Andrew Aston

Codsall

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

Aircraft Model
STOL CH 701
Project Status
Less than half
Building From
Plans-only
Building Experience
No Experience
Flying Experience
None
Building and Flying Info / Your Profession / Other Background Info
Firefighter,
West Midlands Fire Service
Hope to be flying in my retirement, Autumn 2011.
Building slowly due to work/family commitments.

Comment Wall:

  • Peter Jackson

    Thanks Andrew, I expect to receive the kit some time in October & will probably have plenty of questions once I get started.

    Jul 28, 2009

  • Shay King

    Thanks Andrew,
    Your slats look great, hope the build goes smoothly for you.
    I've been doing a good bit of flying this Summer, just passed 500 flights the other day, about 200 hours. Unfortunately, I think I've found cracks in the two forward horizontal stabiliser mounting brackets. A friend of mine is coming over in the morning with some dye penetrant so we can check for sure. You might want to give extra attention to these to make sure they line up exactly. Mine are made from 0.040 aluminium, I'm just going on to the Zenithair website now to look up this issue, I think they may have increased the thickness of the brackets in later kits. Best of luck. Rgds. Shay.

    Aug 19, 2009

  • Shay King

    Andrew,
    Thanks for your kind offer, but I ordered the parts from ZAC yesterday. I also ordered the new VG set for the elevator, I don't really need them, but thought I my try them out anyway.
    By the way, there was a bulletin from ZAC about reinforcing the seat belt attachment for the lap strap at the tunnel. I did it last year and it was very awkward to do as a retrofit. Just thought I'd mention it just in case you had missed it.
    Regards,
    Shay.

    Aug 22, 2009

  • Gary Johnson

    No problem ,
    thehighflyer@aol.com

    Gary

    Aug 24, 2009