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Many thanks for your swift response. Being a UK resident, it surprises me that there is no mention made anywhere of our LAA Light Aircraft Association having endorsed this. But no doubt they're fully ...

Thanks Jim. I tried that without success. Any chance that someone can reproduce the actual document here online?

This just arrived in my inbox today. I can't get into it on their website, so who can give me the contents of the bulletin, thanks?

Service Bulletin 19

We would like to draw your attention to S ...

Several years ago I bought a set of silicone hoses from someone in Sweden who created shaped coolant hoses for the Europa and also provided silicone hoses with protective lining for the oil system. He ...

This is the fourth time in over 27 years that I'm removing a Rotax 912 from my aircraft to get something attended to. Each time that I've installed an engine in the past, I inserted and tightened the ...

Weld it. You won't be the first to have it welded. When I had exactly your kind of exhaust system, it cracked in that location more than once, so I just paid for the services of a good welder.

Furt ...

Someone with a lot of Rotax engine experience has suggested that one or more piston oil scraper rings may have been installed the wrong way around. If so, I'm just going to live with it and accept hig ...

Thanks for the reply and suggestions. Apart from a slight weep from one valve cover, say about 6 drips per hour, which nothing I've tried to date can stem, there's no evidence of even the slightest le ...

Does your 912ULS really use only 1/2 litre (500 ml), or 1/2 US quart of oil per 50 flying hours? Mine has done a total of 780 hours ( 560 since a rebuild at 220 hours, following a crash involving a pr ...

I'm very fond of my CKT exhaust and sad that they went out of business. Their service was excellent and they were quite easy to pay, which might account for their demise. I vaguely recall that the Eur ...

As far as I know, the fuselage shell consists of an outer and an inner fiberglass skin, with a layer of foam about 3mm thick between the two skins. I recall when fitting the door shoot bolt stops modi ...

A friend has found evidence of microbial growth in a wing fuel tank, and he's asked me for advice. Unfortunately I can't think of anything other than removing and flushing the tank, possibly also usin ...

I use a smallish net which came with my Skoda car i.e. a VW made in the Czech Republic, with four hooks, one at each corner. The anchor points for each hook are medium / small cable tie wraps.

Four ...

Just a word of caution to anyone new to the Europa tri-gear and changing a wheel or repairing a tire for the first time. When jacking up on the piece of metal rod or breaker bar which you've inserted ...

Thanks everybody. This confirms what I have been doing i.e. inserting a snug fitting round bar into the axle with enough length to jack the wheel off the ground and also to slide the wheel along the b ...

How do you jack up a tri-gear to make a main wheel tyre repair or replacement? What kind of adapter / bracket do you take with you when flying away from home base, to facilitate the use of a trolley j ...

My Neville Eyre cowl hatch hinges have the hinge knuckle upwards. The hinges are the same as used for ailerons and anti servo tabs, so if the hinge flaps are tucked under the cowl, then the knuckles a ...

Difficult to say! Having used "sticky stuff" carefully applied outside of the O-ring of another cover to avoid contaminating the oil and not remembering which cover it was, we're reluctant t ...

Cover checked in an engineering workshop and found to be flat i.e. not distorted. Head contact surface for O-ring not scratched or cracked. It would be difficult to distort the head, I think, without ...

Neither the Rotax factory supplied O-rings (via a UK agent) nor the after market items which are supposedly slightly thicker have stopped the very slight leak.