What's New and What's News

AirVenture Oshkosh July 26 - August 1
Replica Mockup Engines For Sale
Silver Hawk EX News
Eagle EMS News
Customer Satisfaction Survey

 

Website Changes Cast vs. Machined

Service Publications

RSA CD-ROM

Hex Plug Inspection (AD 2008-08-14)

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AirVenture Oshkosh

Now that the dust is starting to settle from the Arlington Fly-In, it's almost time for AirVenture Oshkosh.  The dates this year are July 26 through August 1 (Monday through Sunday).

Our booth will be at our usual spot, in locations 1082 & 1083.  This year, we have a triple threat in the booth: Product Support Representative Alan Jesmer will be giving his usual mesmerizing mix of aviation wisdom and stand-up comedy.  He will be accompanied by straight man Jim Errington, Sales Manager at our neighbor company, Lamar Technologies; and Product Support Representative Chuck Maddox, taking a break from semi-retirement to help in the booth.  In addition, Precision Airmotive Product Support Manager Peter Nielson will be speaking at a forum on Wednesday.

Weather-related / health-related advice - we've said this before, and it's worth repeating:  In spite of its location near Lake Winnebago, it can get blasted hot at Oshkosh, so make sure you have water handy.  But if you get stuck, come by the booth and see Alan:  He's looking for new jokes, as always, so it should be VERY easy to make a jokes-for-water exchange.  Alan will have plenty of bottled water on hand.  But if you're fresh out of jokes as well as water, just ask Alan nicely and he'll probably have a bottle for you.

The Eagle EMS has been all over the map lately, and AirVenture Oshkosh will be no exception.  There will be several opportunities to see the Eagle system at Oshkosh:

Glasair will have the Eagle Sportsman in their booth (locations 253 & 254).

Eagle EMS customer Dave Marcum will have his Vans RV-8 (with the Eagle system installed) at the show, but not on display.

Eagle EMS distributors G & N Aircraft (booth location C-3163) and Aero Sport Power (location 315) will be offering in-show specials on the Eagle EMS system.

For a preview, you can check out the installation pictures on this page of the Eagle EMS section of our website.  Among the photos are several pictures of Dave Marcum's airplane (including his snazzy new paint job).

If you don't happen to find Pete in the booth, you'll have another opportunity to see  him as he will be speaking at one forum:

Wednesday, July 28

Precision Airmotive Piston Engine Aircraft Fuel Injection, Mechanical and Electronic - Maintenance, operation and troubleshooting of the Precision Airmotive RSA Fuel Injection and Silver Hawk fuel injection systems.  4:00-5:15 pm, Forum Pavilion 04.

Full information about AirVenture Oshkosh is available online at www.airventure.org.  We hope to see you there at the biggest event of the aviation season!

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Mockup Engines For Sale

Attention aircraft builders!!  We have a new product offering that can save you lots of time, sweat, and money!

We now have exact replica mockups of parallel valve O/IO-360 engines for sale.  They're made of molded plastic resin, so they weigh just 25 pounds and the price is $900.  The advantage to you the aircraft builder is that you can build your airbox and baffling; position your wiring, fuel lines, and other components; and make other modifications before spending thousands of dollars on your real engine.  Also, it's far easier to manipulate a 25-pound plastic mockup engine than a real one which can weigh upwards of three hundred pounds.

In addition, because you're working with a mockup engine rather than the real thing, you're not running the risk of inadvertently damaging your engine and running up repair bills before your aircraft is even finished, which can be frustrating as well as costly.

If our replica engine can help you finish your aircraft, give us a call and order yours today!  Further details are on this page.  If you have any questions, please contact Alan Jesmer for more information.

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Service Publications Updates

On the Service Publications page, we have updated the Index of Manuals, Bulletins, and Service Information Letters to the latest revision (Rev. Y, February 2010).  You can check in the Index to make sure you're up-to-date with the latest publications for your Fuel Injection system.  You can read it online; or, if you prefer, call us and order a hard copy of the Index at no charge, P/N 15-895.

Another change (not as recent, but still worth noting) to the Service Publications page is that in 2007, we placed two of our RSA manuals online:  15-810, Troubleshooting Techniques; and 15-812, the Training Manual.  You can read them online, under "Manuals" on the Service Publications page.  If you prefer to order hard copies, they are still available for purchase; just give us a call.

Another addition to the Service Publications page is that the list of documents now includes the publication dates.  This was in direct response to feedback from one of our website users.  Thank you for the suggestion!

If you have suggestions, comments, or feedback about the Service Publications page, or about anything on the website, please let us know.

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Satisfaction Survey

If you use any of our fuel control products, please take a few moments to complete our online Product Satisfaction Survey.  Whether you're a kit plane builder, a pilot, a mechanic, a flight school instructor, or whatever, we'd like to hear about your experience with our products.

The survey takes just a few minutes to complete.  After you finish, you'll be directed back to our website's main page.  To take the survey, click on this link.  Thank you in advance for your time and input! 

 

Eagle EMS: Installation Photos, Videos, and Support Documents Now Online

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then we've just added several thousand words' worth of content to the Eagle EMS page.  We now have Eagle installation photos online!  They include pictures of Jim Skala's "in progress" Van's RV-7A, and Dave Marcum's RV-8 taking off with the Eagle EMS installed.  Visit the "EAGLE EMS"  page and scroll down to the "Installation Photos" link.

In addition to pictures of customers' Eagle EMS installations, we also have pictures and videos of our own test plane, an RV-6A.  The videos show the plane starting up, taxiing, taking off, and putting the Eagle's capabilities to the test by idling as low as 500 RPM while the engine continues to run smoothly.

UPDATE:  Dave Marcum's plane has a snazzy new paint job, and he's sent us some new pictures.  Have a look at the EMS Installation Photos page -- you'll be in for a treat and even a surprise or two.

If you would like to share pictures of your own Eagle EMS installation on our website, please contact Alan Jesmer and we'll work out the details of getting your pictures online.

We also have Eagle EMS support documents available for download!  Go to the "EAGLE EMS"  page, scroll down to the "Support Documents" bullet point, and click on the link.  The Owner's Manual, the Installation Manual, the Wiring Harness Order Form, and the Post-Installation Troubleshooting Guide are all just a few mouse clicks away. 

If you haven't visited the Eagle EMS page in a while, you'll notice that we have a page of Frequently Asked Questions, written to address technical and installation questions in-depth.  Our first Eagle Q&A page, written to address more general questions about the system, is still online.  If you have any questions (whether general or specific) about the system, please check these two pages first.  If you still have questions after reading the pages, please e-mail your questions to Alan Jesmer and we will do our best to either incorporate them into the question pages and/or get back to you with answers.  As always, thank you for asking! 

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The "Silver Hawk EX" Fuel Injection System

Latest news:  "SILVER HAWK EX" goes green!  Len Johnson recently completed a cross-country biofuel-powered flight with the Silver Hawk EX installed.  Further details are on this page in the Silver Hawk section.

Flyin' Lo strikes gold at Reno!  The Flyin' Lo Racing Team won first place in the Biplane Gold Race at the 2007 Reno Air Races, flying their Pitts LR-1 Miss Gianna with the "SILVER HAWK EX" installed.  Pictures and details are on this page.  Additional information about the team, and pictures from the 2006 Reno Air Races, are on this page.

New pictures!!  New pictures!!  We have two new pictures in the "SILVER HAWK EX" online photo gallery.  The gallery is a collection of pictures contributed by builders who are incorporating the Silver Hawk into their aircraft.  The latest additions are from Sebastian Trost, who has shared two pictures of his now-completed Van's RV-7A in flight, with the Silver Hawk EX installed.

If you'd like to share pictures of your own Silver Hawk installation on our website, please contact Alan Jesmer.  One thing we'd be particularly interested in is pictures of the Silver Hawk with the alternate rotation mixture configuration.  Also, if you already have pictures in the gallery and you'd like to share updated pictures of your installation (for instance, if your plane is now finished), send the new pictures to Alan and we'll post them online with your other pictures. 

In other news, there are two new kits available for the Silver Hawk:  the EX390-1, for Lycoming IO-390 angle valve engines with 200 HP; and the EX540-3, the first Silver Hawk kit for 300 HP engines.  You can read all about the Silver Hawk kits, including the new ones, by clicking the "Kits & Applications" link on the Silver Hawk EX page.

An older piece of news, but still a big one for the "SILVER HAWK EX", is Lycoming's new line of non-certified kit engines.  And why is that such big news?  It's big news because the "SILVER HAWK EX" is fully compatible with Lycoming's certified engines on experimental aircraft.  Therefore, it is also the perfect fuel control for Lycoming's new "EX" engines.  These engines, and the Silver Hawk kits suitable for them, are listed on the Silver Hawk EX page.  Click on the link that reads "Lycoming Non-Certified Kit Engines Cross-Reference."

The "SILVER HAWK EX" is Precision Airmotive's premier fuel control system for experimental aircraft, and we are proud to support the experimental market by making this fuel control available and prominently featuring it among our product offerings.  Read all about it here, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

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Website Changes
Our website is past the "extreme makeover" phase, but we still see it as a work in progress.  We're almost always updating or changing something, in response to your feedback and due to new information becoming available.  As always, we're grateful for your compliments and suggestions.

In case you're wondering what kind of changes we've been making on the website, here are some of the highlights:

Redesigned the front page to make product-line-specific information more readily available
Added our company contact information to the footer of most of the pages on the site
Reorganized the RSA Support section to make it easier to find product-specific information
Added publication dates to the Service Publications page

Reorganized and expanded the Eagle EMS information and placed a link to it on the Support page

Expanded and reorganized the Silver Hawk EX section

Most of these changes, especially  to the Silver Hawk section, are in direct response to feedback from you, our website users.  So please keep those suggestions coming!  Rest assured, we do read every one of them and we act on a good number of them.

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RSA Fuel Injection System Maintenance Video

Precision Airmotive's Maintenance Video for the RSA  fuel control covers the same information that the video tape did, but it's now available in interactive CD-ROM format.  Contact Alan Jesmer if you are interested in getting a copy.

NOTE:  The RSA Maintenance Video is not a DVD.  Please refer to the FAQ for further details.

 

Cast vs. Machined

In answer to the questions we have received regarding cast vs. machined fuel control systems, we have added this topic to the FAQ page.  Also, feel free to read here for information about our machined RSA-5 fuel injection servo, "The Blackbird."

 

Hex Plug Inspection

Information about the Regulator Hex Plug Inspection (AD 2008-08-14) is available here.  The page includes a list of related publications.

 

Call Us ...

Don't forget, we have a great bunch of people just waiting to help you with any Fuel Control question or problem.
If you have any questions about price and delivery, talk to our Customer Service.
If you have an application or operational problem, give Product Support a call.

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