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  • Birthday 19/01/1966

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    Savannah S 19-1641
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    Coolatai
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    Australia

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  1. No way anyone would spend all that time polishing just to make the paint hard to keep on. I think he meant it when he polished it!
  2. Also reported that someone from the plane company came out in a boat and got the passengers into life jackets. Good job they landed nearby.
  3. So 313 knots projected on the flight radar track may have been two and a half times that given the sudden altitude loss that is accompanied? That being the case, why would you fly on for your destination rather than divert to Roma or return to Toowoomba?
  4. The something happened north of Dulacca much nearer to Toowoomba than to Mount Isa, which may have been a better place to limp to. While they reacted to the something, they maintained near perfect track while losing a whole heap of altitude and airspeed rising over 300 knots.
  5. Its logged speed was over 260knots but it didn't seem to exceed 223 in the later part of its final flight. Are you suggesting that it was limping to its destination?
  6. Given that it was doing 223 knots at 28050 ft in a straight line then suddenly decelerated less than 100 knots while losing 4000 feet doesn't seem like normal fire monitoring activity. It had a return flight to Townsville logged for later that afternoon.
  7. This shows VH-ATF as BD 275 so that could be where the confusion came from.
  8. This was one of six 737 in their fleet so if the premium was more than 17 percent they would still be in front.
  9. https://www.mackayandwhitsundaylife.com/article/i-thought-we-were-going-to-drown-plane-crash-survivor-shares-story This article shows a photo of the wreckage. Would be interesting to know it the under carriage inverted during the ditching or the recovery. I could also have impacted the ability to open the doors inverted like that.
  10. I find my old favourites are ok but anything half decent squeeze my feet and make them go to sleep about an hour into a long flight.
  11. Incident involving a plane and a train on a road. NTSB will have to draw on all the areas of their expertise for this investigation.
  12. After the  fitting of a Dyson Garmin And transponder I have a lot of redundant wiring under my Savannah dash..Too big a mess .The original Icp wiring splits to feed a 10 and 15 amp fuse breaker. I’m going to rewire the power feeds with tefzel wire, probably 20 amp, any suggestions? Next I have three options. 1. put in a 10 and 15 amp busbar off the existing fuse breakers..Option 2.power up one busbar then individually fuse each line, most have their own fuse protection anyway ..Option 3 is put in an automotive type fuse block and feed off that .Marc Ausman from Eaa gives this system the green light in his tutorials. I think 🤔 this would be the easiest for any future troubleshooting or maintenance. Any advice or constructive criticism will be greatly appreciated.           

  13. How to convert to bus bar?
  14. I saw about 8 cropdusters working between Boomi and Boggabilla yesterday. It was quite remarkable that half the country was underwater and the rest was highly developed irrigation diverting flood water, business as usual. Two working at 90 degrees to each other, when their runs coincided, turned into the same space. Must have been uncomfortable even for the pros!
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