metalman

I'd like to know from the pilot in question what was going on, I had a bout if kidney stones a couple of years ago , I couldn't stop thinking about what I would've done had it started its job on me while flying, I would've been consumed with getting on the ground , although a mayday would've been in the cards Matty

Bullsh1t, stop scaremongering mate, as members our liability ends with our fees!

I dropped in there today, at the same time as the tool doing right hand circuits , I checked my ERSA once I'd shut down thinking perhaps I'd cocked it up. Feel better now,

G'day George, thanks for the input, I guess your in business doing this but I'm open to advice with composites if your willing . Cheers Matty Very informative website by the way ,

Although it has its own issues ,what's wrong with RAA ending up back in the SAAA, that's where it started and although there are always problems in any organisation at least the SAAA seems to be able to read the regs and stick to them. As a lobby group they're doing well for the experimental flyers and really I reckon we have more in common with them than AOPA ,the only dramas would be getting over very old grudges, having to learn the regs ( and not break them) and hopefully an influx of pilots wouldn't destroy what seems to be a strong organisation Cheers Matty

Hi mate, do you have contact details for your club regarding the euro fox?

Just found it ,:-)

Any idea what their asking for it? Cheers Matty

I did a short trip in a Cutlass a few years back, damn thing was worse at holding a heading than me, just constantly weaved left n right , turned the piece of crap off very quickly, I also did a stint in an RV7a with an AP and it was great, must be a lot to do with the set up ,a bad one is useless and a good one is priceless .

I think there a Skyfox on line at Temora, if its not to far, time in a CA22 will put you in good stead to fly the highlander ,there is also a school in northen Victoria that has a Skyfox online as well. Cheers Matty

No worries,

Yeh I've got a bit of time in both ,the one in the pic does look like its had a hard life!

You after a ferry flight up there, my sister lives near Camden I'd be happy to run it up and see my family for a day

Interesting thoughts, I would say altering the shape of an airfoil would be fairly simple, building it to handle flight load might be a bit difficult, I'll give this a bit of thought, the main problem I see is having the skins or (preferably) fabric movable enough to allow a new shaped airfoil,

Off topic, the citabria in the pic seems to have a rather sorry looking stance, I wonder what the story behind that is, unless he was just keen to get some cheap fuel and threw it on the ground a bit aggressively !

So would just about any aircraft on the market since the wright brothers if its stalled at a couple of hundred feet and hitting the ground nearly vertical, And I would ad for the moderator. I DIDN'T BRING THIS UP Really turboplanner, and yet thousands(8188 as of today, that's flying numbers they've sold more than three times that number of kits) of RV's are flying around without the reputation of being fire hazards, dumb luck perhaps or maybe the aeronautical engineers at Vans know a thing or two about designing aircraft,

Really, so the biggest ,most successful kit manufacturer in the world thinks its a pretty good way to carry fuel on an aircraft, along with Piper,Cessna, and countless other aircraft manufacturers ,but we should build something regardless of weight cause the NCP says that's how it should be done in a truck, sorry mate but I'll copy the experts!

Vans aircraft have been doing their tanks in .032 for years with no more problems than any other aircraft, no cracks , no more flexing than the rest of the structure. The bottom line is aside from using bladders no fuel tank is going to handle impacting trees at upwards of 150 kmh( in motor vehicle terms) not even when fitted into cars and built out of steel . The best product for tanks is plastic, part from puncture damage I've seen heaps of them squashed and smashed into all kinds of shapes through accidents without bursting, problem for us is finding a shape that suits usually the limited spaces we have for fuel. I built the extra wing tanks for my plane out of 1.2 alloy ( nothing exotic, just the standard crap all the suppliers carry for general fabrication ) they hold 15l each , have a single baffle longitudinally, and as I set them up to cross feed from the mains they only have a breather and a drain, works well . The reason I'd redo my tanks is to bring it back to one large tank per wing , and for aesthetics the welded tanks have the normal buckling that welding thin alloy produces, my plane being rag n tube you can see it all under the wing fabric. Doing the tanks with rivets and sealing the joins will produce a much tidier finish , good enough for my RV6 ,good enough for my SkyWolf

I had a look , thought maybe a couple of M14p's, set her up as a taildragger ,maybe an old style paint job, hahha dreaming ain't it grand

The RV tanks are riveted aluminium, 35 thou I think, there's a product that comes in the kit for sealing the seams which works well, I'm considering new tanks for my Kitfox type in the future and I'm really considering the RV method for lightness and repairability

I should have asked if you have a tail wheel endorsement ,if not ,great aircraft to do it in . Don't be scared off by the little wheel, I've landed it with the windsock at 90deg and standing straight up( plus18knots) wasn't pretty but I had to get it down, they are beautifully built, and as Kaz says I'm not exactly a little bloke, 189cm 110kg, I've done a few trips in it and was very comfy for at least three hour legs. I honestly can't understand why there isn't one in every school in Oz, they are a great plane in my opinion, but then I do have a thing for rag n tube high wings so I might be a bit biased, still check it out ,Craig's a good bloke , Cheers

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Very quickly!

Hi mate, I've got a few hours in a Eurofox taildragger, I see your in Melbourne, talk to Craig Hammond at Lilydale flying school, he has one that he does tailwheel endorsements in. I can't say enough good about them( the plane i mean)j, but go and have a go your self, you'll fall in love with the little bugger,

Just erring on the high side, if ,at 100 hours a year, I still have it in 18years time I'd probably be paying around that for a rebuild, I've been told with the 912's that its nearly not worth rebuilding them , added to that its not uncommon for them to get into the 3-4000 hours on condition so IF it does well ,AND I still own it ,it'll be a pretty cheap little plane. It also might be pretty cheap buying Rotax bits with the factory just up the road , over here just a crank can be about $5500 aud.