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    PA28 LSA55, J160, J170, V115, AA5B, C210
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    Moorabbin
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    Australia

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  1. I guess you don't do much flying in the city. The PPT can be used for a lot of things especially communicating something after you've been talking to another airctaft.
  2. A few scary things being tossed around here, just be careful where the laminate is structural or subject to wind pressure. It sounds like the oxidation on this aircraft is deeper, than a polish treatment can handle. FRP is Fibreglass Reinforced Plastic. (Plastic reinforced by glass fibres) The plastic is structural augmented by the fibreglass. The gel coat is not structural so you can polish or buff that away, but you need to put a new layer of gel coat on to stop the raw material picking up water and rotting. However as soon as you start to lose the gel coat colour you're grinding your structure away so that's the time to look at a new panel. In some cases the oxidation will already be deep enough to be powdering the FRP; if you have FRP skills, you can grind it down clear of the oxidation, then laminate back up to the original thickness or a little more but then there's a lot of sanding to get it looking like the original, as well as the sanding of the gel coat. If you want to see this in action, look at a few boat transoms. The area oxidises, water gets in and rots the transom beam and the next thing you know the motor's in your lap.
  3. It's the gelcoat and resin that oxidise, not the glass fibre.
  4. .....contravening Local Law No5 of the Shire of Tocumwal (locally known as Toke). The Shire President called a Press Conference, sending emails to all the newspapers TV Channels and the ABC as well as the Guardian. He dressed in his RMW boots, Moleskins, his Dark Green Shire Reefer Jacket with the Gold badge with his name on it, put on his Akubra and prepared to meet the press. He was expecting Helicopters, Mobile Broadcasting Vans and a crowd and he braced himself as he drove int the town, turning left into Deniliquin St and past the Big Cod, but the only person there to gret him was Max from the Deni Guardian. Max's first note was "dressed up like a King's Cross tart...." and said.....
  5. There's nothing wrong with Starbrite, probably the issue is not translated just by written word. It could be that the oxidation which can be cut up at the surface has left the gel coat porous in which case you have to sand the gel coat off and apply new gel coat, and it could also be that the oxidation is into the resin, so maybe take a panel to an expert.
  6. Well there's potholes too but Australia has a lot of open clear wide roads too. It's really a matter of assessing as you are coming down. One guy, in a Piper Arrow, flying his elderly parents to Sydney from Moorabbin had an engine failure in the suburbs and landed in medium traffic on Ferntree Gully Road. He was still rolling fast when he got to the traffic lights and the left wing tangled with a series of steel poles and wrapped the aircraft around a big wooden power pole (so the energy dissipated). That pulled the power lines down around him and there was a fire. Emergency Services did their thing and all three got out uninjured.
  7. .......into strict protocols. Meetings were not to start before the clock had struck midnight which was a bit stiff if your clock didn't have a striker. OEHOR was a stickler for detail, especially where CAT was concerned. You couldn't just say "a D12 Dozer", you had to know the correct nomenclature and what tracks it had. Yopu couldn't ...........
  8. Yes and no. The OP thread was about the Landing Rule, so only clarity was needed. The thread heading didn't say that but that's not the end of the world. About 6 posts in there was reference to us checking changes to Radio Procedures, and yes I contributed to thread drift by answering FH, but referring to Radio Procedures it was a little more than education material. The post-WW2 radio procedures were born out of saving lives in combat or passenger flying, and there were a lpot of people around who'd lost friends or experienced a near miss, so radio procedures were cutting edge and DCA added value to that by introducing systems to match. They knew where we were and if we got lost they'd get us back on track, and lessons learned on the busy circuits of WW2 were put into practice. Then cost cutting was introduced and a lot of those procedures dropped off and you had to unlearn the old and learn the new. Then some people thought they had better ideas and partial changes were introduced and you had to unlearn the new old and learn the new new. Then the States and Commonwealth Governments had a meeting in Perth in the mid 1980s and decided they all would be stuffed if they were going to pay out in lawsuits which were occurring probably every day if you include pole vaulting and axe competitions, so the governments went for a split relationship where the people engaged in some activities had to pay for themselves, and a lot of radio procedures dropped off and you had to use your eyes. You then had to unlearn the new new and learn the new newer and come up with your own safety systems. Believe it or not there would be some people here who went through the lot and felt this behaviour by a regulator of constant switches was appalling. I've condemned CASA for it in the past. So I would recommend people read the proposed changes and make comments related to their operations.
  9. ......a shoe tapping, sand groping, toe kicking, eye gouging "influencer" it was best to keep away from if you knew what was good for you. Cappy hadn't read the signs..............
  10. ......origins as an Italian shoemaker who had .......
  11. ..........ShootingStar:) because it went up like a rocket and came down like a meteor. Turbine Design had made it safe by fitting twin ballistic parachutes made from "XXXXXXX" fairy dust!" according to Turbo who was irritated that competitors were already trying to copy his design. Where the usual outcome for a Cirrus surprise landing was a smashed up aircraft, The exclusive AI module on the ShootingStar turned itself on and started the countdown for explosion on the way up, not the way down, and the cutes were deployed exactly when it reached the apex. As it was coming down the AI module was saying to itself "Where can I land safely; not in that big tree (chute adjusted), not on top of the church spire (chute adjusted) and they usually landed in cattle-free paddocks near a bus stop, like we all should. The Shooting Star fuelled itself. Hank Cook, CEO of Turbine Power Systems Inc. explains: "The usual pilot wouldn't know 98ULP from Ivermecting Cattle Drench, so we provided a button on the instrument panel with a red flashing LED and the words "FILLMENOW". Push the button and the Shooting Star flies to the nearest 98ULP pump, ending the old habit of hanging four 20 litre jerrty cans around your neck, going 5 km into town on an electric scooter and spending an hour spilling th fuel all over the wing. The problem was the intense debates on the premium site "RECFLYN+" where posters started to ask how to get these rules changed, or at least they asked that for the first four posts until someone posted that people who flew nose wheels were girls and everyone should use the barely controllable system from the 1920s, which quickly switched to what a XXXX OT was "and he uses AI" and went on .............
  12. You might. It's interesting to watch though; years of bitter complaints about CASA never listening, then when they follow the normal protocol of corporate fact finding we're encouraged not to talk to them, so the discussions will be had with half a dozen who thought they should at least show up, they'll want the old terms and zones back, and it will start all over again. That's the way it has been for the last 20 years.
  13. Once you get the equation correct and your calcs are coming out to the exact correct figure, you'll get more confident with the result. It's just a version of the seesaw with a heavy mass close to the pivot only needing a small mass to balance as long as the other moment it much longer. What you are describing is why PPLs are supposed to do a WB calc before a cross country trip. I can remember a Member on this site telling us he put a 15 kg tool box on the floor of his Morgan, and lost control on takeoff, luckily managing to get it down. The moment arm from around 50 mm in front of the right seat squab maybe allowed 90 kg in balance, but the moment arm of that tool box was a lont longer.
  14. As previously said, a datum can be an imaginary line. or If you plumb bob from, say a rafter, you can set up a vertical face to sight laser dimensions. or If you make the datum the vertical line through the spinner or prop flange you can plumb bob fuel tank changes, cargo changes, seat changes etc and get repeatable results.
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