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dholly added a post in a topic Gross weight revisited (sigh)
---pullin' up a chair!---
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C5Engineer added a post in a topic Engine Swap
I made some major progress on my engine swap this weekend. The E gearbox swap was pretty straight forward. The guy I got my engine from sent me the Rotax puller. Some tension and two whacks with the dead blow and it popped right off. I coated it in stuff called ST316 that CPS sells. It's stainless steel flakes mixed with Polyurethane. It made my gearbox look like brand new again.
Once that was all done my buddy and I started getting the engine mounted. We ran into several problems here. I had to take out the angle grider and grind a little off the case so it would fit in my engine mounts. I also had to use a cut off wheel on my dremel and cut off a small piece of the case to make it fit. After 9 hours yesterday we had the engine hung and called it a day. I spent most of the day today hooking everything back up. I'm SO much happier with my wiring now. It's nice and clean and loomed. Before it was rats nest that looked like crap.
I got the line for my rotary valve from the local cycle shop. The oil was not moving so I took my reservoir off the firewall and pulled it up as high as I could get it. I sat there and watched the air come up the line for about 30 minutes. I had to top off the reservoir 3 times during the process. I think it's good to go.
My last obstacle is finding a 90 degree elbow for the water outlet on the head. The Blue Head outlet is 90 degrees off from my grey head. Can anyone confirm that the Rotax radiator hose is 1"?
Onto the pics.. wish I would have gotten some of the box swap but we were so busy I totally forgot
New engine hung
Gearbox after sandblasting and spraying with the ST316
I also sandblasted all my exhaust parts and repainted it with some high temp stove paint. It was all rusty and nasty before.
Also installed my Tiny Tach while I had crap apart. It fit over the two bottom bolts of my old tach.
Pretty proud at how clean my wiring came out
The garage for this week
The old engine headed for a rebuild and a new life on someone else's plane
Bleeding the RV reservior
I was not getting any fluid movement until I took it off the firewall and lifted it up... same thing as lifting the tail I think Leni
This is the last thing I have left to do before I can fill the radiator and fire it up. I need a 90 degree elbow and a piece of radiator hose to finish it up. That's 1" tubing right?
What a lot of work but man I am happy with the final result. I should be good to go for at least 300 hours now minus basic maintenance.
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dholly added a post in a topic Fly-thru airplane wash
now that is some funny ass shit... literally!
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jackak added a post in a topic Building wheel skis
Ok, I'll have them ready when you come for the cowl.
Jack
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84KF added a post in a topic Gross weight revisited (sigh)
Sorry I'm late... The dog ate my homework..., somthing like that.
Before I comment I need to know how in what context the term "Gross Weight" is being used.....
In regards to LSA and Sport Pilot issues?
Or, in regards to the maximum flyng weight of an Experimental Amatuer Built Aircraft?
Both are myths...., but I digress.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Building wheel skis
Yes I did, that may swing me as they look like they will be easier to build! Not to mention the price of 4130 has gone way up since the last time I bought some. From the pics, it looks like Acrolights modified just a bit for more width would be real easy and cheap to make. I would make the pedestal a bit taller to get better angle of attack. I will be real interested in seeing the plans when I swing by!
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jackak added a post in a topic Building wheel skis
Leni,
Did you get the info I sent you on the Acrolite skis?
Jack
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akflyer added a post in a topic Avid Catalina
you get out and work in the shop on the plane any more or are you just enjoying the new found flexibility and feel
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akflyer added a post in a topic Rebuilding a Mikuni Fuel Pump
Mine is 5/16" from wing tanks to the gascolator on the firewall, then 1/4" out to fuel pumps and carbs. My brothers old KF II was 1/4" the whole way.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Another Avid takes flight soon
Any word on this one
Hope first (and subsequent) flights went well
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akflyer added a post in a topic Alaska Fly in
Trail Lake Lodge in Moose Pass makes a mean burger! If we get some snow, Skwentna makes a good burger to.
I will call trail lakes and see if they are open all week now, or just on the weekends.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Gross weight revisited (sigh)
And that is why this site is here.. I wont take advertising money etc, so I dont give a shit about what is said about a particular design, as long as it is relatively factual! Unless a person is threatening to go to someones house and beat their ass, I wont mod a post (Laugh, I know of 3 times this has happened on a snowmobile forum I hang out on).
You need a Searey forum for rouge mouthy Searay owners
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flattie45 added a post in a topic Alaska Fly in
Seldovia. Not sure about their burger quality though. Girdwood (nice burger quality). Summit Lake (burger availability summer only). Homer. Take your pick, most choices are good.
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flattie45 added a post in a topic Gross weight revisited (sigh)
I now have the pleasure of being edited on the Searey site. I'm pretty mild mannered but it's enough to piss me off
I was going to copy and paste the thread into a text document. I log on it it looked a little shorter. I can't remember which posts they had deleted, but I do remember three people stating GW being on the AW cert, and now only one person is on record. It is usually a good community over there. Of course, good editing is that which is never noticed. Do you think that they are watching my house?
Edit: I sent an email to one of the admins. He assured me that they didn't delete the posts. They have the power to, but all three must agree. The author is the only other person who can delete a post, and that will delete the replies to that specific post as well. I feel a little better now
-Nate
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akflyerbob added a post in a topic Alaska Fly in
In my experience them that invite you to lunch are the ones
to pay the way.
Yes, Leni, AV8 should buy us a very expensive berger since
we have been invited down.
However, I'm game for a Moose Pass, Seward, Homer berger
trip. Its been pretty wind free the last week, man that wind
was a trip.
They had 100 mph winds at hill top, Anchorage, we had 65/70
here, blew my car shed to threads. Always tell my sis, in
San Diego there wind get to 55 its a hurricane, ours get to 100, doesn't even make the news.
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Wagonmaster added a post in a topic Fly-thru airplane wash
YUK That's a crappy thing to do. I had kind of a car wash experience my boss and I were returning from a day trip in prince william sound coming over the Kenai mountains both in beavers both with passengers and we came up on a black rain squall not very big just a streak about 100yds wide so it was my bosses idea to wash the bugs off his plane he went into it about a 1/4 mile off my left wing at the same altitude he went into it and completely disappeared then came out the other side 500ft lower he was talking in a much higher voice said he definitely didn't have any more bugs on the leading edges of his wing anymore he said water was hitting the windshield so hard it sounded like gravel. Needless to say I don't fly through rain streaks after that. Mark
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Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Alaska Fly in
Naw. They're only about $3.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Alaska Fly in
I better start on changing my work schedule now. July 26 - August 1.. Should be able to fit that in... but holy hell is that one expensive hamburger!
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Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Alaska Fly in
At the Red Barn by the Ultralight area at Airventure 2010. I'll buy.
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akflyer added a topic in Local Fly in's
Alaska Fly inHey guys, I think there are enough of us on here that we should get together for a 100 hamburger someplace. Any thoughts on a destination, or time frame?
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akflyer added a post in a topic Gross weight revisited (sigh)
I have sen all sides of the argument over on the kitfox list. The standard reply is... if you fly over gross weight you become a test pilot.... WTF do they think the first flights and phase one flight testing is? When I get the new engine in my plane, I will be a test pilot. No one has ever done it before that I know of, and the manufacture did not test out this engine so is it "stupid" for me to do so. NO. I know the risks, and am willing to take them. Will I be cautious and take steps to prevent being in a situation where I cant make a somewhat safe landing while I am doing the initial testing of this engine, you bet your sweet ass I will!
Back to the gross weight issue.... You fly up here, how many cubs or beavers, or otters are flown every day that are over gross.
At the end of the day, there is no place on anyones paperwork who is flying an experimental that that lists or shows a gross weight. Take my Avid for example. The gross weights on it from factory brochures range from 950-1200 pounds. Which one is actually correct? I ran with 1085 as that was what was on the sales brochure I got with the paperwork on the plane, but no where else is it mentioned. Not the build manual, not the paperwork that FAA has from original AW application to the paperwork I filed when I rebuilt it. During my rebuild, I beefed up the gear box, the strut carry through and the wing struts themselves. I have no doubt in my mind that I am safe to fly at over 1200#.
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flattie45 added a post in a topic Gross weight revisited (sigh)
I had sent Steve an email, but this was before I had looked at 8130-2F. I thought this whole issue of GW was great news, and that I'd post on the Searey site to help spread the message. I was hoping people would look up info, look at their documents, applications, whatever they have and say to themselves, "Sumbitch! It ain't here! These here experimentals have just gotten cooler!". Instead most people will post all day long without even looking at their documents/regulations. You would think they would all be for it. Puzzling, to say the least.
But there is still the 8130-2F. Granted, in and of itself it is not an FAR. It is an Order. What is an Order? Hell if I know, but I'll try to find out. And it says the builder SHOULD accurately weight the aircraft, not MUST. Is that splitting hairs? Who knows. Like you said Leni, I am curious what Steve (or any one else for that matter), has to say.
-Nate
Edit- Order 8130-2F Change 4 is current. Wording is the same in regards to gross weight.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Gross weight revisited (sigh)
Oh boy.. I better send outt he bat signal and see if I can get Steve to weigh in on this again As best as I can determine, from all the references that Steve put up, and searching my own, as well as talking to the FAA inspector when he came down to issue my AW cert, there is no real place for a "gross" weight anywhere on the paperwork other than WB, and that can be whatever you want to put down. There is no standard for testing for Experimental AC at this time, hence no place on the applications etc, for a "gross" weight. Same as for LSA. There is not a gross weight requirement, but a "Maximum Take Off Weight" Two entirely different animals.
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flattie45 added a post in a topic Gross weight revisited (sigh)
So I look up Order 8130.2f and the page it is listed on lists it as canceled, in big red letters. I'll continue looking for a document that isn't canceled. Assuming (there's that word I'm trying to stay away from) that such a document exists and the above excerpt is true, where does that leave us? I'd like to hear what people have to say.
-Nate
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flattie45 added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar
Gross weight revisited (sigh)Sorry to bring this up again. I've looked at the posts relating to gross weight and found it very interesting. I too assumed that it is established somewhere, but that's only because I didn't bother to look anything up in regards to gross weight. I just heard hearsay and left it at that. Granted, I hadn't been through the process since the aircraft that I own have already been built.
I am a member of the Searey owners forum and posted there on the subject of gross weight. I had the usual replies of where GW is listed. Then one member finds FAA Order 8130.2dc3, which is actually canceled. But I look and find Order 8130.2f, which is valid. It's title is Airworthiness Certification of Aircraft and Related Products. Chapter 4 Section 9 states:
"f. Weight and Balance.
(1) Before certification, the amateur builder should accurately weigh the aircraft in accordance with established weight and balance procedures to determine the aircraft’s empty, gross, and most forward and aft CG location, including the weight and balance for the initial flight tests in order to help reduce stall, spin, and other control-related accidents."
I am aware that the gross weight is not actually put down on any application, but the Order does state that the gross weight be determined. So, does this mean that one could change the gross weight by simply producing a new W&B form? I am curious to hear thoughts on this.
If people want I can copy and paste the discussion from the Searey site. Some of it is funny how people will make statements without looking at their own documents. Anyway, I am interested in what people have to think about this.
-Nate
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