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Hi Guys,

Does anyone out there have an undamaged or spare Tri-Gear nose wheel fork complete with the pivot shaft fitted that I could purchase?
Have contacted Europa but would prefer not to use the ...

We are experiencing nose wheel shimmy again on our XS Tri-Gear G-RPAF.
We have replaced the Belleville disc washers from Springmasters and tried the revised configuration of 6 off of the larger 9501 ...

The 200 hour service is looming for AF, it states the carbs need to be inspected, can anyone advise how far you are expected to go with this?
I have read of horror stories after they have been servi ...

Hi all

I have a tri-gear XS with a 914 turbo engine and constant speed prop, when we apply full turbo power on take off we get a metallic ticking/clanging noise through the Becker radio / 403 mc in ...

Hi All,

After tightening up the castle nut to 18lb we still had a problem so I took your advise and purchased Fluorcarbon Nyogel 868H, stripped out the nose wheel and found a small amount of grease ...

Thanks Brian, I will give them a call to see if they have any in stock.

Regards

Robert

I am trying to source Nyogel 767A but it is not held in the UK by Newgate Simms they have to import it and it will be in 100ml tubs and will take 3 weeks to come. It costs about £31.00 for this small ...

Hi Pete and Bob,

Thanks for your responses, we did think this could be the only problem but it is reassuring that we will not be searching in the wrong direction now following your comments, I have ...

On landing at Sherburn on the hard runway when we slowed to around 35 knots the nose wheel started to bounce up and down rapidly. My buddy Roger was P1 and he held the stick hard back but it continued ...

Hi Steve,

I will be flying in with Roger Hampshire who know owns half of G-RPAF on Saturday, our slot is 12.08.

See you all there

Robert Frost

Hi Jim,

I have been in touch with the Rotax Service Centre in the UK (Skydrive) and they have advised me as follows: -

“Please see section 78-00-00 page 20 of the Heavy Maintenan ...

Have you checked that the NMEA strings contain all of the required data?
The NMEA protocol allows data elements to be missing, so long as the comma
separators are still present (so that the absence ...

Hi,

I am having a problem getting the Navaid (complete with smartcoupler) to talk or communicate with my satnav. I know the Avmap is sending out the correct NMEA strings because I have a Dynon D100 ...