Search found 339 matches
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:43 am
- Forum: DA20 Forum
- Topic: Hoffman prop overhaul?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9827
Re: Hoffman prop overhaul?
Opa Locka doesn’t have any spare Hoffmanns in stock. I would think an experimental DA20 wouldn’t lose too much value. Makes getting parts significantly easier. What parts would be easier to get? Owned a DA20 for many years, bought parts for the engine from Lockwood and many other components from va...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:48 am
- Forum: DA20 Forum
- Topic: Hoffman prop overhaul?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9827
Re: Hoffman prop overhaul & experimental airworthiness
Help! My Hoffmann prop on my 20A1-100 has excess play according to the mechanic. Time for overall is 6-10 months and about $8000. MT can get me a field approval and new prop & spinner for $10K, but again, October 2024 at the earliest to get it completed and then shipped from Germany. Anyone hav...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Austro
- Topic: MSB-E4-042 - Crankshaft-bearing cap screws replacement
- Replies: 96
- Views: 9642
Re: MSB-E4-042 - Crankshaft-bearing cap screws replacement
A little late now, but maybe the attempt to use an automotive engine designed to run at 15% power for most of it's life versus 75-90+% power wasn't the best idea. Poo-poo the ancient technology Lycomings all you want (and plenty have here) - but they are overall exceptionally reliable (especially th...
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:30 pm
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11070
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 11:18 am
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11070
Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
Thank goodness for the fortunate outcome. “An Austo has close to PT-6 reliability and the IO-360 fails every 1100 hours?”. What are the references for those statements? Any engine can fail, and we fly accordingly, but I thought most IO-360’s made it to TBO and beyond with little if any trouble. The...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11070
Re: DA40NG N907L forced landing on a highway
Did Diamond ever release the cause of the engine failure on the DA40NG that made it back to the airport in NJ, or was it NY? It was in NY - IMC engine failure during training flight with CFI on board who magnificently controlled the ATC-guided descent to a happy outcome on a runway. However, Diamon...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 9:05 pm
- Forum: Public forum
- Topic: What is the true cost of owning a DA20?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 22777
Re: What is the true cost of owning a DA20?
The DA20 can be used for VMC only training towards the IFR rating/currency/etc. , but may not be flown in IMC.
See this thread for more info - viewtopic.php?t=5720
See this thread for more info - viewtopic.php?t=5720
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 1:36 pm
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: G1000 NXi Phase III
- Replies: 110
- Views: 90319
Re: G1000 NXi Phase III
I bought a DA-40 in 2003. The second with a G1000. What was true then is true today. Virtually the same words and conversations from the customers and ... silence from Diamond. This is perhaps why everyone I know says buy EAB versus certificated if possible and never, ever, anything with an integra...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:59 pm
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: Unbelievable Offduty Delta mechanic notices my LED lights reversed from the ground
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4071
Re: Unbelievable Offduty Delta mechanic notices my LED lights reversed from the ground
They are the best in the business. For me, 35 years of depending on their quality work. If you could see some of the repairs they do at Delta Tech Ops - you would be amazed.
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:57 pm
- Forum: Public forum
- Topic: DA-42 in-flight engine failure
- Replies: 49
- Views: 39429
Re: DA-42 in-flight engine failure
WOW this is eye opening....especially as we just received the first 2 of 3 DA40NGs, (and a 42 late next year). Both were test flown in Jul then disassembled for shipping in Aug. Any suggestion on what documentation (if any) we need to scrub regarding this issue? Don’t know how you could miss all th...