wanabigaplane

YES !! Get a jump starter. On my recent trip to central Australia my 3300 Jab motor would not turn over fast enough to start on the really cold mornings. I was extremely thankful that before the trip I had installed a heavy duty pair of cables with an Anderson plug INSIDE the cabin. I did not have to remove the cowl to add the jump starter - I did not even have to get out of the aircraft !! During the trip my rectifier failed and became intermittent so that on the last day, at a mid day stopover to get fuel, the battery did not have enough punch to turn the motor over. The jump starter really saved my bacon.

I have such a Sapphire and would like to get in touch. [email protected]

What's the problem - just get a boat ride over to Xmas Island. Plenty of people have done this before.

Useless Loop does have a runway.

People will make off topic posts in the threads anyway. Novel solution - Just like on the bottom right of any post you have buttons for "like, agree, funny"...etc you could have a "Off Topic" button that anyone reading the thread can press. After x presses the post can be shrunk to a single line saying "off topic". The post appears in full only if clicked on. Come to think of it, you could also have a "Moderator please", "I'm offended", "ratbag poster", or a "put in jail" button as well. Surely this process would lighten the load of the moderator, maybe making the threads self moderating. You could even put the score in the panel under the forumite's avatar just like you display the number of likes.

I have seen a similar picture - it was on the front page of NT news back in the 70's. It showed a picture of the passengers on the rope starting the engine of a Maparta DC3 in Indonesia. The article said that it is common to start the engine this way using a jeep, but in this case the agent had already left the airfield.

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Since I have to log in separately it makes no difference to me. However, you never know what's around the corner. If for some reason you needed to pass the site, or Clear Prop, onto some other entity, it might be an encumberance if they were combined. Jack.

Saw this on DIYDrones. http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/uav-the-hard-way Jack.

A few years ago I flew up the Stuart Highway and looked out for the underground pipeline marked on the WAC chart!

I was told Boonah had similar problems, particularly with new houses in line with the airfield. The complaints to council stopped when the council threatened to rezone the suburb as a high noise area.

Hi Ian, Close enough so they can keep an eye on you, eh? Now surely they will have power in the RAAus tent - and the lead must go right by yours. Will the tent be the same size as the one you had last year?

Crikey, looks like I have to learn type faster. OK, Kaz, I feel we are going in different directions here. I’ve read this list of deficiencies a number of times in this thread. I don’t mean to downplay the seriousness of them. But apart from readers of this forum, who amongst the general membership knows? Lets say you are successful in wading in there and sacking half the board, what then? The membership will have to elect a new set of board members. On what basis does the membership elect their next representatives? You wrote “Many of us here are in strong disagreement with the confrontational and disrespectful attitude being displayed by some Committee members to both other Committee members and to the membership, generally.” You may well be, but I as an ordinary, ignorant member, I don’t know anything about this. I suddenly see your confrontational and disrespectful attitude and think “what a rabble rouser, no wonder the board is ignoring her” You have to play nice to get close enough to kick them in the nuts. Jack.