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  1. old man emu
    "Hid the gun in the woods" To me it looks like the plane landed in a ploughed field whose boundary was a thin line of wind break trees. If you are going to tell porkies, put some meat in the pie.
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    Six months' wait for a reply from CASA!!! I should be so lucky. My annual medical is likely to expire before CASA sends whatever it sends relating to my 2023 medical. If CASA had an office in the Amazon, the staff would be knocked over by racing sloths.
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    I wonder of the Class 2 medical they are referring to is the Basic Class 2. MY Basic Class 2 medical cost me $150, but at the same time I got my heavy vehicle Fitness to Drive medical. Time for the conversion might be quite short if you normally fly a 24- Jabiru , but can use a VH- Jabiru to do what is not required for n RAAus Pilot Certificate.
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    Don't think that'll buff out. Too bad you can't see the starboard engine, cause the port one was working. Note the direction the fence posts have been knocked down. The plane has come in from the left side of the picture, on its belly and the port wing has clipped a tree. That made it rotate about 180 degrees and the nose must have hit another tree. Who's backing the idea that the starboard engine quit?
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    Back in my youth, our lawn mower did not have any physical method for stopping the engine other than the earthing tag over the spark plug. If you have been "bitten" by ignition current you soon look for another way. My parents taught me to turn off the fuel and let the engine run out of it. Nowadays there is no tap in the fuel line, so we use the throttle adjustment which somehow does the job. Is it that modern small motor carbies don't have fuel bowls? All the regulations seem to be aimed a dealing with large volumes of fuel. Those for the small amounts we deal with (up to 200 litre drums) are hard to find. I got this from an article for caravaners Any containers you need must be loaded, secured, segregated, transported and unloaded safely. Containers must be fit for the purpose of transporting dangerous goods and not be altered or damaged. You can only carry a total of 250L of fuel in jerry cans and 50L of LPG or two 9kg gas cylinders. This site outlines the Regs for each State https://www.rveethereyet.com/it-is-illegal-to-carry-fuel-on-the-back-of-my-van/ It seems that 250 litres is the standard. It would seem that one drum of fuel would be the limit in a hangar, but a bulk store would be OK if it was outside and protected from the Elements.
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    Mogas or Avgas storage. These two liquids are potentially dangerous. Therefore each State sets its own rules on how much petrol can be stored in enclosed spaces, or outside. The rules also dictate the way in which storages (drums, tanks etc) are constructed. Then there is the question of decomposition if stored fuel and the effects of decomposition on engine performance. It's a wide field for discussion, so go for it.
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    Not to be a nark, but this thread has gone way, way off the original topic. That's not to say that what is currently being discussed is not worthwhile of itself. So what if we return this thread to the original topic, but carry on the fuel storage topic elsewhere?
  8. old man emu
    Talking of engine reliability, if you follow the development of very many piston-engined aircraft that either made the grade of fell by the wayside, very often you will find that in those that fell aside, the airframe was OK for purpose, but the complete package was let down by unreliable and sometimes dangerous engines. Even the venerated Rolls Royce Merlin went through a lot of development over the years. And who speaks of the Rolls Royce engines that were so bad that they hardly made it as boat anchors? Rolls Royce weren't Robinson Crusoe in the engine game.
  9. old man emu
    WHERE'S YOUR ENTRY? There's a mob of Benalla and Deniliquin blokes coming. What about you who live a bit closer? Email me at [email protected] for the Information Package.
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    That's my biggest problem - no servo in Toora. However, I've organised it so that if you have your own container, and you give us the money for the fuel (at that day's pump price), we will go to the servo in Gilgandra with the new tanks and fill the container for you. We might have a few 20 litre approved jerry cans to lend. We'll just ask for a few dollars to pay for the fuel used in our vehicle. That way we are simply acting as your servant and we don't bear liability for the quality of the fuel. A bit like getting UberEats to deliver your Macca's. When you are submitting your entry form, you will be asked if you require Mogas 98. On another matter - we have arranged with the local show society to use their shower facilities. We will take you from the aerodrome and back and all you have to do is give a donation to the show society.
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    Mogas can be sourced from a servo that had its underground storage tanks replaced not long before Christmas 2022, and also the pumping system was replaced. The fuel from this source would probably be as clean as any fuel coming out of the suppliers' terminals in Sydney. We are also negotiating for the supply of Avgas.
  12. old man emu
    Ya need water for them, mate! But just in case we'll give 'em the Flick.
  13. old man emu
    Jealous of what? Oh Yes! Jealous of John Taru's skill and experience.
  14. old man emu
    An extra interest for those attending: It will be the New Moon over the weekend of the 20th May. That means that the night sky will just about be at its darkest. Tooraweenah is located in a Dark Sky Park. This means that there is no light pollution from cities, so the night sky looks like this: I am going to ask the people from the nearby Siding Springs observatory to prepare a presentation to be given to those staying over on Saturday night. Come and meet Dhinawan, the emu in the sky who tells a lot of information about securing a food source at the right time of year. For example, when the emu reaches its first full appearance in the sky (where the head down to the body can be seen above the horizon), it is said to be the mating season of the emu. As eggs are laid, this was the time of year for the Gomeroi people to gather the eggs as a food source. Dhinawan's head is what Europeans call the dark nebula known as the Coal Sack, which resides in the Southern Cross.
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    Tall poppy syndrome? I was talking t the owner of a C-182 on the weekend and talking about the cost on maintenance. I asked him how many hours his aircraft did in the last year. He told me 30. A flying school Jab, if he weather is good, will easily do that in a week and a half, so every 20 days or so it gets at least and oil change. How many other aircraft sit for months with the oil draining off the top end and slowly decomposing in the sump?
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    That plane was one of John's babies. He poured a lot of effort into maintaining it.
  17. old man emu
    There are very few facts in this whole story. It's more like a Tik-Tok than anything else.
  18. old man emu
    Yeah, "team". Implies a group working together for a common goal. Or is it a case of "many hands make the light labour"?
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    Time and time again, we have this complaint from our end of the aviation spectrum. But what do we do about it? Moan in places like this. What is needed is for those at the grassroots to take positive action. What about a massive campaign against this false news. Write letters of complaint to the broadcasters and any relevant government agency. Why not threaten these media outlets with litigation for telling the public untruths? The squeaky wheel gets the oil. We can only change the media's methods by being that wheel and squeaking and squealing.
  20. old man emu
    What? Flew them hard and often 'til they broke?
  21. old man emu
    John is probably the most experienced pilot who uses The Oaks. He flies there in all sorts of weather, and a sou'wester is pretty much the prevailing wind. Anyone who learns to fly at The Oaks can soon gets to be able to land into a crosswind tornado. If he attained circuit height he would have the ability to turn around. The Jab he was flying was one of the very early ones and aren't they very light with good glide performance? KG, according to the student, the plane clipped a tree and rotated to end up facing south.
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    That was my thought, too. Exactly!!!!! Those of us who know John would know that he would be capable of putting that Jab down anywhere he wanted to. Going by the attitude of the shit in the left seat, I'd say the argument was, 'My money. My plane." Geez I've messed up my reporting here. This is the weather at Camden on the 30th. Looks like there had been consistent generally westerly winds all day, so they would have been taking off in a generally southerly direction with a crosswind from the right. No doubt the truth of the matter will come out in Court when this bloke is suing John and Dave's Flying School. He'd be just the sort to do it.
  23. old man emu
    Time travellers!!!! The Steward is taking a selfie for the group.
  24. old man emu
    I reckon so I'd say stripped and dumped.
  25. old man emu
    I got it wrong. From the video it appears that they came down at the other end
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