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Thats a excellent weight

Not my idea for the coreflute Danny Leach is modifying his lower cowl for radiator input on the Esqual he is redoing and he came over a week or two ago to grab some bits from me and I saw he was using the coreflute to make his scoop....hahaha thought it was a great idea as well. I used clear hd packing tape to attach to the cowl and the sides to the bottom are just hot glued together for the moment..this should make it solid. Then I will fill those big corners with that blue or green surfboard foam stuff and I should be able to start shaping it. The coreflute also gives yo the clearance from the internals to the cowl. Then once shaped I will cover the whole plug with tape and then run a few layers of glass over it to get the solid shape...then i think I will use that as the as the mold. It will aloow anyone then to put a bigger premade section onto their existing cowl then just cut out the inside. Well thats the idea :)..will see if it works. The coreflute I got from Bunnings...the sides are 3mm and that front more substantial piece is 5mm

Yes well when it comes to the way CASA works you may as well throw a crap load of marbles into a hat and start pulling out them only one at a time to see whats written on it then toss it over into the corner and look at it later. Everything seems to be so convoluted...The left doesnt seem to know what the right is doing internally there. One medical for thos another for that..so many finiky rules ...the FAA and the UK body have a much more refined and simpler system CASA just dont seem to want to make life simpler

Got a bit more work done tonight on the new cowl molding. The radiator is now at what I think is a far better angle. Originally it was probably stock at about a65deg lean back now its about 40deg and the opening will be made larger to get more air through the radiator. I dont think it will add too much drag at all. I have used corflute to get the rough starting shae to clear the radiator and down to the front of the muffler where I will make a new fence to drag the air out.

yes every Sav we have supplied a Eprop to has got around 90kts at 5000 rpm The previous exhaust systems are crap..3.3litre capacity....I havent see the current muffler supplied.

This engine is a big bore and should need more cooling obviously. I have never been happy with the angle of the radiator in the cowl ..even on the GF. I never had any cooling issues with the oil temps but the water on really hot days it used to climb a bit so I decided to mod the radiator angle as well. I had to mod the cowl underneath anyway for the larger exhaust and its position so will just make a new section that gets glassed onto the current cowl then cut out the original to just leave the new shape. You can see in the pics the cutting away of the original cowl to get the clearances I want. Just have to come up with some filling material to make the new atachment which I will make a mold of in case anyone else wants to put a better muffler on a Sav. I will still make a new set of exhaust pipes later but the current ones will be fine to get her flying

Drifter11 I have all the CNC parts here and waiting for the laser cut stainless mounting parts. I have enough done for 50 units at the moment and orders for around 40 or so. I will send you a email but I have not finalized the price yet but it will not be very expensive. The CNC costs are the most expensive parts so far

Its taking so long to get anyone its crazy..at least we have all the gear though..most new places cant get the materials to even start building or renovating...as well as trying to get someone to do it. I have plenty of work to get done so gives me a buffer until they get back but really they will just be doing the final external finishing the main thing is the house is pretty much all weatherproof now. This week I hope to get the cowl modified and on the way to new molds made and cutouts..then finish the avionics wiring now I have the pressure switch for my auto electric fuel pump and then get the twin sticks in. Wont be too long before I am ready to start the engine. I hope to have Mabel down to the hangar for assembly at the latest in the new year

I havent had much time this past few weeks to work on Mabel. We look after my father and moter inlaw here at our place and things physically and mentally so a lot of time is taken up there. The past 3 weeks I have spent the majority of the days up at our farm as we finally have got our builder there...getting tradesmen now is so hard ...We finished as much as they could as they have other programmed jobs now and I hopefully will see them back late Feb is when I am booked in. The house now is to lockup so now I ahve the electrical to do and get the plumber and plasterer there...god knows when they will turn up. I should be able to get some stuff done now on Mabel. This weekend I finalised fitting the original cowl..I do have to mod the top half at the back to make it fit to the top deck. I fitted the exhaust system I made for the GF with the bigger muffler as the lower cowl will need to be modified for the muffler also the radiator positon and cooling inlet may need modifying. The pipes for the exhaust is pretty agricultural and need to be remade. Danny and I have been working on a new tube bender..a proper one that doesnt create or dent the tubes. I have the water circuit pipes pretty much sorted for the moment so they need finishing off but at least they look reasonably good. I will make a whole new exhaust when we get the bender finished. I got in titanium tube 32mm and also 1mm titanium sheet. also got some solid titanium bar as well 35mm. We use titanium sheet at work and we ordered a stack of it from the manufacturer so I piggy backed my stuff on the works shipment. So we are going to make new mufflers and also have worked out how to get the full tuned lengths for the exhaust headers even for the savannah. The RANS S-21 will be a lot easier as there is a heap of room behind the engine so can easily get the right lengths. This we believe will add at least 3 to 5 hp to the engine. Mabel and the S-21 have big bore kits fitted so should be hopefully around 118 to 120hp.

RAA has a live tonight at 6pm Qld time or 7pm Mexican time...It will be interesting to watch this

Yes the 2 top outlets in the reserve tank I used one as the input from the fuel manifold the other as the breather going directly to the top of one of the fuel tanks..pax side..my fuel return went to the manifold itself and that stops your tank from overflowing using the ICP way of doing things. The fuel treturn just goes back to the bulk fuel lot so all open tanks should get that return in theory. I have never had intermittant fuel light or any issues with tank overflows at all. The current rebuild "Mabel" although has a different tank setup the fuel delivery system will be exactly the same although I will only have a right side and left side now...if you look at my S model rebuild blog on the savannah forum you can see what I did...

Thats excellent work and you are powering along. You dont need to put a fuel level in the reserve tank the light is fine..just throw away the bulb and fit a 10 or 12mm flashing LED into the housing..its easy to do. Look at my blog for the details...there is a lot in the blog There is a lot of reading there some 52 pages. I like the arduino solution ..I am into electronics as well would love to see what you are doing with that Mark

I told that previous chairman/mouthpiece of the RAA (cant remember his name) on one of the FB lives that they need to go for the 760 first instead of as well as CTA...its better to get one thing then work on getting the others one at a time..thats how these numpty govt depts work...too many empire builders. He basically fobbed me off with the question...I think he is gone now anyway with the latest elections..or maybe I am wrong

Thanks for that KenSLA...I didnt see it as I did a quick scan because it was typical govt jargon ... • The making of a legislative instrument that reflects current requirements contained in the current 95 series CAOs to ensure operators can continue to operate from the 2 December 2021, with the addition of the increase in MTOW that was previously consulted. • Further consultation to occur on proposed changes to the stall speed limitation for light aeroplanes, and access to controlled airspace. It is intended that these consultations commence as soon as practicable and be conducted separately to any work on the MOS. This seems to say to me that the 760kg is going to be as at 2nd Dec 2021 but limited to the 45kt stall speed 🙂

KenSLA where did you read that? I have no drama with the specs either

That was a interesting read also surprised how quick it has come out

I have one :)...works pretty well

The video for assembly of the Eprop adjustable prop has been released...turn on CC closed captions and you then go to settings and select auto translate to english..the translation is pretty good

As I get older maybe my comprehension is up to crap..your right..I just reread what KG said and you are correct...I am agreeing with him DOH!!! I think ADSB should be in every aircraft..get rid of the old Mode C crap..its a radar ping not aircraft to aircraft and also aircraft to ground

I totally disagree Being able to see other ADSB aircraft out there when NOT flying in CTA is a good thing. Would be nice is the SE2 also saw Mode C transponders but alas no. I think in the future all aircraft will be required to have ADSB out be it a EC device or a full blown Mode S For ultralight RAA style of aircraft I think it would be great to see where ALL the kamakazis are. The flying ability and decisions made from other pilots has me worried. I am not sure if its the training that happening now or the lack of training but there are so many pilots out there that just dont seem to give a sh*t about ops manuals or ERSA info when it comes to approaches or radio. I have certainly noticed it in the past 5 years or so. At least if you can see where everyone is you must be then able to make better informed decisions. EC devices are direct comms in most cases depending on other things but all the FR24 and the other one I cant think of right now all have feeder sites and no matter what Airservices has on the gound most likely you will see the data from a feeder on your Ipad or whatever Pad style nav device you have

Skippy..its a long story and the less I put out there the better. The current committee has a new direction forward. The club members voted last year for a major change in the people running the place. Our AGM is next month and I believe the current commitee will most likely be voted back in due to the changes we have made...but lets say it the charges are soon to happen. Thats why I am getting this device ready.

Now thats how it should be run..the difference is the council does not run our airfield we do as a club and so are responsible for all the costs like fencing and maint and buildings etc The club does not want to make a fortune only get enough funds to run the place without going in debt and expand the facilities. Our biggest cost by far is the runway maint due to the now extreme overuse by commercial ops

The other thing about my radio project is when listening to all the calls through out the day..it is amazing just how many crap radios there are..so another thing with the monitoring is to be able to notify the owner of the aircraft to get it fixed...Ycab at the next ERSA will have radio as mandatory

There is no alternative in our airfields case....well there are two really..close down all commercial ops or charge landing fees to the ones that are doing all the damage ...its pretty simple. Of course there is another..close the airfield...let everyone who owns a hangar there lose all of those assets and let the council sell it all off for housing or industrial land