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    They have great Hats...really Big Ones and silly marches to rival the Russkies
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    Hehe, I sometimes wear a military Growbag simply because it prevents cold drafts up my back, I dgaf how it looks tbh but usually have a hoodie on over the top of it so not very top gun
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    A 2x2 bogey would be pretty much impossible to steer and even trying would introduce severe sideforces on the strut unless the bogey itself was either articulated between the front and rear pairs or both pairs could be independently steered like some 4 wheel steering cars..it would make the whole setup very complex
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    The second picture has the person photoshopped in at a fake scale to make the gear look bigger, there is no aircraft with an undercarriage that size (also its not a C5 undercarriage anyway) Here is a video showing work being done on the Gear...
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    I've only seen diagnosed cases of ADHD that are probably near the top of the scale in severity and wouldnt want to give any of these a Pilot's Licence. The problem I see these days is the increasing tendency to diagnose conditions that are very mild as I believe everyone has what could be catagorised as some character/personality/mental condition if you look closely enough...there is no such thing as normal. Basically over diagnosis, a child who was just classed as being a bit naughty in the 60s and perhaps just grow out of it will now be 'special needs' and carry the weight of that classification for life.
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    What are the differences?
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    The test was looking at how a handheld would perform in an emergency just taken out of your flight bag and used as is
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    I've done 7 hours in one day solo in a microlight but I was 12 years younger and 4 other microlights were doing the same trip so we could support each other along the way, I wouldnt do it now Plan to overnight if needed and listen to your body
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    Found this explanation, the presure sensors go to an ADC then from there its an electrical signal to the flight displays, so no need for pitot/static lines inside the pressure hull. I think any backup instruments are also fully electronic these days Oh hold on....further reading indicates the avionics bay that the ADC resides in actually pressurised so that throws out my theory of not needing really strong pressure lines from the static at some point inside the Pressure hull ...doh Anyway Ill stop my rambling nonsense now as it has no relevance to our systems and Im just blurting out stuff as I learn it (shouldnt go posting before my second morning coffee)
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    Physical tubes are no more failsafe than cables. I think you mean there needs to be redundancy. There has to be a pressure tube to the sensor of course but I'm not convinced that any of the current glass cockpit setups use anything other than electronic pressure sensors that wouldn't need to have the sense tube enter the pressurised cockpit or display itself. The efis in my microlight does have the sensor in the panel but that's non pressurised cockpit of course. I honestly don't know though, just rambling
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    I checked the calibration on mine once using a syringe tee'd into the static line, Iirc 5000' was the highest altitude I could replicate the vacumn force needed to even simulate this mediocre altitude was quite an effort. actually that raises a question....what material are thestatic lines when they enter the pressurised section of an airliner, they must be rather stoutly engineered so as not to collapse with the pressure differential, thick walled stainless tubing I guess or something similar Actually now I think about it in this day and age they are probably electronic pressure sensors outside the pressure shell with just wires to feed the instruments coming inside...but they couldnt do that in the olden day of first generation jetliners
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    There is plenty of evidence That higher speeds equal higher probability of accidents and worse outcomes when they happen https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/speedmgt/ref_mats/fhwasa1304/Resources3/08 - The Relation Between Speed and Crashes.pdf https://www.brake.org.uk/get-involved/take-action/mybrake/knowledge-centre/speed/speed-and-injury There are tons more studies that come to same (rather Obvious) conclusion, Speed isnt the only factor of course, but its a major one.
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    Yes Cognative decline is very real and nobody is wholly immune to it's affect. In the current UK Driving tests there is a section where you asked to watch a video taken from the drivers viewpoint and you have to click a button every time you see a developing hazard such as someone approaching a crossing or a bicycle about to manouvre around an obstacle. I think this test should be required to be re-taken at perhaps 70 years old it would catch a lot of unsafe drivers either due mental decline, slow reactions or simply poor eyesight. How you could transfer this regime to Pilots is perhaps more complex. Edit..on the flipside the standard of driving in youngsters in this country is frankly appalling, though in this case not to do with ability but mainly poor attitude things that are far harder to tackle as they would require changes in society as a whole
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    I guess after that it's a long shot and you may have already gone away, but Could you post the Videos you say you took?
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    What do these Pictures have to do with the thread?
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    Dont see how Lack of history can be countered by buying bits from Evektor instead of sourcing identical parts from an Australian supply, but its your money Not au fait with the system you have, but if possible have a chat with your intended inspector beforehand
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    If they had only kept the prop on the front an redone the empanage it might have been a winner
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    Yea, it looks to be just over 300 metres can't find any contacts though maybe worth a drive to have a look
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    A little closer, but probably a long shot re: available hangarage.... https://ourairports.com/airports/YELW/
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    Personally wasn't questioning what the procedure is rather the sense in it. Your Cowboy comment would probably not be appreciated by any friends or family of this or other similar events when coming across this thread (things said on the internet stay around a loooong time and a quick google will dredge them up)
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    Do you have coordinates?
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    They are on the cockpit side of the firewall, they need a fabricated box or cradle to mount them in as the have no built in fixing points. Using the original rotax mount wouldn't work and as you've mentioned is a pretty silly place to mount a CDI anyway. Different harness lengths can be specified when ordering
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    Maybe worth Checking thrustline and rigging of the stabiliser (though maybe not much you can do about the latter)
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    Onetrack thanks for the reply. I think a fatal crash is serious whatever class of aircraft its in and should warrant some sort of investigation by the overseeing aviation body (just my opinion) and though I get your point about crash causes (mostly) sometimes an investigation can uncover underlying faults in an aircraft its not always Pilot error. (perhaps there is sufficient knowledge and experience in the RA association to accomplish the same?) Anyway as Jerry said probably not right thread for this.
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    Onetrack, I try to stay out of discussions on recent accidents but picking up on your point of the ATSB not investigating as its a recreational aircraft...is thst the usual stance? Bloody awfull attitude if that is the case
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