ORIGINAL: David Gladwin
ORIGINAL: bang68
Fellow A-4 lovers !
From my point of view everything different from the original hyd. layout is pure ugly - I am sorry to say !
This bird cost a fortune and I have no intention to spent a dime to reconstruct a 4000 EUR undercarriage.
We are not going to make it work - CARF has to do this !!
I really dont care if Intario has problems with it - I paid CARF for the entire kit.
Therefore I suggest instead we all spend alot of money on modification we simply all of us take a plane to Germany and pay our friends a visit to get it all sorted out !
It is a pity such a lovely plane are only going to be hangar queens because none of us feel really sure about the plane due to lack of info, settings and so on !
Just my point because I am getting more and more..
Peter
You guys are going through exactly the scenario that many of us went through with the Mig 29. Quite simply the hydraulics did NOT work as they should, they were not airworthy, and yes, I even saw Wolfgang Kluhr with a collapsed gear in Thailand. Geitz, of course, said it was all OUR fault and that I knew nothing about hydraulics (wrong, very wrong Andreas) Even though I am one of the few to get a Mig 29 flying (with the help of the Omega hydraulic system having ditched the original) he still blames me for damaging his sales ! My Mig will fly again next year with further modifications to the hydraulics. However C-ARF will sell us the new hyd sysyem, which does work, only if we pay full price, he won't even supply just the self locking rams. Customer support at its lowest ebb !
I know Peter Agnew of Intairco very well and if C-ARF and AG is blaming Peter for his troubles he is wide of the mark. Peter's own products always work and my understanding is that he produced the gear to CARF's design.
I guess a lot of A4s will join the Mig 29s gathering dust.
Makes my blood boil to think of it.
Regards,
David.
Right now I would pay $2,000.00 for a solution (I'll start a $1k lol as shown on the other thread!). I will find one. It's just sad that they have let this project rot all the while they are still selling the kit when they know it won't work...