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  1. EDMO

    Posted

    Also if anybody has pictures of the glare shield, and windshield where they all come together up front would be nice too, That way I know how to do my kitfox 1 when I get there. I eliminated my front fuel tank so I can have a nice big instrument panel similar to the kitfox 3 and 4 setup, really just not sure if the windshield attaches to the glare shield or how they come together. Hopping pictures will help me and Bill.

    Yours should be in the manual - don't know if Avid is the same?

    EDMO

  2. TJay

    Posted · Edited by TJay

    Also if anybody has pictures of the glare shield, and windshield where they all come together up front would be nice too, That way I know how to do my kitfox 1 when I get there. I eliminated my front fuel tank so I can have a nice big instrument panel similar to the kitfox 3 and 4 setup, really just not sure if the windshield attaches to the glare shield or how they come together. Hopping pictures will help me and Bill.

  4. EDMO

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    Yes, the cub he has been using is N6455S  He even managed to put it through the ice in 2008 at anderson lake :lol:

     

    He better be the center of a big investigation that strips him of his planes and guiding / hunting license forever up here. 

     

    :BC:

    Like the guide who got away with a lot, until a bear with 2 young cubs was shot, and they finally got him! It hurts everyone.

    EDMO

  9. Av8r3400

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    I've known several people who have done 618 and 670 Rotax snowmobile conversions in airplanes (Avids and Kitfoxes), from Rick and others.

     

    None of them were successful.  Poor reliability being the main reason, impossible tuning and uncontrollable peaky power bands being more reasons cited.  No one trusted them very far from the pattern at the airport.

     

     

    There's a guy on TeamKitfox with one (in a model III, I believe).  When pressed, he will finally admit to only having a few hours on the plane, but sings the praises of incredible power and performance.  I say, if it's so incredible, why so few hours on the plane.  There is a reason not being stated.  I believe that reason to be what the people I have know have stated (above).

  13. akflyer

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    So I think we all agree that you can't make a dime using an experimental aircraft, yet there is some dip shit up here who lives in Colorado that has been using his experimental cub for years to fly out clients on whats suppose to be a guided hunt.  The horror stories are stacking up about how this guy treats his clients once out in the field, but the big issue for me is using an experimental plane to fly out and move clients around in the field.  Am I the only one that see's this as an issue the feds should be tossing the book at him for?

     

    Here are a couple links to some of the horror stories

     

    http://www.rokslide.com/forums/showthread.php?21742-Alaska-Range-Dall-Sheep-My-First-Sheep-Hunt.rokslide

     

    http://onyourownadventures.com/huntt...d.php?t=260920

     

     

     

    This one pisses me off.  We look stupid enough to the world now with the dumb ass shows they are putting out about Alaska.

     

    This guy is very UN-professional making big money using an experimental plane and is just another example of an out of state guide raping the resources and doing it illegally at that.  The wanton waste this guy has caused would be enough for me to loose my plane, gun, gear and hunting privileges here, yet he seems to get away with it year after year.  

     

    OK rant over.

     

    :BC:

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  15. EDMO

    Posted · Edited by Ed In Missouri

    From what I remember, the Continental mount will fit the C-75, C-85, and C-90 engines except for a -14.  That series used the Lord mounts, same as an O-200.

    What made it a -14? The -12 had starter and generator.

    Piper went to Lycosaurus engines sometime after the J3 - Some one better educated in Piper history will need to figure out if they had any Continental engines with starters. I wouldn't know a PA-4 from a PA-99 except for the PA-20/22, which btw, I think, also had the Lyc. 320 engine, or was that an option, or STC, from the 290? And, of course, the PA-18 SuperCub.

    I flew an Apache once, but was too busy with 2 of everything to worry about what PA number it was!

    EDMO

  16. TJay

    Posted · Edited by TJay

    Well this was Saturdays work this weekend, I made some tail formers and glued them in place. I know extra weight in the tail, but I think it will look nice. I haven't done the elevator yet because I think I will stretch it out a couple inches.

     

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  17. akflyer

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    weld them on.. its going to get drug through brush etc and wood stand offs will get moved around.  I'm glad mine is welded tubing as I had a buddy helping do a float swap this summer and he decided to get under the plane and put his back to the stringer and lift up with his legs to help get a bolt aligned.. I was able to get 90% of the bend out of the tube by putting a couple small holes in the fabric and putting a rope around the tube and pulling it back down, then a couple seaplane grommets and it looks like it was meant to be that way. 

     

    :BC:

  18. TJay

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    Thanks Guys I am going to put some standoffs under her, there will be a small percentage of people that will see it but I like it that way. Now all I need to decide is if I want to weld on some standoffs or make them out of wood.

  19. akflyer

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    you can also go in to your profile so your notified when a reply is made to a thread you have posted in.

     

    Ed if you put the cursor over someones name and hold it there for a second, it will show said persons email :lol:  You have the option to either use PMs or you can email said person directly.

     

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  21. William Davis

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    Hi all as some of you already know I've purchased a avid flyer model D. It's 80% finished as I received it and it's at the point in construction to install the dash/panel and windscreen. The original builder purchased the mk4 cowling and has it split horizontally on either side. I've already got the window clecoed to the roof and clamped in place and i've temporarily mounted the dashboard and panel. The problem is when mounting the cowling the dashboard doesn't come close to lining up with the cowling lip as the manual states it should. Does anyone know if the dashboard is any different on the model d and mk4?

    Thanks

    Bill

  22. EDMO

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    Thanks Leni,

    My Grove MCs are 9/16" bore, and I think the Matco MC-3&4 are both 1/2" bore. I think the MC3 has an insert tube in it, and they figured out how to make the MC-4 without the insert. Just didn't know if the valving/piston setup was the same on both series, so you could use the MC3 with dual brakes.

    EDMO

  25. akflyer

    Posted

    easy way to pick up some climb is to wrap something around those tubes and streamline them.  I got right around 200 FPM just by streamlining my struts on my avid.  You have a whole bunch of tubes hanging out there causing lots of drag.  Some .020 aluminum wrapped around the tubes and rivet at the trailing edge with maybe a few foam formers will be a whole bunch cheaper than a 670.. the flip side is, you can never have too much power in a plane so get the 670 anyways, streamline the tubes and have a real performer! 

     

    :BC:

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