Light Aircraft Association

Thanks Thought that might be the way. We have easy access to bleed nipple - any suggestions as to a suitable implement. Not sure if a ordinary oil can will produce sufficient pressure. High pressure oil cans only seem to be available from US or Hong Kong - I guess the EEC thinks they are too dangero...

Hello We removed a wheel from our Emeraude for maintenance. Somewhat to our surprise the only way we could replace the wheel over the drum brake shoes was to open the bleed valve and push the pistons in. The pistons would not push in fully unless we did this. In the course of this some air got in th...

Thanks for the replies. We did think about carburetor icing. But in the case of the go-around and the engine not picking up, the throttle was only at idle for perhaps 30 sec - would it strike that quickly? Also the pilot who has regularly flown the aircraft is in the habit of doing power off approac...

Hello Any advice welcome on a problem our C90 has just developed. The engine starts fine from cold and runs very nicely except: after a short period at idle (on a glide approach) the engine runs down after landing and will not restart in the short term. On a go-around from idle on the approach the e...