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no no jetjr....i have no belief whatsoever that jab will be able to fix the problem... none at all...... if they had have been able to, we wouldnt be in the situation we are currently with their gazillian problems! i think you are correct.... single seat aircraft... not the fantastic trainer they were depicted as!

ok.... i dont have much of an idea when it comes to maintenance, however, i do know how qualified maintainers have to do the work for a training school, to all manuals as stipulated by the engine manufacturer... so any maintenance is done as put out by jabiru, therefor they have no merit in saying its the engineers fault for doing it wrong! As an owner of a jabiru that has had countless problems (some having been caused from the jabiru factory themselves), i believe i have a right to put my two bobs worth in, too. I am certainly not happy about what is happening from the draft.... HOWEVER....... i believe it needed to be done!!! There have been far too many issues ongoing, and not rectified. Jab wash their hands of an overhauled engine after 1 month, and of a brand new engine after 2 months!!! 2 months?????? Ridiculous! Finally something is being done about attempting to have this factory pony up and accept responsibility!

motz....2nd vote was in the 800-1000 bracket. soz. col..... unleaded was meant to say avgas... ran better on 98 than avgas

Yea i did motz. Sorry. Sapphire... I do realsie that. However... I have to say in the experience ive personally had.... It was running avgas that showed up a number of problems. Never had a problem with fouling with the 98 octane tho.....

when my 170 had the failure at 49 hours, it had been run religiously as how Jab specified it should be, when i picked it up. Avgas, maint done at correct times as told to me. Ive found that she ran a little smoother when running on 98 octane fuel than when she was run on unleaded. Im certainly not a Jab basher, I love my plane!! Ive always stood up in their defence quoting average ratios of varying aircraft types and engines, right through Oz, but even im getting to the stage where it just comes down to the question of what else can go wrong with this jab engine!!!

OMG!!!! Read Liz...... i voted for BOTH times i had engine problems!! Ok....so technically my Jab only lasted 49 hours when it had to go back to Bundy, get fiddled with and put back together again. Just putting in the extra note that it has had a second failure to U/S it again :(

hahaha. yyyyeeeeewww!!!!!! see......it IS cute!!!!!!! :)

scott, one thing that might help you learn it a bit better is to study the information, as though you were going to give the lectures yourself. i was never the best at 'study and retention' until i did my instructor rating. i thought i knew as much as there was needed to be known, until it came to a point where i had to be able to present it to a new student, who knew nothing from the beginning, and have them fully understand what it was i was teaching them. if you set out ur study sessions as though you were preparing to explain it to someone else, maybe this might help you learn a little better. even if just a few aspects at a time. hope that helps :) liz

tis a pretty one aint it howy!!!! good to hear u enjoyed the fight wayne :)

congrats solomon‼‼‼‼‼‼‼

Nev...... Because the raa dont have to have as high an aspect of ga pilots., does this mean to say that as instructors, we are well within our righrs to disregard complacency and safety??? We dont fly any different... There should be no reason that the training and checks for raa should be any different to ga. I hold both an raa instructor rating and a ppl.... I still had to teach and perform practise engine failures for raa, as well as perform a practise engine failure to pass my ppl.... Why is it ok to not worry about it? Its not going above ga..... It still needs to be done. As far as being the enforcer type....well if it means that the pilots i train will lead a long and safe flying career...then im happy to be that enforcer type.

Teckair.... The thing that I'm a little concerned about, is the fact that an instructor has chosen to walk away from a pilot, who may not be competent in an important safety aspect of their license. Regardless of whether or not they have been trained by another instructor and only come to you for a flight review..... You are an instructor!!!! Its your JOB to teach these people, already licensed or not, not only to fly an aeroplane. Its also your job, in their flight review, to ensure that they remain safe pilots. How can you justify just washing your hands of a pilot who may be in need of help to keep safe and current, just tell them to practise in their own time knowing full well they probably wont, and then allow them to take a pax, possibly have an engine failure and not be able to land safely because one instructor just couldnt be bothered making sure they fixed an issue that clearly needed fixing. Whdn you're on the stand at the coronors court..... What do you think the family and judge would think of the reasoning that you signed off a BFR even though the aspect that killed a pilot wasnt up to scratch... But you told him to go away and practise it himself.........

I suggest this thread be closed before its used against us.

Im in shock. Sorry guys but teckair, do your job or vacate the seat.

RIP :'(