Tell us about your last flight

[BurnieM]

5 hours ago, Moneybox said:

I had a 4.5hr flight home yesterday in the Zenith Zodiac 601hd. Now I know what you're trying to fix with the rudder trim, I had to keep constant pressure on the RH side of the stick.

 

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What ? Are you building a fleet ?

 

Edited 9 hours ago by BurnieM

[Moneybox]

1 hour ago, BurnieM said:

 

What ? Are you building a fleet ?

 

Yeah, Mrs M has been on at me to get the Polaris microlite down from hanging in the shed but where do you park them all? I desperately need a hangar. This one is 19-**** that allows me to work with it. The Sportstar is a 24 and very difficult to work with. I can't fit the AP I want, I can't fit the instruments I want and the parts are a rip-off.

 

I wanted to change the throttle cable from the ratchet/locking type to a friction type. I did the right thing and asked Evektor, no problem it can be changed so they supplied the part numbers of the two little grommets and the cable. I ordered it through the Australian dealer in SA and accepted the ridiculous price of $1480. Well that was until I received the cable, they supplied a locally sourced McFarlane cable that I could buy from Aircraft Spruce for less than half the price. I felt like going back to Evektor with a complaint but I might need the dealer one day for something important. I returned the cable for credit.

 

This plane has the same type of throttle cable but it seems to work much better than the difficult to operate throttle control in the Sportstar. I've only left the ground and landed it three times but I had no trouble at all with the throttle.