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  1. gandalph
    I did and I do. Do you have a point you're trying to make?
  2. gandalph
    1. Who is the biggest player? 2 How is that figure determined?
  3. gandalph
    "Negligence" ? Where does negligence come into it? Hyperinflating the issue again are you?
  4. gandalph
    You may be right. I hope our hypothetical instructor wasn't posting about the risk in public forums like this one over the last couple of years though.
  5. gandalph
    But wasn't our hypothetical instructor aware of that level of risk before the letter? And wasn't that same instructor sending his/her students solo before the letter while aware of the risk? I keep coming back to how does the publishing of the letter increase the level of risk? Is the sky REALLY falling?
  6. gandalph
    The queue starts to the left, please take a ticket and wait until called to the counter.
  7. gandalph
    The text in blue is my response to Merv, not Merv's quote. Just clarifying
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    Merv, if I'd been happy enough to send her up in one for all those hours while she gained appropriate training from an instructor that I trusted then I see no reason why I wouldn't allow her to continue. If her instructor said she was ready, then I would trust that she ready. I seem to recall my instructor nagging me: "Where would you put it down if the engine failed now?" He would pull the throttle on the way to the training area, on the way back from the training area, in the training area, on the turn downwind, 200ft in the air after takeoff etc, etc. But after what seemed like hundreds of hours he decided I was safe enough to go solo even with what must have been a very unreliable engine in that C150. I imagine you do the same to your poor students. Did you ever say to them: "You're ready to go solo but but not in the Jabiru we've been training in, it's just not safe?"
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    Nev, Ian Bent had on display at Temora a device which injected a mist of oil into the cylinders as the engine was being shut down to aid in inhibiting the engine. Seems like a very sensible mod and one which I will be fitting to my engine.
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    My level of displeasure, if it were my engine (irrespective of brand) , might depend on how those hours were achieved and over what span of months/years. If I was flying 3 or 4 hours a week my anger level would be much higher than if I was flying 1 or 2 hours a month. Whether I had adequately inhibited between layovers it and whether I had refreshed the fuel might also have something to do whether I was more p!ssed with the engine or or with myself for unsympathetic operation of the engine
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    Good idea, but be careful, CASA could be watching just waiting to pounce
  12. gandalph
    You mean along the lines of "CASA, please investigate them, but please, oh! please don't investigate us." ? Sorry FT but that genie has already been let out of the bottle.
  13. gandalph
    No he doesn't FT . He should, and he has, given a factual account of HIS experience with His engine. He shouldn't even try to address the "40 odd" incidents because he most likely doesn't have factual information on the cause of those incidents similarly to many other posters in this forum. Note that I called them incidents not engine failures because that it the terminology that CASA and the RAA have used. It removes some of the hyperbole that others have tried ti introduce to this discussion. More light and less heat would be useful . Intriguing but pointless is a charge that could be laid against so many of the posts in this forum.
  14. gandalph
    Not me.
  15. gandalph
    Have they, Deadstick, or are you just paraphrasing? I don't recall seeing any admissions of that kind in any of the communications from Jabiru. Can you provide a link please?
  16. gandalph
    Wait a minute Merv! I though you said a while back that you would be Jab's new Sales Manager and the best one they ever had. Changed your mind already?
  17. gandalph
    So we have a second cross-dresser as a member now.....
  18. gandalph
    Really!? That's not been my experience as an officer of the Court for the last 15 years or so.
  19. gandalph
    Nobody does Turbs, nobody does. Though I'd be careful about accusing fellow a forumite of being a predator. Kinda goes against the "be nice to everyone here - or else" and the Mods are already flat out.
  20. gandalph
    I wonder why you are still trailing this one through this thread Turbs? Hardly relevant to issues at hand. A very tenuous link indeed.
  21. gandalph
    I respectfully request that Ross offer some substantiated proof of his allegation. (edited - Mod)
  22. gandalph
    Bex, you are so funny you crack me up. Sometimes.
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  24. gandalph
    Well....... Not much detail but certainly discussed at length.
  25. gandalph
    Thanks Turbs, Good advice is hard to come by.
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