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  1. Marty_d
    My 172 instructor told me not to worry about sheep in a forced landing situation - he said they'd either get out of the way or slow me down!
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    I learnt to hang glide in Western Vic - think it was near Beaufort, about 26 years ago. My instructor was a real character. He'd been in some competitions in Europe and told us about landing in a field in the Netherlands, which was filled with tall dark green plants. It was a fortunate choice, as he found out later - there were quite a few buds from these plants in the back of his harness bag where it was unzipped for landing!
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    Thanks Bob, that's excellent. Gives me the position nicely. Given the 701 doesn't have that nice rounded corner on the fuse sides, I may be able to get it even closer to the side so that port connector isn't so close to the flaperon mixer. So - if one of your big barbs is the breather, where does it run to? I'm assuming somewhere high!
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    Received the header tank (2nd hand) from Aerokits today. All looks good and has complete wiring to the test button - although not to light, so will have to figure that out. I think the harness that I have on already has the test button and connectors so will probably use that one. Now obviously the tank sits behind passenger and drain cock protrudes below the aircraft (and I'd always thought of it as a "her" before now!) and looks like two small bolts hold it in position. Questions for the Sav owners: 1. Is there any reinforcement below the tank or does it sit on the bottom skin? 2. Is it fairly well centred behind the passengers side? Or over to the fuse side and just enough room to clear the rudder cable? 3. How close to the main gear channel does the front of it sit? 4. On top, there's 2 large barb fittings (from the tanks) and a smaller barb which I assume is for a breather. Where does that line go? Any photos of your installs would be much appreciated! Thanks. Cheers, Marty
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    Question re: hangar doors. Wouldn't it make sense to use a hell of a lot of hinges and build extremely big concertina doors? Tall but narrow, running in tracks top and bottom. Thinking maybe 1 - 1.5m wide, hinged to the next one. Shouldn't be an issue with wind, pretty strong because of the track connections every panel, allows pretty much full width opening apart from the combined thickness of the panels, can be built from whatever you can get cheaply. Downsides would be hard to seal especially top and bottom (maybe a rubber flap fixed to the frame), and the cost of the track hardware - although you could design/manufacture that yourself.
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    You had to move the WING? That seems like a big step for a 2.4kg reduction in weight (presumably at the firewall if you're moving the wing aft).
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    Bit late for that! Hopefully I don't have to put a lot of weight down the tail end. I can move the battery if necessary but I'd rather not.
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    My fault for not fact checking - I had no idea what Brazil's population was but the maths stuck out like dogs balls. So, my apologies @bull, it's actually 0.278% - NOT 2.9%, but equally not 0.02% as you stated. The fact does remain that comparing it to other causes of death are not really helpful, as those other causes were the same before Covid and deaths from Covid are an additional factor. Far from "being fearful" as one punter puts it (hint: he seems to bounce between "funny" and "caution" responses, in equally inappropriate ways) - it's common sense to use all reasonable means of minimizing the death rate.
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    Check your maths, 20 mil population with 586,590 deaths is 2.9 percent not 0.02.
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    They're devils, not tigers - like Elvis the tiger has been extinct for a while.
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    Hi Dalmo, What plane is your kit? The Aircraft: in your avatar says Jabiru 230D - if that's what you're talking about then some of the folks who have Jabs could probably give you some info. Your first port of call though would be the factory that produced the kit. Many types have semi-official builder sites that have a lot of info - for example I often look at Zenith.aero because there's bound to be a user who's posted useful photos of whatever I'm working on. Good luck with your search.
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    Agree 100% there are industries where vaccination should be mandatory. If you're medical staff in a hospital or work in an age care facility you can't be moved to an area with reduced contact. If there is some medical reason the person cannot have the jab then the employer will have to deal with that another way - maybe regular testing etc - but if it's just a choice, then perhaps they should be looking at a different career.
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    Wrong question, really. If you're going to compare the two, think of it this way: If there was a slight change you could make to your flying, either a piece of safety equipment or a change to procedure, that would make you a little bit safer and also make aircraft around you safer, and it was totally free, would you use it? Because that's what the vaccine does. Saying the vaccine does not prevent you from getting Covid and passing it on to someone who is 70 is not entirely correct. The vaccine both reduces your chances of getting it, cuts down the viral load so your chances of passing it on are much reduced, and gives you a much better chance of not getting seriously sick. Did I mention it's free? So not really sure what your problem is with it.
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    Must have bloody strong spars to withstand those G forces. Lot of pressure with long glider wings.
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    Good picture Peter. We had a chopper doing powerline inspections around here a couple months back, despite him being about 100ft from me the pictures were crap!
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    Back to the point of the cops using the check-in app - (sorry I came to the party late) - there's some commentary above along the lines of "anything that catches criminals is a good thing". I think that misses the point. The problem with the cops using checkin data is not the breach of privacy or anything else - it's that the system depends on people trusting it for them to use it. If you take away that trust by abusing it, then a percentage of the population will stop using the app (even pretend by waving their mobile at the signs, as someone else suggested happens sometimes) and then your whole track & trace system goes down the toilet and we lose one of our best weapons against covid.
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    Total thread drift - but what amuses me about catholic weddings is the need to get advice from a priest first. Naturally the best person to give advice on married life is someone who will stay single their whole life and is (supposedly) celibate...
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    I did wonder, but I guess some wedding cakes look like they needed engineer advice.
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    There's one of those at the Quarry pub, Salamanca Place in Hobart. Quite fun, you can aim at the outdoor patrons.
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    Best I ever saw was in a service station in Ireland. The door of the toilet faced the car park and the top half was clear glass - no blind or curtain!
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    Wouldn't you just need 3 thick bits where the wheels will go? Guessing that it ain't going to deviate much if you don't want to bump the wingtips on the way in. There's no weight on any other part of the floor.
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    Actually, he must be right. If the LIBERAL NATIONAL PARTY government is using the ABC to push their line, then the ABC must be biased. Towards the right. Those dirty, lowdown right-wing bastards at the ABC. I finally understand. For years people have been saying they're biased because they're a bunch of lefties. But it was all a front! The ABC is a right-wing newsrag. Don't listen to them, folks. Go get your news from somewhere a bit more left-leaning... the Spectator, The Australian, the Daily Mail... More irony!! Just saying. Some people can't spot it.
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    Unlike Sky News, Fox, Facebook, Breitbart, QANON and Foul Ole Ron down the pub - they've got the REAL story and absolutely no barrow to push... * For those that have trouble with irony: The above is ironic. It is NOT true. In fact the total opposite of this is true.
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    While not taking anything away from his achievement, I noticed that the takeoff was done in one tunnel then he flew in a straight line out into the open air and back into another tunnel. All the time he maintained the same height. It'd be a hell of a lot harder to dive from height then enter a tunnel. The movie versions usually have helicopters doing it - Mission Impossible, Terminator 2 are two that come to mind. (Interestingly, the width of each railway tunnel in the Chunnel is less than the rotor diameter of the MD520N, so not quite sure how that helicopter chasing Tom Cruise got into the tunnel...)
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    Reckon it'd be a bit expensive for the 701.
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