http://blog.experimentals.de Adventures of a lonesome aviator / experimenter Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:53:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. Hans v.d. Linden is a Dutchman, just like the other two who build an IBIS, ... http://blog.experimentals.de/experimental-aircraft/ibis-builder-hans-vd-linden Keeping current on a C-172 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. There’s ... http://blog.experimentals.de/aviation/if-birds-dont-fly 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 ... http://blog.experimentals.de/experimental-aircraft/ibis-canard-wing-tip-construction Ferrying Europa G-BWON to The Netherlands 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 ... http://blog.experimentals.de/homebuilt-aircraft/ferrying-europa-classic-tri-gear-g-bwon-to-the-netherlands 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 ... http://blog.experimentals.de/flyblog/dutch-flybloggers 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 ... http://blog.experimentals.de/experimental-aircraft/the-zenair-zodiac-ch-601-xl-grounding-saga-continues …but there’s no need to make your project any more expensive than it needs to be, right? Aircraft aluminium required For the controls actuation of my IBIS canard project I needed some aluminum tubing in several sizes, with a length of up to 1.80m / 6′. Also some solid round aluminum ... http://blog.experimentals.de/experimental-aircraft/aircraft-building-material-is-expensive 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 ... http://blog.experimentals.de/avionics/primary-flight-display-pfd-on-your-apple-iphone-3g 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 ... http://blog.experimentals.de/experimental-aircraft/british-registered-zenair-ch601-xl-fleet-to-be-grounded-as-well According to this Dutch language website the Dutch aviation authorities grounded all twelve Dutch registered Zenair Zodiac CH601 XL aircraft until further notice. A Zodiac CH601 SL crashed last September in The Netherlands, after one of the wings ‘folded upwards’, killing both occupants. Apparently, research showed that since 2006 at ... http://blog.experimentals.de/experimental-aircraft/all-dutch-registered-zenair-zodiac-ch601-xl-aircraft-grounded