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h&jeuropa
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 Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 6:54 am Post subject: What did you do with your Europa this week 5/2 - 5/9 |
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Starting thread for this week.
Not much accomplished on condition inspection last week because of weather and other obligations. Weather looks better this week.
Jim
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kennethatkinson178(at)bti
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 1:23 pm Post subject: What did you do with your Europa this week 5/2 - 5/9 |
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Hi all, Last week we flew from Cark to Sleap , no UL91 but some tasty
aerobatic machinery about. Then onto Haverfordwest, a beautiful
airfield, for a good meal and 27L of 100LL. Then ,Northwards along the
coast to Caernarfon, another very welcoming airfield and finally back
home to Cark.
This flight was particularly welcome after several months of frustrating
problems with the Rotax. I had been having increasing difficulty
starting. Tried many cures,i.e. preheating,several carburettor
overhauls, new floats, gearbox slipper clutch overhaul,new Ignitech
ignition system(excellent!),trigger gaps,resistances,ignition leads ,
coils ,new plugs,tighter gaps. Simon at Eccleston Aviation even lent me
some spare carburettors all to no avail until he suggested I tried
removing the propeller? The Rotax started and run perfectly. Warning
here the engine should only be run at low revs! Simon then told me that
the starter sprag clutch needed replacing. Engine out and
Simon,graciously, fitted me into his busy schedule and replaced the
offending parts. After some test flights all seemed perfect again.
I suspect that the original starting problems may have been caused by a
sinking carburettor float, then continually trying to start, with some
kickback, wearing the sprag clutch?
The engine now starts instantly with the Ignitech 12Volt at startup.
I am now looking forward to some pleasant trips.
Ken. Kit 19 G-CEKV 650 hours
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Area-51
Joined: 03 May 2021
Posts: 391
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 8:30 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 5/2 - 5/9 |
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Woke up late this morning; almost missed the brief window in weather conditions... another local flight... veered left on rollout and booted in the right foot without thinking; off the ground into the safety of the sky... uneventful flight until downwind in circuit, hit a pocket and suddenly dropped a left wing, turned final at 60kt lovely approach until wind shear near round out made a mess of things before correcting and touching down short, like a starving pigeon, behind the drag curve with a blast of throttle.
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h&jeuropa
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 4:04 am Post subject: Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 5/2 - 5/9 |
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I was curious where Ken went, so I used gcmap.com to plot his route. Looks like a nice flight!
Jim
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