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The Sky Tec guys are great! I broke the Al casting on an O-200 starter by using the wrong bolt thread and they replaced it no charge.

Paul,
On the yaw issue my plane is different in one regard from anything I have flown before - it has a stiff nose gear bearing that tends to stay where I push it with noticeable friction. At first I ...

Paul,
Always find you posts useful! Just a couple of comments from a 300 hr on AMD 601 XLB driver:
1) Do you really want to reduce pwr at 500 ft? Why not wait till safe 180 deg return altitude as ma ...

Thanks guys. Got the flutter report. Anyone seen the 601 XLB/650 flight report?

I haven't been able to download the full report. Any suggestions?

Paul,
Does your nosegear have a detent (notch that a pin on the strut drops into when weight is released)? This for me basically locks the rudder when in flight. I only need to push right rudder on ...

Paul and Mark,
Thanks for your inputs. I too have insufficient up trim when flying by
myself but with a passenger and less fuel it has just enough. I also had to
"trim" the rudder by ad ...

Paul,
You're right about the engine weight. The other strange behavior I have noticed is that slips have practically no effect on the descent rate unlike
any other aircraft I have flown. Have you n ...

Does anyone have any glide data on the zodiac? I have tried some engine idle approaches with my AMD 601 XL and find somewhere around 6:1
( about 1000ft/min down at 60 kts) with flap setting not makin ...

If I put a 6 g load on a 1320 lb airplane I would expect to see 7920 lbs or 3600 kg for the ultimate test weight - not the 2446 kg total listed in the report. Can anyone explain?

Ted Haller AMD 601 ...

I question the conclusion that the horizontal stab was first to fail at Yuba City. The transfered paint on the right stab leading edge was said to match
that on the left aileron and it was stated in ...