One of the most helpful things one can do to transition to the mono in my opinion is just go out and rent a garden variety POC 172 spam can and practice soft field landings and takeoffs. The soft fie
I remain completely baffled as to why so many Europa pilots have chosen the trigear over the mono when given a choice. The mono is lighter, faster and much safer to land on a rough field. I feel like
I am interested in trying some negative flap settings. This has the effect of removing wing area at cruise speeds. I've been back thru the archives and found a lot of opinions, but nobody seems to ha
I am interested in trying reflexing the flaps a few degrees for drag reduction in cruise. I talked to a Lancair 360 owner yesterday who has this ability. He has played with them a bit but only at hig
Heres another one of those pie in the sky type future powerplants that may actually happen. Unfortunately, its got one big problem - it is too light! Extremely interesting diesel rotary fires 24 time
Hey Dan! Good to hear from you. Hope you're tearing along on your project! The panel looks great! I can't afford to populate it with goodies yet however! The white hot military UAV market is fueling
Wow, heres a major aerospace player that decided to go with a proven engine - makes me kind of all teary eyed! http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q4/nr_051202a.html Boeing A160 Hummingbird Comp
You guys be real careful about getting out any residual nylon "swarf" that falls into the tank as a result of cutting the hole. I thought I would be real clever when I did this and made a long skinny
I installed my fuel tank probe on the starboard (passenger) side of the fuel tank a long time ago. It seems to work fine there. But in the Europa Mod instructions, it says to mount it on the port sid
I ran into the same situation with my earlier NSI CAP 140 prop with the wires going into the hub. No inflight problem but found one of the wires had almost worn thru. There were/are some fairly sharp
I have dual electric Facet pumps in parallel with a Matronics Fuel Scan DX flow meter. There is a return flow line back to the tank so it requires a fuel transducer going both ways, one to add and th
I didn't like the brake feel with the Nylaflow tubing on my monowheel. I switched to the steel braided hose and improved the brake force to the brake noticeably. With the Mono, you need all the brake
Hey Mike! I also have a stick mounted brake lever with a cable going to the master cyl on the firewall. Maybe I would change over to the way you are doing it. Which master cyl and brake handle setup
Hey Craig! Well done on getting that XS done! I had an older EAA type instructor/test pilot test fly my Mono, and then check me out in it and do my tailwheel endorsement. He's a long time sailplane p
I switched the pumps on my setup from series to parallel as the Ellison throttle body on my Subaru setup only requires 3 psi. One big negative on two pumps in series is that if there is a blockage, b
I have just added a photo album of the Subaru install on my bird, hoping that someone will take pity on the porky tired old girl and do a proper Rotax conversion on her. This slothful Jap powered mis
It looks like all our sky polluting fossil fuel burners will be taken to the museum if this new engine pans out. 300 kw engine uses no fuel. Has a small battery for starting and has an alternator to
The long awaited release of the Perendev 300kw fuelless engine has been formally set for July 7 at the Grand Sheraton on Arabelle Strasse in Munich Germany. World press have been invited! I'm headed
Well its here and its real! 200 hp supercharged dual port EA81 is being purchased by a San Diego based Europa builder. This engine has the Rotrex supercharger used by BMW and Mercedes. 200 hp all the