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  1. Kyle Communications
    Hangars are bloody expensive now. The tilt slab construction walls etc with a steel roof type of light idustrial building construction now...is that cheaper than th traditional style of hangar build?. I havent kept up with the slab style stuff but I did get a couple of quotes for normal stle hangars and they are way expensive now with the steel prices
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    The SE2 just has a super accurate GPS in it The TailbeaconX and AV-30C I just got the TailbeaconX itself has that same gPS in it but the AV-30C has the calibrated preassure sensor so it is TSO compliant. You need both together or some other Pressure encoder to complete the TSO package
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    Yes I have just done the same crap with the Director iD...wait until you have a EPOA for your parents and manage MyGov and centrelink and my aged care for them as well as all your own govt bullsh*t
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    I bought my SE2 before the date allowed for the rebate 😞 .... but I just bought the ADSB setup for my RANS S-21 as I have a rego for it within RAA. I bought the TailbeaconX but the only version available now is the TSO version. The problem with this is you need a TSO barometric source. My MGL is not certifed for that as it is for experimental use and not TSO. So I needed a TSO source. uAvionix has a bundle deal going at the moment with their AV30-C which does have the TSO source in it and it does a stack more stuff as well. So i bit the bullet and ordered both. just over 8k but should get $4035 back from the rebate...well this is what the rebate paperwork told me when I lodged it earlier today. So will see what happens with this and if I do get back the 50%..I hope so 🙂 because I was willing to spend the 4.5k without the rebate https://www.uavionix.com.au/tailbeaconx-tso-av-30-c-bundle/
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    Do you know the owner/pilot Mike? Engine failure or "other"
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    I think I may have found why I thought UHF in the 400mhz band..I was told many years ago about it by a mate who was doing a lot of gliding back then and there was a early version in 2009 at least for OZFLARM and MINIOZ it was based on FLARM but a different frequency and it must have just transitioned to the usual FLARM parameters
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    Thanks for that great info..so that confirms the RF chip can do the range but its the modulation technique that is the issue. Interesting that the UK is the odd man out now for this. I am not sure but wasnt FLARM first developed here but on a much lower UHF frequency?
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    " As for the frequency/SkyEcho, FLARM uses the 'ISM' band (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_radio_band), which is a general-purpose unlicensed radio band allocated by the ITU, unfortunately the ITU allocated a different frequency range in AU/US to Europe. uAvionix will have to explain whether it's a legal issue or a hardware issue as to why the SkyEcho can't receive the ISM band in Australia (915Mhz). If that could be solved it would be great." It would be a hardware issue maybe thats why as soon as you select australia it will turn off the FLARM in the SE2 868mhz is not that far away from 915 but the antenna on the internal PCB is made for 868 so it would have a big mismatch The RF chip nowdays will do the full frequency range but it would be the microstrip antenna Most likely a new antenna and it would work fine but Australia is a small market so it would require different hardware version
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    Thruster if you have a SE2 then it comes up directly on the screen with the mobile data ones. Ozrunways only has mobile ADSB but it does show other Ozrunways users but again all via mobile data. Avplan does SE2 ADSB directly in its base VFR plan where OZrunways you have to buy the "Premiun" plan
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    Avplan has the ADSB as standard in their standard package
  11. Kyle Communications
    just a report of a accident on the local news in brisbane two died i believe
  12. Kyle Communications
    Hi Bob. thats the std setup but I cant see the throttle connecting rod. So i dont know. To my knowledge there are no other twin stick amateur built XL here in OZ except the Girlfriend and she had the twin operating rods. Mabel has twin sticks but a centre throttle this time though and again I have never seen a centre throttle version Sav here at all
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    Anyone on here who knows the aircraft that was the subject of this report for the 18th sept. https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/occurrence-briefs/2022/aviation/engine-malfunction-amateur-built-savannah-xl15-km-great-keppel-island-queensland-18-september-2022?fbclid=IwAR3PqqRTkiIMSHIaLvo9EXVN9m9yQH1pfwm6869qoIbLhFnJ0uDOlGZnqOs Good job whoever the pilot was...good thinking
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    I have seen the video from the cameras on the field...I agree to what you said Forsythem1972
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    Apen I think its time you get over yourself
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    It was mark and a student. Both are ok
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    Both men are ok..mainly cuts and scrapes although possibly broken thumbs for one of them. Happened about 8.15 this morning
  18. Kyle Communications
    Just saw on the news looks like a Microlight has come to grief on landing. havent heard any further info yet
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    There is no SW20 coax plug connector only a push on test connector which is quite long. I was dealing direct with Ipex in Japan they only do one for the SW23. There are some SW20 size plugs but it is the reverse genger. I have fitted a coax tail on my SE2 and tested it and it works a treat. Fitted to a normal transponder antenna while flying was receiving direct contacts up to 180km away. Transmit appeared to be about 20 to 40nm reliably possibly further but it is only 20watts compared to 200 to 250 watts for a normal transponder. There isnt enough room internally to fit a SMA on the case fed with a coax without major microsurgury and a deft skill.
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    The older VDO die because of the block vibrations not the oil hammering. First I have heard of the restrictor for the pressure gauge though. The remote mount I did worked a treat
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    Hi Mike There is a adaptor that fits into the block for the oil its a 10x1 thread on my engine. It then gives you the sealed type of AN fuel fitting for the raceteck stuff. Its basically just AN style liquid fittings and a teflon braided hose. I got a set for mabels engine and also got exactly the same for the RANS engine Mike Gearon The older analogue senders have a wire wound resistor with a arm that runs across the wire to get the resistance...nothing wrong with them provided they are not pounded by vibration like in the rotax. The arm wears through the fine resistance wire in the sender and it fails because the arm sits almost in the same spot all the time when the pressure is applied by the oil. Dont worry the electron 4-20mA senders fail too just they are 8 times more expensive than the old VDO style ones. Rotax I think is on their 3rd type now due to the failures of the Honeywell sender..thing they have a German one now but they are 400 bucks or so each
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    Parts came in yesterday for the remote oil pressure sender mount. After 2 failures of senders previously on The Girlfriend I did a remote mounted one on that engine and no more problems after that. even with a VDO style mechanical one which are notorious for failing on the Rotax
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    Thanks Onetrack... I havent chased it as I still have a heap of it from back in the old days :)..my stuff is probably more than 25 years old and still perfect. It should be in everyones workshop 🙂
  24. Kyle Communications
    Aluminox also was used by the power distribution companies when connecting alu clamps to the copper overhead mains and visa versa..that when I first came across it then used it exclusively in my radio busiess for all antenna assembly...fantastic product..hard to get now though but seach for aluminium jointing compound
  25. Kyle Communications
    The corrogated tubing is very similar to what ICP suppies for their kits now the last couple of years. The difference is the ICP stuff is really thin. This stuff is locally made down at the gold coast and is substantially thicker in wall. I would say at least double the thickness. I dont expect the flow to be any different to be honest. My fuel lines will be the teflon coated rubber injection fuel hose. ICP also use that thin corrgated stuff for the fuel but I am not using it for the fuel The corrogated stuff I have only used for the water and oil. I had a pulsing issuse in the oil pressure which drove me nuts on the girlfiriend. I posted a lot about it on the original savannah build thread. I ended up getting a adjustable oil pressure releif valve and that worked well but a LAME in WA that I know well had the same issue in a Sav and he found it was the curves in the hose from the oil cooler pipes becomming thinner in those bends and causing a restriction so he put a set of the internal springs into those 2 oil pipes to keep the hose the right diameter and that fixed the proplem. So I got the 2 output fittings at a about a 30deg angle coming off the oil cooler to make the bend better and of course the corrogated line doesnt squeeze small at all so this should hopefully stop that issue from happening again
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