Hi guys and gals.

Some travel to Thailand or Bali.........I did this instead - to finally ascertain, if I wanted to go forward with getting a license and with my build.

I just had a great gyro week-end.

The Danish Gyrocopter Association had invited pilots from Denmark, Sweden and Germany to participate in an island-hopping event.
But, as there are no club owned gyros for hire in Denmark, I had turned to Sweden, where "Skånska Gyrokopterklubben" owns a few
open gyros for schooling and certified members can also rent them. So I ended up becoming a short time member to be able to rent
an MTO open gyro for the trip - estimated to be 5 tacho hours (you see, the Swedish instructor Roman Tadic had kindly offered to be in the
backseat, if any students wanted to go on the trip). And I asked for two of those hours to be with instruction.

When the day arrived, I took the early morning ferry and Roman picked me up - we had to take off in a hurry because of a strong headwind.

It turned out to be hard work, as soon as we were in the air he transferred the stick to me, and I had 1½ hours of trying to fly in formation
with the other Swedish gyro, an open Magni. In a strong headwind.

We landed on a small airfield on a Danish island, waited for the rest of the pilots to arrive and when we were all there we went for some lunch nearby.
I believe we were 11 gyros and two planes. Quite a turnout, as there are just 14 gyros registered in Denmark. One German (MTO), 4 Swedish (MTO,
Cavalon and Xenon) and then it must've been 6 Danish gyros (Cavalon and Calidus).

Then in the air again and some sightseeing and landing on another, larger airfield to get some fuel. Then onto a small island named "Femø",
where the restaurant has its own landing strip - no landing fee if you buy food. We had booked rooms there beforehand, so we had a good meal
and some beers before letting our heads fall onto our pillows - quite late, of course.

Next day away we went to the island "Ærø" where we rented bicycles, so we could get to the nearest city, where our chairman had ordered "open faced sandwiches" (called "smörgåsbord" in Sweden - "smørrebrød" in Denmark). No beers for the pilots, just sodapop.

From Ærø we then went directly "home" to Sweden, about 1½ hour of flight with the strong wind at our back this time.

So my first time with stick in hand was 6+ hours - and I had one landing and one start also. I was mentally unprepared, but it looks like we survived.

The experience was like I expected - great. So now I'll plough on getting a fixed wing license and then convert to gyro.
All while building my own Gyrobee.


Cheers
Erik

Sounds like a fabulous experience. Many of us we hooked much in the same way.
Looking forward to seeing your build.

Its too late now Erik... you have been bitten by the gyro bug for sure

There is no turning back now.... Bbwwwahahahahahaheheheehe

Sounds like a great trip, Wow!

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely fantastic. I am so glad you had experienced what it's like to fly a gyro.
From now on you are an addict.....
Welcome in the group session.
Say it after me....
Hi. My name is Erik and I am a gyro addict

Hi Guys - and thanx for the new welcome.

I'm so glad to finally be in the fold with y'all - baaah!

Cheers
Erik

Welcome to gyros....for real..

Good deal Erik.
The only thing I know how to say in Danish is--- Fuckin - A - Right !!
Hope your dream comes true.

Thank you Jake.

Now I know where to get the aluminum and the hardware very soon - check.

I can fly all I want to in Sweden - very close to me - check.

I have to use Danish instructors - they have no time - oops.

And I need help with the parts, that are omitted from the Gyrobee plans.

Because I have both a lathe and a tool mill, I would like to make a walking beam stick and other parts myself.

If I can ask those of you who build - that would be great.

Cheers
Erik

Hi guys.

Just like Scott and Jake's pictures - I want to buy stuff. I'M HOOKED

But I am looking at both the original Gyrobee, Starbees version and the Honeybee (Gyrobee v2).
Any advice there?

I have to travel quite far to pick up lengths of aluminum, so I'd rather just do it once. AN hardware is easier to get.

I would also like to rebuild my rotor head to Jake's trim-less design, but it looks like he has removed all info
(I had done the same, if I wanted to keep it out of the hands of others, who'd want to grab it).

Since Scott is sitting tight on the propeller I bought from Darren, I'm looking at a 60" 3-bladed IVO prop for my Rotax SCSI 503.
I like its easy groundadjustability. It's probably not as strong as the Warp, but that one takes more work to adjust.

Cheers
Erik

So I'm emailing back and forth with Ron E., buying a Warp Drive (2 or 3 blades, standard or HPL hub) - nearly there - check.

And most of the aluminum has been picked up - check.

Need to buy some more piston circlips (not from Loravia in France - Lycon in Sweden better) - check today.
(so I can close the engine and get started on the rest)

Dana Linn at Starbee is not responding about seat, cushion, belts, wheel group and tank....aarghh!

Fitting DRO to mill for precise positioning. When engine is closed and ready.

Cheers
Erik