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Same thing happened to Bob Hoover years ago. He had just enough avgas in the lines to get airborne.
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I just hung mine from the ceiling by the rib tails. I put a couple eye bolts in garage ceiling and strung it up. Like joey said, make patterns or take good measurements so you can lay out your lines to keep the stitches even. I did t do that and ended up with a couple odd ball stitches on the bottom.
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I built an excellent wing rotissary back while building my Avid. I wrote it up, but i would have to find my writeup to send it to you. We are now vacationing in the FL keys, so I will have to get home to find it. You can have the complete rig if you could pick it up in Bethesda, MD. Let me know if you are interested.
Pops
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Whatever rotary fixture you use, you should make sure that it is firmly attached to the wing, or that the fixtures are bound to each other - one slip and you have a bigger problem - accidents happen.
EDMO
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A friend of mine sent me this today. Kind of neat I thought. Not at all my kind of flying, at least not on purpose... Although judging by how much smoke I had in the cockpit when I blew an oil cooler line on my Jabiru powered Avid, I've probably left at least one good smoke trail in my life. Lots of smoke in the video at any rate, and aerobatics as well.. Enjoy, Jim Chuk
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A very similar rotisserie design: http://tropicaltuba.com/Kitfox%20Project/Kitfox.htm#WingRotisserie
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Make sure you make a good template if you have the STOL wing. If you just go straight down your row will get all out of whack. I remember spending a little while trying to figure out the best way to do it.
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Nukapoint I am not arguing but can you cite a specific example? If you think these people are sensitive you should try some other forums. I post regularly on 15 or more forums and this community is by far the most relaxed I've seen.
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This has happened too many times - that's supposed to be why they dye the fuel different colors.
I like fueling my own, with my tanks or their pump.
EDMO
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When I was a beginning commercial student, about 50 years ago, I took a VFR C-172 from St. Louis to OK City, had wife and two small daughters with me - CAVU, and made a stop at my hometown in the flatlands of the Missouri Bootheel on my way to Oklahoma.
3 days later I left Cherokee Airport, where there was no fuel, under big cumulous clouds - Near Tulsa, an ATF pilot was reporting hail just north of my location - I quickly got into rain and made a fast landing at an Airport and went right into an open hanger until the storm passed.
Taking off and heading across the hills of North Arkansas, I was under lowering ceilings and about 1000 AGL for a while, and then a pilot north of me in a Beech reported storm tops at 55,000.
I got down to 500 AGL, and was off my course, flying more south to avoid storms.
Spotting a water tower at a small town, I circled it to try confirm my location - There was no name on the tower! -
The clouds were nearly touching the hilltops, but there was what looked like a tunnel in the clouds in a valley to the northeast of the town, and I headed the Cessna into it hoping it wouldn't close up on me before the hills blended into the flatlands of Missouri. I got to the flatlands and landed in rain with maybe 5 gallons of gas left.
Not an exciting story now, but a trip I will never forget with some very precious passengers asleep in the back seat.
EDMO
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I was fortunate recently to spot an item on clearence at a local "discount" retailer. No, the store name does not begin with the letter W. It is roll of cling type window film. 28"X78" and 20% VLT. The tint color is gray. $6.49
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Maybe taking a few hours of Instrument instruction might not be a bad idea for those who have not had any training. I do remember that my instructor liked putting post it notes over the AH, DG and Turn Coordinator pretty often while I was under the hood. With a bit of practice you can hold level flight using the compass, Altimeter and ASI. Not ideal due to the tremendous workload for the mind added to basic navigation but would save your butt when a vacuum pump goes out or if you manage to get caught in instrument conditions by accident somehow in an Avid.
Another option is the MGL Extreme Mini EFIS with the AHRS sensors added. I have though about putting one of those in my Avid some day and right now it is what I would plan on putting into the Quickie Q1 that I need to get busy finishing. Avionics will have changed completely by the time I need any for that plane though.
One of the guys in my EAA chapter put one in his LongEZ minus the AHRS and has been happy with it.I had forgotten about the Dynon pocket panel. I might save up for one of those since I am also switching between 2 planes and one is certificated.
For the experimentals there is one more relatively cheap option: http://www.beliteaircraftstore.com/tuco.html
A small solid state turn coordinator. Not quite as good as an AH but way cheaper.
Dan
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I beleive many times conflict arises because we do not have the benefit of voice inflection and facial expression when communicating via text. The smileys are here to help others interpret mood and voice. I'm guilty of not using them when I perhaps should. And then of course, most of us have not physicaly met one another. We have little information about each other's personality.
Never drink and text.
Where's that one that looks like a growing green leafy weed? 
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I would just add that although I do not have a ton of hours in the Avid yet I do like the rear windows. I occasionally fly places with one of the other guys at my airport and we do not fly formation. I am able to spot him through the rear windows when I am looking for him on the occasion that he is behind me to the right. I also have those clear round pop out vents in each window because it can get a little warm in the summer down here along the Texas Gulf Coast. Those allow the pop out vents in the door windows to pass more air. I will be replacing all lexan soon with a light grey tinted version and the door bottoms will be switching to lexan as well. The other Avid recently added windows to his turtle deck. He was not able to see me if I was coming up on his right side.
I do have a Grumman Yankee and that definitely gets warm if the canopy is left closed. Opening it several inches up to halfway cools things down nicely though.
Dan
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I have noticed that there is some very sensitive people on this forum.all you have to remember is ,opinions are like assholes everybody has one.
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I have a Dynon D1 'pocket panel'. I have an IFR equipped Cherokee, and my Avid. The Cherokee is all vacuum - even the turn and bank is vacuum, so I needed some alternate backup, but in panel options were $$$$$. I'm 'legal' without one, but seems stupid to me given the likelyhood of a vacuum pump failure. With the pocket panel, I can move it between the two planes as needed. I can't imagine ever getting into IFR with my Avid in Florida, but stranger things have happened to me over the years!
Mark
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I just looked through my pictures of covering jobs, trying to find a good pic of my wing stands. I didn't build the bottom parts, but modified the parts that go into the wing. These stands are adjustable for up and down, If I remember right, there is a long slot cut into the upper 2x4, and a bolt goes through it and the 2 lower 2x4s that sandwich it. Haven't used them in about 4 or 5 years, so the memory is a bit foggy. Anyway, this should give you some ideas. Jim Chuk
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Rib Stitching Vertical (leading edge down trailing edge up)
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EDMO
Posted · Edited by Ed In Missouri
You should make two different templates to lay out the stitches, actually 2 for the top, and 2 for the undercamber - the stitches in the propblast area are supposed to be closer together, if you follow AC43-13.
EDMO