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Hi Europa friends,

I finally was able to convince my wife to jump in the plane and go on a longer trip with our Europa. Weather during the flights was good but required a bit of planning. We had to ...

Yesterday I was flying southbound along the Florida coast for some breakfast and, on looking toward the ocean, I realized I had just missed something really neat. It was still a neat sight. I wanted t ...

Ron,

Expancel is great stuff. I happened to have enough for my project but always wondered what could replace it.

The only epoxy filler I have seen that looks like Expancel is the West System 41 ...

My interior is all painted minus the baggage area and foot floor where I used lightweight speaker cover type carpet. I used Zolatone over epoxy primed glass. No Expancell. Despite being told Zolatone ...

OK, so in the interest of accurateness, I went up this morning when it was relatively calm and did 3 and 4 leg runs and used the very handy National Test Pilot School (NTPS) GPS Pitot-Static-Error spr ...

Hi Pete,

This morning I went flying. Only climbed to 3000â€™ and at that altitude and 5100 the MP was around 23.5â€. Per my power table that is about 70% or a bit more but no more than 75%. My tab ...

Hi Pete,

Sorry for late reply.

I have the SkyBeacon (aka the wingtip one). That one doesn't have built-in transponder so you need to have one in the airplane, in my case the GTX-327. The nice th ...

During the DUC open house in Sebring. Got a new $$CF spinner (the one I had before was terrible).

One pic shows Monsieur DUC himself inspecting the prop install by his son. It was fun to sit back a ...

Some fun pics of N11EU doing it's job of providing enjoyment!

Hello Europa friends,

It's been a couple of months that I have been away from the forum. Life got a bit on the way but I'm hopping to socialize with you all again.

I have been flying my beloved ...

Hi Bud,

Thanks for your reply.

First on the CKT thing yes it is very sad. But your comments about why are right on. I am personally facing a similar situation as a product development Engineer f ...

Thank you Bud and Peter,

I cleaned the port yesterday and it is intact (shinny like when new) so for now I just applied some high temp paste (bandaid) since I really want to fly a little and I donâ ...

Thanks Peter,

Not sure what the sleeved one is (the Rotax style?) but I have a CKT muffler purchased 3+ years ago. Just a ball(ish) or taper looking ring at the end of the tube.

What is this Hon ...

Hello Europa Family,

First of all Happy New Year together with hopes of a great year 2024! I also hope you had enjoyable holidays (I did have a very special one, which included a Europa related act ...

Thanks for the compliments! I guess that if you spend 7 months working the finish something good should come out of it Very Happy

As far as speed not sure if itâ€™s faster. When I get the speed fairings ...

You can catch a glimpse of my AV-30 and EMS-1 in this picture (taken a couple of days ago).

Impressive CAD work and renderings A51.

First, I love my AV-30, you wont be disappointed. Same as you I wanted the round analog gauges look and I'm pleased to have done that.

The only thing I t ...

Thanks guys!

Pete, all products used come from a small company here in the US called Southern Polyurethanes (SPI). They really specialize on primers (their epoxy primer is fantastic) and clears. If ...

My Europa finally flies again. After a long and painful process of painting the airplane it finally did three nice flights today. All went well.

Still need to paint the removable wing root fairings ...

Hi David,

I know my answer wonâ€™t be a direct answer since I donâ€™t have this AP in my Europa but I have it my LongEZ. I installed it 10 years ago and it has been flawless.

But I can share my ...