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The good news is, that this will be my last contribution to the list. After this message i will unsuscribe, and withdraw from the Europa community. I will not go again through the horror cause ...

Hi Mark,

Excellent work.
And probably more understandable for the crowd then what i manage to
explain.
My guess is number 5, and i think i can make that plausible.
I have been finding and repl ...

Hi Frans
As usual, you haven't got a clue, and your arguments limp.
In your explanation you could do away with a lot of things around your
airplane, because if everyting goes well, you will not ne ...

Hi Mark,

It's a pity Mark, that you have not checked the max DC specification of
those microswitches. I am afraid they are even more underrated as their
circuit breaker specification. I am also ...

Hi Ferg,

No, the prop was as received -assembled- by woodcomp. No modifications.
But you seem to miss the point Ferg, i am not complaining about their history, or their fa ...

David, good friend,

Thanks for your honest explanation of your bias towards Woodcomp. Your
position, as their unpaid salesman must be awkward, and it must be very
difficult to change your posit ...

Carl,

Microswitches do not regularely fail. Their MTBF is typical one ot 10
million.
However, thanks for confirming this, in this (Woodcomp) application they
fail for 2 reasons.
Wrong environ ...

Tim,

I've sent the report to somebody who is German en fluently in English,
on his offer to translate. This translation takes an incredible amount
of time obviously.
But, as a matter of fact, ...

Sorry to remember you all that my Woodcomp prop nearly took my life.

I hate to repeat my words, but memories seem to be short.
The propeller i had was equipped with microswitches, which were and ...

In a typical nose down, high rate vertical 'arrival' the major concern with Europas (and all other VLA/LSA) is the high levels of intrusion into the occupant space. Clarification - intrusion by airf ...

Sorry folks, i just forgot to pay the domain-name renewal fee.
It will probably be over the weekend before thew payment is processed and the site on-line again.
The good thing about it ...

Two years ago, one day before my second birthday, we happened to be at the same table with the brass of the Rotax factory in Wels. And of course the question about injection popped up. The anwser was ...

Hi Carl,

There were scimitar blades on mine.
The prop had been repaired at the factory, and arrived assembled.
I never checked the fine pitch again, which nearly cost me my life,
because it mu ...

@Jon:
Of course the Europa tailplanes are fully balanced aerodynamically, so are conventional tailplanes. I can't think of tailplanes with an aerodynamical design providing lift. This aerodynamical b ...

First: Any plane can only be trimmed for one speed. Any change of speed will require adjustment of trim.

Second: We have anti-TRIM-tabs. Mind the trim part of the description. Without deflection, ...

As Graham once pointed out to me: There is still a lot of (thin) foam in the fuselage and wings, and it could well be that also the XS will float forever. Speeds and attitude will be very important. ...