Light Aircraft Association

I did this little job on a IIIc a couple of years ago. I didn't find any instructions but the back room boys at Mendelssohns pilot shop are helpful if you get stuck. The job would have been quite straight forwards if it had not been for an excess of silicon sealer applied to a cluster of capacitors ...

I understand that electric flight has taken place in the UK. I think Flylight have flown SSDR microlights (no LAA or BMAA Engineering input needed), I believe they have flown both 3 axis and flexwing types. I can't find mention on their website so I might have dreamt it.

Rans6....

it would have been much easier for most of us if the initial information had stated when the engines/crankshafts had been manufactured! Apparently, on the BMAA forum, Conrad Beale stated that the critical time interval was Oct/Nov 2010. I guess most of us would remember if we had bought a new 912 or...

If the members of all of the supporting organisations are going to get in for just £6 one wonders why they don't just set the admission price to £6 for everyone and save the costs associated with sorting out the vouchers. As I understand it, 95% of visitors to the show are members of the supporting ...

is there any point? those of us without transponders are still stuffed for the duration!

I note that there is a voucher for The Flying Show inside the latest LAA mag, it is not clear whether this allows 1 member 1 reduced price entry, or 1 member reduced price entry on both days, or both parties of a joint membership 1 reduced price entry each, or both parties of a joint membership redu...

when you use the "spin it over" and get the peak reading method you know if it is good because it reads the value given in your Haynes manual.

May not work well for hand prop installations though.

Rans6.........

why do aero engines use the differential pressure test when everything else seems to use a simple compression test done with a gauge in a spark plug hole? The whole procedure seems to be a bit close to the danger zone. I have seen it done with a couple of guys struggling to hold TDC while a 3rd play...

I'm not sure that "fix" is the word starting with f that fits best in the above

Rans6A.....

Brian, I stand corrected on both points. I have not got a 2012 calendar to hand and tried to figure out when August bank holiday would fall, in my head. Also I tried, and failed, to remember which GA event took place in northern France that people had complained clashed with the Sywell do. Was it th...

For reasons that are not that clear to me, the powers that be have decided to change the date of the 2012 Sywell rally from mid September to the August bank holiday weekend. They seem to be determined to clash with the Blois Microlight Fair and/or the RSA Rally every year. Sorry chaps, the Blois Mic...

I would like to ask the organising folk why they feel it necessary to have some clown on a PA system try to involve the assembled crowd in so called "entertainment"? We were just settling down with our food and drink, in Hangar 1 on Friday evening, when it started. Looking around the room all I coul...

the problem is not that their systems may not cope, more that my aircraft systems do not include a transponder, for reasons of cost, weight, possibly power availability and training in the use thereof.

What am I supposed to do for the duration?

Rans6Andrew.

funny train of thought! if you take the pipe from the T piece upwards for 12 inches that may well create a "head" of pressure but the moment you feed it back down the head will be reduced. By the time it gets down to the level of your undercarriage leg the pipe will be sucking (syphoning) from the T...

nice one Jim, good information.

Rans6....