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Lior

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About Lior

  • Birthday 08/12/1971

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    Bushcat
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    Israel
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    Israel

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  1. My ride today is a taildragger BushCat. Took me a bit of time to learn to handle it and manage its speed after flying Drifters for five years or so. It's a great cruiser and with VGs it's STOLly enough to give me peace of mind in short strips. So all in all I'm very happy with it!
  2. I managed to clock some time in a local Savannah VG with dual sticks, and my impression compared to the split central stick is that the added mechanical linkages make the dual stick a lot stiffer and more tiring to fly than with the default arrangement. That said, on final approach I was using the rudder pedals more than the stick to align with the runway.
  3. Hi, folks. It appears that this saga has come to a successful conclusion. At the behest / insistence of my syndicate, the Israel Sport Aviation Association and other pilots, Israel's CAA conceded that the flight manual used by a flying school here for Drifter 582s would be good enough to be the official flight manual, once a test pilot verified the data. So I took a CAA test pilot for a whiz a few weeks ago. He loved the Drifter flying experience and later approved the manual. So this means that our Drifter will pass its CofA inspection and its co-owners can get their licenses on it. Life rocks! Lockwood sent material that turned out to be an assembly manual, somewhat updated from the Maxair days. It had a flight chapter, but this was very short and lacked essential data. Thanks everyone for your attention and kind words.
  4. Hi, thanks for asking. I have corresponded with Lockwood. They said that they had posted a manual to me three weeks ago (they accept PayPal these days). I'm still waiting for it. Will update the good folks here should things change for the better anytime soon.
  5. Serial number is LA104. We tried submitting the A582 manual as a surrogate, but alas the airframes digress too much.
  6. Based on inquiries made by my syndicate members, it seems that Maxair never manufactured any 582 powered Drifters and all thus powered aircraft in Israel are retrofits. This means that I have an aircraft that has never had an official POH written for it. This means that unless our CAA changes its mind, my syndicate members cannot take a written test on type familiarity and the plane will fail its next C of A.
  7. How would I get in touch with this source? My Drifter is offline on account of a broken tailwheel spring too.
  8. Dear Sirs, I have friends who need a printed manual for the Maxair Drifter 582 (not Austflight, not Lockwood Super Drifter) in order to be licensed to fly this aircraft. Such is bureaucracy. Does anyone know how to get one or know someone who knows how to get one, and if so can they share this info? This is somewhat a stab in the dark, but any information would be welcome. Thanks, Lior.
  9. Transitioning from an ultralight to a glider is great fun, just for the sake of being up there with a nice view rather than flying from place to place with any schedule. I took gliding lessons last year in a Grob Twin, and when the conditions are good, you feel that you can stay up for hours. It's nice to encounter pieces of straw at 4000 feet when the thermals are really powerful! I hope to continue gliding later on once personal circs permit. Compared to owning an ultralight, being a member of a gliding club means less money spent on financing, but more hours spent on the ground to get others aloft, and more time to be with others who are like you. The logistics of cramming those sailplanes into the club hangar can be daunting at times!
  10. Lior

    Flaperon's

    Had flaperons on my Zenair 701. Lots of aileron authority for little deflection and the wing wouldn't stall even after the pitot and rudder had no authority left. That said, there are lots of variables for our little planes and I don't know how rigging a Drifter for a pair would work. A slightly lower stall speed would be nice but not essential. A wire braced Drifter has enough drag to land easily in any field you can safely take off from.
  11. The Israel Air Force Museum can help answer your question. It's got 100+ planes outside in the desert all year round. The only thing left of the Mossie there is its Merlins.
  12. Should have written first cousin once removed. IIRC newer Thrusters tend to be of the domesticated, tricycle landing gear variety, but we digress. Soloing with the Jet Fox was a trip - 100 HP carrying 390 kg of pilot and kite.
  13. This was the specimen I learned to fly in: Hebrew nose art reads: Omni Horizon Flying School
  14. Congrats on your experience. 20 kts would be fine for a first solo if there were no gusts or cross winds. I'll remember my first solo for time eternal: there was hardly any wind blowing down the runway. The runway of the strip was only 200 metres long so I had to go around twice before my first landing and subsequent dowsing by instructor and ground crew. The aircraft was a Jet Fox 97, a docile but sexy Italian plane that looks like the Thruster's long lost beautiful sister.
  15. Dear folks, In order to extend my Drifter's range without resorting to thermals, I am trying to study the feasibility of carrying an empty fuel can with just 2% volume of oil in it so as not to affect weight + CG while taking a passenger (i.e. rear seat with a human occupant - no room for fuel can). Would the Alaskan Bushwheel Liquid Containment Bag be stowable anywhere on a Drifter without severe weathering? It measures 21.5*24" Currently my baggage arrangements are confined to a Maxpedition Operator bag suspended behind the front seat, without any ventral bins or anything like that. This bag gives me sufficient clearance from the rear control stick. So how would you blokes (am not sure if the term cobbers is used) recommend carrying an empty 20l can for filling up at opportune fuel stations on this cute little aircraft?
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