Geoff13

I use an Ipad air on a knee board. I take the knee board off for landing/takeoff and sit it on the pax seat. If I have a pax, part of the briefing is to hold the knee board against their chest not flat on the knees as that can restrict movement of the controls. I explain why it is important. On other occasions I just rotate the knee board so the ipad is sitting on the thigh but to one side out of the way.

I like the concept of Oil samples. Even if there is no history or reference for your type of engine, a good sample will notify you of changes, and that can only be good.

Yep I had a look at Woodford folk festival this afternoon as well. Someone was onto a big joint to put out this much smoke.

eightyknots I ended up with a second hand 912ULS. Perfect match in my opinion.

Piggy Muldoon

For those interested in my journey today is 1 year since flew to Orange to pick up my Hanuman. On NYE 2014 I did a couple of circuits with Ozbear (the previous owner) and then after deciding that I couldn't fly it from the right hand seat, I kicked him out and did a few circuits on my own. Comfortable with that we arranged to meet at sunup New Years Day and I would head off on my journey home which is chronicled above. When I lined up on Orange runway on 01 Jan last year the Hobbs meter was on exactly 80 hours. On the day before Australia Day when she went into the hanger for the engine swap it was on exactly 100 hours. Again as I have previously detailed my estimated 3 weeks work blew out until 08 Aug. So 7.5 months to do a 3 weeks job. But the proof is in the pudding I guess. Now on the eve of her anniversary she has 188.7 hours on the meter. It would be more but the weather this last week has been not so good for flying. So since the engine change, just under 90 hours of faultless flying (faultless by the aircraft at least as I am still learning and have many faults) and she is everything that I had ever hoped for. When I bought her my plan was to bring her home, do a quick engine swap, then head of to Perth to collect the CAGIT trophy then sell it on within 12 months or so when I had decided what plane I really wanted. Well whilst she was in the shop the CAGIT moved to Geralton the on to Heck Field and Bathurst. It was still in Bathurst when I felt comfotable to head of and get it but in the week that I was planning to go get it, a post came up on the CAGIT F/book page that someone was on his way down from Darwin to grab it and as such it would have been unsporting to go and snatch it. By the time it arrived back in Darwin I decided that it was to close to the wrong season to try for it, so it is still in Darwin but believe me I am watching the weather and as soon as I am comfortable that the window to get is to big enough then I am on my way. So my plan is still to get the CAGIT trophy but instead of being in the first 12 months of my flying journey it will take me twice as long. So back to the Hanuman. What a plane. It is so much more than I had hoped for and I love it. There are other aircraft I would like to have a go at but my little Hanuman still does everything I want her to do. If anyone is looking for a good cheap aircraft that has very good STOL performance, can fly at 85 IAS and be comfortable with a good 4 hrs endurance you would do well to look at one of these, and No mine is not for sale. And the fact that it has almost 250 kgs carrying capacity does not hurt one bit either. If anyone is thinking of buying one just send me a pm and I would be more than happy to take you for a fly. Or for that matter if anyone just wants to go flying, same thing just send me a pm and I will let you know when I am going. I must admit though that I often go at very short notice, and very early in the morning. I often wake early and if the weather looks good outside I haead to the field. I like to take off into the sunrise and can fly for and hour or 3 and still be back on the ground by 8 am. Anyway it is NYE again, tonight I shall have a scotch which I couldn't do last year with the planned early start. Tonight I shall dream of being airbourne with the Monkey God. Cheers and Happy New Year to you all.

Debbie Is that a step up onto the concrete floor of the hangar or is it a fairly smooth run. It also appears to be slightly uphill. Is that correct. It looks as though this could be more of a technique problem than a strength one. It doesn't look insurmountable though.

Better give him my number if he is looking for a ferry pilot. Drifter Bundy to Darwin now that is a trip I would love.

I watched a movie last night called the Suffragette. What a powerful movie and it just showed how far we have come. However if there are women out there that feel with good reason as they are being unfairly treated then we have not come far enough. Just as an aside, Australia was the second country to give Women the vote. NZ in 1894 and us in 1902. Not bad considering that we only became a nation in 1901. How said that the Traditional Owners were not treated the same way.

I remember the Christmas B-B-Q we had in England. In the middle of the backyard of our semi detached house (whatever the hell that means, surely the house is detached or not detached, how can it be semi detached?) but I digress, the backyard was about the size of an Aussie farmers handkerchief. Well 2 feet of snow the barbie smoking away and every bloody Pom within 5 miles sniffing around seeing what the bloody silly Aussies where up to now. At least it was easy to keep the Beer cold, in England in the December the whole bloody country turns into the worlds best esky. Just grab a 6 pack and bury it in the snow. What a wonderful 2.5 years we had over here with so many pommy mates that are now lifelong friends.

Seb's aircraft was one of the ones that I looked at when I was buying. Probably would have bought it if it had a 912 in it. So where is the Drifter going to Brett?

I use Oz Runways which allows my wife to track me. We also use find my friends on iPhone which allows her and the kids to track me. We also have find my iphone and find my ipad activated. All of the above rely on mobile coverage, but will all also give a last known position. If all else fails, as required I carry an EPIRB as required. Admittedly I need to be capable of activating that if necessary, but to date my wife and I are both quite comfortable with the technology that we use. As well as all of the above my wife and daughter always get a text before I take off from anywhere with my next location, the route I am taking as well as an SAR time.

Actually the likely hood of some members of the public adhering to the rules is probably very good. I purchased one of these for my wife for Christmas as she has wanted one for a while. It came with a fairly comprehensive set of instructions as well as operating guidelines based on the CASA handout. I had already before purchase made myself well aware of these guidelines. The question I must ask is having purchased a fairly high level one of these items and having read the instructions although she has not had the chance to fly it yet due to the weather, it gives a guideline of being controllable to not more than 100 metres but recommended to be kept within 25 metres of the controller. So unless there are some super duper models out there I would think an incident should be unlikely unless the pilot was flying below 500'. This thing of my wife's is a big unit, but I can tell you now that at 500' I do not think that I would be able to see it, let alone be capable of determining if it was going up/down/forward or backward. My point is if you are obeying VFR it should be unlikely to come within cooee of one. Of course if someone is flying one near an ALA that could be different. You that minimum 500' can protect us as well as Joe Public.

X-Air Hanuman Folding Wings. According to the book it is a 1 man operation although I will admit to not having folded the wings on mine so can neither confirm nor deny the time frame.. BEW approx 300kgs depending upon engine and MTOW of 544kgs Cruise 85 Knots Endurance 4 hours. (80 litres fuel) 2 Seat side by side. Rotax engines some 80 hp some are 100hp and some are Jabiru 80hp Simple to fly, very forgiving. There is a factory built one with the 80hp Rotax for sale in the Classifieds.

S.Drifter anyone with half a brain knows that you guys are doing it tough and suffer as much as your stock do. Anyone with half a brain also knows that most destocked years ago and are only trying to keep the barest number of stock alive so you have something to continue on with after the drought breaks. The problem is that a few (sorry very few people) do not even have half a brain. Sadly some of those few come on here and spruik about crap that they know nothing about. I am sure they do it just to get a bite. Me I would rather do something positive. Keep your chin up mate. Hopefully it will change soon. The last line on your post that is absolute Gold.

Steep descending turn base to final, overshoot the runway centre line, panic and kick the rudder to get it around, then all of a sudden you are losing height, speed, and out of balance. Those 15 knots disappear fairly quickly once out of balance and it is going to hit 1 wing before the other as well.

Last one for now. They do not want to pull trucks from the run. They have the hay in southern NSW and the Qld farmers desperately need it. Burrumbuttock Hay Runners shared Drought Angels'sphoto. 6 December at 19:42 · Please everyone have a read! We need fuel funds! Drought Angels 6 December at 13:42 · Brisbane · funds for fuel are too low. We only have $62,000 and we have 130 trucks wanting to cart donated hay to our farmers. We need to be able to give these truck drivers at least $1000 for fuel as they are donating their trucks and time to this. We DESPERATELY NEED another $70,000. Please if you can donate, now is the time to do it with only 4 weeks left until the run we have to make decisions this week to pull trucks. $2000 gets your business banner on a truck if you would like to sponsor a truck. All tax deductible. You can donate at www.cfsc.org.au and choose donate now and then choose Drought Angels option. You can direct depost at CBA BSB 064409 Account: 10175749 Name: Drought Angels Let's not let these farmers down who are so desperately looking forward to this hay arriving. Please share this post far and wide!!!

Crowd funding volenteer has raised just over $70,000. That is still less than 50% of the cost for 70 trucks. Remember they have over 200 loads to go. Burrumbuttock Hay Runners 17 December at 17:12 · $70000!!!! Massive thanks to Jack from dollar for the drought and all those that donated! We are stoked to be helping the Truckies with their fuel bills to move this hay where it is needed!

Some photos of the boys getting the Hay in. Kailie Mudge Our donation on its way!! Burrumbuttock Hay Runners 22 December at 13:19 · New record I think!!!!! 3 bloody tyre blow outs in 16 hours Burrumbuttock Hay Runners shared Adam Lieschke'spost. 12 December at 12:17 · What a wonderful bunch of blokes! Adam Lieschke added 2 new photos — with Nigel Lieschke and 7 others. 12 December at 11:12 · What a great community always willing to help out .

Burrumbuttock Hay Runners 23 December at 23:44 · Entertainment done !!!!!!!!! Ned Kelly the truck is an awesome machine, owned by a local here in Brissy and doing the run as well as providing the stage for the entertainment.

I am posting some links below to the Facebook page for the Burrumbuttock Hay Runners. https://www.facebook.com/Burrumbuttock-Hay-Runners-1397618033820716/?fref=ts These guys do great work. It is totally voluntary. Currently they have enough hay for about 200 trailer loads. They have many trucks and operators willing to donate time and the equipment to do the run but some of these guys are struggling themselves and simply can't afford the week of to do the run and still be able to fuel their trucks. The organisers are currently looking at not being able to send all of the donated hay due to lack of resources to move it. They are looking for donations to assist in the cost of fuel for the trucks. I am taking a B/Double from Brisbane down to load (2 days) then the run back up to Ilfracombe (3 days) then another day to get home. All up a bit over 6 Days and $2000.00 plus in fuel. I am one of the lucky ones, I can provide my own fuel but lots of others can,t. So if you have a few dollars left after Chrissy think about a donation. For those who do not have facebook i will copy and paste some info from the Facebook Pages in the next few posts. If anyone wants to spend a day on the road during the Run or the trip down or home there are two seats in the truck. Once I get the actual route the trucks will be running, I will post that it would be great to see some aerial video or photos of the trucks on the road. 200 loads of hay would make an awesome sight from the air. Anyway if you can spare a bob or two to help our drought stricken farmers, then dig deep. If there is enough interest shown in the thread I will post regular updates over the next week and the run itself.

Was on late downwind the other day when someone who should have known better decided to join the circuit on base. To say I was unhappy about that would be an understatement.

Oscar. Your last paragraph is one of the main reasons for my question. 12 months ago I purchased an aircraft that was fitted with a Jabiru engine. I considered fitting a CAMit engine but for a couple of reasons went to the additional expense and weight of a Rotax. Not in the least of that was CAMits inability at the time to provide a delivery time frame. That certainly does not stop me from having a continuing interest not only in the further advances at both Jabiru and CAMit or for that matter the D Motor which I also considered. I would be interested in real life examples of running CAMit motors more so than the hybrids though as that is the way I was looking at going. In addition to that, one never knows where ones next project could lead.

So without going through all 22 pages, I would like to go back to the original question. Does anyone have one that is flying, what sort of hours are on it? Pros and cons?

The best way to keep them cool is to fully charge them and keep them plugged in. They get hot when either discharging or charging the battery but not so much if fully charged and maintaining the staus quo.