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    When in doubt, RTFM.
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    I don't understand how people or organisations with a public voice can get away with advocating that people not get vaccinated. It's not just irresponsible, it borders on criminal. It also ensures this whole mess will be prolonged and exacerbated as the unvaccinated incubate new and more virulent mutations. However, those who refuse to get vaccinated will help thin the gene pool of some of the stupidity that is circulating these days. I think that when allocating health resources for COVID victims, priority should be given to those who've chosen to be vaccinated. The others? Well, they chose to take their chances…
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    Yes, I mean what else is a multibillionaire to do with all his money? Pay his employees a living wage? HERESY!
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    Anxiety will exacerbate motion sickness in a car, boat or airplane. The ONLY way to overcome that anxiety is with familiarity, knowledge and confidence and all that comes from sticking with it. When I started flying in trikes, I got a few frights which built up a lot of anxiety for me to the point I didn't like flying. Then I developed a phobia about losing control of the trike because of the control forces required for manuvering. So I switched to three axis flying. It still took a while to overcome my anxiety in turbulence and I still get a tiny bit of it if I haven't flown for a while (like months). BUT, it's mostly gone now. It WILL take time to overcome the anxiety, so be patient. It gets easier every time and the more you fly. Trust me, the reward of being able to get up in the air and the magnificent views make it all worthwhile in the end.
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    I finally found my flight planning sheet Three legs to a column, six columns to an A4 Sheet (double sided) Most of the fields are self explanatory. I use the bottom section for enroute frequencies.
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    Before you decidenot to use the epoxy to seal the ribs because of the cost, consider this; Once you put the covering on and paint the wings, it's going to be a very long time before you can ever access those ribs again. Isn't it worth the peace of mind to apply the very best sealant to the things that are keeping you from plummeting to the ground unexpectedly?
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    I made one with Excel with the static headings protected field so I can't edit those. I can only edit the fields that contain variables like frequencies and runway lengths. Each table is one third of an A4 page so I can get three legs to one sideof a page, or six legs to a double sided page. Each leg has three sections for waypoints/fuel stops. I'll post a pic if anyone is interested…
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    We flew it at 80KIAS and it took 18 minutes from Long Reef to Jibbon Point. According to the map for the flight, the video looks about right to me WRT distance offshore at that part of the flight. Fortunately we didn't have any “engine stumbles” on our trip. That would have really puckered the date indeed! Thanks XAIR for sharing the video, enjoyed it.
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    I spent quite a lot of time with Ken and his wife Susan at Oshkosh in 2017 just before the plane was released. He was at the show to promote it. They camped behind us so we talked about the Ranger and Ken's role in it a fair bit. He's a very knowledgeable, but completely humble guy.
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    Duncan: From memory I was using a glue called T80 or something like that. It was epoxy. I didn't finish the build and sold the kit. Back then I didn't believe in using gloves and respirators and I've often wondered if I had completed the kit whether I would have become allergic to the glue. The first pic is the kit I was building and the second is how I was going to paint it.
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    That's just gorgeous. I love seeing wooden airplane components. I think it's the most elegant use of wood possible. AND, it looks like you're doing a brilliant job cutting the parts out.
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    I had a look at the facebook page (not a facebooker so I might not have seen it all) and looked on the airshow home page. I didn't see anything about postponement or cancellation.
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    Yeah, Some mothers do have 'em. I hope that the businesses that were shut down on the sunshine coast by the Victorian couple who drove up here against the rules, sue them for lost income.
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    Hi Duncan; I'm probably telling you something you already know, but are you keeping test pieces of your glue ups? A long while ago, I was building a glued wooden framed kit and every time I did a glue up, I glued two scraps together with that batch of glue. Back then, I was building under SAAA rules as I don't think RA AUS (AUF) was in existence yet. The SAAA inspectors wanted to see the test pieces and see how they broke, ie the wood should fail before the glue.
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    We'll be there. Haven't checked the weather yet. I find that the forecasts get a bit iffy more than two days in advance.
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    That is what I do now. I do have the luxury of long enough runways to do that. It may not be feasible for short field landings, but I avoid those when I can. "Your speed has to decay somewhere, so it might as well be a foot off the ground," Agree totally ... up to the point you're in danger of running out of runway. But then there is the GoAround option.
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    Thermals can account for these gusts on relatively calm days. What feels like a crosswind is a thermal off to the side sucking air across the runway. You felt in a 172. In lighter planes (ULs and LSAs) it can be more pronounced. In addition, these gusts can catch you out if you don't watch your airspeed close enough. I had one drop my airspeed 10 knots while landing and because I had let the airspeed decay a bit, the drop in airspeed put me into a stall and the left wing started to drop. My aircraft has very benign stall characteristics so I was able to quickly recover with full throttle, and nose down correction. If I had been flying something with critical stall characteristics like one of the scale Spitfires, I probably wouldn't be here today. Now I monitor my airspeed in the circuit VERY closely.
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    What Walrus said, or worse, what happens if a lump is dislodged at 200 feet over trees at the end of a runway on takeoff.
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    Yeah, He outsmarted me ... and himself!
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    Had a bloke ring me and talk to me endlessly about an airplane I was selling. He asked lots of questions which I patiently answered. Further down the track he said he wasn't really interested in a 19 reg plane. I wished him well in his plane search and thought no more about it. Fast forward a month or so later after my plane has been sold, I bump into the guy in a flying school nearby and he rips me a new one for "blowing him off and being rude"! I couldn't figure out what was the problem until I probed him a bit and when I wished him well on his plane search, he took that as "blowing him off" after he basically said he wasn't interested in a 19 reg plane. I asked him why he said that when it was apparent he REALLY wanted the plane. He said words to the effect that "He didn't want to come across as too eager or I wouldn't negotiate on the price". He certainly came across as "not too eager". In fact he managed to make "not too eager" sound like "not interested at all" and ended up missing out. You can be too clever by half if you really try...
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    OK: Great footage of the snow and not too shaky IMO, but do you ever clean your windscreen? Looked like some mega bird plop on there!
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    KGWilson: I think your suggestion of a new radio is the go. I had a trike with a rev Q microair radio and I'm not a fan. A really good sub that will fit in the same hole is the Trig.
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    We went to the Mother's day brekky fly in at Gatton. I commented on their lack of organisation before so I won't get into that again. This flight was the first one with a new GPS recorder I designed and built, based on an Arduino. It stores the autopilot data sent out of the GPS's serial port. I then use that data to create info overlays in a 3D graphics program called Blender. Then I bundle it all up in my editing program, Davinci. All the software is free to download. I will be making a series of videos in the future about how I did this. In the mean time, have a butcher's hook at the end results and give me your feedback. Was it worth the effort?
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    Yes, that is correct. Here's a pic of my recorder.
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    I use Lightspeed Zulu 2 headsets Garmin gtr 200 radio A digital audio recorder (iRiver brand?) bought from JB hifi a long time ago A 1 to 2 splitter. Where my headset plugs in that taps off to the audio recorder plugged into ... The line in socket of the audio recorder with the input volume in the recorder turned down as low as it will go. I was just lucky that the recorder doesn't have AGC (as I mentioned in my earlier post) on the line in input. BTW, I see you're location is listed as Wolongong, so here's another video for you... https://youtu.be/RgKlpDKuoC0
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