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Re: Europa-List: Re: Outrigger legs

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Outrigger legs
From: Andrew Sarangan <asarangan@YAHOO.COM>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:02:15

Great, thanks!! I was starting to get worried if I was doing something
wrong, but I am glad to hear this from you. 


--- "h&amp;jeuropa" <europa@triton.net> wrote:

> <europa@triton.net>
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> Andrew,
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> We had the same problem when we started flying last year.  We talked
> to Andy and filed a little off FL3 and even opened up the slot in OR5
> (with Andy's OK).  Our outrigger still didn't seem to retract fully
> but we flew anyway.
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> Now during our rebuild we fitted new OR5 to have the proper slot
> length and spent a lot of time fiddling with the outrigger assembly. 
> We finally noticed that OR4 is hitting OR6 which prevents the
> outrigger from fully retracing.  OR6 is not symmetrical.  We found
> that flipping it over so short end (length from hole to end of block)
> faces aft gave us a little more movement of OR4 and results in the
> outrigger coming up properly.  We suppose you could file some off OR4
> but the manual cautions against this (page 9-10 Issue 2).  Fig 15 on
> page 9-9 shows the relationship of OR4 and OR6 with the outrigger
> retracted.
> 
> Jim & Heather
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> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=114531#114531
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