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I have tried 50 min and 60 min, both too far to be practical, now 20 min is just fine.

My coolant and oil temps rarely lift much above the pin, neither has ever reached the green, the gauges are not marked with temps, just coloured zones. Are the gauges wrong, or is it running cool? If I blank off part of the heat exchangers and it was the gauges, I could damage the engine.

It’s probably the hours in the last twelve months and last three months that matters when it hits the fan.

What is pump gas?

Consider Broome. They run on gas delivered by trucks. Solar will not work for four months of the year. Windmills will not survive a cyclone. Tidal, with the biggest tides in the world, is not environmentally possible. A package nuclear plant would be perfect. They have existed for nearly 70 years in submarines, with no disaster.

Ingersoll Rand made their reputation with the Class AA2 steam powered compressor, on the left. My friend Jim was the Australian manager many years ago and paid for this machine to be restored.

The following may be useful in making comparisons when machines have different expected lives. I used to teach equipment selection for mines and wrote this. The Average Annual Cost is the sum of Depreciation, Interest and Operating Cost. Consider a truck that has an initial cost of $1.0M and a salvage value of $0.2M after an estimated four-year service life. The depreciation is thus $0.8M over four years or $0.2M per year. The interest expense arises, because owning an asset ties up capital. This is true whether you borrow all or part of the purchase price, or whether you use your own money. In the latter case there is an opportunity, cost because that money could have been invested elsewhere. The average investment is: ($1.0M + $0.2M) / 2 = $0.6M If your company has a cost of capital (or cost of borrowing) of 10% per annum then the annual interest expense is 0.1 x $0.6M or $60,000 for each of the four years. The annual operating cost may be calculated from the estimated hourly operating cost of $200 per hour (which includes operator, fuel, tyres, maintenance etc. and the cost of a major rebuild at 12,000 hours) and the expected utilisation of 5,500 hours per year, which is a total of $1.1M per year. From the above, the Average Annual Cost is: $0.2M + $0.06M + $1.1M = $1.36M A similar calculation can be made for each of the trucks under consideration. The equipment selection decision can then be based on these results, together with all of the other important considerations about manufacturer's support and spares availability.

We have one Toyota hybrid and will trade it on another ordered for next year. Great performance, low fuel consumption, good resale. What's not to like?

Thirty years ago when the Golden Grove mine kicked off, they hired people with no mining experience. They were paid less, because they were less productive, but put through a multi stage training programme. Even the girls from Perth office signed up as underground miners. But as soon as each person got some experience they went elsewhere for much higher pay. The mine had a constant problem of inexperienced workers and shortage of people. So the experiment ended.

I have found my firearms licence is accepted as proof of identity with the Vic government but my ASIC is not.

Department of Home Affairs is Australia's security regulator for aviation. They also administer the Aviation Transport Security Regulations. Under these regulations, all current pilots must have an aviation security status check. You will also need an aviation security status check if you're applying for a flight crew licence. To get one of these checks you will need to apply for either an: Aviation Security Identification Card (ASIC) Aviation Identification (AVID). The above was in the link that Onetrack posted.

Yes they need to learn to communicate in writing. I would like to know what AOPA is doing, I am a member, but I will not watch videos. They are just lazy communications.

Jerry is right, the instructor needs to see an ASIC or an AVID.

I believe you can land without an ASIC. To go back out to your plane you can ask for an escort from someone with an ASIC. So legally you don’t need one. But you need one to do your flight review (GA).

CASA do not recognise the ASIC card as proof of identity.

Only pilots, not passengers.

I agree with Skippy. Once cracked, the valve lets air in along the thread so you need to do the open/shut business. Or so I have found.

A cabin pressure problem followed or caused by an erratic engine? Autopilot recovered the first stall but not the second?

I love the term colour blondness, it would explain a lot.

Best story ever was from the 1920s. Aussie captain on a London to Paris flight came out of the cockpit unrolling some string. On the way to the dunny at the back he handed the end to a passenger and said if the nose goes down, pull the string. They didn’t know he had a co pilot.

ATSB can choose what they investigate. They don't have to investigate all VH reg accidents.

The membership fee gets you in. Then there is a judgement about whether or not you are a contributor or a taker. I admit I am a taker, member since 1993 and I have never volunteered for anything. Went to one AGM in all that time. I contribute to other causes, but can't do everything.

Group 1 have no cause to complain IF they are paid. If they are volunteers, then they have a right to moan about the freeloaders who don't contribute. Same as any club or school or sports committee!

By coincidence I just made six out of soft leather today. Bumper bracket to body on a Triumph car.

If it was a kidnapping proof of life pic I would expect a news paper front page. You could have written that any time!