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After a couple of weeks of adjustment and maintenance I departed KEYW. Take off 07:50, 1.3hr to KPGD where I picked up some tools and cool weather gear and filled up with 91 octane and launched at 10 ...

On Monday I flew from Key West KEYW to Punta Gorda KPGD Where I have a hangar. Due to a lot of things I hadn’t been able to get up there on a weekday in order to get my new hangar key and badge. ...

A second radiator, oil or coolant, should not be required in a Laminova set-up. Removal of the oil radiator in the duct of the XS will increase the flow of undisturbed air through the coolant radiato ...

I have a classic with an 80hp.
After several years of experimentation I have settled upon a cowl flap/exit air restrictor and, most important, a Laminova water-oil heat exchanger.
The cowl flap ke ...

I agree with everyone who advocates running on the main (left) side of the fuel tank because, as has been pointed out, the fuel returns to the reserve (left) side thus ensuring a full reserve 30 mi ...

I had bad cooling problems on my 80hp Classic until I removed the second muffler and replaced it with a straight pipe.
Now, while it makes more noise, I can climb forever at 85kt in the Florida summe ...

I had this problem with a Europa which had been stored for 15 years. It was not algae. It was a very adhesive varnish deposit which had developed over the 15 undisturbed years. It required scraping ...

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Re: Tubing. Anything suitable for undercowl or underhood conditions willbe suitable. I used fuel line tubing I had on hand. Make sure the curves are long and soft enough not to stress the fittings ...

I have been using a Hacman for several years at this point. The Bings do a good job of keeping the mixture sweet up to about 4000ft (80hp 912).
On some of my longer legs I have climbed as high as ...

Fred,
While I concur that in order to accommodate the 1 light pilot, full fuel, heavy bag-bay loading (which was my airplane’s condition), a forward CG is necessary, I caution that stick back on th ...

As the posesser of a very old tank I have been following this with interest.
The embrittlement problems seem to be yet another consequence of the addition of alcohol to motor fuels. The alcohol leac ...

The relief tube problem in the Europa is simplicity itself.
You will need a funnel of about 12-15cm diameter, 500mm of tubing which will fit over the funnel outlet and 2 zip ties. (The funnels with ...

I don’t have experience with the Vista vents, but the Ultimate vents I have installed are easily done and are troublefree.
A word about placement. I installed mine just below the windscreen quarte ...

This is a diary of my experience with a Classic 912 over 2 years and several long cross countries and multiple legs at around 10,000ft msl.
They are my experiences only and might serve as a starting ...

I tried it with just the footwell lndicator. Bubbles made it inaccurate. I could purge it by horsing the airplane into a very steep zoom. The bubbles could be seen climbing the gauge tube but in ad ...

My Europa Classic has a heater which takes exit air from the starboard radiator to the copilot side. It works to cut the chill in Florida winters-slightly. The major cabin heat source is, of course, ...

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I have installed the iLevil on the lnstrument panel floor, carefully aligned and shimmed to level flight attitude. I use flyQ and the combination works very well for VFR. We do use 2 aging ipads for ...

Bud and I modified my Classic wings in order to install wingtip lights two years ago.
It involved boring a hole in front of the spar to the wingtip.
We acquired a length of steel tubing sufficient ...