Sling Pilots Forum

To anyone currently with a HW equipped with a header tank (I’m not sure if the early SN’s were equipped with the tank), would someone like to try the following as my aircraft is currently in the build process in SA otherwise I would perform it myself. 1. Start the engine; 2. Switch on FEED PUMP 2; 3...

The HW has a 6 litre header tank on the back if the firewall which supplies the main fuel pumps. The two feed pumps are located between the fuel selector and the header tank and their purpose is to keep the header tank full. Without a feed pump running, no fuel will be pumped into the header tank an...

HW POH 7-21 indicates that when Main Bus power is unavailable, Feed Pump power is lost. HW POH 7-30 contains a WARNING that an engine stoppage will occur if no feed pump is operating. If GEN A fails, GEN B will take over to supply the engine and the battery will no longer be charged and will start t...

The current factory builds now have the parachute handle in the overhead.

Thank you.

I have a factory built HW on order and have also stipulated CIES fuel senders based on comments here; thank you. As the TSi and HW wings are similar, could I please get some feedback from those currently flying with CIES senders. For example, is it similar to the factory ones in that fuel quantity i...