Dear List Members, I am a new forum member building an XS TriGear Kit 510 in South Africa - I started building in Oct 2001 and I'm about 7/8ths the way through the build. I would like to hear from an
Hi All, I am busy fitting a set of Whelan strobes to my XS wings and was wondering if I could impose on your collective wisdom as to how anyone has fitted them - do you use a ply wood base plate bond
Hi All, I am fitting the S-Tec System 30 Autopilot to my XS Tri-Gear - that is the 2 axis autopilot - has anyone fitted this to their Europa - and if so what bracket system did you use as the kit doe
Hi All, Am busy checking the engine for first flight and find that my fuel pressure is exceeding the max allowed when BOTH pumps are turned on - its fine on each individual pump and the necessary fue
Hi All, At last the cloud broke, the test pilot was available, and ZU- CTG took to the South African skies at 9 am yesterday - she is a TriGear with the Airmaster / 914 combination and in the words o
Hi Rowland Empty weight was rather heavy probably due to all the "extras" in the panel 929 lbs with battery 27 amp hr in baggage bay and a c of g 59.39 inches without any addition of weight etc. So f
Hi All I wonder if any of you flying at high ambient temperatures 30 degrees Celsius + have any bright ideas about keeping the 914 turbo cool on climb out - 1'm finding temperatures creeping up past
Hi All I've recently had fairings on and off my trigear with the 914 /airmaster combo and I get at least 8-9 kts more in the cruise, giving me - 125-130 kts at 5000 rpm 29 in.boost 67 % power setting
Hi all It is not just Europa builders in the states that have come unstuck with EMIL - we also ordered and paid for an Airmaster prop for a triGear here - with the sane result - I think you 're very
Hi I had to install the fuel sender long after completing the fuselage. What we did was to drill a pilot hole through the top of the head rest, made up a spindle to thread through the hole, then atta
You can count me in to Regards Mike Toft ZU CTG Tri Gear 914 XS Simply beautiful. I'd like to have one too Paul Boulet, N914PB Rotax 914 tri gear -- On Mon, 2/9/09, JEFF ROBERTS <jeff@rmmm.net> wrote
Could we please have some response from Matt Dralle regarding the blocking of some email addresses from posting to the forum by the spam blocker barracuda. I imagine as moderator he reads the incomin
Hi Gordon, We had a similar problem with my Trigear XS with 914 Rotax - and after many hours of carb stripping and cleaning and balancing with a mercury manometer - we could not fix it till - we re-s
Tony, I have a 914 with the Airmaster Prop and the versatility and performance is exceptional - it is able to absorb almost any change of power setting and I seriously doubt a fixed pitch will be abl
Hi Frans Have exactly the same problem with my 914 - ok straight away but short break very difficult to start - but have found if I do 2 things I can get it to start agin with little extra effort. 1.