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  1. Bruce Tuncks
    In the Jabiru, the engine will not start if you have the throttle open and try and use the choke. If you try to put it away too soon, the engine stops. You need to run it for about 20 seconds before you can shut down the choke.
  2. Bruce Tuncks
    "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance" is what we have forgotten. There are dark forces out there which would change us into another Russia if we let them. We already have a lot of our wealth in the hands of oligarchs and we are daily giving more power to police for the illusion of safety, not realizing that it is excessive police powers we should be scared of.
  3. Bruce Tuncks
    And, how did you notice the sticking? was the engine being stripped down anyway? and what cht's had you noticed?
  4. Bruce Tuncks
    I'm not clear just what fuel you were on rfguy. At the ASC, we had a LOT of rings sticking on avgas, so much so that we wondered if they had changed the formulation.
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    I used my new garmin aera 660 when going to town this morning and found that the road is not quite right on the database.... we drove in through a lot of paddocks according to the garmin... I never would have noticed this in the plane, it was only about 100m out, but this is a lot if it puts you off the road.
  6. Bruce Tuncks
    You are right OME, but it is sooo much easier to just keep the blue plane on the pink line that laziness will have us do just that. Yes, I know that if things fail, then you will be sorry you were lazy.
  7. Bruce Tuncks
    wow you got my attention there RF. What would you suggest us Jabiru guys do ? My current 230 has very neat wiring as the builder was fastidious, and I think that it is impossible to protect a starter motor with fuses. But that Bundaberg fire was faulty wiring for sure, and the Cessna was due to a sump-plug put in finger-tight. There is no way that either of these things could be picked up on a normal di.
  8. Bruce Tuncks
    If not pilot error then what? maintenance error? But the pilot should: 1. treat the first flight after maintenance as a test flight and 2. Do a really good d.i. every time. If both these things were done, a lot of the mishaps I know of would have been averted.
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    Apparently fires are not that easy to start in real life. There was a jabiru in Bundaberg in which smoke came out of the engine compartment. The plane subsequently burnt on the ground back to ( but NOT including the half-full fuel tank ). There have been a couple of others lately, like the plane in the power-lines, where there was no fire. I have only been around one crash in my 50 years of flying, and that was a Sonerai which DID catch fire. But a guy I knew well crawled out, covered in fuel, through the broken windscreen of a Cessna in a vineyard. Luckily for him there was no fire. Just recently, a pub in a nearby town was shattered by a car and there was no fire. I reckon it was lucky that they didn't deliberately light a fire to get rid of any forensic stuff. So.... movies would have you believe that a fire is the usual thing, while my experience is that it is unusual unless deliberately lit.
  10. Bruce Tuncks
    The garmin aero is central but tilted towards the left so it is easy for the pilot to see. But so far, I have trouble entering flight plans etc, more than with ozrunways. So it might be that I will finish up using both.
  11. Bruce Tuncks
    Once, I was taking a hang-glider guy for a passenger flight in glider. On tow, I let him have a go on the controls cos he seemed so good. In my recollection, I only took my eyes off the tug for a second to look around for other gliders etc. When I looked back, NO TUG! in panic, I looked around to find we ( the glider and tug ) were formating wing-tip to wing-tip. ( about 1500 ft ). I sure learned a hard lesson from that... you never assume too much I learned. But was not that glider collision the result of them entering cloud?
  12. Bruce Tuncks
    I have been playing with a garmin aera 660 which came with my new bigger Jabiru. It looks like it does the same job as my ozrunways which works on a tablet computer. Can it do more?
  13. Bruce Tuncks
    I like the idea of a cowl-flap skippy. I hope it works and we get to see a diagram of what you did.
  14. Bruce Tuncks
    It was not the mount onetrack found, which was a better one than what I had.
  15. Bruce Tuncks
    I finally got it out! yes, there is a locking arrangement at the top center just as I was told. The part you push on was bigger than I thought , it was a small plate about 7mm by 15mm. When this is pushed, as blue says, the unit can be carefully prized out. I've got it home right now and the battery charges up with a usb connector so the downloaded manuals can be read and played with. It has a simulator mode so you can have a good play on the ground. Taking it out was harder than I thought. I took out the screws attaching an aluminium frame mount and this enabled just enough freedom for poking of the release plate with a bit of wire. Hopefully, now I know how it mounts, it will be easier in future. Thanks for the help and encouragement guys.
  16. Bruce Tuncks
    Thanks onetrack and blue... I did find the airgismos thing but it is what i'd buy and not what is in there.... and blue, no I haven't asked jabiru yet but I will tomorrow if you reckon they will know... thanks, Bruce
  17. Bruce Tuncks
    I dunno it your fan is a problem skippy. It is supposed to draw about 10 amps. If it hardly ever turns on, you are ok otherwise I reckon you need more powerful alternator.
  18. Bruce Tuncks
    Hi, my new J230 has a garmin aera gps map system and it worked fine till now. Here's the first problem.... I can't get it out! I rang the previous owner and he said there is a small lever at the back near the top which needs moving to the left then the gps pops out. Can anybody who knows please help?
  19. Bruce Tuncks
    Once, many years ago, I played table tennis ( B grade) for the kangaroo flat club. Gosh I was surprised at how I missed the ball when wearing an eye-patch. Otherwise, it was hard to tell the difference. I reckon your student may have had an additional problem Nev, not that there is anything you could have done about it. Landing does not use the cross-eye angle as much as the "apparent size" method. Mind you, I have never had a one-eyed student, only a passenger once who I tried ( unsuccessfully ) to get to join the club. I was mainly concerned if his field of vision was too small, you would need to move your head even more I thought. Sorry but I never thought to wonder if he could land ok.
  20. Bruce Tuncks
    the 2 ways the brain measures distance are 1: apparent size and 2: angle of cross-eyes. The second one is what you use with really close things. Try playing table-tennis with one eye wearing a patch and you will get an education. I reckon that you have both these things in operation Geoff, and that is why you can catch a ball, which would be similar to table-tennis. Flying, even landing, uses the first method and you sure have that too. Your CASA types need more education. Keep on with what you are doing.
  21. Bruce Tuncks
    No lenses supplied here.... anyway, I use the 1.5 magnifiers from the cheapo shop. They used to cost me 3.99 dollars. Probably gone up now. BUT the cataracts were done by a good guy and now I can see the leaves in the trees and other planes in the sky. Best operation ever.
  22. Bruce Tuncks
    Wow OME that's a big job you are taking on. Best wishes.
  23. Bruce Tuncks
    I was too chicken to go for " no more glasses" My understanding was that you make one eye for close-up and one for distance, and the brain learns how to cope. Is this correct? I thought if there was a brain which couldn't cope, it would be mine and anyway I am used to using reading glasses, so I opted for 2 eyes of long sight.
  24. Bruce Tuncks
    My son says that everybody who has had a vax will die. I say so what, we are all gunna die.
  25. Bruce Tuncks
    I knew a really good pilot who landed his glider on a golf-course. No damage, but he was quite angry that the golfers continued to go past him.... what if they hit the canopy with a golf-ball?
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