What was your empty c of g with these floats? Mine is still a
little nose heavy at 10.7, but I never had that problem. I still
have the battery in the front, and now also the heavier metal
prop, but my firewall is back 3 inches. When landing on pavement,
though, I don't let the nose wheels get too high before touching
down the mains, so they never have that far to drop, so don't
ever remember them banging down. Water landings always seem
comfortable, and I've done some pretty aggressive downwind and
glassy water touchdowns. Many years ago, I used to fly an
ultralight on floats that liked to dig in, if I wasn't fast
enough on the stick, but not the Rebel. If I touch down too fast
with the Rebel, the worst that happens is they bounce up, and I
just need to hold it off a bit longer before landing again. I've
done this when flying low due to fog and low clouds, and not
knowing exactly where the water surface was in glassy water
conditions, and it just touched and bounced up with no adverse
pull or dig in. Mind you, I kept my speed down in these
conditions, with the flaps lowered, but it was still around 70
mph. Normal touchdown speed is around 50 mph.
Walter
-----Original Message-----
From:
mike.davis@dcsol.com
[mailto:
mike.davis@dcsol.com]On Behalf Of
Wayne G. O'Shea
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:05 PM
To:
murphy-rebel@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: Float assesory - Evinrude Folding motor
Battery is only part way down the tailcone! It's a
bulkhead behind the rear
float point and it needs to be moved right to the
back, the same as Howard's
and that would fix the "teeter totter"!
I was just playing around and found that a gallon of
water in each rear
compartment was perfect for the time being (and much
quicker than actually
working on moving the battery!) and if loaded up just
pump the water out and
the ballast is gone. Also when I stretched the 1500's
into 1800's, due to
differences in the distance from the step to the rear
mounting position, the
nose of my floats are 3 inches further forward than a
factory set of floats,
so this adds to things as well.
Without the ballast, solo and 1/2 fuel it didn't
matter where the flaps
where, I could not hold the nose wheels off when
landing on pavement and
they would immediately bang down. With the gallon of
H2O in each rear
compartment I can hold the nose wheels off the ground
down to 45MPH and then
they just settle lightly with full up elevator input.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: <
Legeorgen@aol.com>
To: <
murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Float assesory - Evinrude Folding motor
Wayne,
I was wondering why you needed the two gallons of
ballast in the rear
float
compartment. Does FOKM still have the battery
mounted on the firewall? Are
you
using full flaps when you run out of flare?
Bruce
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