G,day Steve,I have noticed a discrepency in logged hours but it doesn't worry me too much as I use my GPS timer to time my flights,just as long as my CHT and...
Hey everyone, I have a question. Yesterday evening I took off at 5:30pm. It was cloudy but the wind was coming out of the North at 2pmh. I was on my way doing...
Some gliders are better at tolerating rain than others. It has to do with the fabric surface treatment. Do you remember when you last waxed your car and...
Had enough of sitting around waiting for the weather to be perfect. I got up early to beat the winds and rain. It was 35deg F and winds were 7-8 when I took...
This is not a commercial post. I am not selling this machine for a profit. I have a tandem trike that I have been working on with a friend of mine, a master...
I had one that went bad too. It worked for about 10 hours and then it started getting squirrelly. I messed with it forever and finally removed it. Too bad tiny...
Dave, I have a tach that I am waiting for the manufacture to release. It is promised to be flawless and is being reengiennered for the problem that you posted....
The wing that I was flying is a ParaToys wing, and yes I know its not certified. I love this wing and I still have not had any trouble with it and I've been in...
Hi, I am asking for input from experienced PPG motor experts. Recently, my Fly Gold 115/Simonini motor went to max RPM after the prop bolts all sheared and the...
... Others have commented on water beading up and disrupting the airflow. I don't know how real a problem that is. OTOH, if the water _doesn't_ bead up and...
Two new videos in one weekend! Thanks for all those who gave me positive feedback. It is nice to hear. Anyone thinking of going to Annecy in the summer? This...
I'm going to take a stab at it. Not knowing what you observed, I would suspect that with the prop off, the motor had no substantial resistance and thus it was...
I once had someone warn me about water collecting in the airfoil and becoming trapped, and thus further weighting the wing down. One time, I had a wingtip drop...
It's along the same lines with automobiles. Even after you kill the motor, it keeps chugging away. Probably in this case, the motor was so hot, the fuel kept...
Once you pulled the sparkplug wire and the engine was still running, it was dieseling. (running on no spark due to overheat or low octane fuel, possibly stale...
Hi all: I was replacing the exhaust spring safety wire, and I decided to visually examine the exhaust spring loops. When I removed the springs, I could see...
Two choices. The first time, I went to an auto muffler shop and had a guy put a bead with his welding tool at the loop. That was good for about 100 hours. I...
Hi Beery; Thanks for the ideas..both good too; Stefan just posted a picture (on the MichiganPPG group) showing how someone had welded small flat washers over...
Understand your reasoning, however.. I checked all prop bolts were tight prior to launch, and the fuel was AV gas mixed only the previous day. So I don't know...
OK understand. Any ideas why it would go to max RPM on it's own. There were no mechanical reasons for it, and only flying for 20 mins in 80F air temp? ... ...
Gavin, Maybe the initial vibration could have pulled the throttle cable sheath out of it's socket and hung it up on the lip of the socket. That would hold...
... Gavin, first of all the prop bolt torque is critical... as Mike said the prop is driven not by the bolts, but by friction against the drive flange. The...
... design ... Hi Gavin, This is simple really. I sent an email to the USPPA yesterday concerning the incident report you filed or that someone did as it was...
It might be worth it to check to see if the prop bolts are going into correctly threaded holes. One of my friends had a Fly 130 Gold that broke the bolts and...
My guess: When the engine overheated, it caused some carbon inside the chamber to glow red-hot acting as a glow-plug. My second guess is pre-ignition, caused...
Gavin, Did you ever encounter, before this incident, a time when the kill switch would not work? When the prop came off, was that during a full throttle...
Max RPM and full throttle don't necessarily mean the same thing here once the prop was lost. Once you lost the prop and didn't/weren't able to kill the...
Bud, I hadn't thought about it before, but the comment you made really highlights the concern of replacing the belt before it fails. It would be really bad to...
