Hi Tony.
My Europa is the same format as yours. You can set it up to be 'hands free'
in any particular power and weight configuration, but changing power
significantly, or carrying a heavy passenger will spoil the hands free
state. I have tried a clip-on elevator trim for use with a passenger, and it
works until I forget it. I installed an adjustable knicker elastic restraint
on the control stick, and that works, but I don't use it now ( I could never
get on with that stuff). I find that a bit of rudder pressure sorts the
thing out.
Regarding the cold running. Again my solution is a bit boring. Blank off
half of the over-generous radiator in the winter, and take it out when the
weather turns warmer. I use a bit of right angled coving from a kitchen work
surface.
Enjoy flying.
Bryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Bale" <tony.bale@virgin.net>
Subject: Europa-List: RunningTemps and Right Roll
>
> Greetings to one and all and a happy new year to you all,
>
> Our bird G-CCUL (mono XS, 912S, with Warp Drive circa 22 deg) has now
> completed something around 100 hours flying and we really only have a
> couple of gripes and I would appreciate input from the forum.
>
> Firstly we have a roll to the right, not bad and the test pilot was
> certainly not at all concerned but we want hands off flying and are
> fitting various sized trim tabs to the underside of the left aileron to
> trim out the effect (having started on the left flap). We believe the
> flaps are perhaps not quite level but without adjustment this is proving
> very difficult to measure. The trials and errors continue, but I wonder
> what other pilots are experiencing - your thoughts?
>
> Secondly, and to be honest this is the real annoying one, we are suffering
> with very low oil and coolant temperatures. I brought this up some time
> ago but had very few responses. As the temperature outside are lower now,
> we wondered if anyone else has the same problems and what your solutions
> were.
>
> We get the coolant and oil up to temperature - 100deg before take-off (we
> fitted Evans coolant, this increased CHT by circa 10 degrees, and makes
> for a very much more stable cooling system than water based, and pretty
> much impossible to boil, having boiled the water coolant during a lengthy
> hold in the summer, I can say that without fear of contradiction it is a
> very worth while modification) climb out maintains temps but leveling out
> sees the oil temp drop with a corresponding drop in oil pressure. If we
> decend or reduce power below 5000rpm the temps fall away to 60 - 70 oil,
> 70 -80 coolant and are almost impossible to recover in flight. We have
> tried blanking off the main inlet, and closing the oil tank inlet. Unless
> you almost completely blank off the main inlet their is little effect
> (this cures cruise but effects ground handling).
>
> We are investigating a flap behind the radiators which will be operated
> from within the cockpit, but obviously nothing is approved so this needs
> to be attempted with care and thought. During the build we went to great
> lengths to optimize the air inlets, ramp the air into the rads instead of
> around etc, and it would appear we have done too good a job !!
>
> we are fairly sure the guages are in the right ball park and even during
> the summer we experienced over cooling, with the current temps its an
> absolute night mare !! Any thoughts good people ?
>
> As an aside to all you builders reading the comments about problems, don't
> despare, our Europa is no doubt like everybody elses, a delight to fly,
> handles beautifully and uses next to no fuel. Just take a pragmatic
> approach to all the views expressed (IMHO ofcourse).
>
> Best wishes
>
> Tony.
>
>
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