Doug, Maybe you need the seven pack. Juuussst kidding! Take a breath and relax. Its gonna be summer real soon. Thanks for the call to Bob to offer assistance at our West Coast Tandem Wing FlyIn this A

First, The Chen Shin tires you bought from Ability Access are the stock tires for the Q2/Q200. The 5:00 x 5's were optional. If you have wheel pants that accepts the bigger tire, I would install them.

Rich, Look at the "Files" section under Jim Patillo N46JP Q200 / Tailwheel mod. Does your tail wheel assembly look anything like mine? The 5/8" steel tailwheel rod visable in the picture sticks out of

Rich, You can get the tailwheel assembly at Aircraft Products. Their # is 805-646-6042. These units come with a couple different angles. The bore diameter for the tail spring is 5/8" but could be enla

Rich, Sorry for not getting back sooner as my wife and I were on a cruise celebrating her retirement from United Airlines! Thank God. The tail wheel rod replacement should take about 5-6 hours and is

Whos Q is on the opening page? It looks like a nice one. Jim Patillo N46JP Q200

Bruce, How's everything in Enid? Are you still going to Laughlin? Made reservations yet? We're all staying at the Flamingo I think. Jim P Sometimes I am spastic. To much epoxie fumes I 'spose. ;o) ass

Ron T, I saw you left a calling card at my hangar. Sorry I missed you. When were you there? Jim P

Bruce, I would not recommend waiting to book. Last year there were no rooms anywhere at the last minute. Jim Paul, and Lynn are planning to join in the trip also. I was hoping to walk up and get a res

Doug, The site we use for files, pix and posting is completely changed on my screen with new fonts and layout and a pix of someones pretty Q. Jim

Mike, For the last several years we have parked at the bottom near the river. Just across the street is a water taxi that goes to the Riverside. They might move us this year up higher near the main ru

Tom, Its nice to see you're still lurking! And yes you do have a beautiful plane even though it resides with my buddy in LVK. Bet that RV doesn't draw quite the attention, does it? Brad, I flew for an

Sam, Will do on the pictures. I've been following your progress on the new wheel pants and they look beautiful. How much clearance will you have from the wheelpant to ground? Just curious. JIm P. phot

Guys, Well we loaded up for the $100.00 hamburger today. Two Q200's, a Glasair II & III. Destination Half Moon Bay at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The ride over across the SF Bay was beautiful. We l

Pat, Brad's report on Laughlin doesn't sound so good. Maybe one of the organizers should call the tower and see if they will let us take our planes down the ramp for the 29th, 30th and 1st since the f

Does anyone in Chino know if Geoff got his oil pressure problem fixed yesterday? He called us and said the pressure gauge was going from 40 to peg and back. He made a precautionary landing there on hi

Larry, I think he got back to LVK OK. I just got a call from Brad and he said Geoff's car was gone from the front of the hangar. Thanks for the offer anyway. Jim P. phone??? fixed from 40 from

Mike, It was me. I removed the separator and installed a "5/8 to 3/8 T" inline in the breather tube. The 5/8" line then ran through an anti kickback valve into the 4:1 header at the collector. The 3/8

Kevin, Thats exactly what happened. I will try and get those pix you need in the next few days. Jim P anti line crystalized tube bottle below about 1 pump of

Hi Sam, I do not use the standard seperator sold with the kit but one that is about 2" dia x 5" mounted behind the baffle on the pax side. The 5/8" breather line flows into and through the seperator a