[Larry Mednick]

We are definitely still working out the bugs. I believe there is no edit on PHOTOs , but you should be able to edit DISCUSSION and VIDEOs. We are working on making all of them editable for 30 m minutes so you can get your spellings corrected etc. but also not allowed to remove or change comments in a thread for the benefit of the discussion.

As far as the iPhone 13, is anyone else having issues? I am using my iPhone 12 which works just as good as my desk top. The site is slow and takes 3-4 seconds to do pretty much anything. I wonder if your internet speed on your phone is related to the problem.

As far as scrolling and scrolling, by breaking down. Page by page it does allow each page to load faster. So I am told an endless video or photo page would not be advisable. As far as the home page being limited to 60 posts that is to keep viewers touching base regularly to see what’s new before it’s gone.

I think you will see, this site will lend itself to longer threads such as the electric propulsion discussion with 40+ comments. So far that is the only thread that has “broken out” so far. But wait until someone calls your REV ugly and then you will see a longer thread. 🙂

The menu should take up the whole page so you can see your selection and press on the correct tab. No other good way to do that as far as I know.

Try pressing a menu button once and just wait and see if it is a slow problem or a button problem on your phone.

[Larry Mednick]

I can make that happen. Stand by

[Larry Mednick]

I don’t have an answer for your Trevor, but I did want to say what a tremendous resource we have lost with Peter no longer being a DPE. Luckily we have Mike Hudetz in IL. There are plenty of great candidates that could step up, but it is quite an undertaking on many levels to say the least.

I am glad Pete is still flying his Sea Wing and it’s just the DPE position he has discontinued.

BUT IM STILL CALLING PETER WHEN I CANT FIGURE OUR IACRA! 😂😂😂

[Larry Mednick]

There are a LOT of factors. But in many cases If you can get to cloud base, the turbulence is over. And not just over but completely gone! Unstable gusty air and thermals usually get better with altitude if you can’t reach cloud base. If you are in the mountains like Paul, things can definitely get worse as you climb… But as mentioned above its easy to go down. I do a lot of demo flights and will wait until I am above the clouds to give the controls to a first timer. A lot of times when a cold front comes in there is a beautiful warm temperature inversion once you “get on top” and usually 40+ MPH winds “on top” it’s pretty cool sometimes! just remember when you get up to that heavenly still air, the conditions on the ground may be building quickly and you could be returning to air below that you DON’T want to fly in and certainly don’t want to land in. So have fun up there, but not for too long…

[Larry Mednick]

Here is a copy and paste I received. Not sure who wrote it originally, but among other things the take away was loss of control is suspected by whoever wrote this.

“I got this from a friend and thought you should know. Most likely you knew Sam. “Samuel R. Peachy, of Belleville, PA was a legend in the aviation community that was well known for hosting fly-in picnics on his farm for his family and neighbours which was a special delight for the children as he dropped candy from his plane. Sam has piloted many aircraft over the many years of his life, from helicopters to airplanes and he was comfortable in all. During the Oshkosh AirVenture Airshow he would often be seen doing the demo flights in Highlanders and Hummel airplanes. Unfortunately Sam took his last flight on Friday July 8, 2022 when he was flying a powered hang glider and witnesses saw him contact the ground. He was killed instantly by blunt force trauma. Investigators are not sure of the caused it appears he lost control was not able to recover.

Sam will be missed by his loving family which includes his wife Barbara, four daughters, two sons and many grandchildren. Your thoughts and prayers are asked as his family tries to deal with their loss.”I got this from a friend and thought you should know. Most likely you knew Sam. “Samuel R. Peachy, of Belleville, PA was a legend in the aviation community that was well known for hosting fly-in picnics on his farm for his family and neighbours which was a special delight for the children as he dropped candy from his plane. Sam has piloted many aircraft over the many years of his life, from helicopters to airplanes and he was comfortable in all. During the Oshkosh AirVenture Airshow he would often be seen doing the demo flights in Highlanders and Hummel airplanes. Unfortunately Sam took his last flight on Friday July 8, 2022 when he was flying a powered hang glider and witnesses saw him contact the ground. He was killed instantly by blunt force trauma. Investigators are not sure of the caused it appears he lost control was not able to recover.
Sam will be missed by his loving family which includes his wife Barbara, four daughters, two sons and many grandchildren. Your thoughts and prayers are asked as his family tries to deal with their loss.”

[Larry Mednick]

It is not a matter of IF but WHEN you start up at full throttle. Besides what’s mentioned above, I will say also positioning the trike in a manner that full throttle prop blast behind the trike and as much run off space as possible in front of the trike are considered before getting in it.

Since I sell the parts I can tell you that no less than probably 10 of our trikes have been damaged by running into something on full throttle start ups. You might think high time pilots/instructors are not the ones, but that’s not true. We even had a leading edge strike into a trailer and the pilot assumed his wing was OK and then flew it with a massive turn at trim. He called me and we grounded and repaired the plane with a new leading edge. So check list or no check list, BE PREPARED to shut down IMMEDIATELY on high power starts. As I say it could be a frog caught in your carb, so don’t try and assess the problem, just kill the engine. Also remember some brake systems can hold 100 HP start including the REVO, but not after it’s moving. So a little extra brake pressure on start goes a Long way. And ALWAYS have seat belt on and bar in hand. ALWAYS!

[Larry Mednick]

While i personally don’t have any details except what the article said, I do know a few things leading up to this tragic event. First off, for those of you that didn’t know Sam, he was one of the best and highest regarded light Sport fixed wing pilots in the country. His stick and rudder skills were among the best. He pretty much never missed a Sun N Fun or Oshkosh and flew more than anyone at every event. His daughters are pilots as well. Nothing was more interesting than watching a young lady wearing a huge, long Amish dress climbing up on the tire of a Highlander to get it and fly it. The whole family were passionate aviators with mad skills in airplanes.

So aboud 3 years ago, Sam Peachey contacted me and told me he had bought a little Aeros ANT and he wanted to get instruction. Sam came down from PA, and did,I think, just 1 intro flight in the back seat for maybe 30 minutes. Then he had to get back for some reason I can’t remember. Fast forward to Sun N Fun. 2022, I am standing in line to sign in for the flight briefing to fly at SNF and Sam is right behind me. So we start talking and I ask him if he ever got more training and ever flew his trike. He said no, and that he really needed to get with me to get his training so he could fly it. That was 3 months ago. So I don’t know if he got training or just talked himself into soloing his trike, but I suspect it’s the later. IF that was the case, this was a very senseless accident.

So many fixed wing pilots think trikes are similar to stick and rudder planes or easy to fly or whatever… I too have had fixed wing instructors even, discontinue their WSC training and take there part 103 trikes home to destroy it. No fatalities on the 103 YET… but try hard enough and anything is possible.

I have been overly clear with fixed wing pilots with a false sense of capability that have not completed training. But with Sam, I didn’t make that case because he never acted like he would even think about doing it. Now maybe he did get training, and I don’t know about it. And I intend to find out definitively. But I am speculating that he got the itch to just go fly it after 3 years of it sitting…

Great guy, amazing pilot and wonderful promoter of aviation lost. I hope this story, if I have my facts correct, can save others in the future.

[Larry Mednick]

Gino, my notification bell is right next to my name. If you or anyone has an issue, take a screen shot and email the photo(s) with description the problem to evolutiontrikes@yahoo.com and I will see what we can do.

Thanks,

[Larry Mednick]

Email me at evolutiontrikes@yahoo.com And I will get it taken care of for you.

[Larry Mednick]

Hey Tom on some trikes where the mast is more vertical, adjusting the front strut length will only affect the swing through (angle of the dangle) and not control bar height. On the Cygnet’s the mast is nearly 45 degrees so you get both. Be very careful about swing through as your trike has a higher thrust line and REQUIRES enough swing through to be safe on full power takeoffs. Without enough swing through the backs of the floats or rear wheels can actually leave the surface first which is further compounded by having a smaller wing which usually has less drag up top making the higher thrust line more critical.

Northwing makes 2 different length down tubes (uprights). A standard which is 61” and an extended down tube which is 64”. The cool thing is the cables mount in the same spot with simply more down tube below the cable bolt on the extended down tubes. You must add a +3” control bar in order to not affect your anhedral. If you have 61” and want your control bar higher, then you are in a jam and need to go custom. Our REV X uses 54” down tubes but now you need to figure out custom cable lengths. But one more problem can arise especially on a large wing like a 17m. The wing struts start to become very horizontal putting more stress/leverage on them…

[Larry Mednick]

I’ve got mediums and small liners in stock right now. I’ll order more of the larger sizes on next order which may be a while…

[Larry Mednick]

Thanks and Yes, practice above 1000’. Cut power in a climb at 1100 for example and then see if you can arrest the descent for one full second at multiple altitudes like 1000’ then try 1020’ and so on. If you can arrest descent for 1 full second or more, that would have possibly been all you needed to land safely.

If you have a passenger onboard to help you practice let them use the rear hand throttle and then let them watch the altimeter as you reach 1100’ (for example) and you not watch the altimeter so you don’t know when it’s coming and then they kill power so that you can practice your reaction time which as I’ve mentioned is a huge part of being able to have a positive outcome. Then note your altitude when you arrest your descent and see what your minimum altitude loss can be…

[Larry Mednick]

Thanks Jackye, Can you pin him on our world map?

[Larry Mednick]

Hey Jim, we are really excited to be going to Trikefest this year. We missed it last year because it was not back to back with Oshkosh, but on the 4th of July instead. Way to go Mike Hudetz for putting on this event.

This event is posted now on our EVENTS page which is a new to Trikeaction. See you there!

[Larry Mednick]

Yes, Bar in hand. About 6 months ago or so there was a video of a full throttle start up with the bar locked to the front strut in Brazil I believe. Maybe someone here has the video they can share. It was a double fatality all because the control bar was locked. Possibly the only thing worse than hitting something is taking off only to stall whim seems to happen above 50’in the air. We have had a handful of fatalities that way… 2 years ago a guy out in TX started up full throttle into a rolled hay bail which proved fatal.