KRviator

We'll be there. Started a new job a while back and on Day1 I made sure they knew I needed that weekend off.

Nah, pissed blokes are easy to deal with. Usually... Moree has a significantly higher crime rate than comparable towns like Narrabri, Stanthorpe, Tamworth or Gunnedah. Moree also has a much higher proportion of aboriginal people living there. 2'n'2 don't equal 5. A recent ABC article about it. A few weeks back, we were talking to the the taxi driver about the problem on the way from the station and he told us about a young and apparently pregnant girl there was belted with sticks and broom handles by a group of teenagers intent on flogging her car only a couple weeks before. Most of our crew are quite happy to be staying in a gated motel on our overnights now.

You can't go wrong at the Moree Rizzle. We regularly go there for meals after work and I haven't had a bad feed yet. And $5 schooners for their beer-of-the-month is a nice bonus. Pro tip - stay at the Albert next door to the RSL. Gated & swipe card access, so not as many problems with....uhhhh....some locals, and you don't even need the courtesy bus home. Not sure how exxy it is, work pays for our rooms, but they're quite nice and probably among the best in town.

Thanks Skip, have it in my mind a mate out at Narromine used the Mudgee folks for his test a couple years ago, I'll give 'em a call.

Who do you use, @skippydiesel? Need to get the RV done.

Tell you what - they make coding a hell of a lot easier! I wrote a Python program for me to use at work and was able to use ChatGPT to find the errors in my code that were driving me nuts and suggest better ways to do it. It's only a matter of time before they'll be good enough to write the whole thing - if you're able to accurately describe what you want in the first place.

Bwahahaha, get a wee bit butt-hurt did we?

@Richard Stewart - for gods sake, please format your posts and stop using capital letters in your submissions. It's incredibly hard to follow your ramblings to date and, to be frank, my eyes glazed over and I CBF'd taking in anything except the most basic points from them. You say there was no engine misfire or problem, then nek minit say there was an engine failure. It matters not the flight attitude if the engine stopped unless inverted or pushing negative G's with a fuel or oil system not designed for that - I can routinely climb out at 25-30* nose up in cool weather and light weights for sustained periods, and regularly turn crosswind halfway down the 1100m runway - and yes, that's at 500AGL... An engine failure in climb and you're blaming the pilot...Bit rough methinks, no matter your opinion as an eye witness. Perhaps you should post the video so we can make our own deductions.

My only concern with that concept is you never really 'own' anything beside a shed. And at the end of the lease, you may have to remove your shed and slab at your cost, depending how the lease agreement is written. it works well when the landlord/owner is supportive, but can be problematic towards the end of the lease period or even just trying to sell mid-lease.

I'm not sure I'd be willing to fly in something that didn't have shoulder harnesses - but in saying that, they still have their limitations. Even the RV's with a 4/5 point harness have a dangerous tendancy to bend the longerons in a sudden stop causing the shoulder harness attachment points to move forward, loosening the harness and rendering it less (or in-) effective.

Last I saw it was $3,109 and the auction's now closed and being "referred" - anyone know what the final price was at the fall of the hammer?

I've had that in all of our cars for the last 6 or so years and wouldn't be without it for anything except short local drives. An OBD dongle plugs into the port and you can access various sensors connected to the computers though BT or wi-fi. Some more than others. For our Territory, we could access the parking sensor data down to 0.1m resolution, not just beeps or pretty colours and a host more in-depth stuff. Transmission temperature, exhaust gas temperature through to coolant or torque converter lockup status are often available in any vehicle. I use the "Torque Pro" app, (and ForScan for Fords) and it has the added benefit of being able to record whatever you're displaying, so if I got pinged by a speed camera, I can pull the datalog to confirm both indicated and GPS speeds.

Looks good, but they're very late to the party. And from the brief read I've had, they're not (currently) TSO'd or STC'd, so that limits them to the Experimental crowd - who are already spoilt for choice with options from Garmin, Dynon, AFS, uAvionix, GRT and MGL each of which have already built up hundreds of thousands of hours of flight time for their products. Microair needs to compete with that, and I'm not sure how they're going to.

A new - or even decent second-hand - 912 ain't gonna be cheap! Not worth much more than scrap value, sadly, @BrendAn is dead right, it'll probably go for some ridiculous price only to never fly again when the buyer wises up to what they've just set themselves up for. Shame, those Gazelle's are damn fine little aeroplanes. And is that a chord-wise tear in the skin to boot?