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John Williamson
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 146
Location: Arlington, TX
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 Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:22 am Post subject: Winter Flying in Texas |
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John Williamson
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Kolbra, 912ULS, 1640 hours
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John Hauck
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Winter Flying in Texas/912 School |
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Hi John W/Gang:
Having the same conditions here in Alabama, but I left the new exhaust system w/Bro Jim In Woodville, FL, to reweld and reinforce all four tabs on both silencers. Tough being grounded temporarily.
Picked up my 5th wheel in Woodville, and pulled it to Lucedale, MS, for the 912 School. Nothing extraordinary to pass on. Rotax continues to make small improvements to the 912 series engines as well as increases in prices. Spare parts are completely out of sight. I believe they are going to outprice themselves for us little guys living on retirement and fixed incomes. Although an extremely good, reliable engine, 14 to 15 thousand dollars is more than I want to invest in a new engine. Maybe an adequate replacement will come along before I need a new one. Based on condition inspections, my 912ULS should run reliably to 3,000 hours. The life of the engine is frequent oil changes if the user is using a lot of 100LL fuel, which we have to do when we do cross country flights. If we could feed them on a steady diet of 91 octane or higher auto fuel, we could stick to the recommended 100 hour oil changes.
Spark plug change interval remains at 200 hours for the 912UL and 100 hours for the 912ULS. However, both engines will easily exceed these time intervals with satisfactory results.
Guessing that is Ken K's Tornado in the sunset. Beautiful photo.
Take care,
john h
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JetPilot
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Flying in Texas |
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Beautiful pictures John, looks like you are having more fun than the rest of us... I loved the video, I wold really like to see more flying videos posted. I will be posting a bunch as soon as im flying 
Michael A. Bigelow
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Bob Dalton
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 68
Location: Manteca, Ca
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Flying in Texas |
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John,
Great shot! Wish I could have been alongside.
Bob D.
Manteca, CA
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