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  1. Geoff13
    That was for a D-motor delivered factory to Brisbane, all inclusive.
  2. Geoff13
    Airfreight to Aus 2 yearsago was about $1250.00 from memory.
  3. Geoff13
    When i was doing the calcs when deciding what to replace my jabiru with the dmotor came in almost 9 kgs lighter than a 912 installed.
  4. Geoff13
    The advantage of the D-Motor over the Rotax is weight.
  5. Geoff13
    My missus just goes shopping. Much safer for me to not argue about that. Lol.
  6. Geoff13
    Good to hear. Also what is very promising is that the factory appears to be very happy to sort issues as they arise and are not trying to duck the issue or pass it on elsewhere.
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    I was told later that it was most likely a training school that flys in regularly with students from SE Asia that have very little English. I have seen or heard the flight or similar flights several times when I have been up that way. Always only one spokesperson on the radio. The radio always comes across as though it is a formation but rarely does it appear to be what I would call a formation. I always thought that if an aircraft was fitted with a radio the PIC must be qualified to use it and make mandatory calls. Very difficult if you don't speak English.
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    I have flown into Gympie a bit and the formation helicopters that fly in there can be very unsettling. One day I heard an inbound call for helicopter formation of 5 inbound at 10 nm etc. Followed buy a joining call followed by a base call then the first helicopter came in and hovered for about a minute before taking off again. It took me a while to work out where the other 4 were but they ended up being between 2 and 3 minutes apart and all came in, hovered for a minute then left before the next one came in. It was a classic case of radio calls confusing what was really happening. I am not sure what the solution to that would be but imho it would have been better for the leader to only call himself in as when he called base for the formation the 4th and 5th machine had not even joined the circuit. It was confusing thinking that a formation of 5 had joined when in fact only one had and the rest were still coming.
  9. Geoff13
    Happily the Rules disagree with you. I believe the rules are sufficient as they are.
  10. Geoff13
    If you are throwing the Drifter in when you are selling up, give me a ring before you go to the real estate agents please. A house near an Airport, A 912 Drifter, and a stones throw from the Gympie Muster. Sounds like paradise to me.
  11. Geoff13
    I once got asked if this dress made her bum look big. Apparently "no your bum makes your bum look big" was not the correct response.
  12. Geoff13
    Next time you hear them, ask what tunnel they are flying through.
  13. Geoff13
    You don't need to look very hard to find better rates than that in the Brisbane area. There are several schools that are lower priced. When I read the rates in the OP my jaw nearly hit the floor. I guess I am lucky I flew 2.5 hours today for 30 litres of fuel @ $1.47 per litre. Even allowing for all the other costs it was still less than $100.00 per hour.
  14. Geoff13
    He would rather fly it than drive it.
  15. Geoff13
    Perth might be a little bit to far in the Quicksilver Mark. But I wouldn't giving it a go. LOL.
  16. Geoff13
    Gee I wish I had taken you for a flight, you might have bought mine instead. LOL. You can learn to fly in a 19 reg if you own it and if the flying school are willing to train you in it.
  17. Geoff13
    It is amazing the number of people that do not understand the road rules. As a side comment, in Germany when I lived there in the 80's it was not illegal to overtake in the slow lane or on the right as it was over there, but it was illegal to be overtaken by another vehicle if he had to go into a slow lane to do it. That meant if you were in the fast lane and came up behind a slower vehicle, then a quick flash of the lights would have them scooting over to the slower lane very quickly. If a flash of the lights did not work then you just needed to indicate that you were going to change the slower lane and they moved over pretty quickly. In those days it was policed very heavily and was very effective in keeping traffic to the slow lanes and kept traffic flowing. I have suggested that Qld Transport trial it on the M1 but met with the typical WTF would you know, you are just a dumb truck driver response.
  18. Geoff13
    My comment about calibrating the speedo was just in response to your saying the car was doing 110kph. In all likelihood if the car was doing 110kph then the truck would be most unlikely to be sitting on his ar$e. Bad truckies can look bad without us resorting to exaggeration. Having said that I agree with you, no matter what speed the car is doing the truck driver still has no right to tailgate or use his truck in a threatening manner. It just that as much as tailgating pisses some people off, over stating the incident to make others look bad pisses me of. As for the TWU and the ATA, the are simply beaurocrats with their noses in the trough like most politicians. They do not represent the average driver and certainly not owner drivers or small companies. Their exorbitant fees are paid by the likes of Toll (Japan Post) etc.
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    First might I suggest the car driver calibrates his speedo. But in all seriousness no mechanical advantage and I would hope we one day manage to weed these cowboys out of our industry. I do however despair that this will not be an achievable outcome. As to my first comment of over 1200 trucks tested in Qld during the month of Austrans in April, less than 1% had there speed limiter tampered with. This involves a fine to the driver of up to $1500 and the owner of up to $15,000. Most car speedos in Australia read between 6 and 10 kph slow at 100 kph, this is due to the regulations allowing a 10% inaccuracy in speedos but they are not allowed to read lower than the actual speed. Trucks on the other hand in general have a less than 2% tolerance.
  20. Geoff13
    I carried one on my triathalon bike for years. Very handy.
  21. Geoff13
    Interesting figures. At 5000 I get about 18-19lph I haven't actually done accurate tests. At 4800 I get 15.6 lph. Averaged over 200 hours. As I don't have a fuel flow meter. At 4800 I get 85 knots IAS and at 5000 I get 87 knots. Not worth the extra fuel burn to me. Besides at 4800 and 85 knots she just feel right.
  22. Geoff13
    I agree with Mnewbery in principle, with a car following a truck the drag is almost unnoticeable to the truck,.but provides a distinct advantage to the car. However with a truck following a truck it gives a measurable fuel advantage to the trailing truck and a lesser disadvantage to the leading truck. A third truck in the line gets an advantage with no noticeable change to the other two. If however you have a larger car trailing a smaller car it can make a huge advantage to the trailing car and an equally large advantage to the smaller car. I have trialled all combinations over long distances and if pressed could possibly even come up with some figures.
  23. Geoff13
    My Auto Mechanic is more than happy for me to assist when I take my car in. In fact his standard rate sheet even covers it. Hourly Rates If you leave your Car $35.00 If you watch $45.00 If you give advice $55.00 If you help $65.00 If you already tried to fix it $75.00 If your mate fixed it $100.00
  24. Geoff13
    Come on Frank you should know better than to try and confuse a discussion with facts, especially if they tend to make Jabiru look good.
  25. Geoff13
    Can't argue with that, the Honda Goldwing would have to be one of the smoothest engines around. Certainly the smoothest bike engine that I have ever seen. The fuel injected 1800 being even better than the carby 1500.
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