EAA 9 and AeroElectric Connection Presents: Weekend Seminars with Bob Nuckolls
 

Weekend Seminars

with

Bob Nuckolls

The Ohio State University Airport (KOSU)

Administrative Building Classroom

Bob has 46 years experience in aircraft systems maintenance, design, troubleshooting and fabrication. Publisher of the AeroElectric Connection: The definitive work in owner-built and maintained (OBAM) aircraft electrical systems. 20,000+ readers in 30 countries for 20 years. While the seminar is clearly orientated for those with OBAM aircraft, the seminar will provide value to owners of certified aircraft to help them understand their electrical systems better.


Bob believes the future of personally owned, single-engine airplanes is deeply rooted in owner-built and maintained aviation. The certified general aviation fleet is DROPPING by thousands of airplanes per year. There's no indications that production lines will ever again run at the heady rates of yesteryear when over 10,000 airplanes were produced every year in Wichita alone. Certified aviation is unlikely replace more than a fraction of these losses. If you want performance in a small aircraft, it cannot be purchased at prices you and I can afford. The alternative is obvious - build it. . . .

Aircraft fabrication was once a "black art" practiced only by the heavily regulated, taxpayer subsidized aircraft industry. Today ordinary citizens have access to technologies and materials only the military and NASA could afford 25 years ago. A visit to Oshkosh any summer demonstrates how personal initiative and ingenuity has left institutionalized aviation in the dust. The AeroElectric Connection offers this course to broaden the technology base in support of builders who dare to dream of flying their own handiwork.


Some of the world's finest airplanes are being built in basements and garages. Although the vast majority of participants in the OBAM aircraft community are amateurs, they worry about EVERYTHING. If you don't know how to go about it, you'll get on the 'net and find help. If you trash a part, it gets pulled off and replaced. The degree of craftsmanship that goes into a successfully completed OBAM aircraft is on a par with and often head-and-shoulders above that of the spam cans.


Designing for Failure Tolerance:


Many builders purchase "aircraft quality" or "military spec" parts suffering from the mistaken idea that use of such parts increases system reliability; this is simply not so.

Our task is to teach you how to fabricate reliable FLIGHT SYSTEMS using ordinary parts chosen for price and performance features . . . NOT simply for their specifications. System reliability is driven more by HOW parts are used as opposed to WHAT parts are used.


Each attendee will receive a CD Rom with all of the downloadable articles and wirebooks from this website.


This seminar is designed to mitigate one more batch of worries. We can't make an engineer of you in a weekend. Two things should happen: (1) you're going to be a lot more comfortable with starting - it's just a big box of simple-pieces and (2) as your project progresses, you're now networked with myself and hundreds of others who will help with solutions to new worries in any manner that we can.



Agenda Items

• Parts Selection - "What's all this 'aircraft quality' Stuff Anyhow?"
• Failure Mode Effects Analysis - Confidence by Design
• DC Power Fundamentals - Understanding "the Force"
• Batteries
• Engine Driven Power Sources
• Voltage Regulators
• Grounding

• Over Voltage Protection
• Electrical System Instrumentation
• Wire Selection and Installation
• Wire Termination and Connectors
• Circuit Protection
• Switches Relays and Contactors
• Lighting and Lighting Controls
• Antennas and Feedlines (including antenna analyzer demonstration)
• Engine Instrumentation

• Noise - Antagonist, propagation paths and victims . . . .
• Tools, Wiring Techniques and Parts Selection Philosophy
• Hands-on demonstrations of useful crimp tools and soldering techniques.

Tuition: $150.00 ($75.00 for college students)

• The AeroElectric Connection is the textbook for this course. If don't own a copy, you may secure a copy of the latest revision at the seminar for a special discounted price of $20.00. Receive your book in advance of the seminar by adding a request for immediate mailing in the comments box of the reservation form.
• All products and services from the AeroElectric Connection are offered with an assurance of satisfaction. If you don't believe the seminar was worth the dollars you paid, then let me know how much you believe it was worth. Your credit card is not charged until after the seminar. You'll not be charged for more than you believe the program was worth.
• College Students must reference themselves as a college student in the reservation to receive the half price discount.

Registration:

Click here to register: http://aeroelectric.com/seminars/Columbus.html