Stewy

No worries anytime no guarantees on room but there usually is and that goes for anyone happy to help if I can hate seeing planes in the weather if there is a better option

Had of known you were in swan hill Alf ya could of slapped her in my hangar for the night sounds like a great trip

Nup but plenty of room if I felt the urge

I own my own hangar and think the benefits outweigh the costs for me I used to have my plane in a shared hangar and it cost me bugger all but the thought of damaging someone else’s plane or even worse to me would be to get accused of damaging it and not having done so used to give me an uneasy feeling. I built my hangar for MY convenience and MY piece of mind. I like to shoot out to the airport after work on a nice evening and just go for a fly if I feel like it ( the joys of county living and a close airport ) where as before my plane would be behind others and it just felt to hard for what I wanted to do (20 min moving planes for 30 mins flying ) lazy maybe. I have plenty of room 15m x 15m hangar for a J160 Jab, can even do the run ups in there if I want and no other planes rent any space and I don’t want them on a full time basis either for the same reasons mentioned above. Plus I refuse to take out insurance for other people’s planes in my hangar for the same reason Poteroo states above its to bloody expensive for the return to me. It may not suit everyone to own there own hangar but for me it is worth the expense for convenience and piece of mind. Regards Stewy

Thanks for the replies Was looking at Moorabbin as it is close to Monash uni where I have to take son for a course he is giving a go Will send a pm wif I can work out how Stewy

Hi Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations for training out of Moorabbin I have a few days to kill and in Melbourne in a couple of weeks and would like to do the controlled airspace etc endorsement on my RPL if I can fit it in Regards Stewy

Yes there is a shuttle bus running I believe don't know the times though but I believe that it will be running all day I'll be hanging around the airport on an off so call and say g'day have just finished building new hangar on west side of taxi way so if doors open call in anyone welcome Regards Stewy

I bet Cliff was happy to see you put yourself forward for the trip . That little plane has caused him a few headaches over the last year or so. Glad to see you had a good trip with it I remember asking him about it and him telling of the tail wheel trouble Regards Stewy

Yep it was government funded it was to increase the pavement strength I believe but they stopped 200 meters short on 26 for some reason Spoons is a nice spot for a coffee and feed Stewy

Not far from here then New runway is fine waste of money though if you ask me Give us a call if down this way Regards Stewy

Hi Totenhofer What part of the Mallee you in I fly out of swan hill can't be far away Regards Steph

Novus polish works well can use with a electric buff if you want make sure it variable speed though and start slow If it is polycarbonate like head lights are made of you can use wet and dry starting at 600 and work your way to 2000 and then use fine polish to finish Stewy

Hi All Just wondering if anyone knows where to buy and Vogels Ipad Mini mount from. I have one for my full size Ipad but stuffed if I can remember where I purchased it from and don't seem to be able to track one down from my old mate Google. Thanks Stewy

No worries Kaz might be around the airport will call over and say g'day if I come across you I will be in a J160. Hope you have a great day I have commitments with the kids after lunch otherwise I would be there myself Stewy

What time you planing to arrive might be able to give you a lift to town if required. Will depend on time and kids but it might work Regards Stewy

They are the ones but I think you will find that they will not fit the nose wheel Price is about right you could go to local tyre shop and ask if they deal with tyre and tube company and it might save you the postage etc. have the part number at work if you need it Regards Stewy

I assume that you are looking for the Trelleborg 140 x 6 10ply tyres for the mains? I can get them for you but they would be expensive by the time I sent them up to you Let me know if you need any more help Regards Stewy

Hi All Am considering doing my PPL and was wondering who people would recommend as we have none in Swan Hill doing GA training. I believe that there are facilities in Deniliquin, Bendigo and Mildura that are about my closest for convenience. Has anyone had any experience with any of them good or bad. Thanks Stewy

You should be able to just right click on it and then hit save as. Rename the file if you like so it makes sense to you then tell it where you want to save it to Could make a folder for SB's for future ones Hope that helps Regards Stewy

Not that I know of kaz but you can always give me a call and I will pick you up for the $100 breaky/lunch if you like couple of nice cafés etc in town Stewy

Yeh that would be the one around between the hangers Should provide plenty of fun shame I had other commitments over the weekend would have loved to stayed and looked over all the old planes and mingled on sat arvo Have to catch up over shep one day Stewy

Thursday took commercial flight to Bundaberg to pick up my new (second hand ) plane J160. Met the little fella on the tarmac Thursday night and introduced myself as his new owner and gave him a brief run down of what was expected of him :-) The rules were quite simple as I explained to him all that was required was to be sweet running, fun loving none gas guzzling little plane and we would get along just fine! After looking over my new friend and playing with all his fancy buttons on his fancy glass panel I let him have a good nights sleep ready for our first big adventure together. Awoke Friday morning to calm skies and hoped that my new friend had slept better than me, I must have been a bit excited :-). Got my forecasts etc @ 4.30am and updated flight plane and walked to the airport to see how 24-7019 had slept. Upon arrival I found him raring to go so gave him a good check over and headed to the fuel bowser to fill him up. One final check of fuel etc and we took to the skies at 6.22am for the 304nm trip to Moree, Nice smooth conditions cruising at 2500 and getting about 110kts with nice tail wind. Climbed to 4500 over the ranges and some low scattered cloud still maintaining about 110kts with visibility reduced by what looked like smoke haze. Landed in Moree at 9.22am and refueled the tanks and then went and emptied mine and got the cockpit re organised. Departed Moree for the 170nm trip down to Warren climbing to 4500ft again as we headed over the Piliga scrub and back to about 90 kts as we found a head wind for what would be the rest of the trip home. Started to get a few bumps after Moree as the plains started to heat up but nothing to bad and cruised down to Warren arriving at about 12.00pm for another bladder relief stop and stretch of the legs. After giving 7019 a pat of encouragement to keep up the good work we departed for the 118nm leg to Lake Cargelligo, with bladder feeling fine at that stage decided to over fly and continue the 107nm to Hay. With the benefit of hind site a stop would have been good as the bladder was we and truly full by Hay :-( Coming into Hay I started to get a low oil pressure alarm on the Dynon which woke me up and took my mind off the full bladder problem that was for sure. Landed in Hay and check had a good look over and could see nothing wrong, trying to check oil I could not get the dip stick to undo due to it being a bit cramped for my hand in the oil inspection lid and the cap being a bit tight due to it being hot. Decided to remove cowl and have a good look just to be sure anyhow and checked oil to find it slightly down so added oil to bring up to the right level. Departed Hay for the final 80nm leg home to Swan Hill after checking oil pressure alarm was all good and flew the final leg home with no problems. My home being on the flight path in I gave the mandatory fly over to let the kids know dad was back at continued to the airport. Giving a 3 mile final call for a straight in approach for 22 and lined up to see about 25 planes on the ground for the Antiquers' Spring Flyin I thought shit I hope they are not all watching :-), proceeded to produce a pretty fair landing and me and my new best mate were home. All in all we spent 10 hours together for the day and had a great flight, could not have asked for better conditions really for the distance traveled. Here is the GPS data Duration: 10:02:59 Distance: 1,479.5 km Minimum Latitude: 35°22'30.37" S Maximum Latitude: 24°53'31.48" S Minimum Longitude: 143°32'26.78" E Maximum Longitude: 152°20'10.25" E Average Speed: 92.7 knots Minimum Speed: 43.5 knots Maximum Speed: 117.7 knots Average Altitude: 3,343 ft Minimum Altitude: 7.9 ft Maximum Altitude: 4,773 ft It was a long and tiring day but a lot of fun as well Stewy

Paper version I still like, can't come to grips with reading a mag on the iPad yet it just isn't the same. Although the idea of video does appeal a lot if we could make good instructional or educational type videos Best part of the paper mag is they stay around for a long time, I just cleaned out the cupboard at home and sent all my old mags to my sons primary school library, so who knows what might come of some young mind reading on of them in the future.

I think it had done roughly 300 hrs from a top end overhaul Oscar. He was only changing the oil every 50hrs though I believe I have not sited the log book etc

The valve that broke did have signs of wear on the shaft where I looks like scratching so to speak, I assume residue from the avgas, along with the pitting that you describe Dafydd. The rest of them in the other heads were all ok apparently but I am no expert only my opinion from viewing the offending head and helping take photos etc of it. Stewy