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  1. Old Koreelah
    …and lose one of Jabiru’s advantages: ease of repair. Many Jabs have been repaired in this country after prangs that would have resulted in a Carbon airframe being written off- or returned to Europe for expensive rebuilds.
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    I just found a resource that might be helpful when checking oil level:
  3. Old Koreelah
    Very interesting. A couple of new ideas there: Pulling flaps on a steep turn, dumping smoke to check spray drift.
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    My wife’s brother, an ex-aviator, has been building models for fifty years. His aim is a scale replica of every aircraft the RAAF ever flew and he’s almost there. He’ll buy kits of the one aircraft from three different makers and use the best bits of each, then add his own improvements. He uses Superglue and filler to create instrument panels, individual seats and harnesses. I hope that he puts on display soon.
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    Welcome to our forum! I just looked up Castellón on Google Earth and OzRunways. Although the climate is similar to ours in Australia, the land is very different; very intensive agriculture on the flat land and lots of rugged hills. Where do you land?
  6. Old Koreelah
    Canada said CANDO, Australia said CAN’TDO.
  7. Old Koreelah
    I’d wear a helmet. Mine is based on an old bike lid and comfortable to wear for long trips.
  8. Old Koreelah
    This is all I found- it doesn’t appear there are any ground stations in my part of the state. We have a good wireless broadband connection but don’t have a PC, just mobile devices. Is our house a candidate for this system?
  9. Old Koreelah
    Could you fit a sheet of thin Lexan under the framework? I’d rather hit my head on that than a metal frame.
  10. Old Koreelah
    When I learned about this error, I built an extension to mine. Joined via a short length of flexible tube, the extension had a “tail” that always pointed it into the airflow, whether sideslipping or near stall. It eventually broke and I didn’t bother replacing it. Can’t say if it helped much.
  11. Old Koreelah
    If I added an external aerial to my SE2, I could position it inside the top of the windscreen, then mount the white box down out of the way.
  12. Old Koreelah
    Nope. Just the SE2 talking to my iPad via WiFi.
  13. Old Koreelah
    Thanks Glen. To keep it away from my head it will have to be mounted to one side of my panel. That’s also away from the compass, but it will restrict forward visibility a little. My efforts will be wasted unless other aviators do likewise. Hope that happens. I’ve been working at our airport this week and most of the traffic did not appear on either OzRunways or FlightRadar 24.
  14. Old Koreelah
    The best location I’ve found in my tiny cockpit is just above my right shoulder; that’s a bit close to my head. The SE2 transmits at 20watts, compared to our mobile phones’ 1.5w, so I’d prefer to keep it further away from my already frazzled brain.
  15. Old Koreelah
    Good advice that Airbus/Boeing passengers should follow. Good point, but training is meant to condition our behaviour to be instinctive in an emergency, while wearing all the protective stuff. This has always been a compromise for Motorcycle riders: a full-face lid might preserve your good looks, but the extra weight could break your neck.
  16. Old Koreelah
    Found it! You Mexicans sure have some unusual place names: Gong Gong, Blowhard, Smokeytown, Weatherboard, Bung Bong…
  17. Old Koreelah
    Crickey, that reminds me of the main structural members of the Gossamer Albatross, which were pretty much very long aluminium coke cans; just strong enough to fly, but damaged by any slight bump. MacCready Gossamer Albatross - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Someone once said that the wreckage of a crashed airliner should be like confetti; any larger pieces had obviously been built too heavy.
  18. Old Koreelah
    My old front loader had a great lump of concrete bolted across the top.
  19. Old Koreelah
    Me too, iBob. I don’t understand how it works, but it does. I used slime in my bike tyres for yonks, mostly as a puncture preseal, but it also seemed to help with balance. I have a mercury-filled Balancemaster fitted behind my prop and it seems to be running more smoothly. My plane has no vibration monitor, but I have a habit of filling in my flight plan while warming up the engine. Going back through years of sheets lets me see trends in wobbly handwriting.
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    Ouch!
  21. Old Koreelah
    I resemble that remark!
  22. Old Koreelah
    Nev I’ve had a similar response from my brother; both of you have lots of stuff the rest of us would live to read about. Perhaps you carry around a Dictaphone?
  23. Old Koreelah
    Nev we’re still waiting for your book…
  24. Old Koreelah
    - unless they hope into a Jet Stream. I once read about a TAA jet arriving in Sydney long before it was expected; it’s trans-continental flight was supposedly at a record speed never beaten.
  25. Old Koreelah
    My RVR diesel stopped running after the cam chain broke. I removed the head, replaced chain, guide and gasket. Did not touch the head; the flat-topped pistons must have just punched the parallel valves with no damage. I put it back together and it ran for years afterwards.
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