World Wide Web Woes

On my way back to the north of Germany, I took a small detour to the south to visit Hans v.d. Linden, yet one more ‘Hans’ that feels compelled to build an RJ.03 IBIS homebuilt airplane.

It’s almost two years ago that I wanted to take a Cessna 172 Skyhawk up for some traffic patterns at EDXR to keep current on the type.
I preflight the plane, start the engine and let Rendsburg Information know that I intend to shoot some traffic patterns.

Getting back up to steam is often difficult for various reasons (or excuses ). To lower that threshold, I decided to take on the construction of the new type IBIS canard wing tips as these parts are small and rather easy to build.
The old canard wing tips were sort of round. The […]

A couple of weeks ago my brother Marcel purchased a Europa Classic Tri-Gear, registered as G-BWON.
In the weeks leading up to that purchase, I was involved from afar, evaluating a lot of pictures, email statements from the prior owners, etc., trying to fill in the blanks for Marcel.

Flying Dutchmen on the Internet
A couple of times a year, a group of flying Dutchmen who also maintain a blog about their aviation related hobby meet face to face, traveling to these meetings by air, preferably as pilot-in-command. The next meeting is scheduled on Sunday December 28th on Stadtlohn / EDLS.
Eight Flybloggers blogs
Meanwhile our […]

Zenair CH-601 XL saga continues
From the LAA (former British PFA) website, which is an update that was published on December 5, 2008:
“The CAA issued an MPD on 24 November 2008 formally grounding the CH601-XL in the UK, following the LAA’s earlier advice to owners. LAA Engineering continues to be fully involved in pursuing a […]

If you happen to fly and also call an Apple iPhone 3G your significant other, you might be interested to learn that i-hud.com has published a small software that turns your iPhone into a PFD.
This software uses the 3D accelleration sensors and the GPS-receiver that are built into the Apple iPhone 3G to derive the […]

According to the ‘Latest News’ section of the British LAA website (Light Aircraft Association, successor to the former PFA) , LAA recommends to the UK CAA that all British registered Zodiac CH601-XL be grounded as well.
According to this report, the affected owners have been contacted directly by a letter dated November 4th, 2008.
Now, this letter […]

According to this Dutch language website the Dutch aviation authorities grounded all twelve Dutch registered Zenair Zodiac CH601 XL aircraft until further notice.

In between the many non-aviation related chores I need to tend to these days my thoughts wandered off and continued to mull over how the engine for my Ibis homebuilt aircraft is going to look like. The thing I contemplated the last couple of weeks is ‘compression ratio‘.