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07-22-2012, 01:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Novato Ca
Posts: 8
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Help Please
Unfortunately, I lost my engine and although was lucky enough to glide to a runway I had to do a straight in landing with a 9kt tail wind. I could not stop my RV7A before going off the end and flipped. The damage is substantial. The insurance will cover the damage, however, I do not know where to take my RV to be fixed. Therefore, I am looking for the best shop to fix my RV. I live in the northern California area, however, the insurance will pay to ship the plan to the shop of my choice.
Would you please let me know the names of the ?best recognized? RV shops out there capable of full rebuilds.
Thanks for all your help
john
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07-22-2012, 01:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 809
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Jay Pratt
Woody,
Sorry to hear about your misfortune and glad to see that you are safe. Working with powerplants could be done by most A&P's or repair shops.
If you need metalwork done on your RV you might want to consider Jay Pratt who owns and runs RV Central at Hicks airfield in Texas, the same field DR and other RV guys fly from.
Good luck
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Tony Johnson
RV8A "Badboy" N12TJ
Treasure Island Florida
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07-22-2012, 01:53 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Novato Ca
Posts: 8
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Tony
Thanks - I will look him up righ away.
Also thanks, I was very lucky, unfortunatly my RV has a lot of damage...
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07-22-2012, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Granbury Texas
Posts: 1,136
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Jay Pratt
I would also recomend Jay Pratt. He may be at Oshkosh.
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07-22-2012, 02:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: McKinney, TX
Posts: 689
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Any theories on what happened to the engine?
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Gil Brice
McKinney, TX EAA-1246
RV7 - Working on fuse, fuel, brakes etc...
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07-22-2012, 02:59 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Novato Ca
Posts: 8
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engine
No ideas on the problem yet.
I just took off, was climbing out and at 3,700 ft the MAP went to 5.
I was about 4+ miles NW of the airport, lcky that I was on a climb... so I was able to turn and glide back. The FAA will look into the engine issue.
For now I am just focusing on finding the best shop to repair my RV.
Given that an airplane wih a history of any damage is not good I want to be sure there is a good name/shop behind the repair.
Thanks everyone - I hope to be back up soon.
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07-22-2012, 04:38 PM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Livermore, CA
Posts: 55
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Nose Gear?
Sounds like you did an excellent job of pilotage! Did the 'flip' involve a nose gear collapse? How difficult was it to extracate yourself from the inverted position? Did you have to break the canopy plexi to exit?? Do you have a slider or a tip-up? Did you install a "nose job"
I know these are an awful lot of questions, but these are the things a lot of us worry about and it would be nice to have some first hand knowledge!!
Bob Cowan
RV-7A tip-up awith a "nose job"
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07-22-2012, 04:59 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Vancouver, WA USA
Posts: 908
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Totaled
Very sorry to hear this, glad you’re Ok.
I would suggest you might want to fight your insurance to have it totaled. You’re going to need a new prop, engine O/H tear down/inspect, fuselage, tail, canopy, maybe a wing or two. I think from what I've seen it’s pretty well hosed after a flip over 
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07-22-2012, 05:50 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Redlands, Ca.
Posts: 1,458
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Jerry Scott!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Woodydog
Unfortunately, I lost my engine and although was lucky enough to glide to a runway I had to do a straight in landing with a 9kt tail wind. I could not stop my RV7A before going off the end and flipped. The damage is substantial. The insurance will cover the damage, however, I do not know where to take my RV to be fixed. Therefore, I am looking for the best shop to fix my RV. I live in the northern California area, however, the insurance will pay to ship the plan to the shop of my choice.
Would you please let me know the names of the ?best recognized? RV shops out there capable of full rebuilds.
Thanks for all your help
john
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Jerry Scott!!!!!!!!
...He is located at Chino Airport in southern California. He is very well known in the RV community for his top of the line meticulous workmanship and is considerably closer to you. You may consider giving him a call and let him come look at it, at least you would know what you are looking at, time, rough estimate etc. His phone in (909) 393-1538 We at ASA have a lot of gear parts laying around so if we can be of service just give us a call. Wish you the best with all this. Regards, Allan
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Allan Nimmo
AntiSplatAero.com
Innovative Aircraft Safety
Products, Tools & ServicesInfo@AntiSplatAero.com Southern California (KREI)
RV-9A / Edge-540 
(909) 824-1020
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07-22-2012, 06:05 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Novato Ca
Posts: 8
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Thanks all
N743RV -
I have a Tip Up and at the end of the runway there is a marsh, therefore, first a ditch then a 2 foot high mound, I tried to pull back on the stick to try & "jump" it but no good - hit hard front gear collapsed back and flipped hard/fast so the plexi completely shattered upon flipping - I was trapped, lucky there was a plane waiting to take off and after a few minutes they were there to lift the rear tail so I could crawl out. Without them the only option would have been to use the plexi pieces to dig or start to carry a small shovel ... not a good feeling.
Russ -
Thanks The insurance stated that to be totaled the repair cost has to be 80% of insured value. I wonder if there is a law on this?
PerfTech -
Thanks
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