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 Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:20 am Post subject: A new Slant on living with your Rotax... |
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Just read the post / battle between Dale & whomever he's battling with.
I can't believe all this. I started flying ultralight aircraft in the summer of '78 with a Terror-Dactyl (no canard) with a 22hp Sachs single banger. Good motor. Somehow I've gotten along & stayed alive all that time without BRSs too. 31 years & not a single expensive BRS purchase or expensive repack.
Fast forward to 2009. I own a Trike for towing hang gliders with a 503, a half partnership in a Phantom with a 503, a Kolb with a 503 & a SeaWing Trike with a 582...only because it came with one.
What I'm getting at is that I can't believe all this incredibly complicated technical talk you guys are doing. I fly the pee-living crap out of all my motors & rarely do anything to them except change the plugs. And what the hell is a TBO? Who put that imaginary time limit on it? Rotax wants you to do it so you'll buy more parts that you "think" you need.
Do me a favor...before you go flying next time, stand close to your motor and ask it this question..."How many hours do you have on you?" You probably won't get an answer. The reason is that it doesn't know & can't speak English. It has no idea.
My Trike, while towing hang gliders, flies WIDE-ASS OPEN at 6500rpm for the entire flight up to (usually) 2,500 feet & has been wide open up to 5,500 feet. My motor has over 1,600 hours on it & is still going strong with a solid crank. I've replaced both pistons & rings once & decarboned it 4 times. That's it & that's the truth. It'll be 12 years old come September.
My only 582 was on my Full Lotus equipped Maxair & it went 1,000 hours (running at 6,000rpm+ most of that time) before I sold it to a guy in California who wrecked it in the Pacific friggin' Ocean. The 582 is a good motor too, it's just a pain in the ass to work with...anti-freeze, hoses, radiators...for what? 12 or so extra horsepower? Try working on that damn thing in the field.
I really can only give you younger guys my years of experience & this simple sentence of advice...Fly the damn things & forget all the bullshit you read on the internet.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:54 am Post subject: A new Slant on living with your Rotax... |
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Bravo!
Rick
*Never forget 2/3 of BRS is BS*
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:13 PM, <Blumax008(at)aol.com (Blumax008(at)aol.com)> wrote:
[quote] Just read the post / battle between Dale & whomever he's battling with.
I can't believe all this. I started flying ultralight aircraft in the summer of '78 with a Terror-Dactyl (no canard) with a 22hp Sachs single banger. Good motor. Somehow I've gotten along & stayed alive all that time without BRSs too. 31 years & not a single expensive BRS purchase or expensive repack.
Fast forward to 2009. I own a Trike for towing hang gliders with a 503, a half partnership in a Phantom with a 503, a Kolb with a 503 & a SeaWing Trike with a 582...only because it came with one.
What I'm getting at is that I can't believe all this incredibly complicated technical talk you guys are doing. I fly the pee-living crap out of all my motors & rarely do anything to them except change the plugs. And what the hell is a TBO? Who put that imaginary time limit on it? Rotax wants you to do it so you'll buy more parts that you "think" you need.
Do me a favor...before you go flying next time, stand close to your motor and ask it this question..."How many hours do you have on you?" You probably won't get an answer. The reason is that it doesn't know & can't speak English. It has no idea.
My Trike, while towing hang gliders, flies WIDE-ASS OPEN at 6500rpm for the entire flight up to (usually) 2,500 feet & has been wide open up to 5,500 feet. My motor has over 1,600 hours on it & is still going strong with a solid crank. I've replaced both pistons & rings once & decarboned it 4 times. That's it & that's the truth. It'll be 12 years old come September.
My only 582 was on my Full Lotus equipped Maxair & it went 1,000 hours (running at 6,000rpm+ most of that time) before I sold it to a guy in California who wrecked it in the Pacific friggin' Ocean. The 582 is a good motor too, it's just a pain in the ass to work with...anti-freeze, hoses, radiators...for what? 12 or so extra horsepower? Try working on that damn thing in the field.
I really can only give you younger guys my years of experience & this simple sentence of advice...Fly the damn things & forget all the bullshit you read on the internet.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: A new Slant on living with your Rotax... |
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Sorry if I wasted your time, I just have a love for making motors work. I can drop it or start a new thread called big egos, childish behavior if you like.
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