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  • Would you ditch in water or trees?

    QUESTION: Given a choice with an engine failure, would you land in shallow water near a shoreline or go for a tall stand of pine trees? Wally Moran tackles this difficult decision HERE

  • Rotax two stroke reliability reveled

    ...ng ratio. Most Rotax 2 stroke engine failures are simply from lack of lub...well know reliable oil. Many engine failures are from some new oil mixtu...a much higher probability of failure than a new factory spec engin...nbsp;In my opinion, a rebuilt engine is unreliable and worthless. I...

  • Mark Gibbo Gibson

    ...uilder Mark Gibson died this morning while flying his trike during an engine failure in the Houston area.  T...is morning after crashing his trike into a line of trees following an engine out. He was flying locally fro...

  • Bolt Failure Information…near miss

    Bolt Failure Information…near miss http://www.rotaryforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37525 http://www.rotaryforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37548

  • Single Engine Running Rough

    Trike Pilot:  Tower, Experimental Trike 16Alpha, request priority landing due to my engine running rough. Tower:  Trike 16 Alpha you will be number two, behind a B-52 that has one engine shut down. Trike Pilot:  “Ah, the dreaded seven-engine approach.”

  • Engine Out...

    Two blondes were flying to Miami from Cleveland. Fifteen minutes into the...ht, the captain announced "One of the engines has failed and the flight wi...longer. But don't worry we have three engines left".Thirty minutes later,...s longer. But don't worry we have two engines...

  • Oil Pressure Sender problem on Rotax 912 series engines?

    Is anyone else having failures of their Oil Pressure sender fre...mes they don't.  The failure is thought to be due to vibration (my engine has been balanced, yet no imp...ually bolts directly into the engine on left rear (opposite the oil...

  • Adding a different engine to your trike

    I just wanted to find out(for my knowledge) that how easy is it to covert from a 582 to a HKS in USA. If your...rborne Edge X and at times have thought of converting it from a 582 to the HKS engine...

  • CDI (Mags) problem

    Help, I have a problem when chequing the CDI (Mags) when I have my 503 at 4,000 rpm and I check one CDI the RPM does not drop on the other one the engine shots off. The engine...

  • Incident Report

    ...nt pilot did know that his CFI would pull a engine failure in flight somewhere during t...from the aerodrome at 2300 feet I pulled an engine failure inflight. The student did qui...of the aircraft. I could see smoke from the engine and I could also seefuel comin...