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Jabiru7252

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About Jabiru7252

  • Birthday 23/09/1955

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    J170C, PA28, PA38, TB10, C172
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    Gawler, SA
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    Australia

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  1. I'm convinced that many planes, gliders included, go into stealth mode when viewed from above. On many occasions I have tried to sight a plane that's maybe a few hundred feet below me at (say) my 3 o'clock but been absolutely unable to find it. This occurs almost exclusively over the suburbs but has also happened over dry paddocks. Another sign of old age perhaps?
  2. Not so, the door cannot open enough to cause any problems because of the slip stream. I flew to Tumby Bay from Parafield with the door open in a PA28.
  3. Gee whizz, I must be silly. I thought the diodes converted the AC voltage to DC (rectification). The regulator then 'regulated' the voltage and/or current to charge the battery. The term "high voltage AC current" is meaningless to me. The alternator generates an 'alternating voltage' that when applied across a load will cause an 'alternating current' (AC) to flow. Maybe in this world of LGBT rubbish the electronic theory I was taught has been 'cancelled'.
  4. It's hard to smash your head into a low wing...
  5. Back in the late 70s industry said 'give us a plane we can spin and stall' for flying training. Piper came up with the Tomahawk and Beechcraft with the Skipper. These planes are hard to tell apart. I did stalls, spins and spiral dives in the Tomahawk and one day I read that a Tomahawk lost its tail during a spin and so no more spinning the things. I have never really liked 'T' tails - they always look flimsy to me.
  6. This is a typical question for the foundation Ham Radio License... There was a time when being a 'Ham' meant you knew all about radio, radio wave propagation bla bla bla. Not any more ☹️
  7. Be it a website or an app, any good developer should remember "DON'T MAKE ME THINK" when they design the user interface. If the user has to dick about trying to nut out things the design needs changing.
  8. Probably a moron driving the car, becoming common these days.
  9. Stalls and spins were scary but I hated spiral dives. Did a few in the Tomahawk in the early 80s. Don't think anybody does them these days.
  10. I must have suffered a brain bubble because I can't make sense of your post. Can you 'expand it' for me? And type slowly because I'm a slow reader...😄
  11. Me (VK5KKS) and at least two others I know about.
  12. The morse sent from the navaids was so slow you didn't need to know the code. A good pilot would simply have a cheat sheet, listen to the code (da da da di di dit dah di dah dah - that's MBY). I learnt morse to get my Ham Radio Licence and never used morse since. Note how morse is 'spoken' Dits and Dahs not dots and dashes.
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