
Cheers Peter

Thanks Paul for backing me up.
I don't normally post on forums but was just trying to help people with the correct info from rotax.
R1 actually states that line you copied, and I posted, three times ...

Hi Chris,

The SL that I referred Griffo to back in your other post states the you should have 5200 rpm min at take off WOT. It doesn't say what part of TO. It also doesn't mention any thing about s ...

Griffo, suggest you look at SL-912-016R1 and report back on the recommended revs. cheers Peter