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  1. akflyer

    Posted

    Depending on the seat, a lot of guys have to put a pillow behind them.  There is quite a bit or leg room in the fiberglass seat, and I was able to let the sling seat out enough that it was toes only to hit the rudder pedals.  I am 5'11"

     

    Unless your real handy with welding, I would not be moving the wings etc.  Raising the skylight would not be bad for the first time builder, there are lots of guys that can talk you trough it that have done it.

     

    :BC:

  3. Chewie

    Posted

    Hi Ed,

    Thanks for the tips.  The biggest limitation is actually legroom, and to a lesser extent headroom.  Lots of mods I'm sure, but appropriate for a first time builder? :dunno:

  4. EDMO

    Posted · Edited by Ed In Missouri

    Mark,

    Any of the Avid and Kitfox models can be modified to fit a taller pilot - some have done this by moving the skylight upwards, and I completely raised the wings 6 inches on my Kitfox clone.

    Raising the skylight is not a big problem, but you still have the bars on top of the Cockpit to cope with, but you could also modify them to clear your head. SuberAvid posted some photos of his raised skylight, and I believe another builder posted photos of his.

    Raising the wings means not only modifying the fuselage upper part, but also making new wing struts, because the angle and length of them changes. The controls have to be modified too.

    Hope this helps.

    EDMO

  6. akflyer

    Posted

    Talk to any of the trailer manufactures.  You can have one custom built to your specs cheaper than I can buy a 10 yr old enclosed trailer up here.

     

    One Idea.  Several of the trailers I looked at just had aluminum angle in the rear door frame for the door to seal against.  My plan at the time was to just cut out a section of the angle so the plane would fit through then put in a section that was a little longer with a few bolts and wing nuts so you could pop that section out in a few minutes.

     

    Welcome aboard here, hope you find the place useful!

     

    :BC:

  7. Chewie

    Posted

    Hi all,

    I posted a few times but I should probably write something here too.

    First time builder wannabe.  I'm in Oregon, an hour east of Portland.  I fly a paramotor but would like to build something 'real'.  I would love to see an Avid first hand and chat about it if anyone is near by.

    I don't have any project started, just looking and researching.  I have a PPL in a 150.  I'm tall but I fit fine in a 150, not so much a kitfox 4 or earlier.  So a nice project would be one of the plus-size avids that I can build from the ground up.  Seems like there are very few of them out there.  I can't go the kitfox route unless maybe it's a 5 - don't have $60k laying around! 

    Love this forum!  I'm happy to contribute to help with the server transition.

    Thanks

    Mark

  8. dholly

    Posted

    Thought you might be interested in reading the form letter 'response' rec'd from my state Senator... more than 4 months after I emailed her office. And, no, she was not one of the 28 Senators signed a letter and sent it to FAA Administrator Huerta.

     

    Not surprisingly then, her canned response appears fabricated to spark outrage at Sequestration rather than answer the REAL question... why the FAA is allowed to ignore a Congressional directive against user fees and demand additional payments for items that have already been budgeted for (FAA sends 64-80 controllers to AirVenture each year, selected by FAA management at the Central Service Area. These are all full-time FAA  controllers/supervisors, so the selected employees would be paid anyway, if they were not temporarily reassigned to AirVenture. Thus, the $500K FAA demanded from EAA was not for controller salaries, but for the added expenses related to working at AirVenture, such as lodging, per diem, and overtime.).

     

    No response from my House Reps to date. Curious if anyone else who took the time to send their protest letter rec'd a response from their elected Congressional representatives?

     

     

    Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

    To Me
     
    Oct 22 at 3:44 PM

     

     

     

     

    October 22, 2013

     

     

    Dear Friend,

     

    Thank you for contacting me regarding the decision by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to change a fee for air traffic control services for major aviation events around the country.  I understand your concerns.

     

    As you may know, the FAA's policy change was a result of budget sequestration.  This law has forced federal agencies to make significant cuts, in addition to the FAA budget, reducing services across the nation.  Sequestration put in place draconian cuts to numerous programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Head Start, and the Women Infant and Children programs.  I voted against this unbalanced approach.  While I agree that we need to return to a path of fiscal responsibility, I do not believe this is the way to do it.

     

    Safe and efficient air travel is critical to New York's economy, providing an essential mode of transportation for hundreds of thousands of people every day.  We need a well-balanced approach to our budget to ensure that that our skies are safe without placing the costs on the backs of American families.  

     

    Thank you again for writing to express your concerns, and I hope you keep in touch with my office regarding future federal legislation. For more information on this and other important issues, please visit my website at http://gillibrand.senate.gov and sign up for my e-newsletter.

     

     


    Sincerely,

    Kirsten E. Gillibrand
    United States Senator

     

  9. Boat

    Posted

    2nd Annual Boonville Salute To Veterans Fly In

    Willits EAA Chapter 1027 and the Boonville Wing of EAA 1027 announce the second annual Salute To Veterans fly-in. This is our time to honor all of our veterans that fought for the freedoms we enjoy which include our freedom to fly. The event is to be held at Boonville airport, D83, on Sunday, November 10th from 11 AM to 3 PM.

     

    http://eaa1027.org/

     

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  10. Boat

    Posted

    I'm looking for an Enclosed Trailer for my Mark IV Speedwing.

     

    I plan to trailer it long distances to fly out of various airstrips around the West.

     

    The minimum folded width is 7 ft. 10 in.  I've already discoverd that the 8 1/2 ft wide trailers which have an 8 ft wide interior have a rear door opening that's less than 7 ft. 10 in.

     

      Any information here would be helpful.

  12. C5Engineer

    Posted

    I have over 8000 messages in my Yahoo account :french11: The email search function actually works pretty well. Any topics that you guys can think of off the top of your head that might contain some good tech info that I can so searching for? I went over a year without even logging in over there so I'm a bit behind.

  15. Guest

    Posted

    I do not know how many use the enmail option at yahoo. I never have. I log on to the web and look at the posts I am interested in, just like I do on this site. I personally have no use for an email option. It would just further plug up my already over-spammed email account!

  19. C5Engineer

    Posted

    Sounds like a challenge! I challenge each and every one of you to get on the Yahoo site and do a search a for a topic that helped you out along the way. Copy and paste the relevant information into a thread on here and I will sort through it and post it where it needs to go. I've already moved most of the Files into our files section but I can't do this alone guys. The info is out there it just needs people to take the time to find it and post it. Hell just tell me what info you think would be useful and I will put in my own time to extract it.

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  20. C5Engineer

    Posted

    If you buy one get the Zero to 100mph gauge. I can't tell you now many Avids and Kitfoxs I've seen with 180mph ASI in them. The first tick mark on your indicator in a 100mph airplane should not be 40! That's like having a speedo that goes to 200 in a Pinto. Makes no sense.

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  21. akflyer

    Posted

    Chris,

     

    Just so ya know, it was not meant to be a hack on the guys trying to run it or the mods, its just the site itself and yahoo's new found interest in making everything more difficult to use.  I know I have had hell the last few weeks and for most of this year dealing with hackers and server issues so I know how quickly you can go from a hero to a zero when the site is down, running slow, or in someway not meeting someones expectations.  I know you have contributed alot of awesome ideas and tech info to this site and it is appreciated!  But at the end of the day, the majority sees that a forum based site is alot easier to search and navigate than the old YH groups or email list.

     

    I am working on an email option for this site so that, if you wanted, you can get a daily digest of the site activity.  A few of the guys that mod the forum software have been working on it and hope to have it up and running soon.

     

    :BC:

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  22. Guest

    Posted

    I am a moderator on the Avid Yahoo group. I used to like it a lot and spent a great deal of time learning and contributing. The format was simple and a ton of good people and information are there. Recently they changed the format and now when I post, they don't show up half the time. It's also tons slower and a buttload of advertising clogs the whole thing up. I love the people there, but the site sucks now. I wish there were a way to move all the files, knowledge and history away from there.

     

    But I am not the creator of the site, just a moderator. One of several moderators the original creator of the site asked to do the job when he sold his plane. it would be tragic to lose all the info there, because while difficult, you can search by topic and find every conversation that was ever had and there is a lot of accumulated information and knowledge there.

     

    But I too think the yahoo site is going the way of the Dodo if yahoo doesn't do something to clean it up and speed it up.

     

    Chris