RFguy

evening summer flying. Oh the enjoyable long days and twilight. plenty of time for flying after 6pm or even 8pm this time of year. A mix of cut and uncut paddocks. Had a look at Thruster's farm. no longer underwater. I really am paying attention. although- it does fly hands-off better now than it ever did before. (post re rigging the ailerons) Hmmm time to find an airport. I can see the reflection of my tail strobe on my instrument panel.

It's an interesting engineering problem, to put in in tech terms, in most applications, the internal state is much larger (has more degrees of freedom) than the few observable parameters which are measured (by the accelerometer).

Hi Jim. yes. you can send me the decapitated kit, or, do we make some new led assys.... I got one of those lens, its around somewhere. I think a small xenon flashtube beacon might be easier, all in the lens . I'll talk to my LED man do see if he has any super high brightness sticks, also, tomorrow I will investigate if I can get a flexible circuit board done at a reasonable price , essentially high brightness leds on a tape so it can be wound helically inside.

and stabilator needs to be pulled right back (control column full back) so water can drain. I had the covers on the stab and tail, but that requires the stab to be at neutral position, and that means water cant get out.... so, leaving those covers off...

yeah, well no hangar space currently available at Cowra. I was in one, but that hangar is now getting lunch room, toilet etc and no room for my plane . CLub hangar isnt any good as the door opening isnt wide enough.... hangars should be built so their doors open to the edge of the hangar !

2nd day in a row of heavy rains. Recency is king so had to fly (7 day cycle) . Including 55mm that day, and 30mm in the previous 2 hours! The airport looked like an inland sea. Finally, late afternoon with cup of tea in hand at the clubhouse, several hours of waiting.... at 1715 the rain stops & I can see the mountains (so I can see to at least 750'AGL) and to the NW where the weather is coming from, blue sky. A few kg of water in the H-stab, glad I tipped that out , might have been a CofG surprise. plane is outside with large body canopy + wrap around engine cover over it at the moment, Just a 0.7 in the Piper , but most enjoyable. Flying after heavy rains in the summer, no bumps ...is delightful...... and those interesting low lying cloud clumps. Flew 15nm NW up to Thruster's farm to look at his half-cut wheat crop with the header parked.... where it was brilliant wall to wall blue sky . flight was 750-1100 ft AGL at a nice and sedate 100 knots at 25 lph , just poking around , looking at the puddles and places to land. relaxing . Bit of carb heat required at times in the 17degC misty skies. Not a single other aircraft heard. No one around...so conducted NDB approach (in visual). Blue sky edge of weather visible in top right hand corner of photo.

Skippy, really ???? ? I think I provided quite useful advice , having seen this sort of fault PRECISELY AS DESCRIBED !

sounds like carb probs. float bowl float needles..... With alot of vibration, this might flood the float bowl, or otherwise have it 'not to spec' I venture a guess that vibration and the sputter are unrelated except that vibration (due to maybe mismatched carb operation (needles, float height ) causes the sputter also, check floats actually float the correct height while you are there. Nev is right with the Dashpot question. have these carbs had an overhaul kit through them ?

well done. airplane climbs like a scalded cat without instructor aboard eh ?

was the pilot the original builder ? Otherwise up to the original builder to do the test flying and V speeds, and the new owner to trust but verify......

just come to look at this.... some numbers.... 800kg and only "7.92 m (26 ft)" wingspan, only 110.5 sq ft ????? it would need a very high lift wing to make 35 kts, and thus to do 115 kts cruise, would need a big engine. which it doesnt have. calculating..... I estimate, with that engine, and that wing and that weight, something like about ... ~ 55 knots stall speed clean...... **Brendan - I think the numbers , where ever you got them they are KTS not KM/H - then the stall speed makes sense. a 30 deg bank would increase the clean stall to 59kts. so perhaps just another boring stall spin story, nothing to see here....

mode S doesnt mean ADSB. ADSB is a Mode-S extension. it's quite fine to have Mode S transponder (plain vanilla Mode S, not Mode S including ADSB) and ADSB OUT (skyecho) going.

We'll see how dark the ATSB roast him. Can't have been a guy that does any maintenance. Working on planes you realise just how light and thin stuff is made....(skins, ribs, control surfaces) ....and how easy it is for controls to jam. replacing aileron cable and re rigging (wings) from scratch the Piper has taught me to be quite afraid (wary/cautious) of the potential for control surface jams and failures. The Jabiru push pull Teleflex is oh so much simpler and I thinik far less chance of anything going wrong, if you don't mind the slop. (which you get used to)

interesting lens no specs on luminosity. limited on brightness I think on the small number of LEDs. but probably fine in the circuit on a dark night