10/13/2006

Bob Wilcox
Attention Kero Start Engines Users:

If the engine fails to start, you can get excess kerosene in the engine. YOU CANNOT REMOVE EXCESS KEROSENE BY TILTING THE PLANE WITH THE NOSE UP IN THE AIR.
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9/25/2006
Failsafe and the Auxiliary channel:

DO NOT ASSUME THAT YOU PROGRAM THE AUXILIARY CHANNEL LIKE THE THROTTLE CHANNEL FOR FAILSAFE!
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01/31/2006
When installing the Kerosene
starter in the P60, please note:
The P60 glow plug boss may
have damaged threads near the combustion chamber.
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12/19/2005
A new version for Jettronic for Windows is available. Check out downloads for the latest version.

JetCat USA News

9/27/2007
At Florida Jets 2007, JetCat USA introduced the Titan SE and P-120 SE turbines. These new Special Edition turbines feature revolutionary technology allowing them to accelerate rapidly while maintaining the legendary JetCat reliability.

1/3/2005
This is an e-mail from one of our long time customers, Rick Silz. Rick flies at Rabbit Dry Lake here in S. California. This guy really flies!!!
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9/27/2007
     At Florida Jets 2007, JetCat USA introduced the Titan SE and P-120 SE turbines. These new Special Edition turbines feature revolutionary technology allowing them to accelerate rapidly while maintaining the legendary JetCat reliability. An important component of the SE design is a new integrated circuit that is installed inside each turbine. We call it the “Chip Inside”. This chip allows us to characterize each turbine in a special way that helps make the SE turbine performance so amazing.

        There was a side benefit to this new technology. It allows us to track the "service life" of each turbine much better. This traceability has in turn allowed us to introduce a new worldwide limited warranty for all JetCat turbines since our non-SE turbines feature the “Chip Inside” as well.

        “This new limited warranty offers exceptional value to JetCat USA customers.”

        1.) The limited warranty term has been extended to 3 years for parts and labor.

        2.) The limited warranty follows the turbine, no matter who owns it. No transfer charges ever! This helps protect your investment by ensuring maximum resale value.

        3.) Our new 3 year limited warranty is effective as of Sept. 1, 2007. All new JetCat USA SEs sold from May 1, 2007 feature the new limited warranty effective from the date of purchase. Current original SE owners already have the new limited warranty!

        4.) We all know that (unfortunately) if we fly, we will eventually have a crash. Under the new limited warranty, once any turbine crash damage is repaired, the balance of the warranty term is still in effect.

        To maintain warranty coverage, all the current owner needs to do is make sure the standard 25 hour interval service is performed. JetCat USA is offering an option to buy a service voucher for the first 25 hour service at a fixed cost of $250 for thrust turbines and $300 for helicopter or two stage turbines. This ensures the first 50 hours of service will cost you no more than $250/$300.

 Fixed cost service voucher conditions:

1. The service voucher must be purchased directly from JetCat USA.

2. Must be purchased within 30 days of turbine purchase. Current JetCat USA owners have until Oct. 31^st if they choose to purchase a service voucher

3. The service voucher is valid for up to 4 years. It can be used even if the turbine has not archived 25 hours of use within the 4 year term. This gives the customer up to 1 year past the limited warranty period to receive a fixed cost service if the first 25 hour service interval had not been reached.

4. To prevent any extra service charges, the turbine must be serviced no later than the recommended 25 hour service interval.

5. The service voucher can only be used with the turbine it is registered with.

6. The service voucher is transferable if the turbine is sold but the new owner must register the transfer within 30 days.

7. If the turbine is crashed or damaged, the service voucher can be applied as partial payment if the service voucher value is equal to or less than the repair cost.

8. If the turbine is destroyed because of a crash or other damage, the service voucher can be re-registered to a similar replacement turbine if purchased directly from JetCat USA. This is limited to the original service voucher’s 4 year term.

 
4/11/2007
Important for DX-7 users
We have had several problems with our Learn R/C set up procedure with these radios. Please follow the following procedures to properly Learn R/C and test the failsafe.

• Set the End Points to +/- 100% for the throttle channel.

• Put in the Binding plug and learn the failsafe for low throttle / low trim.

• Remove binding plug and reset the End Points to +/- 50%. This is very important since our normal +/- 75% does not work reliably.

• Learn R/C.

• Test failsafe by shutting off the transmitter and making sure you see the 'F' appear on the GSU top center display.

Putting the End Points to +/- 50% still gives you about 500 throttle settings for the total stick travel.

3/26/2007
Titan SE and P120 SE turbines
Introduced at Florida Jets 2007, the new P120 SE and Titan SE engines were quite the hit. They were demonstrated on John Redman's KingCat and Tam Jets F18 and F16. John, Dave Presta and Russ Giordano really demonstrated the fast throttle response, power and reliability. During the event many pilots asked if there older JetCat engines could be updated. Well the answer is, some can! Some of the mechanical updates have been in our P120 and Titans since October 2005 manufacture. These engines should only require a few modifications and ECU updates. Older engines would not be economically practical to update to the SE versions.

The following serial numbers are updatable>
P120 serial #1996 and newer.
Titan serial #0896 and newer.
The cost for updating is $300.00 + return shipping if your ECU has removable throttle and auxiliary input cables. Otherwise a new V6.0 ECU processor board must be installed for an additional $120.00.
Please note: These updates are for the SE conversion only and must be made on well maintained engines. 

Update parts will not be available until April 30th. DO NOT SEND in your engine for these update until you call JetCat USA for a special return authorization number and appointment date.

3/26/2007
JetCat USA is moving.
JetCat USA is growing rapidly and we need more room. Currently JetCat USA is located at the Van Nuys Airport in Van Nuys California. Van Nuys Airport (VNY) is one of the busiest airports in the world! Unfortunately, it is also very congested and costly to expand in this area. So we decided to move 200 miles north of Los Angeles to the Central Coast area of California. JetCat USA has a new 6,000 sq ft building at the Paso Robles Airport in Paso Robles California (El Paso De Robles, The Passage Of Oaks) This is a beautiful community best know for its vineyards and wineries (and now for jet engines too). We should be up and running in May 2007. We will update the Web site with the new address right before we start operations. If you ever plan a trip to this beautiful region of California, put a visit to our facility on your itinerary. www.prcity.com/leisure www.pasorobleschamber.com

1/1/2007
Rick flies more than anyone! This is his latest update. Thanks Rick for the information and hope you have many more flights in 2007.

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Bob & the JetCat gang,

Another big year on JetCat engines!
The high points:
708 flights with over 107 hours on 4 different engines.
400+ total turbine hours
152+ hrs total time on P-70 S/N 2060
2600+ turbine flights
1609 total flights on the Top Cat - over 500 this year, powered by 4 different JC engines
105 total flights in October

The low points:
P-80 & 4 planes lost in crashes. LLL Of course, none of them were my fault!

The numbers:

P-80 S/N 1153
2006: 2h 36m, 15 flts, RIP
2005: 27h 33m, 189 flts
2004: 38h 58m, 255 flts
2003: 62h 43m, 383 flts
2002: 19h 45m, 158 flts
Total hrs: 151h 51m, Total flights: 1000

P-70 S/N 2060
2006: 58 h 21m, 381 flts
2005: 47h 46m, 311 flts
2004: 37h 58m, 243 flts
2003: 8h 10m, 56 flts
Total hrs: 152h 15m, Total flights: 991

P-70 S/N 2055
2006: 44h 27m, 291 flts
2005: 24h 11m, 152 flts
2004: 19h 10m, 134 flts
2003: 6h 0m, 41 flts
Total hrs: 93h 20m, Total flights: 618

Titan:
2006: 2hrs 56m, 21 flights
Total hrs: 2hrs 56m, Total flights: 21

Happy New Year!
Rick

10/19/2006

The people from Heliworld-USA came over last night with a beautiful example of the new ASI JetCopter SX. Check out the pictures! This baby has everything. I especially liked the ceramic coating on the exhaust. These helicopter kits are available from Heliworld-USA (aka Airworld USA) starting at $5995.00. Ready to fly JetCopter SX are also available. Go to http://www.heliworld-usa.com/contact.htm and ask for Rob Janiger or Jason Somes.

1/3/2006
This is an e-mail from one of our long time customers, Rick Silz. Rick flies at Rabbit Dry Lake here in S. California. This guy really flies!!! This is a great testimonial for the reliability of JetCat engines.  Thanks Rick...

12/14/05
 JetCat USA will be closed for the holidays from 12/23/05 through 01/02/06.

12/05/2005  John Redman