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  1. Yenn
    Enjoy it, you will find that there are times when you feel that you are not getting anywhere, but it will suddenly dawn like a bright light. Make sure you get on well with your instructor and can trust him, or her. Any doubt about your instructor, then find someone else. Embrace all the theory you have to learn, most of it comes from the school of hard knocks and is important, even what you think is irrelevant could be well worth following up. Fly one plane as often as you can afford and if you get a chance to try others, go for it. Remember that to be a pilot is not beyond the abillity of most people, but you have to keep at it and that means it has to be enjoyable. Don't let anyone else spoil your appreciation of flying. Finally Enjoy it.
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    It would not look right with a nosewheel. No doubt there are nose wheel biplanes but I cannot recall one.
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    I haven't met this little beastie, but the ordinary wasps can work that quickly. I had two fuel vents on my RV4, which were 1/4" aluminium tube and I stopped the wasps by running a bit of safety wire into them so that it broke up the smooth circular cross section. That worked without any other protection for several years and may well be still working for the new owner. I used the normal cover for the pitot tube.
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    A blast from a heat gun will help remove plastic. I have seen where someone stated the plastic coming off, attached small weights and left it to peel off overnight. That was a tip from Kitplanes.
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    I gave up WD40 years ago and use Inox, which seems to do all the same things better. I have used acetone and auto fluid as a penetrating oil with good effect. Another thing I have used is Kero and washing up liquid mixed as a degreaser. I don't know if it is better or worse than the bought stuff as I have never bought any.
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    I agree with most of the above, but for me Nice to fly, means responsive and finger touch needed, not necessarily stable. But that changes if I want to go long distance. Nice to fly then becomes, stable, comfortable and quiet. none of which are required for short trips. Easy to fly, means it is hard to get into trouble, but that means it can be equally easy to get out of trouble. As stated above the Cessna 175 and piper are easy to fly, but comparing them to cars driving them is like driving a truck, whereas my Corby would be more like a Lotus.
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    One of the best ways to learn is by others mistakes and that is what reporting is all about. I have been critical of RAAus for years about their handling of reports. There is very little to learn and sometimes they garble a report completely. Concerning the Savvy on its nose. What failed? Was it just a gust of wind that damaged it, or was there a weak point before the wind?
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    Welcome. You will find several Savvy owners here, although I am not one of them. They are a very competent plane for short field work. I have never seen the tailwheel version but it should be good.
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    Further reading of your posts does not let anything jump out at me. You say you tested the mag switches and they were good. Was this test done from the single pole connectors to ground or just across the switches? Have you checked the continuity from the 4 single connectors between the modules and earth? I would expect if that is your problem that all 4 would be open circuit, if one was OK you should get some spark. It would take both circuits in the magneto generator to fail together to produce the symptoms you have. I assume earlier tests of the ignition did not result in one failing. Sorry I can't point to an obvious failure point, but I am not a Rotax expert. I hope I have given you some help.
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    Do you have a wiring diagram for the engine? I have a one page diagram in my 2000 edition of CPS catalogue, which seems to corelate to what you say you have. If necessary I could copy and paste it here I think. It looks to me that you should have4 earth wires coming from the modules to combine into 1 wire to earth. A failure in the single piece of wire would result n all ignitions being dead. I have no experience of Rotax maintenance, but will have a look at all the posts here to see if I can spot another failure point. It certainly appears to be electrical rather than fuel related.
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    For the last 20 years I have done most of my BFRs in aircraft that are new to me. My log book has several 1 hour flights in aircraft i will probably never fly again. I find that recency in my single seater helps me fly anything. I don't know what not flying for ten months would do, but I did have a long layoff and fell back into it quickly. I reckon just relaxing and not pushing it helps get to grips with a strange plane.
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    His resume looks OK and I wish him well. We need someone with experience and ability, so he may be just the man. Don't knock him until you can come up with a sensible criticism, which I hope you cannot do.
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    I was under the impression that the spiral dive was the more likely occurrence with loss of control. I have never spun a plane by accident, but I have experienced a spiral dive. It was while doing instrument training and after a while I completely lost track of where i was. The instructor popped up my shades and I was banked about 45 deg, airspeed high and altimeter spinning downwards rapidly. That taught me one great unforgettable lesson.
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    Agnes Water is way better now than it used to be. The only thing to watch there is to not be fooled into thinking it better to take off away from the hills when there is no wind at the windsock. It could be blowing quite hard above the tree tops. Steady Sou Easter usually.
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    A good way to become capable of stall avoidance is to become proficient with slow flight. I enjoy flying just above stall speed, which can be at quite different throttle settings. You can fly sedately with a closed throttle, just above the stall, but with a load of power you are going to e quite busy and very nose up. Of course you don't do it close to the ground.
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    I was thinking it was silly to say it could have collapsed, but then on thinking back we used to have a regular group that flew each weekend. Now I hardly ever see anyone at the strip. Nobody seems interested in running a fly in here, or at least they all say it would be a good idea, but have so little interest I cannot get them to say which weekend would suit. So I gave up and maybe that is what is happening to recreational flying. One bloke even went so far as to say he would organise one, but that was months ago and it still hasn't been mentioned again.
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    Not at all uncommon. Gladstone used to be very hard to deal with, so much so that I no linger get my fuel there. They are just too much trouble.
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    Nev. You say Merlins were fork and blade. I assume that is ons bank had its big end sitting within the two bearings of the other bank, in which case I must have been thinking if the meteor engines which I worked on over 60 years ago.
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    I work on CASA recommendations from their "Maintenance Guide for Operators. I know CASA have a poor reputation, but what they recommend is just basic commmon sense.
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    The case of two pistons opposed from one crank pin is easily explained by using big ends where one is between the two legs of the other. I don't know if that applies to KFM. I remember working on a V* years ago that had that arrangement, could have been a flat head Ford. Jabiru first made a two cylinder engine, as proof of concept I think, then they made the 1600 four cylinder engine. I used one for about a year but changed to the 2200 engine, mainly because of wear and oil leaks in the 1600.
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    It is certainly right next to Jim Crow. There was another strip a bit nearer Yeppoon years ago that I flew from skydiving. I wasn't the pilot just sat on the floor for a short while before I jumped out.
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    How have the bureaucrats killed off our old farts flying. I still fly and there are a few others fly from the same strip. There are clubs within 50 or so miles from us in 3 directions. The fourth direction is too wet. People who want to fly can do so and probably as easily as they have eve been able to. It is not bureaucrats, but rather a lack of interest that is reducing flying.
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    It is not the Cawarral strip on the Google Earth. Very close to the Yeppoon road and has powerlines at the approach end, right beside the road.
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    I wold say never turn the engine unless you intend to start it. All you are doing is wiping the oil off the camshaft and everywhere else. If you are going to start it, then turn it over to check compressions and to see that it is not stuck. If it has been a while since starting and you are not going to get the temps up high enough to get rid of water in the oil, I would not say don't do it because the temps are too low. I would say do it to get fresh oil around the system and even do it regularly, but only getting high temps will boil off moisture. I consider it better to splash a bit of oil around rather than leave it to slowly break down on the bearing surfaces. Best to fly regularly, but if you can't, then run it as often as possible.
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    Between Rocky and Yeppoon, the opposite side of the road from Mt Jim Crow is a strip I don't know the name of. Landing there in the Corby I cannot see dead ahead and at the time I landed there it was only about 6m wide mowed. All I could do as I landed was try to keep the long grass visible both sides and try not to be able to see the mowed bit. If I saw it I would be off the strip. I did two landings there for a BFR. Not easy.
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