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    jackc replied to extralite's topic in Thruster

    Ferrite beads can be your friend 🙂
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    jackc replied to RFguy's topic in Engines and Props

    Sometime a thread can suffer severe ‘yaw’ so long as it does not stall then spin 🙂
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    Don, Sadly I am late to the aviation ‘party’ I will get a little fun from it before EOL but being the Dinosaur that I and many others are, I wonder if Aviation as a hobby will simply die in Australia? I am a member of EAA in the U.S. and all I see is them going ahead and bounds. I joined AOPA here and tried to get them interested in the promo area for young people etc. Gave up as they did not care, busy junketing about saving airports is their deal. Banging on about Bankstown etc, that is a lost cause. They got angry when I did not renew my membership. Whilst I am still messing about with my Thruster and Aeropup, I now have a J-230D that actually flies and needs nothing done to it, except jettisoning its Microair radio 🙂 Jack.
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    Motorcycle riding experience teaches you the same…..
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    I need to fill in aircraft details etc?
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    Sad the the video turned out this way 😞. Obviously not proof checked for accuracy by a reputable person with knowledge. RAAus need to step up their game and the first thing would be to fix the video probably and re release ASAP, making sure the original is buried forever…….
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    Fortunately I have time to scout the area looking for elements of danger, in an Emergency you don’t have that luxury, but guide posts are not a risk to high wing aircraft, unlike road sighs which are far and few between in central and far west Qld.
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    Having a look in my J-230D yesterday. mentally measuring up for a rudimentary bed in it. Since I will be flying remote areas mostly, just look out for a dirt road I can land on, taxi off the road safely, park for the night, fire up next morning and fly away. 🙂 Who needs an airstrip?
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    The video is supported by RAA with the already documented errors, they are our peak body AND regulator? Yet, IF they catch us stuffing up anywhere, they are happy to ream us 😞. Over time I have been involved with Aviation, have heard many stories, some from multiple sources about some past history etc, that have been nasty to certain people who have simply want to enjoying flying. Seems like they at times have been like dogs with bones, they want the last chew. 😞
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    The less knowledge you have, the harder it is to sift the wheat from the chaff, personally I like American videos case histories and podcasts…….greater amounts of quality wheat……… 🙂
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    Whilst I cant do a thing to my 24 rego J-230D, got to stay factory etc. I wondered IF water injection would be a bonus? Can’t see what not? Might be something the 19 rego owners could try?
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    Well, here is the list of manufacturers for the FAA FAR Part 103 aviation sector in the U.S. These require NO licence to fly, AND NO requirement to register. Stupid Australia HAD a similar class in the AUF sector, but RAAus destroyed it. Now we have RPC with many Flying Schools charging North of $300 per hour for training, in fancy glass cockpit equiped aircraft. Most of the U.S. companies in the makers list, have overflowing order books, I have enquired with many and one of them offered me an agency. We need an equivalent FAR Part 103 aviation sector here….. https://bydanjohnson.com/part-103-ultralight-list/
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    Subject says it all 😞 Our regulators and peak bodies are holding us back, when will they let go of their Egos and progress Aviation in Australia? https://inspire.eaa.org/youth/
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    Good idea, have already done POH in A4 and A5, to carry in aircraft. A4 stays at hangar.
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    I have decided to print one out, laminate it and put on my panel. Ned to make up my checklists and do same as a quick reference laminated little notebook, too. Committing checklists to memory is not a good idea, previous owner of my J-230 had one with aircraft, pretty dog eared now…….so it must have got some use.
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    Subject says it all and the maker ships to Australia 🙂 Love one of these, America gets to have all the fun!! https://www.aeromarine-lsa.com/truelite/
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    I know that I have to go through the process for my NAV but I thought it wise as an inflight reminder it would be a good idea. It will be probably a long time before I go on a trip requiring a lot of planning……..I will be just happy to junket around locally 🙂
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    Would anyone know of a supplier for these please? Looking to fit to my instrument panel…..
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    Based on my life’s experience many qualified people have been my worst nightmare, there is probably only a handful of people I would allow to work on my aircraft and NONE that I would trust to work on my cars. Todays diminishing care factor is becoming a major problem…….
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    It’s starting to look like exiting GA to go RAA with be jumping out of the frying pan, into the fire. ? Ditch RAA and save rego and membership and go from RAA to VH rego will save a lot of money each year? Was a big discussion on it at Narromine from what I was told, then join SAAA. if you want to, but not compulsory. When I bought my Jabiru, one question I was asked……was I going to change it to VH? Not worried right now, just want to fly it 🙂
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    And you get this……an Aviator visiting this area blew up the Gypsy Major? motor in his Auster. Terminal damage that made it unrepairable. So, he managed to find a secondhand engine and fitted it, Yesterday he finished the job but had a destination some 800km away and was hoping to leave by lunch to return to his base. I thought he may run it up for a while and even do a test flight. I heard fire up in the nearby hangar and thought it sounded fine. He is taxiing out and was intending to leave about 2.00pm, he gets 50 metres and cough, splutter, wheeze for a couple of seconds and it clears…..I thought OK…..another cough splutter etc then SILENCE. Well I am glad it never took off…….anything could have happened. Tow back to hangar, today is another day. They make rules for a reason, to cater for those who are dumb and have no clue, but there are many of us who can do a better job than even qualified people…….but we are hamstrung by a heap of rules that restrict the dedicated and knowledgeable from simply doing their own thing. My Aeropup was a case in point, handed to me as a flying death trap……me as Qualifired Dozer Operator fixed it….a qualified person complimented me on my work. Lots of rules are not the total answer……
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    I will bet many people who would agree to these rules or MAKE them, have probably never rebuilt an engine in their lives and IF they have……they learnt nothing…….
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    If that rule was brought in…… I would erase my rego number and fly ‘stealth mode’ RAA? Who ‘were’ they 🙂
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    Mmmmm……..what is this 12 year engine rule? I thought that kind of thing would be up to the relevant engine makers?
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    And as one of those Air Crash Investigations armchair pilots, I have learnt a lot of hints from those episodes 🙂
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