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I've always thought a Lancaster would be bloody great as a two seat tandem , obviously would be VH exp ,how cool though, four 912's howling away ( well actually sounding like a fleet of vacumn cleaners) , you'd have to put the turrets on electric motors , I'd love to have a go at it but time is the bummer, still good to dream Matty
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noise certification or pandora's chocolate box
metalman replied to geoffreywh's topic in Governing Bodies
I had to get a noise exception when I regoed my plane, it was just a part of the whole process . The thing that I see with the dramas of late is how little the average pilot knows about the regs involved with flying in Australia, myself included, going through the system to rego my plane was a huge learning curve, and I'd have to say the SAAA does this a lot better than RAAus, I was given a list of paperwork I needed to have and then just worked through it till I was ready to fly,,,,,and to RAA benefit the guy that did my C of A is now our tech manager, so I for one am looking forward to seeing things become a bit clearer. I also think we'll get aquatinted with the regs that we should've been adhering to all along, time to grow up I'm thinking! Matty -
I had no probs on an outback trip,39c at Longreach, but a mate in a Baron had his stop on him heaps. I had a vent directed at the iPad in flight and the knee pad is fairly light, Matty
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Fuel management and muffler problems - split
metalman replied to frank marriott's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
My plane will run the left hand tank right down before starting on the other side, it has both feeding into a collector with an on/off tap , the first time I watched the tank run down till I couldn't see the fuel sloshing (it has a window to see the fuel) I was very interested in what was under me in case. It hasn't failed and it's pretty common for the type ,I've still toyed with fitting taps to each tank, but it's more the thought of relying on the fuel to do its own thing rather than controlling it, Matty -
Good to hear ,,,it wasn't your last flight after all
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Hey cool, this'll be funny
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I've landed across the runway plenty of times, and never given any thought to paper work , what ever is safe makes good sense,. And dodging runway lights is a great skill to be learned , and much easier in a taildragger with the tail up!
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Friday 6 nov, got the the field about 1730 ( I love daylight saving) ,took off and went for a wander over king lake for a look, then headed over to Yan Yean reservoir , called up Melbourne centre to get a check on my new TXP , then over to Lilydale to see if a mate was still working late, then back to YCEM for a bit of a crosswind landing, all up about an hour , not sure what the boring people were doing but I love being able to do this after work Matty
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No Not on my utube mate, there is some footage out there though, I think the ATSB might have it , we'll have to wait till a full report comes out , Matty
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G'day, the t38 is a sexy bit of kit , not really into jets but that one is a looker, I'd never heard of a T41 though,mmmm looks a lot like a rather sedate little jigger we do training in,,, Matty
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There is another explanation to this accident, not nice or popular , but it is there
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Bugger, I know the plane ,not sure if I know the owner, damn shame , Matty
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yeh, in that position, and I've been there plenty, I go to his final decision real quick, as for the conditions, I've been filming a bit lately and it amazes me how the camera doesn't convey they true conditions, I've been on final getting chucked all over and then watch the video and thought "where did all the wind go",
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it's probably the wildest crosswind landing I've seen,either great skill,,,,huge amounts of "brown adrenaline" ,or dumb luck,,,,going by the apparent touchdown ground speed I might have (and given room do now) tried landing into the wind regardless of where the runway is,,,still, I wasn't the one doing battle that day! Heres one I got sent a while back, he has a few goes then gets smarter,,,or tired of being scared!
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Not sure if it's a Cessna, looks like a glass air sportsman, pretty freaky weather to be flying in,
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Apart from trying to interpret the different graphs, I'm amazed at the amount of data available from a home built accident , it's getting up there with the commercial ops, barring a fire destroying stuff there's more info available to the bottom rung aviators than ever before Matty
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So what would be a not so "stupid" thread dafydd, I've gotta say I'm pretty tired of the hundreds of whinging ,RAA bashing , evil CASA threads, I've also heard there's no such thing as a stupid question only stupid answers! Matty
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I've heard they've done studies to determined the colour of adrenaline ,,,,turns out it's brown!!!
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Something else I got into the habit of on a recent trip, we seemed to pick the windiest month of the year to do a tri state lap ,anyway, after an exciting excursion at Yarrawonga ( the sock was straight out and 90 deg to the strip ), I started to line up across the runways to lessen the crosswind angle, at Dubbo it was so windy I actually touched down on the grass, ran up over the strip and stopped on the grass the other side,,,,,not pretty but the chippie that came in after me nearly ground looped and dragged a wing , damaging the aileron and hinge in the process! It's amazing how much you can reduce a stiff cross wind by using all the width of the runway to your benefit, and yeh David, the big Cessnas are an exciting jigger in a xwind,,,,,although the Skyfox types are so light you really got ya dancing shoes on when it gets messy! There is nothing that beats the feeling of getting a taildragger down with 'panache' in a howling wind, Matty
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according to Darren he has the job!!!
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Mate,,,daylight saving is freakin awesome, I can get to the field about 1715, get the chariot ready and tool around for about 2.5 hours till I'm forced to land and drink beer at the aeroclub,,,this is my Friday night summer routine ,,,,,,it is bloody great ,,,cut me I bleed maroon,,,,but I gotta say stuff the curtains and the cows ,,I love daylight saving Matty:plane:
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I was taught the wing down method, then got really clever and started to just "kick" it round as I got close, had a few moments when I didn't get it right and decided that perhaps a stabilized approach might be wiser, now I crab down to about 4-300agl then set the plane up on the centre line ,get it all settled , and then there's no surprises close to the ground, the benefits I see are , I am settled into the picture outside, I know if I have enough rudder authority to counter the drift before it gets critical, I don't risk a bad timing event( can turn bad real fast in a taildragger), as I get closer and the wind drops off I find it easy to relax the pressure on the controls rather than trying to re evaluate everything at once, that's how I do it anyway,,,,and it looks really professional to slide down final ,round out and settle onto one wheel ,I've watch countless crosswind approaches and you can tell from just after the final turn whether the guy is a pilot or a passenger, one mistake I see a lot with the kicking it around is the windward wing seems to lift a bit as hands and feet gets busy and once the wind is under it things get messy, Matty
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Slightly opening canopy in flight if co in cabin
metalman replied to DrZoos's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
I'd get onto the manufacturer, some planes do okay with the canopy open, some have issues with the airflow over the tail, some guys I know did some testing with a tecnam golf, the canopy couldn't be held at 'just' open and then couldn't be shut again . There was a story in the RAA mag a while back about a canopy coming open on a sportstar(I think ,could be wrong though) the plane was almost uncontrollable , got it on the ground but a scary event! I also had a chat to a fella at Lilydale with a pioneer about your fuel pressure issue, he said he would contact you via the forum here, reckons he hasn't had any problems with his. Matty
