Europa Aircraft XS Monowheel Motorglider, Owner'S Manual

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The skill level required between flying from a large airport and a private
grass strip could be tenfold.
Do not be caught out trying to operate from a strip that is within the
aircraft’s capability but beyond yours.
If you intend operating from short grass private strips then first practice
from long wide ones. A pilot should have made a minimum of 100
successful landings in the Europa before considering operating from short,
narrow or undulating rough strips.
Fly within your skill and level of experience.
The Europa is a real pilot’s aircraft. Its crisp, responsive controls and
excellent field of view make it a delight to throw around the sky.
BUT!!
Don’t let it bring out the hooligan in you. Always fly responsibly.
One of the major causes of fatal accidents in home built aircraft is the
“hooligan fly past”. Our builder intent on impressing everyone with his
“new bird” beats down the runway the wrong side of VNE, pulls up into an
impressive zoom climb and then just as he runs out of airspeed and brains,
decides to do a cross between a wing over, stall turn and half Cuban. The
result is sadly all too often a fatal stall/spin tragedy.
The above is often carried out by pilots whose last steep turn was
demonstrated to the examiner for the issue of their P.P.L. twenty years ago.
Unless you have the experience of throwing aircraft around the sky get it at
a safe height with an instructor sat next to you.
November 2006 XS Monowheel Motorglider
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