Hangar Flying

Looks like we have an infiltrator in the crowd.

Hope you can kick the bum out ! !     This zhou1894 or whatever his handle is.   Dirty  bum ! !

Glennbob

That was a STEAL at that price ! ! !

Hard to get history when the builders and previous owners are history too ! !   I know the feeling ! !

Yeah, . .I guess it's safe to say that should about cover it ! !

Glennbob

I'll give you my two cents worth. . . .cause that's probably all it's worth.

The trailing edge fences are more important on a Varieze because of the back swept wing.  More so than on the Longez.  The fences help keep the air flowing towards the rear of the wing instead of washing outward towards the wiglet.  This helps with slower approach speeds by maintaining aileron control down to slower speeds on approach and shortens the landing roll.   On the top end, it offers no speed improvement, .in fact if anything, . .adds a little drag.  (quite little though).  At cruise speed I don't think they have any effect except like I said a little drag.   They are quite simple and easy to make.  I made mine on the kitchen counter.  Took four layers of bid and made a big flat square from which I cut two each  fences.  I made mine (long-ez) about four inches tall and about a foot long.  For Vari-eze they could be a little smaller.  I put mine on each end of my aileron.  On the Varieze, I think you can put one on the inboard side of the aileron, and then I think I've seen two or three on the outboard side of the aileron.  Evenly spaced.  I floxed mine directly to the wing and radiused them in all perty . .but it was a lot of work and screwin' around.  Much easier to use RTV (room temp vulcanize  (or  silicone in laymans terms)).  Very important to get them mounted at the right angle.  Kind of complicated, but I dropped a plum line to the floor from my spinner center and from my pitot tube in the nose and made marks on the floor. Then I measured over to where I thought they should go and set up a ladder above the mark on the floor. Then I dropped a plum line . . . . ( more on next post ) . . . . . .

If you have fuel injection,  hot starts are deal with by purging the warm fuel out of the system and introducing cool fuel to the distributor block.  If you don't have fuel injection, . .you might need to experiment with different methods.  One thing I've tried is to cut the ignition before shutdown instead of the fuel,  then when you restart, don't prime.  That might help. Only do this if you know you're going to start again soon.  Best wishes,  Glennbob.

I hope you're not too old.  There may not be enough years left for you to finish !    I bought a flying  EZ and had to re-do a bunch of stuff.  That was 5 years ago. Still not done !  Do you have boatloads of discrescionary  time ?  I'm not trying to discourage you,  just want you to have a realistic idea of what you're getting in to.  It's a HUGE  job, . .it'll probably be the single largest project of your life ! !   You'll have to set goals . . . (get this done by  . . .).   You'll have to be dedicated, .   do some work  even if small  every day ! !   (except Sunday, . .need a day off).  Watch lots of Youtube videos ! ! =  )   (keep fired up)  Find a list of other EZ pilots from the Central states newsletter and go visit these guys and see their planes.  Get ideas from them.  It's not a single task, . .it becomes a way of life.    . . . .Boy . . I feel  profound ! !   Bill  James  must be rubbing off on me ! !   Don't read that guys stuff, . .you'll spend the rest of your life reading and not building ! !   Ha ! !   =  )   Welcome to the family ! !     Glennbob  !

I'd be afraid of the " venturi "  effect of the low pressure whizzin' over the hole creating a vacuum and sucking fuel out of the tank.  The other issue . .though maybe minor would be the possibility of water getting in.  You don't want to go there ! !   GM