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  1. Old Koreelah
    Despite having a starting point in better weather west of the range and having a ready-to-use aeroplane, I can’t go. For months I’ve been looking forward to this trip and meeting lots of people, but I have too many projects on. Next Tuesday my camper is booked in for a bleu slip inspection and it’s still a week away from being ready… Our whole family is going camping at Easter, so that has to take priority.
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    A sobering incident; one of our little bugsmackers could kill hundreds of innocent passengers. In the scheme of things, my SkyEcho2 was an inexpensive safety investment. While I totally understand the expension of Ballina’s broadcast area, it now covers my mate’s long flat paddock, where I hoped to someday land my plane- if it ever dries out.
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    Perfect! And nobody in authority has the guts to undo this mess.
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    KG we have lots of spare room if you need a stopover at Quirindi to miss the weather. Might even fit your plane in our hangar.
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    Likewise, T88! Maybe you can usher me past the ASIC police!
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    I’ve booked a ticket, but no longer have an ASIC.
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    The steel roof of my house doesn’t seem to stop its signal either- unless a bit is leaking in via windows. Interesting experiment is to turn SE2 off while tracking an ADSB-2 aircraft on OzRunways. The icon keeps travelling for twenty seconds, then slowly fades away (like an Old Soldier).
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    What’s that ag biplane? Looks to be turbine powered.
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    We are being charged for the maximum weight in our category, not our actual registered weight. A Cherokee and B-747 are both VH registered; does the Cherokee owner get slugged with the same landing fee as the heavy metal? RAA have records of our actual registered weights, but didn’t put it in the data they shared with the Airport owners… and they don’t seem in a hurry to do anything about it. Not happy. So, I will be paying $4.27 (plus GST, total $4.70) the amount we were promised: my registered MTOW X the standard per tonne fee.
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    Our small town’s Shell servo stocks a range of aviation oils; your local might also, if you ask.
  11. Old Koreelah
    Even better: fit an effective muffler to your engine. Makes a big difference. Some little aeroplanes can be heard for miles. I have flown my Jab engine 500’ over neighbours and they haven’t noticed.
  12. Old Koreelah
    Lets take this discussion to the Off Topic site.
  13. Old Koreelah
    Where have all the jets gone? Our skies have been devoid of them recently.
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    Thanks Garfly. Will try those ideas. It came with a suction cup, but I was never a fan of them- ugly, unreliable and block your view. Besides, I have no windows anywhere near flat enough to get a seal. I hope to use the quick-release fitting to mount it somewhere convenient.
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    Went for a fly this morning and took along my new Sky Echo 2. I haven’t set up a mounting bracket, so just dropped it into the storage bin next to my elbow. There’s not enough traffic around to test it out; can anyone tell me if it’s data will pass thru my plywood fuselage?
  16. Old Koreelah
    I’d like to see the world standardise on metrics and driving on the left; two changes the yanks will refuse to make!
  17. Old Koreelah
    Luckily for us, several car manufacturing nations drive on the same side we do: Japan, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Britain….
  18. Old Koreelah
    During The Great War, German gunners had to allow for earth’s rotation as they fired at Paris. The gun was capable of firing a 106-kilogram shell to a range of 130 kilometres and a maximum altitude of 42.3 km  —the greatest height reached by a human-made projectile until the first successful V-2 flight test in October 1942. At the start of its 182-second trajectory,[1]: 33  each shell from the Paris Gun reached a speed of 1,640 m/s (5,904 km/h). The distance was so far that the Coriolis effect—the rotation of the Earth—was substantial enough to affect trajectory calculations. It took about three minutes for each giant shell to cover the distance to the city, climbing to an altitude of 40 km at the top of its trajectory. This was by far the highest point ever reached by a man-made object, so high that gunners, in calculating where the shells would land, had to take into account the rotation of the Earth. For the first time in warfare, deadly projectiles rained down on civilians from the stratosphere. This reduced drag from air resistance, allowing the shell to achieve a range of over 130 kilometres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun
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    Plan ahead; the troglodytes who imposed Miles, Feet and Pounds on the world are rapidly fading from history. Pretty soon a New World Order will consign medieval measure to the museum.
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    Howdy neighbour. Tell us a little about yourself and your flying interest.
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    One source said the second, partly built, one was relocated to Hungary a few years ago.
  22. Old Koreelah
    Our light little planes probably don’t need much pressure; most of our tyres seem designed for much heavier aircraft. As Kiwi says, we need just enought to keep it on the rim and absorb landing jolts. Another bonus is low pressure tyres handle soft ground better.
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    Back to landing fees. Some of us just received out first invoices for landing fees. The bill is considerably higher than we were promised by our local airport owner (the shire council). They assured us that we would be charged a per tonne fee based on the registered weight of our aircraft. For my little single-seater, that would mean about $4.25 per landing. That actual bill is $6.65 plus GST. Spoke to both AvData and RAA and it’s clear that bills are based on our weight category. (19-XXXX is being charged for the maximum weight of 600kg, not our actual weight.) We might have forgiven RAA for breaking their promise to not disclose aircraft owners’ data, but they could at least have also included the actual registered weight, so we pay the correct amount.
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    That’s why they’re called hangars…
  25. Old Koreelah
    Several clever countries have distributed their defence assetts widely; we seem to rely on a few super-expensive imports in easily-targeted locations.
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