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David: I'm hoping to go, but we have well and truly hijacked this thread. We should start another thread for these other topics

David: The one looking up pumicestone passage with the bridge in the middle is a really nice composition.

Then we know that you've got the right instructor for you. Congrats on gaining your wings and welcome to the sky.

Yeah, well like I said, persons that only half read other peoples' posts and fly off the handle half-cocked:please:

Before you go on the attack, maybe YOU should get new glasses. Geoff's post said he hadn't see the requirement for a fuel PRESSURE GAUGE, but you flew off the handle about RETURN LINES at him. AND he explicitly said he had seen the part about return lines. Get a grip storchy. Edit: I upcased the relevant lines so that hopefully they're big enough for you to see until you get some glasses.

FT: I can understand GoPro's falling volumes when you see what they charge for their cameras now. They used to be a cheap sports camera, but now I think they have pretentions to be a high end product. The hero 4 black is now advertised at $650.00! When you see the specs of the cameras that Jaycar are selling for $199.00 (full 1080 @ 60FPS) it's no wonder the GoPros aren't selling. I wonder at the claim of falling margins though. Although the GoPros are designed in the US, I believe they're made in China. Oh, and the Jaycar camera comes standard with a viewing screen on the back. With the GoPro, you have to buy that separately.

Just thought I'd update this thread with the video we shot on the day the cameras failed. Fortunately my wife rescued the day with her handheld footage. She has become reasonably good with the camera now and got some good footage in the can.

There is another thread in the forums on Rotax tacho probs. You could try some of the remedies posted there.

I was asked by the American distributors of the Legend how it performs on a 120F-130F day. 130F is somewhere north of 50C I think, and it got me to wondering where you would get those kinds of temps. Then I thought of the aircraft sitting on a black bitumen runway with the ambient air temps in the 40s. Would the temps over the runway in those conditions get up to 50C? Something to consider for us Tupperware drivers?

Also, WRT operating temps, CF components that are structural are usually autoclaved at 80C or thereabouts to cure and harden. This is why CF aircraft must be painted white in structural areas. If those components were painted dark colours it might be possible to get them to a temp that would soften the resin. My Legend is completely CF with an extra layer of Kevlar in the cabin area. It would be interesting to have a temp probe inside the wings and a gauge that reads max temps.

Love it! Maybe I should bring the monkey back LOL

Weather kept us grounded also...Bugger!

That's called "Oversharing"!!!

Ryan: Yep, on my bucket list as well. Thinking of going up this year if time and weather cooperate. From memory, it happens around September.

Unfortunately we are going to miss this again. The weather is out of my comfort zone (in the sense that I can't make heads or tails of what it's going to do) so I'm going with the safe option. Really disappointed as we really wanted to go. Next time for sure... Maybe Gympie on Sunday ...

Oooh errr, I had no idea that was going to happen

There is another thread in the forums regarding renting versus buying. I won't try to duplicate that here as a simple search will lead you to that. From your two initial choices; Jabiru or Cessna, I think you have some more research to do as both those aircraft types have some form of cloud over them, however contentious those clouds may be. Also, the Cessna is definitely GA only at this stage, the Jab may be registered VH or RAA depending on the model I think. Recreational aircraft will only have two seats. If you want to carry more than 1 passenger, then it's GA for you. Recreational aircraft are generally much cheaper to maintain than GA and usually much cheaper to run, fuel-wise. If you will mostly be flying alone, but sometimes with 1 other, it would be pointless to buy a six seater and pay all the money for purchase, running and maintenance. In the long run, you might be best off going GA and renting a small two seater when that suits or a six seater when needed. However: if renting GA aircraft is anything like renting RAA planes, you'll rarely be able to just rock up somewhere and say "I want to rent a plane right now." You'll more likely have to book it in advance and let them know how long you want it for and you'll have to fit in with the other demands for their aircraft such as training and other rentals. By contrast, owning a plane gives more flexibility of when you want to fly and for how long you'll be away with the plane. HTH

Who's going this year?

I tried a pair of polarised sunnies, but they made weird patterns in the Lexan windscreen. I found that distracting to the point I took the sunnies off and flew without them. I think there are different quality polarised sunnies and some are better than others.

Wow, fantastic! 120F is 48C. We have not flown in those kinds of temps, only to the mid 30sC so I can't tell you how it would go there. At 130F, that would be over 50C! Would you see see that kind of temps outside of Death Valley? We are very happy with our Legend. We have had no troubles with temperatures in warm (30C and higher), either coolant or oil temps. In fact the oil temps run a bit too cool and we use the temp control flap a bit for that. Coolant temps remain around 100C at all times including long sustained climbs to altitude. The only time we have had the temp go to the upper end of the green was a hot restart and a long on ground hold for traffic on a warm day. This is because there is insufficient air flowing through the cooler while idling on the ground, but the temp never went into the red. As soon as we lifted off, the temps started to come back down and settled at 100C throughout the climb. Anyway, hope this helps. All the best with the Legend in the US, I think it will be a hit at Oshkosh.

Moves are now afoot to bring increased MTOW in the RAA fleet. This will see those Cirrus and Lancair (and some of the lighter GA types) aircraft possibly enter the RAA. Moves are also afoot to bring in a CTA endorsement for RAA and this will also encourage migration fro GA for recreational flyers. This will add further to the woes of the GA support industries and see a big shakeout of service and equipment providers to GA or a migration of them to follow the planes into the RAA sphere. Unfortunately, I agree that the baby boomer fliers (like myself) will cease flying and the next generations will not have the financial resources to enter and make up the numbers. I don't think rec flying will die in my lifetime, but it might in my son's or his son's time, unless the politicians do something about the massive redistribution of all the wealth to the already rich.

Don: Had I gone up through the alleyway between Amberley and Archerfield it would have been shorter and then I would have been approaching from SE. I have never flown that route though and the narrowness of the clearance there coupled with the uncertainty of what to do about crossing the VFR lane into Archerfield deters me. Someday I will get someone to go through there with me and show me where to go there and what to do.

Don: In the video posted above(return fro Evans Head) , I approached Watts Bridge via Gatton and Esk, which is from the South West. But you had me going for a bit there. I had to go and check my track to make sure. I should also make it plain to all that my wing cameras are mounted with the stick on go pro mounts for which I have written factory approval. If you have a GA or LSA aircraft, you MUST have written authority to make any kind of mods and mounting gopros with stick on mounts counts as modifications. BTW, If you're our RAA Don, it was good to see you at the meetings at GEFI. I would have liked to chat with you some more, but didn't get the chance.

Obviously those that were running Dick Smith Electronics lately had forgotten Tandy. DSE went down the same path, morphing from an electronics store to a toy and gadgets store and suffered the same fate as Tandy. Jaycar seem to be heading the same way also. Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them.

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