Steve Schroeder

Sorry to inform you we have to cancel for this year. I hope everyone has a fantastic time! Steve and Laura Schroeder

It's been in the mid 90's here in Van Nuys. The airport is down to only one runway instead of the normal two because of construction. Sometimes I have to wait up to 15 minutes in the runup area idling while waiting for takeoff clearance. My cylinder temps have gotten as high as 252 causing my Dynon to alarm which stresses me out. It cools right down after i get airborne and get some airflow. Will this cause any damage and what do you guys in Arizona do when it gets to be 110 degrees plus? Thanks! I have a SportCruiser with a 912ULS.

Ok, Thanks.

I'm getting intermittent static on my com radio. I have heard it is sometimes caused by bad grounding. Is there any harm in running an additional ground cable from the engine block to the firewall as an experiment to see if it eliminates the noise?. I have a SportCruiser LSA with a Rotax 912 ULS.

Steve and Laura Schroeder will be attending. See you soon everyone!

I have a SportCruiser with Dynon HDX and a Garmin GNC-255A Nav/Com. I'm having an intermittent problem with my Nav/Com where the automatic squelch breaks with lots of static. Sometimes it happens all by itself and other times it seems to be related to when I'm using the touchscreen on the Dynon HDX. It seems to happen most in the 119.3 frequency range which happens to be the tower frequency at my home airport at Van Nuys. I called the shop that did the avionics install and they thought it might be a bad antenna cable. I did a temporary swap with a new cable and I still experienced the problem. I'm in Los Angeles and the avionics shop is in Texas so I'm trying to troubleshoot it myself. I have heard bad grounds in avionics will cause these types of problems but I don's see anything loose. Just looking for any suggestions. I tried a couple local avionics shops but they're all jammed up with ADSB installs at the moment. Thanks

I have a SportCruiser with a Rotax 912 ULS. I always got a lot of kickback with the prop on shutdown. It shakes the engine mounts pretty good. I try to let the RPM settle as slow as possible with the throttle all the way back before tuning the key to off but I still get the kickback. I stopped worrying about it when someone explained to me it was normal for a high compression engine as the Rotax 912 ULS. Now I m getting a screeching sound as well as the kickback. I have pulled the engine cowling and everything looks good inside. It sounds like a screeching belt on a car but there are no belts on a Rotax as far as I know. Should I be concerned?