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Grob 109 or Dimona H36 motorgliders get close to the spec. There are several H36s for sale in that price range on the continent. (Not Permit, of course.)

That's really useful, thanks!

When we refurbished the undercarriage of our Jodel D9 what came out looked very, very much like rubber doorstops! We replaced them with natural rubber bobbins, from here: http://www.wdsltd.co.uk/product/4068/female-cylindrical-rubber-stop-wds-714/ We were advised by a Jodel expert that 60 shore was ...

I've seen 65kph quoted -- that's 35.09kt: isn't that 35 within the limits of ASI accuracy!? Perhaps you should talk to Richard Teverson (though his luciole.co.uk website seems not to be working at the moment).

How far off is the stall speed? I don't have the LAA article to hand, but I thought it was very close to 35kt. Would it not be worth considering vortex generators before attempting to add slats?

I thought that a Megajolt system, apart from having to program it (and I'm sure someone somewhere has done what you need!), was about a simple as it got... However, I've just seen that Sky-craft say "Hot News! We are now able to adjust the timing curve [of the Leburg system] to suit various other 2 ...

I go to Italy quite often, and speak a little Italian, but I've only flown GA as a passenger...and I don't think the guy made any calls -- it was a quiet day at the strip(!) However, I know a couple of Italian pilots, so I can see what I can dig out from them. Or, if you go to the Flyer forum, track...

Letters are fine. But to be honest the last thing I would like to see in the LAA mag is seven pages of them. If we want debate, we have this forum*; we can save the trees for something else. So why not post your letters here, and let's have a discussion about it...? (*Though it's a shame this forum ...

given the amount of Inspectors we already have I doubt gaining another one is a pressing issue for him. Possibly -- but given the demographic of the LAA there is likely to be churn (a polite way of saying they die off!), plus inspectors are not evenly spread around the country (especially taking in...

I was slightly flummoxed by that one too... Hinton doesn't have an ICAO designator, but has a lot of aviation-related activity, several runways, a maintenance company, fuel pumps...so strip didn't seem quite right. I plumped for local aerodrome...

I looked into a parallel situation for an Italian friend who moved here and had an Italian microlight licence, and wanted to fly here (and ultimately fly non-microlights). The solution seemed to be to go via a LAPL issued in Italy -- the LAPL had only just come out when we looked into this, and the ...

...Because I've not got mine, and I'm getting withdrawal symptoms -- and I want to read about the Panther!

While it is in some ways a pity that the rest of Europe couldn't be persuaded to adopt the NPPL (not for want of trying, I believe), which seems a good system for leisure flying, it seems to me that the LAPL is a pretty good compromise alternative -- reduced medical requirements (both in terms of st...

Have you tried any of the guys who fabricate titanium exhaust systems for cars/bikes? If they don't have the quality you need, perhaps they could point you to a supplier.

I could give the compressor a good home -- but don't want to start a fight over it! (I'm in Oxford if that's geographically convenient.)