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  1. sfGnome
    Well, I passed a major milestone today. Yep, I’ve drilled out my first rivets (not including my practice rivet removal). 😊 Tip to self. When the manual says “put all these parts together”, check the order you’re doing it in so that you don’t make some rivets inaccessible to the gun.
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    Thanks. Yeah, I thought $110 was a bit much for the paint buddy. 🙄 I’ll try various things from Temu.
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    Okay, question for the ‘black gunk’ brains trust. I know that the Paint Buddy has been suggested for applying it, but it appears that it’s no longer in production and I couldn’t find anything similar. My attempts thus far have not been particularly successful. A paintbrush leaves lots of streaks. A roller leaves a mottled surface. A paint pad gives a better finish but can’t get into corners (and still leaves some streaks). Given that you’re painting both mating surfaces, is the level of streaks shown in the photo okay, or does it need to be better? I’m thinking of trying an airbrush, but I don’t know whether the paint will be too thick. Thoughts? p.s. How do you insert a photo in the body rather then having it as an uploaded file that people need to open separately? Pasting doesn’t appear to work for me from an iPad. IMG_3817.HEIC
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    I feel your pain. Coming back to flying in a different plane with a different instructor at a different airfield was quite overwhelming and it took me some time to feel comfortable again. Actually, I still don’t feel comfortable, but it’s getting better. When you’ve got your own plane flying, you’ll be able to fly so much more often that the comfort will return.
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    One of the things I noticed while spending a few hours with an instructor getting my flying restarted (sadly, currently on hold while I recover from an operation on my dominant arm ☹️), was that I should spend more time on the turn to final looking for incoming traffic than the location of the airstrip. I’ve always been totally focused on lining up the airstrip at that point, but I can now see what he was talking about. It’s the other aircraft that you don’t know are there that are the major concern.
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    I got as far as the part where he had to run in with the EAA manager and figured that this is just another case of somebody getting their nose out of joint and now he hates EAA and airventure and everything else because somebody told him he couldn’t do what he wanted. I wonder how he’d go organising something this big?
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    I’d love to know what strengthening and wear protection is built into the wing tips. It reminded me of the stupid things we used to do on push bikes when we were kids and thought we were bulletproof. It’d be so much fun if only there wasn’t the ever-present possibility of a very sharp stop.
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    Is it possible for me to delete a classified ad? It’s a ‘wanted’, but I no longer need the item and there’s not much use in marking it as sold.
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    I have seen it strongly suggested that you should always make your cockpit as similar to everyone else’s as possible, so that other people can fly it without any problems (also helps with selling in the future).
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    I should add that if you don’t like making phone calls (I know I don’t) then the people at RaAus are very nice and helpful on the phone. 🙂
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    RaAus recently published an invitation to apply to fly in to and display RaAus aircraft at Avalon. The only glitch is that you have to be there for the entire period (which may suit your purposes?). Ring RaAus and they’ll fill you in.
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    My home airfield some years ago had two Cessnas on regular rotation with the school there. You could identify which was which by their radios when they made calls. One went “Shhhzzzzzss” and the other went “Crkshckxk”. Never did understand a word they said. 🫤
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    Welcome, Hayden. Looking forward to you joining in the conversations. It’ll be good to have a young voice around. 👋
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    Isn’t it amazing how bad drivers are these days? I mean, when we were young, we were all really good drivers and no one ever got killed in car accidents (I think the weather was always nice back then too).
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    If the problem followed the probe swap, then it shouldn’t be related to the exhaust remodelling. Is it fair to assume that when you swapped the probes, you didn’t swap the wiring at the same time? That precludes noise spikes being picked up by the wires as they didn’t change while the reading did. Hmmm… I join you in your confusion. Out of interest, are the probes simple thermocouples that require correct thermocouple wire all the way back to the meter, or do they have inbuilt electronics so they can just be connected with ordinary wire?
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    I could never get the sucker to suck consistently, so I ended up getting a RAM screw base and bolting it to the panel.
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    Never occurred to me before, but I wonder what the aerodynamic effect of lowering the nose is (on the real Concorde, not the model). Does it just add drag, or are there other effects? Now all we need is an ex-Concorde pilot. 🙂
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    That’s been my experience. 🫤 I will add to my earlier comments that although I was taught “inbound, joining and base” and generally did that for years, I noticed that when I was recently regaining my right to fly, my instructor would also give our position in response to any first call from a ‘new’ aircraft in the area. Given that we have RPT (straight in, very fast) and lots of commercial flights that join on base (aka straight in but with a slight kink so they don’t have to set up 3 miles out), it made a lot of sense to me.
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    Just to clarify, where you talk about etch primer on the rivet lines, you mean on the outside of the skin only (ie not on the inside where the black stuff is)? Does having primer under the rivets stop them from making a tight joint? Could the layer of primer flatten over time and allow the rivets to loosen?
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    Interesting. I was taught that the minimum (minimum sensible, not minimum legal) was a call on joining the circuit, and then on turning base with intentions. Where I’m currently flying, I often hear calls on downwind, base and final. When there’s two or more people doing that, the airwaves get a bit crowded… 🤨
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    Well, look what just landed in my garage… Yep, I’m building a Ventura too (hi Christin! Bruce here). I was watching Grand Designs last night, and the general theme of that episode was that the builder was so focussed on enjoying the build that she wasn’t at all worried about when she was going to finish. I think I can identify with that. 😛
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    I did a trip from Bairnsdale to Cessnock in early January one year. No worries about rain and clouds, but hot as hades, massive turbulence the whole way and dense haze through Sydney. Flying solo, I had no extra pair of eyes, and was utterly exhausted by the time I got to Cessnock. Didn’t fly for a while after that one…
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    The picture of the Wacker tube says ‘silicon’.
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    Without wanting to get involved in this discussion, it’s worth noting that ‘silicon’ is not ‘silicone’. I think you’re talking about two different things.
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    Ok, dumb question time. If all you need for RAA is self declaration that you meet a car license standard, then why do you need to tell them about CASA medicals?
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