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  1. jackc
    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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    Sadly, I am not so sure about research ethics in Australia, no matter what the organisation.
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    Well, the RAAus guy did not front the trike owner? IF the owner was not contacted by RAAus, I would wonder why? Maybe RAAus shelfed the owner to CASA? They would take a long time to follow up? RAAus skulking around in the shadows is not a good PR look, makes members feel like the enemy? But then most Regulators operate like that these days, it’s the makeup of some of the people that work for them, I call those types ‘plastic policemen’ 🙂
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    My resident Camel, destroys farm gates in a heartbeat 🙂
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    Well, an RAAus person turned up at the Old Station Fly In, and was seen to be taking covert photos of some aircraft and then quietly left, before making himself known to the CDFG Club tent who were doing all the marshaling etc. I would allege it was an undercover mission on RAAus part. So be aware you may be observed at any time and not know it 😞 Can be known as a Fact Finding Mission, their description……we would have other words…….
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    Tape is must have if large animals decide to feast on your wings or tail feathers 🙂
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    Lots of good info on Part 103 Aircraft etc.
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    https://www.eaa.org/eaa/aviation-interests/~/link.aspx?_id=F19457F9B41B41D391AA484BA86EF880&_z=z
  17. jackc
    I use a soda gas bottle kit, 2 -3 bottles will blow up a BMW 1200 GS Tyre. I carry a Gorilla Snot tyre repair kit onboard my Vespa 300 GTS Super scooter. 1 bottle will pump up its tubeless tyre, when flat.
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    Not so sure they work very well on AGM batteries, especially spiral plate ones?
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    Whilst YouTube can be your friend, nothing can beat some training BEFORE you attempt to take to the sky 🙂
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    Once a battery goes flat, you can recover it but it will lose capacity a small amount at the minimum, run it flat a few times and it’s in the bin 😞
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    The way I work is as soon as I buy anything that has a battery, I just replace it so I know what I have. Every once in a while I do a load test with a digital tester, IF the battery has lost capacity by a reasonable CCA amount, then it’s gone. My newly acquired J-230 will be flying to me next week, so I will have the ferry pilot take a new battery with him, to fit and fly it home.
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    Bruce, have you asked around SAAA? What area?
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    Probably difficult, as I am about to find out with an Instructor even. It has been done in the days before YouTube with simple aircraft but no one would admit to it 🙂
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    “Learn To Fly” series on YouTube? Is his friend 🙂 🙂
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    Skins

    jackc replied to propfarmer's topic in Thruster

    Alan of Wingtech retired October last year and sold off all his factory machinery and managed to use up the last of his sail materials inventory. I was fortunate to get the last full set he made, cost me $3970 delivered to Rockhampton. He also included repair swatches of material for me. I have heard nothing since of anyone advertising Thruster skins since.
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