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All sounds incredibly complex and subjective for an engine manufactured in the 21st century ! .

If required, yes. The company I am thinking of offer a fixed price overhaul which includes whatever needs replacing on each engine. .

That pricing sounds high to me. Here in France, I can get a Rotax 582 overhauled by an approved service centre for a fixed price of 2000 EUR, that's about 2500 AUD. .

What I'm really implying is that I'd prefer an engine which under-promises and over-delivers than the opposite. .

Hi Maj, where do you get the information regarding the father being found some distance away ? The only mention in the BEA report is that the remains of the port wing were found approx. 200m from the rest of the wreckage. There was no sign of explosion, only structural failure of the wings. Both wings snapped at about 1.2m from the tips and the wings disconnected from the fuselage. All the indications are of a structural failure in flight and the aftercast indicates storms and possible severe turbulance in the area. The official report (in French) is here http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2012/g-mp120629/pdf/g-mp120629.pdf .

Sounds like South African to me too, but the company contact is in Holland, so probably a dutch accent. Confirmation on the press release http://pal-v.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Pal-V_press_release.pdf .

In that case you might as well be flying behind a Rotax 582. That's supposed to be overhauled every 300hrs, and yet there are loads of them running way past that figure. Sure you'll be climbing a bit slower, but you'll spend a lot less money and have a greater payload. .

I can't comment from personal experience, but the fact that you see lots of those type of adverts must tell you something.... P.S. I think the term "Jab-bashing" should be avoided. It turns sensible technical discussions, generally based on facts, into emotive arguments. .

Looks like a perfectly reasonable audit schedule. First audit, Oops. - 6 months to fix the issues. Second audit, not good enough. - 3 months to try harder. Third audit, still not good enough, - 3 months to show why you shouldn't be closed down. Fourth audit, shut-down. Amazing that an organisation with a relatively simple function (register planes, licence pilots) can't get it's house in order in a whole year..... .

Considering the other discrepancies in that published list of renewals/registrations, what's the likelyhood that there are factual errors in the list of aircraft too ?

But those were called Stukas, and they don't fly them anymore

Then I respectfully suggest that they will get the association they deserve. .

There's one company in France who think motorcycle engines make good aircraft engines ..... http://www.vija-engines.com/images/2010/ENG%20presentation-2010.html .

Funny thing, that report talks about "thoroughness and accuracy" however the following two lines do not appear to match. The list on pages 2,3 & 4 then contains 97 renewals and 4 new registrations. I realise that it's a typo, but considering the context of the situation which generated the need for this report, one could be forgiven for wondering if this is an indication of the quality of the checking which is being performed...... .

Excellent thread, anyone got any input on the Magni gyros ? .

Hope you had a feather duster in your hand when you typed that .

Have you looked to see if you can get a MVEN chute. They offer them already for higher weights and speeds and they are also fired by comressed air. The french distributor has this table which lists the model K600 is good for a MTOW of 600kg, at speeds up to 360kmh, weighs 15kg and will bring you to the ground at 7.3m/s http://www.air-occitanie.com/parachutes_143.htm .

Surely that should be Chris Heintz ...... since he created the 701 long before. .

Solid, safe, almost impossible to stall. Easy to land in 150m. Selecting full flaps feels like pulling on the airbrakes ! Not much storage room for anyone wanting to go touring, as you can see the BRS take's up most of the space. Here's some more photos.

In which case, it makes me wonder how it that be called a restoration, when in fact 99% of it is a brand new aircraft ? .

Latest on the dig in Myanmar is that they have discovered there are shallow buried water pipes and electrical cables passing above the suspected location of the crates. They are part of the infrastructure of the airport and so cannot be damaged. They have to design a new digging plan to go around those obstructions and get the plan approved by the airport authorities. http://www.npr.org/2013/01/21/169621797/in-myanmar-a-hunt-for-fabled-cache-of-buried-wwii-spitfires http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/myanmar-spitfire-hunters-search-hit-snag-18245031 .

Yes but apart from the ID plate, how much of what they found in the sand is actually in the flying aircraft ?? .

I believe that BRM were at one time an importer for the Zenair CH701, and they decided to "improve it" and make their own version. I also hear that ICP did something similar to create the Savannah. .

And back on subject, here's my previous ride. And here's the current one.

<thread-drift> Hi Phil, the BEA report has been published (http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2012/g-mp120629/pdf/g-mp120629.pdf) and it says that the aircraft showed damage consistent with a high positive G failure of the wings. They say that they discovered no signs of other sources of damage pre-impact. The theory seems to be that they may have encountered severe turbulence causing structural failure. </thread-drift>