Hans, Paul, David, Gilles, Robert
and all of you, who have compared Europa
with Falke: thank you for your kind advice
and sharing your flying memories!
I understand now Falke is only one step to
monowheel. Rather same but much different!
I also understand some people have difficulties
with monowheel and some people do not at all.
What younger is the pilot that easier is it to
learn new techniques and automatic & fast
physical reactions after signals coming from your
ass, eyes or ears. That is natural.
For me personally (46) it took one year to learn
to cycle by one wheeler (circus model) and I know
every healthy teenager can learn it in weeks if she/he
only really want to do it. They say it is as difficult as
learning to levitate helicopter. Learning to ride it was
my wifes condition to do before monowheel flying...
I recommend it all of you - it is fun and keeps your
senses sensitive!
I have sat on the co-pilot side in the monowheel
when it was piloted by Roger Sheridan, Peter Kember,
Mark Waite, David Bosomworth and Dirk van Oyen.
They were speakable and relaxed when landing but
of course all of them are Miracle Men. Those flights
pushed me to build and go on building monowheel.
I am sorry about RF5 -accident and wish you all
safe flights.
Raimo
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Raimo M W Toivio
OH-XRT Europa XS Mono #417
OH-CVK C172 Skyhawk
OH-BLL Beechcraft C45 w radial engines (grounded)
37500 Lempaala
Finland
tel + 358 3 3753 777
fax + 358 3 3753 100
gsm + 358 40 590 1450
raimo.toivio@rwm.fi
www.rwm.fi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Siedsma" <hsiedsma@inter.nl.net>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:57 PM
Subject: (SPAM) RE: Europa-List: Falke compared with Europa Monowheel
>
> Hello Raimo,
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> I have experience with the monowheel RF5 B motorglider. Total number of hour
> on this type is over the 200. I am current on different type airplains
> including Cessna, Grob, Piper, TB10, Katana etc.
>
> I am or better I was building a Europa monowheel.
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> Last year one of my pilot friend offerd me to use his Europa monowheel to
> get already experience. Great I believed that it would be a piece of cake.
> With over the 500 hours on different taildraggers and many hours on
> different Tri-gears it must be easy..... I thought.
>
> But this monowheel is something different. Let me say first I like the
> Monowheel shape and look an believe it is a beauty.
>
> After flying it for many hours I made the decision to change my plane in a
> Tri gear. ( It was not yet finished
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> Why? Easy the monowheel is critical during take off and landing. It needs
> your full attention and a lot of praying. Totally different from the RF5
> monowheel. The Europa ailerons are not active till somewhere 50 knots. The
> motorglider is already very fast after starting and you can keep your wings
> easy leveled. The Europa is short and small, the motorglider has a moment
> and is longer and stable. OK it is also more difficult as a Tri gear but if
> you learn it you can play with it. I was able to start or land it nearly
> every circumstances.
>
> The Europa monowheel was much more tricky. The tower hated me and told me
> each time if we were active they are nervious. This design was due to them
> not correct and they have seen to many problems with the other Europa
> monowheels. So as they said I could wait for an accident. I thougth it is
> totally nonens and they were incorrect.
>
> Then suddenly the palne took me. I made the mistake and let the tail come up
> just a second to early. Witnesses told me that it looked terrible. It moved
> from left to rigth and finally left the runway on one site. I was lucky
> because the turbo gave me enough power to get it from the ground ten meters
> before the little cannel along the airport. Personnally I had no problems
> but the tower had some comments ( I will not repeat )
> Ok I did not gave up and flew it many more hours
>
> But finally I believed that it was not the type of plane I like to fly ,let
> my wife fly ( She flies the Katana without any problem )and my close pilot
> friend ( not the one from the Europa ). For sure it will be not possible to
> keep flying on the different types and also on the Europa monowheel. So I
> decide to change my plane to a Tri gear ( my wife did not like it becasue
> she believes that the monowheel is much nicer to see ).
>
> After all the delay my plane is close to be ready, my friend was very happy
> and also my wife finally believe that it was the right decision. ( too bad
> my friend will not fly my plane anymore because he just has been killed
> during take off with the RF5 )
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
> [mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com]On Behalf Of Raimo Toivio
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 20:35
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Subject: Europa-List: Falke compared with Europa Monowheel
>
>
>
> All
>
> I had last weekend a wonderful opportunity
> to learn to fly first time all together stick
> controlled, tail and monowheeled,
> engine quited machine with metric avionics.
> It was a wonderful German Falke side-by-side
> -seated motor glider, year model 1972.
>
> My purpose was to understand beforehand my
> soon completed Europas take-off and landing
> characteries. It was a nice experience for a
> Cessna boy like me. I am alive and Falke
> is still flyable & landable. It was not a shock
> at all, much easier than I thought before.
>
> Is there anybody out there who has flied both
> Europa Monowheel and Falke motor glider?
>
> Could you please compare especially landing
> qualities of those planes? I noticed that speed
> just before touch was very important. It was
> about 90 km/h = 50 knots. Also heading along
> runway.
>
> Gliding w/o engine was charming.
> How about gliding wings to Europa,
> can man still purchase a long wing kit?
> Price?
>
> Regards, Raimo
> ==========
> Raimo M W Toivio
>
> OH-XRT Europa XS Mono #417, will be painted in few days
> OH-CVK C172 Skyhawk, this year more than ever hrs
> OH-BLL Beechcraft C45 w radial engines, still grounded
>
> 37500 Lempaala
> Finland
> tel + 358 3 3753 777
> fax + 358 3 3753 100
> gsm + 358 40 590 1450
>
> raimo.toivio@rwm.fi
> www.rwm.fi
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