Index, Contents, Subject, TIPS & Handling List.

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Air Filter Weakness

Annual Inspection S4 Schedule

Ali Spar Tube Replacement and U/C Cracks

Baggage Storage
Bent U/c replaced

Bing Carburetter 'choke' operation

Bing Carb Needle/O Ring

Brakes
Bungee U/C stretching Tool

Carb Needle 'O' Ring Fix
Carbon Fibre S4 tail spring

Carburation Problem Cure

Cracking ASI & Fuel Pipes
Cooling Fan Changing & Belt Tension

Dihedral on tail-plane

Disc Brake wear

Elevator internal brace loose
Engine Rubbers
Exhaust Securing Springs wear/repair
Exhaust Springs Security

Fabric Protection
Fabric Replacement Warning
Fitting new u/c bungee
Flap Bungee (Rubber Cord) Renewal
The main tank neck filler ring came loose, refixed
Fuel/oil mixFuel Tap Fit & Management
Fuel 'Primer'
Fuel Tanks, Main & Auxiliary
Fuel Wing Tank Vent Improved

Glide Landings ['Dead Stick']

Hand Propping

Index, Contents, Subject TIPS list
Inner tubes need inspections too

Landing the S4 & S5
Low end of speed range flying & Flap
More fuel Tankage
Mouse Attack Defences
Must Carry in Flight

Oil Level Rotax 'B' gearbox

Piloting & practical handling

Plug caps bungee restraint

Points Ignition Rotax 447 Op. Manual
Pre-Flight Check Rotax two stroke operation

Radio Installation & Battery Power

Rans S-4 Coyote I Appraised by Flavio Giacosa
Rans Compulsory modifications (UK LAA)
Rans S4 & S5 Spec's 2004 &/or 2005 [no longer on web].
RANS USA http://www.rans.com/
Rans Flyers forum  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RANSflyers/?yguid=339885221
Removing Rans S4 wings, by Don Lees 

Revised seat suspension
Rotax two stroke operation
RPM checking
Rudder Stops
Rusty Fan Pulleys

S4 Weight
Silencer Exhaust painting
Spark Plugs, Inverted Rotax engines

Stainless and Ali pop rivets checks

Starter Cord Pulley secure

Tail Bracing Wires fixing MPD

Tailplane incidence change improves control
Tail Wheel Steering Springs
Tail Wire Rigging Tension
Tanks - Top Auxiliary & Main Fuselage
Throttle box Stops
Throttle Friction Nut

Tyres & Pressures

Ultra light tie downs
Undercarriage Elastic Bungee Checks

Under-carriage Return Buffers
U/C legs Closed in Fabric
U/c Spats & Skins

U.K. LAA(PFA) Type Data extract
U.K. LAA 'TADs' 
http://www.lightaircraftassociation.co.uk/engineering/TADs/193%20RANS%20S4%20&%20S5.pdf

Weighing, every 5 years

Westach EGT gauge

Windscreen Lexan Replacing
Wing Spar doublers - RansManual Error

Wooden propeller repair