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Trading insults is not what this forum is about. I agree with most of what Bex has said. Morrison took this country down a dangerous road that we are now trying to repair. Youtube sensationalist videos should be taken with a grain of salt till details are verified. The problem is often they never are, so the protagonists get away with it because it suits the narrative of those who support it. China is the worlds factory and produce some of the best products available today, EVs being one of such. There are over 300 EV manufacturers in China making more that 700 different models. China is now the world leader in battery technology. Their platforms are now being used by European EV manufacturers. Battery development to market is occurring at an astonishing rate in China & CATL, the worlds largest battery manufacturer & BYD will be putting sodium batteries in cars this year so if you were thinking of investing in Lithium mines in Australia you may be in for a surprise.

No, both IOS and Android are operating systems and both were originally based on Unix. Both generate GUI (graphical user interface) and commands using gestures. The main difference is that IOS is proprietary and only Apple products can use it. Android is Open Source so the code can be modified by hardware manufacturers & each hardware manufacturer can have a different flavour of the same version. That said it does not alter the functionality of the standard version, they just add stuff to it to try and out perform competitors. When a new version of Android is released phone makers like Samsung, Xaiomi and the other hundreds of brands add their bits to it and they create apps that need their extra functionality. Other App creaters will ensure that their app runs on the standard version so it will run on any brand of android smartphone using that version. Apple make sure they have control to keep prices high and they keep preaching to the converted who often have an almost fanatical loyalty to Apple even though there are plenty of Android phones that are equal or better and a lot less expensive. So Oz runways are telling porkies because they don't have the expertise or development expertise in Android. I have an iPhone SE (2022 model) provided by SES. My own personal phone is a 2017 LG G6 (bought in 2019 for $270.00) The G6 was ranked as the best flagship smartphone available when it was released but LG now don't make smartphones. It is still a great phone now and runs rings around the iPhone SE. Ozrunways need to smarten up ther act because not everyone is going to continue to buy expensive iPads when there are hundreds of Android tablets available with better features for half the price.

Last time I was at Warwick it was pretty cruisy. They have model aircraft & gliders operating & the fencing was very basic (only farm 7 wire fence around most sides) & no gates so ASIC is unlikely to be an issue. LF is $12.00 & parking $12.00 a day after the first 24 hours.

We are about to instal weather cams at South Grafton through Auswebcams. If power is available as well as internet access all you need is a 2 camera system costing $200.00. Annual cost is only data so about $50.00 in subsequent years. If no internet is available you will also need a router, & mobile SIM card & the cost of data upload. Total cost for year 1 is about $440.00 & subsequent years about $200.00. If no power is available you will have to add solar panels and a battery. Cameras/router can run on mains power or 12 volt DC. Photos are uploaded every 6 minutes and are live on Ozrunways, Auswebcams website and Windy. Windy also has a historic stream of the past 24 hours so you can see the weather change data overthat time in a few seconds

I believe that Ozrunways was developed with Apples IOS and the conversion to Android that is called RWY for Android has not been done that well nor is it fully functional. IOS is Apples proprietory tool and while it is good, costs are continuous so everyone pays and pays. Android is Open Source and you can modify it as required and there are no continuous costs. Apple even tried to build in redundancy so you were forced to upgrade when they made older versions of IOS to slow down. Of course iPads are also good quality but expensive. I believe that the Android version of AVplan works well. AVplan is generally preferred by GA pilots. I don't use either. There are a lot of good tablets available for Android. I bought a Teclast P20HD (8GB/64GB now superceded) on line for $180.00 & it is excellent & I have a 256GB SD card in it & have all my documentation & photos on there & room for tons of stuff. iPads cannot be upgraded and do not have card slots.

There are many theories put forward by all sorts of people some with qualifications that on the face of gives their opinion a measure of authenticity. Over 95% of the worlds scientific community agree that climate change and impending catastrophe if not adressed will change the planet so that life as we currently enjoy it will be something of the past. I have not found any that say everything is fine and we have nothing to be concerned about other than those few who have some odd concepts that do not tie in with any verifyable data. After thorough investigation and analysis their theories are always completely debunked. Human need for the resources of the planet to satisfy the ever increasing consumer lifestyle we live is unsustainable. We have used most of the fossil fuel that took more than 3 billion years to create in less than 400 years and pumped all the waste into the atmosphere the land and the oceans. Many continue in their denial and that is their right but it does not give any credence to their opinions especially when they have no verifiable evidence to back those opinions up.

Entrepeneurs keep on striving for never ending growth even though throughout the ages they eventually crash and burn. Environmental damage has not abated even though we know that global temperatures are rising and all the agreements to date have failed. The 1.5 degrees increase by 2100 has well gone and 2 degrees is now unlikely. We will all be dead when it all happens but some may be around to see the tipping point to global catastrophe. There are now over 8 billion of us. There were 2.5 billion when I was born. Growth is slowing but will reach around 11 billion before starting to retract. We have the capacity to deal with it and save civilisation as we know it but eternal greed and quick money over rules sensibility and always has.

An oil cooler is just a radiator heat exchanger. The number of rows, cooling fin size and design, materials used, quality of manufacture, flow rate and weight are all significant issues from an aviation perspective and of course physical dimensions for your build. I chose a 7 row Positech often used in RVs Lancairs etc. It is quite thick and is at the bottom of the firewall with its own NACA duct intake. Works great. Oil temp never gets over 90 deg C even on hot days. I can't remember the cost but it wasn't cheap.

Trevor Jacobs had his licence cancelled by the FAA last year and has pleaded guilty to lying about the aircraft engine failing, staging the aircraft crash, illegally recovering the wreckage and disposing of it. He is facing up to 20 years in Jail.

Does "Northern Australia" double for "Northern Territory" because there is no such named region. AFAIK Northern Australia contains all of NT and QLD & WA above 26 deg South.

So the rudder failed, that is an inconvenience but the aircraft is still fully controllable. All of a sudden there is no resistance on the pedals so the effect is stuff all on the ability of the aircraft to continue to fly albeit a bit out of balance depending on throttle and attitude. Mentally though it has likely thrown a curve ball in to the pilots brain and things start to get out of control from there.

Remember in this situation the young pilot was reportedly at 100 feet and at 78 knots with 25 deg of flap so getting rid of the flap straight away at full power would be the best option. Just put the nose down a bit and fly away. Plenty of speed and altitude & now much less drag. I only flew a 140 twice but from comments here power does not seem to be a major problem but with added drag & high attitude there would be a lot less grunt available than in my old Archer 2.

The battery life is supposed to be 12 hours per charge. I waited for the battery light to go yellow which is 66% of charge before I recharged the first time. I can't remember now how many flights/hours I did but it seemed a long time. Now I just charge it up about once a month as recommended & the charge has never got to 66% since. You can check the state of charge by connecting your phone via wifi & enter 192.168.4.1/stats in your browser. For a club aircraft it will run all day without a problem so just stick it on charge every night like most people do with their phones. You can probably charge the batteries at least 1000 times. My LG G6 phone was new in 2018 & still holds charge for a day & it is charged every night. The SE2 has LG batteries.

Proxy votes in any contested issue are fraught with possible problems. Members get coerced in to making a proxy vote on an issue they know little or nothing about often with devastating consequences. In NSW the Associatoons Incorporation Act was changed in 2009 and made proxy voting illegal unless specifically detailed in the constitution. Most organisations no longer have proxy voting so you must attend a meeting and vote personally.

Some sort of auto power off sounds like a good option. My Spot tracker has this. If it detects no GPS activity in 1 hour it automatically switches off to conserve battery life. I forgot to turn it off once and it tracked me all the way home in the car even though it was in the centre console with the lid shut so it must have been getting enough GPS signal diagonally through the windscreen plus the salellites were in good positions that day..

I am surprised that it can take 10 minutes to get a GPS fix on your SE2. It took quite a while to get a fix the first time I used mine after configuration as the setup instructions stated but since then no more that about 3 minutes even after it has not been used for more than a week

At 70-80 knots its aileron that is going to counter the left turn even with the 25 deg of flap. The rudder will just keep it balanced. If there is no rudder then there will be obvious yaw but speed must then deteriorate rapidly for that to turn in to a major control loss and that may have been due to the climb angle of attack and 25 deg of flap drag. Inexperience and the WTF factor will very easily get in the way of the basic function of dumping flap. I am sure this could happen to anyone no matter how experienced they are as well. As an example a few weeks ago when a Mooney pilot lost his engine on climb out at less than 1000 feet, a successfull wheels up landing was made. He said to me that in thousands of landings his final mneumonic was "green fine flap" for 3 greens wheels down, full fine pitch, and flap to landing configuration, but he didn't do that, nor did he switch the electric fuel pump on. He could not explain why. All he wanted to do was miss the houses and trees which he did successfully & that occupied his brain to the exclusion of everything else. I can't understand why those ingrained things failed him but they did and I am sure it could happen to any of us. I guess we only find out how we react when it happens to us for real.

He had 2 notches of flap (25 degrees) so this would have affected the performance of the 140. They are underpowered anyway (even the 160 HP Warrior is marginal IMO) so he needed to dump the flap which in a PA 28 with the manual flap takes all of 1 second. You don't need much rudder in a PA28 at any time so I don't think it is much of a factor. He reported being at 100 feet at 90mph (78 knots) so had plenty of speed at that point. Maximum recommended speed with 25 deg of flap in a 140 is 80mph or 69.5 knots so he had too much speed at that point for the flap deployed. There is no logic to the left bank other than the pilot going full power with 25 deg of flap & pulling the yoke back to gain height which wasn't going to happen with all that flap drag, getting close to stall and losing control. Sounds like some serious training inadequacies to me. Note that normal takeoff flap for a 140 is 0 degrees & 2 notches for short/soft field (which he'd most likely never encountered. That accident would never have happened if there was a properly trained normal pilot at the controls.

Now if the IFR traffic had ADSB in they would have seen R75** and ATS would not need to intervene. When ADSB out was mandated they should have also mandated In as well. OK additional cost but short sighted as it will be more expensive to instal it later.

And during the American civil war they had to close all the airports. It's true, Donald Trump said so.

Well it was in America.

I did my initial training at a controlled airport. There were about 4 international flights a day and 20 or so RPT. Helicopter training and instrument approach training plus the Aero Club with its 2 x 152, 3 x 172s, 2 x PA28-181s & a twin Comanche. There were 3 full time instructors (CFI + 2) & about 12 part time. Everything was easy as with ATC using binoculars, radio and the old ticket system. Then in the 90s a British Flight Training company called CTC arrived & built a dormitory, offices & hangars & eventually had 40 odd Diamond DA20s & 40s operating. The controllers were very busy at times but it all worked well but it did mean a lot more orbits at different times for sometimes several aircraft when a Saab, ATR, 737 or A32O was on the way. Everything worked and I can't remember any situations occurring. This is over the top for somewhere like Cowra but maybe there is a case for CA/GRS that has been in place at Ballina for a few years now. A tower is planned for Ballina so then the CA/GRS will disappear. It would mean improved safety and situational awareness but would add landing fees.

I can't believe that people seemingly think this whole issue is in any way reasonable. I don't know of anywhere else in the world where such archaic and contradictory rules exist. It is overdue by about 50 years that such stupid restrictions were removed for something that resembles common sense.

Uavionix at $1,070.00 inc GST & freight is the best price. Next best is Mendelssonn at $1,095.00 plus freight & then OzRunways at $1,195.00 inc freight.

I have a bubble canopy so the GPS reception is good but have had the unit fall off a couple of times when I put it on a place with a bit much curve. None of the bubble is perfectly flat but it will deal with a slight curve. In NZ the CAA won't allow them to be mounted with a suction cup. It is important to keep the cup clean & dust free and also the place you choose to put it. Don't moisten it or it won't hold.