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  1. Moneybox
    Wow, great work. I'd like to have gone down this path twenty or thirty years ago. I started motor body building in WA just over forty years ago when I had stamina like you guys. This type of project would have been right up my alley. I love your work.
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    A couple of testers quoted vibration free idle at 600 rpm on a Rotax 912ULS. That's 1/2 to 1/3 of the recommended rpm.
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    My Sportstar has the airbox behind both carburettors and one hose, perhaps 65mm leading down low at the rear about level with the bottom of the engine. The single airfilter is mounted to the firewall near the oil cooler. I think it would most likely draw cooler air down there.
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    In the tests I've watched it seemed to make a noticeable difference at very low revs.
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    That's about as confusing as all the acronyms I try to decipher now.
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    Meet Ripper. It already has a name and we haven't seen it yet. I've just organised the freight..... 😀
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    Right now I'm negotiating a grader, way to big for what I need but the price is acceptable. I know where there are quite a few rusted down 200L drums of tar/bitumen but I've never worked it so I think it would require heating to have it fluid and then find a way to spray it. There'd be enough to coat a runup bay.
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    Yes I know what I need but I don't know if I can easily get my hands on one. The guy who is two doors down, the closest to the airstrip, was the shire grader driver for many years. He was the first person I told I was going to build the airstrip. There were two reasons, to hear any hint of an objection and to see if he put his hand up to borrow the shire loader and operate it. I didn't get either but he would be the man for the job when I get to that point. In the worst case I'll do my best with a front end loader and then build a land plane from old railway line and drag it with the loader but it would be a battle. Never mind it's a long way off and I'm not the person to plan ahead beyond tomorrow or perhaps the end of the week.
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    Thanks, the grader might be a problem but no problems getting the sand, I have plenty. The fall is no problem as I am constructing it across a slope so there's a natural fall that I'll have to correct on the runway. Lots of material needed across a half a kilometer to level it and I can't cart it all in a 2m bucket. I could turn my truck into a tipper but the Hiab crane would be a problem. Perhaps I could take a sneak look at Smith Broughton auction while Mrs M is not looking 😉. I'm pretty sure I could borrow a little dump truck but I don't like lending or borrowing anything mechanical.
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    No fences out here. There are a few low shrubs and more than a kilometer to the nearest power lines. No trouble getting that 90° run-up bay at each end. It all comes down to how much dirt I can move. I need to get my hands on a tipper or dump truck because most of my dirt is a few hundred metres away on the next lease.
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    I can only fit 500m in length between two dirt roads/tracks. and that boundary of my lease is only just over 500m anyway. It's all gold prospecting leases anyway so no infrastructure nearby. The closest is my shed about 100m to the southern side. If we dig the gold that is meant to be down there I'll surely improve the amenities. Drilling shows many thousands of ounces down there but I keep reminding my self I'm retired. I should be processing the dirt under the strip. If anybody wants to dig big holes let me know. We have gold but most of it is beyond my reach. https://www.mindat.org/loc-265149.html Cue-1, one of the many gold mines on this lease.
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    There's a big black one just up the road for you 🤣
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    How wide do I need an airstrip? This is a measurement of the pipes using my phone. Did I mention I need a plumber?
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    I'm having trouble accepting it now 😒 I had a pipe dream last night... This morning I put it into action. I think I have enough for 2 x 8" pipes side by side for about 30m on each drain across the airstrip.
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    CASA clearly state 'No electronic devices are to be used for Pilot test in Australia'. No, you cannot use a CX-3 flight computer in your RAAus pilot test as it is not approved by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) for use in Australian aviation exams, including RAAus pilot tests; meaning you will not be allowed to use it during your test.
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    Well I'm definitely not going to get the audience excited... Now onto something different. I'm going to need a flight computer, if not to navigate certainly to pass the written test. I spotted the CX-3 and got excited but a friend told me 'No electronic aids during the test'. So back to the EB6. Are all brands equal? Is there good and bad or best?
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    I'm tired of chasing the meaning of acronyms in all this paper work the feed us. Yesterday I printed out 28 pages of acronyms and their meanings. Today I find one that's not on the list. PILOT CERTIFICATE FLIGHT TEST 9. Prior to a Student or Converting Pilot being recommended for the issue of a Pilot Certificate, they will be required to undertake a flight test with a CFI (or higher approval holder when assigned by the HFO). The Student or Converting Pilot will satisfactorily demonstrate to the CFI their competence to control the aircraft in accordance with the RAAus Syllabus of Flight Training. What is a HFO?
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    I'm envious. I didn't even have to build mine, only fix it and I'm still running behind. The adventure begins 🙃
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    I'm not training until I get my plane in the air. It'll save me at least $150 p/hr and I'm better off knowing my own plane. I was ready to go solo but I'll be a bit rusty by the time I get back.
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    It just shows you can't get away with doing the wrong thing up their. Out flight trainer can be sitting back at his desk keeping track. Whoever it is has had the circuit to themselves until now. Another plane has just turned onto the runway.
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    I just spotted one of out training aircraft doing circuits. Pretty tidy of his turns, definitely not me 😉
  22. Moneybox
    Today was another uncomfortably hot day. I just feel like sleeping it away but forced myself outside for a couple of hours working on the carport. I realised the other night, when I should have been sleeping, that I need to find some pipe. The proposed airstrip has a couple of natural gullies heading in from the north. If I just level out an airstrip it won't last beyond the first downpour. So when the day heated up I jumped into Tonka and cut a couple of trenches across the strip. I was going to use Zimba, the little CAT excavator but it would be slow work and I'd be in the open air, no AC. I can't get any deeper without a heavier machine or a jackhammer so I think there's going to be a lot a fill. I budgeted for my lessons and plane but it never stretched to building an airstrip so now I'm searching for abandoned pipes for drainage.
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    Karratha airport may have been closed due to the trajectory of Tropical Cyclone Sean.
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    That may be true but they might have all got the same weather report. https://youtu.be/u0QxS1GBlB4 From Karratha it headed west then south following the coast but out to sea.
  25. Moneybox
    The temperature is interesting. I don't know where it gets that info?
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