Paul
I wish there was some general advice on how to build light. At first,
the builder is led to believe that squeegeeing every drop of epoxy is
important, but I am not so sure if that is as important as painting and
instrumentation. Does anyone have data on how much weight is gained
after finishing and painting?
--- Paul McAllister <paul.mcallister@qia.net> wrote:
> <paul.mcallister@qia.net>
>
> Jos,
>
> I took my data from the Europa club files for 914 Mono's about 3
> years ago.
> I am sure that the sample size is bigger now.
>
> I was disappointed that mine came in at 860, I was hoping for about
> 840
> pounds. Some of the things that I could have done better was to put
> on less
> paint and filler, particularly primer.
>
> The welding cable for the battery in the rear was weighted a lot, I
> think I
> should have used CCA cable.
>
> Another thing I wish I had investigated was the weight difference
> between
> aluminum and rubber fuel lines.
>
> Lastly, I have just put in a glass panel. This took out 6 pounds,
> but if I
> had done it from the beginning the panel would have weighted less.
>
>
> With that all said, I am not about to build another Europa, or
> rebuild the
> one I have, I am having way too much fun flying it.
>
> To answer your question on power settings. I typically fly at 28" @
> 5000
> rpm at around 8~12,000 feet. I see around 146 ~ 152 knots TAS,
> depending on
> the altitude.
>
> I have done one set of calibrations on the glass panel for TAS and I
> don't
> think its all that far off, however my panel will dump out the
> following
> (and more) parameters to a USB stick:
>
> IAS
> GPS ground speed
> GPS Heading
> Magnetic heading
> Pitch
> VSI
> OAT
> Pressure altitude
> RPM
> MAP
> Fuel flow
>
> One of these evenings I am going to fly a bunch of circles at
> different
> altitudes and calculate out the TAS for myself to see if what my
> panel is
> saying is correct or not.
>
> Paul
>
> BTW. I saw a reference to taxi testing. I would encourage you to
> read my
> article in the Europa flyer on the topic of flight testing. After my
> experiences my recommendation is not to do taxi testing for the mono.
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