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The Europa Discussion Forum

Members and non-members alike are welcome to join the Forum to discuss building, flying and owning Europae. Those who prefer email can partake by email, those who prefer a browser interface can do so that way. Both means access the same information, giving you total flexibility even when you're away from home (travelling by Europa, of course) and using a public Internet terminal.

Topics covered are many and varied, and recent examples have included:

  1. the relative merits of the monowheel vs. the tri-gear [not that old chestnut! - Ed]
  2. building tips and techniques
  3. fly-outs and fly-ins
  4. alternative engines and propellers
  5. electrical loads and alternator outputs

And of course the most satisfying contributions of all are the regular reports of successful first flights...

FAQs

A list of FAQs for the Forum is maintained on this site.

Email Version

The email version of the Forum is hosted by Matronics, a small avionics business based in California whose proprietor, Matt Dralle, also operates hosts for nearly 50 homebuilder and other special-interest aviation groups like ours, including the well-known AeroElectric-List. The reliability record is excellent, as is the effort expended to keep out spammers and suppress viruses. These lists are user-supported and each year, in November, Matt sends out fund-raising messages soliciting contributions to the running costs of the lists. These are voluntary.

All postings to the forum are automatically emailed to all subscribers. Only subscribers can post to the forum however, to protect you from spam. Subscribing is very simple (see below) - you can, of course, unsubscribe at any time.

Subscribing

You can subscribe to the email Forum by following these steps:

  1. Go to the web page http://www.matronics.com/subscribe/
  2. Scroll part way down to the List Subscription Forum and put in your email address
  3. Scroll further down to the Subscribe/Unsubscribe from Random Lists section and find the Europa-List line
  4. Select the subscribe radio button
  5. Go to the bottom of the page and press the Process All Requests Above button to action the request

Cancelling your subscription ("Unsubscribing")

To unsubscribe, simply follow the instructions above but select the unsubscribe radio button. You will then be automatically removed from the list.

Browser-based Version

The browser version of the Forum is hosted by Jos Okhuijsen, north of the Arctic Circle in Finland (Jos also hosts this Web Site in the same location). It was built and is maintained by Steve Dunsmuir in the United States.

As well as providing a browser interface to the same information as the Matronics email list, complete with threading and search, the browser version provides a number of additional facilities to users:

  1. About 3500 pictures provided by builders
  2. Builders stories
  3. Attachments to postings (these also work for recipients using the email version, who see the attachment as a direct link to the file on the web server)
  4. A 'builders log' facility where you can record your log, with pictures if you choose
  5. A searchable archive of previous postings to the Forum

All the above are provided free-of-charge by Jos as a service to the global Europa community

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