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For example, getting a tailwheel or low performance endorsement would reset the time on a BFR. Plus it's a lot of fun

Noted

Took little miss chatterbox (aka miss five going on thirteen) for circuits on a fairly bumpy afternoon. This was her first GA flight. She had a shiny new set of babiators and her own ANC headphones. For safety I made this an instructor led flight. Didn't he regret showing her how the boom microphone worked. Ahahahahaha! Anyways it was RPT central with visits from the usual suspects plus the SIAL SQ291 Boeing 777. Lots to see and very busy on COM1. Everyone had a good time until miss chatterbox suddenly fell silent. Instructor took this as a sign she was about to re-visit lunch. I'm a big fan of cheezels, fresh cherries and jelly snakes but unlike miss chatterbox, not at the same time. If it was coming it was going to be violent and colourful. Turns out she had just run out of things to say. The flight concluded without incident. An encore has already been requested.

Record the audio by slipping a lapel microphone into the ear cup. The one from your mobile phone cheapo earphones will do

Didn't run on a 64 bit Windows 7 laptop. Seems the video card was too puny

Therapy

Its been an interesting couple of days but I managed to do it. I now have Flight Gear 2.6.0 sending data to drive OzRunways on an iPad, wirelessly. I have learned a lot along the way and I can see why nobody has done it before. I can also see why people would resort to something like FSUIPC. Anyways, as usual if anyone is interested please let me know and I will buzz off a copy of the documentation. It is all configuration and there are no binaries to install.

For the cooties of course

But you can get more DC headsets second hand . Depends on whether you put a $ value one someone else's cooties

I just finished writing an application that listens to datagrams 18, 20 and 21 for X-Plane 9 latest demo. The demo was set to output to localhost (ip address 127.0.0.1) port 49001 and UDP. The listener processed these values and output them to both a flat file and the user interface. I am using this application to create a protocol that does the same thing in Flight Gear 2.6.0 I order to drive OzRunways in simulator mode. There might be differences in X-Plane 10.8 but I'll worry about that when I find them. If anyone wants a copy of the source code written for C# VS2013 express edition please PM me. Note that the X-Plane output is little-endian and the bit converter in .Net Framework for Windows is also little-endian. It should be that way for Mac/UNIX (Mono) too but I'm not sure. Except the datagram index. That will be different depending on X-Plane for Mac or Windows. Stupid! If anyone has successfully output the NMEA GPS data from their simulator to a Bluetooth COM port please let this forum know the details because that would have been a lot easier and more generally applicable than what I am attempting. Finally the NMEA GPS output is different to the output required by the iPad but I don't know what the difference is.

Going to be hard without a postal address

I've got out-of-date paper VTC, VNC and WAC for Sydney, Canberra, Denilliquin and Newcastle. Plus ERSA. I may have Sydney Basin guides too as they keep getting sent for free. Previously I have been scribbling on these while simming and the occasional navigation flight. I have more than I need and I will probably buy new ones for the 25 May 2017 cycle. I will send them COD Post for the cost of the postage (if its over $5 otherwise free). The maps are provided as-is, rips pencil marks and all. The ERSA is a heavy beast. Everything else should fit in a standard A4 envelope. Anyone who wants my maps, PM me.

DC H10-13.4 plus Headsets Inc. ANR kit. Still love them. I have two sets and I fly less than 40 hours a year (currently). Works great with mower engine noise too! Fettle your headset

Jerrabomberra=NSW. Another fine dollop of Fairfax quality journalism

Keep an eye on the ATIS (e.g. through NAIPS or OzRunways). The occurrences are reported in there usually around the tower close time. Its generally reported in the same place south of the airport and has been going on for a year. You'd think someone would have dobbed them in. BUT one needs to catch them at it. Eventually they will stuff it up and use the laser when the Snowy Hydro thingy or another helicopter is airborne. Hopefully one of the Jerrabombera residents will take an interest and make a call to the authorities. The planes are not going to stop flying over.

Tracker - Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2016 90 minutes. Tinnies cold. Check. Snax. Check.

Responding to post #5 it's about 200nm between Sydney Heads and Merimbula if you add in the manoeuvring and moving to where the wind is. The leaders are expected to get 25 knots on track so 8 hours from the start would be one estimate. If a pilot flew north for a bit once the leaders cleared the heads and set a spinnaker (or didn't "set" because the wind changed) then you would have a good estimate of where you would meet AND be airborne. If it was me I'd be concerned about running out of daylight before getting back to YMER

A flight plan between Moruya and Merimbula right now would suggest westerly(ish) winds for that trip. Let's see...

This year they are talking 90+ NM east of Eden to catch the North East wind into the strait. If the forecast holds. More North wind means closer to the coast

Ditch next to a boat. There can be lots or none

I'm not sure the designer(s) ever expected zero forward speed plus full flap plus 10 knots XW plus full power. Max demonstrated is 15 knots for some C172 models and this would be typical. Generally I try not to be a test pilot in a plane I'm flying. I'm reading a C172N manual for a flight tomorrow. That scenario isn't in there.

What were the weather conditions at the time?

Someone ask Clive Nielsen to take a photo of his handy work on the main landing gear legs. A photo I do not have

Hello all, I was doing some research to figure out how Flight Gear 2.6.0 could output the X-Plane format to OzRunways so that the simulation could drive the moving map. I didn't figure that out (yet) but I'm confident I have the right approach. What I did figure out was that the protocol to drive ForeFlight is dead simple (link here). So I did that and tried it out on ForeFlight. Following the instructions in the link, it worked! Here are the basic steps: FGFS start up wizard should not be running Determine the IP address of the iPad (OzRunways displays this on its simulation settings page or ask a grown up) Go to the /data/protocol folder in FGFS and create a new XML file. See the text below for the contents of the file I used. Save the file as ForeFlightGPS.xml or whatever you want to appear on the screen Go to the advanced settings in the FGFS start up wizard, select input/output and create a new generic output entry which must be port 49002 and UDP. The host IP address should be the iPad as per step 2 above. See screen grab Ensure the settings appear as-expected in the command line output in the wizard as per the second screen grab Click the Run button on FGFS start up wizard Start ForeFlight, enter simulation mode. It should have identified that a device is feeding it valid data To Test Find the current location of the simulation on the ForeFlight map At the simulation, move the current location to another place On ForeFlight, watch the current location dot move around. it will move if everything is happy Below is the protocol definition I authored