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    You would need a split screen to get porn and Westpac apps running at the same time.
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    There is a new mechanical gust lock option for Foxbat y-sticks. But I like the bungee cord version which stretches across the pilot's seat. Can’t miss it.
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    I would change the oil cold rather than try it.
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    According to several sources there have been three classic aircraft crashes in the last two days in the USA, two of them fatal. A Trojan, a Bonanza and a Cessna Birdog. And one undercarriage failure on landing at Oshkosh (Cessna 310) so far.
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    About a dozen years ago, someone tried to pull out a bogged aircraft at Birdsville with a car by tying a rope to the prop, which bent like a banana.
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    Continuing the off topic, I was a chainman in a survey office when someone walked away from a theodolite set up on the centreline of a railway track. Along came the train…
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    I have seen it argued that the risk of a hose clamp penetrating the filter case is greater than teh risk of theh filter coming loose.
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    Many airfields charge an annual access fee for aircraft based there. This is on top of hangar lease fees, which go to the hangar owner. Do you pay an access fee and if so, how much? Are there discounts available for certain situations or voluntary airfield maintenance? Thanks, Peter
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    The published pre takeoff checklist for my Foxbat has about 50 items in it. I would like to whittle it down to ten or so. Otherwise I just skim the list and could miss something. My Archer list is much shorter.
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    WTF
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    I have a Garmin GLO2 GPS which bluetooths to my ipad and improves the GPS accuracy. Now I have obtained a Skyecho 2 which connects to the ipad by Wifi. Is the Garmin now redundant because my ipad gets its location from the Skyecho?
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    That is a perfect example of the problem. We should learn from our omissions but not beat ourselves up over them
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    All easy to do. We are human.
  14. pmccarthy
    That would work for the Bush Mechanics. Shellac is made from crushed beetles, and they are already carrying the metho.
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    Going from the Foxbat to the Vixxen they claimed increase in cruise from 85-90 kts to 110-115 kts with the same wing and engine, just cleaning up the fuselage and drag, with a lot of research.
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    OME I call this nonsense. Are you arguing that the glide time before impact depends on the wind direction? Nonsense.
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    Proboscis would be my choice.
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    Surely where you are headed will always trump how far you can glide. No good gliding further to land in a forest. So wind influences your decision as to where you can get to, but that may be up- down- or cross- wind.
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    If you have the aircraft details already in OzRunways then submitting a flight plan is just check the details and click.
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    I flew out of Kyneton yesterday (Sunday) about 10.30am but most cloud was at 550ft AGL and I climbed through a large hole to the north heading for Bendigo but it just got worse so turned around and landed, put the plane away.
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    There was a story some years ago about someone flying up Cape York who nearly became unconscious due to dehydration.
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    Sorry about the format
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    I flew into Albury for the first time recently and could easily have made the same mistake.
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    He was about to land to refuel, it was reported.
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