Warranty when running on Mogas
 

Hi all,
When introducing the Mogas certification during the Aero show in April, 2013, this is what Guimbal published in their Newsletter 7 (downloadable from their website):
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We kept our promise. The Cabri is the first and only helicopter certified to use unleaded gasoline !
This will help you to protect the environment and prepare for the end of availability of leaded fuels. With significant fuel bill savings.
This certification required a long and sophisticated series of flight and ground tests, but the result is certification for TWO types of unleaded fuels :
• The new Avgas UL91
• Unleaded 98 octane premium automotive gasoline

The performance of the helicopter remains unaffected and there
are no practical limitations. All fuels could be mixed in any ratio.
And the engine warranty is unaffected !

Note : the use of automotive gasoline makes the pilot responsible for the selection of adequate fuels - absence of alcohol, adequate octane, adequate storage.
Refer to Service Letter 13-001 and Service Bulletin 13-005 for detailed conditions
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They told us that Lycoming did agree for the warranty
Premium auto fuels in Europe like Shell V-power and Total Excellium comply with every requirement including zero alcohol.

And all of the above may be correct -

with the addition that as it is an aviation product or consumable you must still adhere to all the conditions of supply traceability and storage standards for same.

Wandering down to the local petrol station forecourt with a container is not the way it is done!

Fair claim, but lacking explanation how it ought to be done when I want to use "Unleaded 98 octane premium automotive gasoline"

I'm all ears. :E

I wouldn't rule out nipping down to the local garage.

Remember that thread on the use of heating oil versus Jet A1 ? One poster had sent both off for analysis and concluded that the heating oil was a better match to the spec of jet A1 than the fuel supplied as Jet A1 from the airfield. This was mainly in respect of the water content, where the higher turnover in the heating oil depot vs. the airfield meant that the supply at the heating oil depot was closer to the original spec.

Cotswold Helicopter Centre Supply UK’s Eighth Cabri
 

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UK news from HeliHub : http://helihub.com/2014/10/17/cotswo...-eighth-cabri/



"Another Guimbal Cabri G2 helicopter has been added to the ‘G’ register this week to bring the UK’s total to eight. The acceptance flight of Serial Number 1079 was conducted by Andy Moorhouse of Cotswold Helicopter Centre, the exclusive UK distributor for French manufacturer Helicoptères Guimbal."
"There are currently eleven further Cabri G2 helicopters on order with Guimbal factory for customers in the UK"


So that means that there will be around 20 G2 in UK at the end of next year ! :ok:


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Emergency landing of Cabri G2 Chose to Egelsbach near Frankfurt
 

Cabri G2 emergency landing

Shortly after take-off pilot and passender heard a loud "bang" from the engine compartment followed by a power loss.
The autorotation was completed to the ground successfully, both walked away.
However the tailboom looks a little bit shorter than normal.

Considering that it was already dark, well done:ok:

Is this the new, top secret NOTAR version?

http://bilder.bild.de/fotos-skaliert...0,c=0.bild.jpg

:}

Nobody hurt thats the main thing:ok:
Good job.:D

Now I know why they call them Rotor BLADES What a good clean cut!:}

Interesting to see how far you can bend them and whack them through the tailboom, w/o breaking them.

Probably just some tracking necessary and off he goes again.:E

Cabri the Franch alternative to R22
 

Hi,
Bruno will soon surprise us with a ... TURBINE version.
Check French aviation mags. Regards, Herbert

Got any links?

Is this the fabled 4-seater or just a turbine version of the G2?

And is this confirmed or just rumour? (and why am I even asking that on a forum called "... rumour network"?)

Matthew

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This is the thread of the G2, not the G4.


And by the way, a surprise is something (by definition) unexpected ...


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Did you mean "threat" or "thread"? Is there even a G4 thread?

Oh, so this will be the Gn (n>4) then :)

Matthew

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Sorry about that, I mean thread (a single letter can change all the meaning !).


There is no G4 thread at the present time, Herbert BRUDER can start it with his surprise.

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Based on the title: "Cabri the Franch alternative to R22" I would guess the helicopter to come is a G2 turbine ?

That would certainly be a surprise, hopefully a good one.

The Guimbal Turbine ...
 

... already exists

Combined turbine and generator unit - Claude, Guimbal Jean

tee, hee!

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The G2 should arrive in Brazil soon, a distributor has been appointed this week : AEROTRON

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Multiflights G2
 

I am doing my fixed wing training with Multiflight at Leeds Bradford Airport in the UK and they are supposed to be getting a G2 in Late January/early February, I think the instructor was saying prices would be around £350 per hour but don't quote me on that as I didn't hear it clearly.

I am interested in possibly doing my PPL(H) and I have heard that these helis are supposed to be good, What are your views of fixed wing guys moving onto one of them I don't think the price is all that bad.