danny_galaga

That's gold 😄

Hey! My hand is famous ☺️

Yes, when I first learnt to fly and I was taking some friends for a flight, I was quite high from an airfield I wanted to do a touch and go on. Piper warrior. But I forgot to warm through the motor regularly. When I accelerated to go, the engine spluttered and had quite a hard time because of the cooling. That's just at idle. If it needed to be started, then who knows?

Just read that too. Why turn off ads-b on a training flight? Something you'd think you'd want in a crowded airspace.

Oh wow. I had always thought it was illegal 😯

What terrible ironies the universe throws at people 😞

Crossed my mind too. Not necessarily incorrectly set, but out of calibration. Cracked static line or something.

Guys, I'm sold! Will still be a while but when it comes time to upgrade my prop I'm getting a Bolly for sure 🙂

As far as I'm aware, blades coming off in ultralights is pretty rare. But it was in the back of my mind when I went for my good old fashioned laminated single piece wooden propeller ☺️

Sad times we are living in 😞

No. Was just looking at prices now. I was keen on a Sensenich, because they have a really neat system for adjusting pitch. But then I looked at Bolly and it's probably going to be about HALF the price of the Sensenich 😯. At that difference, I can live with a slightly fiddlier setting up stage 📐 😄 And of course Bolly are Aussie ☺️ If only they made a wooden prop - it would be a Bollywood 😃

Would love the right propeller in wood. They look lovely ☺️ But I can't afford to play around with several different propellers until I hit the jackpot. So I will probably go ground adjustable. But no rush. Not much change out of three grand for a prop now. When I bought this prop about six years ago, it was roughly $1600. Not quite sure what you mean by direct drive. Rotax 912 has a gearbox. It's not really an option.

I think down the track,once I want to actually go places, my lovely wooden propeller will have to go 😞 . Cruise right now is 70knts at 5200 rpm. It can easily redline during takeoff. I'll get something ground adjustable to tune it. But for now there's no point since it's not going far for a while...

Dunno if you can cast duralumin. Happy to be corrected on that.

He is a disgusting opportunistic troll.