About This Blog
This blog is an on-line extension to the occasional diary I have been keeping of my flying since 2002. It is not really written as though it is going to be read by anyone else, but as a reminder to me of the fun my wife and I have with our flying, and building our Rans S6ES G-RTHS (affectionately known as HotelSierra) in 2008.
If the writing here gives you some idea of the fun that building and flying microlights can be, then it has been worthwhile. This has to be one of the cheapest ways of flying and still have the ability to fly reasonable distances.
I hope you enjoy reading this blog, which can only be described as an ongoing love story.
Photos are included where taken, click on the thumbnail views to see the larger view.
Member of :-
British Microlight Association
Interested in Microlighting? Some useful links.
Local schools that I have found to be good. (there are other schools in the area, but I have not had personal experience of them)
- Medway Microlights (Kent)
- Saxon Microlights (West Essex)
Category Archives: 912 Cowling Mod
Cowling mod finished… almost :-)
I think I should hire out my services to fetes and county shows! The forecast was for wet and windy week, I make my aircraft unflyable and the wind drops and it stays dry (i.e flyable) I could make a … Continue reading
912 cowling mod started
The weather forecast is not good for the next few days, so I started the cowling mod today. I marked out the cut line and then after a lot of visual checks, cut the nosebowl with a cutting disk on … Continue reading
Good news on the Cowling Mod
Great news, at last after nearly 9 weeks of waiting, I now have a letter from the LAA approving the engine cowling mod. I just need to buy the parts, do the mod, get Chris my inspector to sign it … Continue reading
What a pain in the rear end the LAA are!
I have been away for a while so not a lot has been happening. I now have the spare flight suit and have cut one of the legs about to make the new flexible kneeboard, just hand stitching the edges … Continue reading
Cowling Mod – update
Just to keep people updated, I got the letter through today from the LAA giving no objection in principle. Not bad 17 days from sending it in, I am quite impressed. I now have to do the drawings specifying exactly … Continue reading
Initial cowling mod paperwork
Well the paperwork chase has started My inspector and I have agreed the method of splitting the cowl. I am copying an American design and splitting the cowling, riveting an aluminium backing plate to the lower half and fastening the … Continue reading
912 Engine Cowlings
Oh well, it did not take long, I am now planning my first modification to the new Rans. The standard lower 912 cowling cannot be removed without removing the prop. This is a pain as:- 1, I don’t want to … Continue reading