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

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Does that include replacing the crankshaft?

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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.

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

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And how about the one that exploded recently in Europe killing father and son, due to a supected fuel-tank leak, and onboard explosion ?. the fathers body was found some considerable distance from the wreckage, suggesting he'd been blown out the side.......................................................Maj...

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

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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

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....... rip the heads off at 300hrs and you will sleep better. ....

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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.

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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.....

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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 ?

......I even know of one that can peg the VSI at 9000!!

Many of these people will have the lemming philosophy that "we elected them so we should support them" and could produce enough proxies to neutralise the meeting.

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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

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Funny thing, that report talks about "thoroughness and accuracy" however the following two lines do not appear to match.

1. (a) During the week commencing Monday 14 January I agreed to renewal of registration of ninety-seven aircraft. Details are listed on pages 2, 3 and 4.

During the week commencing Monday 21 January I agreed to renewal of registration of

 

the following seventy-five aircraft:

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......

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

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Chris heintz AND Max tedesco designed the 701...Max wanted to make some improvements to the design and Chris didn't that then started max's other developments

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I emailed these guys the largest they do is 500kg they are working on a larger version for LSA but still a ways off

Hi Mark: I am sorry to report that our largest parachute is for a 500 kg payload. Larger systems won't come on line until next year.

 

Thanks for your interest, and please keep in touch!

 

John Dunham, Manager

 

Second Chantz, LLC

 

775 315 0133

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

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I am given to understand that all the Savanah/701 etc alikes (and there are a lot of them) are originally from the pen of one designer, Max Tedesco...

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Perhaps you could tell us a bit more about the Land Africa?

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.

Probably not a lot.

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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

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Well, I wouldn't get too pessimistic about that. They found this Spitfire under sand and seawater at a French beach. I believe it was fully restored and now flying:

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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.

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

And here's the current one.

******* Late edit******** A friend of the Pilot's Brother has just told me that the French investigators are looking into the possibility of a lightning strike, as there was considerable turbulence on the day of the accident, as well as storm reports not far away. . . . They are also speculating about a fuel leak causing a build up of fumes in the airframe. No definitive report yet though.

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.

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