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Good work mentioning the actual fatal rate, rather than saying that it is "safe".

I like your videos but please get rid of the ads,that turns me off watching

Cheers gareth

It's not a video, its a link.

Clear tape you can write on and which does not damage the map when it comes off? Where do you get that?

I like to use ozrunways as well as a map. most of the time, you just have to keep the blue plane near the pink line on the display... and I reckon a smart guy could set it up so that you got a reminder when a radio call was required. Since I'm not smart, I like the idea of marking the map.

Scotch Magic Removable Adhesive Tape. Officeworks online. I don't think it is availble from the shops.

Is it just me, or do the rest of you think this would be a reportable incident. Any carbon monoxide coming back into the cabin/cockpit area is unknown danger, to say I just open a couple of events and try and push it out the back is not really acceptable. I am pretty certain the regulators would be very interested in following up these statements listed in post number one

No, you are not the only one. We all need people to pull our hands out of the fire.

Nice to hear a group singing both melody and a story these days. Only this week a friend of mine in Scotland posted a video of an old guy singing a 1745 Jacobite song.

The US industry is claiming Country music started in 1922 in the Appalachians but that music came over from Scotland and Ireland with the people fleeing Lord Cumberland who was keen to kill every Highlander, the "Clearances" of the 1800s and the Irish forced into poverty.

A lot of people are griping about Coronavirus and their freedoms, but 87 Camerons in one valley in Scotland were told to get out by the end of the week, and the only places were overseas.

These people took fiddles and other small instruments and told their stories in song.

DJ Ralph Emery documented their music in the Appalachians. I couldn't find the segment, but posted my friend one of Ralph's All Stars events, but the singers were pretty much all dead, so hope the Petersens stay together and make plenty of music.

Kings In Grass Castles gives an Australian perspective on the Irish forced to leave. Amazing story. ≈ 10 years after Burke and Wills died, there were settlers in the area of the dig tree. I'm still *p-ssed* if the internet goes down.

Good points Nev. but another way of looking at this stuff is to say that the authority is at fault for not having a trusted no-fault reporting system in place.

We shouldn't even be debating this issue. The fact that we are debating it shows that not everybody has the trust they should be entitled to.

Actually, I trust the RAAus more than I do CASA. Why? Because RAAus is funded by the likes of me and CASA is not.

No one is entitled to feel a particular way. I do not think that it is possible to give iron-clad guarantees about reporting because the line between making an innocent mistake in the context of diligent flying, and being reckless is not easy to define. As I have said before, there is a literature about this but I have no read it. Start with James Reason. My understanding is that a just culture and human factors actually *started* with aviation. They could not punish pilots who made mistakes, so they had to come up with a new approach.

Mid 90’s. Nope copilot callout was correct a parameter was approaching limits. This engine (Lyc T-53) had no recording system so there was no way to know the actual value reached. Hung out to dry means there was a lot said and done that I disagreed with. Basically the N2 in a turbine engine is the compressor stage attached to the gearbox attached to whatever it’s turning. So overspeeding that overspeeds gearbox’s, accessories, pumps, and lots of expensive parts. If you overspeed by a certain amount (major) it’s pretty much take every part and throw it in the bin! There are a number of gov’s that should have prevented it actually overspeeding and to this day I don’t think it did. I reported it to be safe. Can’t edit original post to fix my typing errors (pressed post instead or preview) so sorry for the grammar.

Technically, people saying and doing things that you do not agree with does not mean that there is not a just, or "no-blame", culture. If you don't want to say more, then fair enough.

The way seem to be managing this is correct. If you leave stuff in the hands of lawyers, not much will happen. But you also need lawyers.

A lot depends on the current culture in the regulators. I once self reported a “possible” N2 over speed and was hung out to dry by the investigators. Basically the copilot called “N1” whilst we were manoeuvring thenaircraft. I was pilot flying at the time. We both observed the N2 at redline and reducing. We never observed it exceed the limit but at it and reducing. Given the gov should have prevented the overspeed I was not too worried. Maintenance decided it may have and as we don’t know by how much decided t could have been a major and replacced the engine, gear box’s etc etc etc all requiring overhaul due to major overspeed... it was therefore classed as an accident!!!! I could have not reported it! Would not have been any further issues.... Would I have suggested a junior pilot report in the same situation?? Not at that time. But there was a culture shift later and then yes I would!

How long ago was that? What do you mean by hung out to dry? Can you make the story clearer about what happened? Did the copilot call out the wrong number?

Dragging up an old thread here, but has anyone replace the Carlisle 8.00x6 golf cart tyres with 6.00-6 aircraft tyres? Have heard they are slightly taller than the 8.00-6 and worried about them fitting inside the nose fork. Cheers, Jon.

I replaced the Carlisle golf cart tyres with 6.00 x 6 tyres. They fit fine and are about the same diameter. I got four-ply tyres. I was told that 6 ply tyres are too hard and are used on Cessna's. I think that the 6x6 tyres will provide actually *better* flotation that the golf cart tyres. Assuming that the side wall is flexible enough and the side wall is high enough, the size of the contact patch will depend on the pressure in the tyre. The wider golf cart tyres will have a wider contact patch. That will cause more rolling resistance that the long and narrow contact patch of the 6x6 tyres, not to mention greater risk of punctures. Also the lighter tyres look like aircraft tyres and should have slightly lower air resistance. Even at 10 PSI, the width of the tyre does not limit the size of the contact patch, and I would be worried about the tyre falling off at that pressure. I think I got my tyres from Sky Shop (Australia) .

There are an article on this subject in 4x4 Australia about 10 years ago. For you 4x4 on sand, get *high profle* tyres, not wide ones. I could not find it when I searched online for it. IIRC they tested contact patches with boot polish on the tyre and lowered it onto pieces of paper and measured the contact patch.

Build an escape trapdoor into the floor?

Yeah, that could cause probs of its own, but.

Internet told me shelf life for Aeroshell Sport 4 is 5 years. Didn't know about the printing on the bottom of the bottle.

Is there actually a risk that the kit-built has a structural failure resulting from building mistakes? Has it ever happened for real? In Australia, there has always been some serious independent inspections before you can start flying.

I have no personal expertise, but these pages have told of many horror stories of home built planes.

We have been trialing the prop I got in as a demo on Danny's Savannah. Performance increase has been pretty impressive. 4 kt cruise speed increase at 5000 rpm which is impressive by itself for a savannah. Super smooth running and pretty much all vibrations are gone. More climb and takeoff performance. Danny ordered one and it has arrived but we have been doing some throttle mods today and will fit the new prop with a slightly smaller extension for his and then I can get mine back. I have a guy here..well from Gympie that has a Sav with a Airmaster and loves it and he is willing to drop the airmaster off and try the Eprop for the savannah and we can do a comparison with how much different it is to the constant speed..that will be interesting

 

I have another 5 ordered and 3 have been delivered to customers. One in WA has fitted his and been waiting or some better weather so he could fly it. Today he flew it..he rang me while flying in the aircraft on his Lightspeed headset..which I have to say if you didnt know you wouldnt think he was at 3000 ft doing 100kts

 

Obviously I want to see other numbers from other aircraft. His aircraft is a A22 Foxbat that had the factory fitted Warp Drive. Below are the specs from that warpdrive that he has been flying with for a long time

This is from the texts he sent me this afternoon

 

Warpdrive was 5400 ground. 5500 WOT straight and level. Best climb was 5350. Cruise was 5300 93kts. Wot was 95kts climb 1000fpm.

 

 

This is with the Eprop

 

Eprop set 25.6 degrees ran 5620rpm wot on ground. Best climb was 5380. With 1200 fpm. Wot straight and level was 5420. With 106-110kts. Cruise at 5250 98-100kts TAS. Smooth as idles smoother starts and stops easier. No clunk on shut down. No wind buffering all over fuselage. Over all best prop out there. Essentially I gained 7-8kts more on cruise and so much smoother with no vibrations.

 

There is another that has been fitted to a Tecnam P2008 in Victoria but due to some airfield maint and weather he will be testing soon

 

I like data to be able to quantify results so will see what improvements are on the different aircraft. I have props ordered for a CTSW in WA and a 100hp Trike in NSW it will be interesting to see the difference in their numbers

 

Mark

I saw this the day it came out. The first thought I had was it was caused by an ego with a credit card and an airplane... But considering the crew experience, one would think they both had plenty of human factors training... The ground crew could not have put more effort into stopping them! Would love to hear the cockpit conversations, yet they continued....

The ground crew could have refused to tow them. I'm not saying they should have.

"Number three. Continue downwind. ABC"

Google says birds have a gland near their "tail" that secretes oil that they rub all over themselves, and thereby waterproof themselves. And here I was expecting a nice answer about the molecular structure of feathers. ?

Oh for gods sake turbs and aro - THIS POST WAS DONE TONGUE IN CHECK. Looks like you have had way to much of chairman Dans Kool Aid.

You own the question. The person who answers owns the answer.

Covid 19 hasn't come close to the impact of Malaria.

 

Maybe because Covid 19 affects all the Worlds population not mainly Third World Country's there's a mad panic.

 

There have never been any restrictions banning travel to infected Nations and nobody really cares !

 

"Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of age, with 90 per cent of malaria cases occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 300-600 million people suffer from malaria each year. More than 40 percent of the world’s population lives in malaria-risk areas"

First of all, there has not been a mad panic. There are no travel bans to countries with malaria because people know to take antimalarials and they can't reinfect others on their return home. Just because other people have worse health is no reason for people in rich countries to not preserve their health. Your post was beyond stupid.

The heater in The Mighty Foxbat uses air from the radiator (for water, not the oil) and thereby avoids the problem of CO from a faulty heater. The dot CO detector went off once, possibly because people were doing lots of stalls and the usual airflow from the exhaust got messed up.

I seem to remember a truck full of members attributed this crash to just about everything else but CO. Just goes to show that it is best to keep theories to yourself until firm evidence is produced

Ken

Thinking what could have happened and how to stop it happening to us is a good process.

I have flown aircraft with and without VG's, never been able to tell a big difference between the 2. The aircraft fitted with VG's did have a VERY slight firming of the controls at slow speeds, couldn't tell a lot of difference with take-off/landing speeds.

Could only be I'm still learning to fly and haven't fully got the grasp of it yet

I'll admit I did only watch a couple of minutes before I nodded off watching the linked Vid. Was there any conflict of interest or admission of commission/gifts/gratuity/donation/remittance/handout from VG sellers admitted during the video?

I know it's not a requirement with yotubby to have any basis in truth or factual basis, most is taken as truthful.

The bush/stol market in the States has gone mad the last couple of years, the likes of a Super Cubs bringing stupid money.

Just listened a bit further. Its an ad.

Do VG's really give you more rudder authority, as he claims?

Re the videos - That flying on the stall warning buzzer whilst approaching over trees made me hair stand on end. On a properly calibrated installation there should be a ‘margin for error’ in them buzzers, though it ain’t much.

 

In Oz much of the time there’s a bit of wind blowing and oft times a major wind dumper around trees. On short final more air speed gives yer that ability to do that auto reaction pull back when you hit the big kahooney dump ride that otherwise would have given yer an auto auger dart approach.

 

Years ago I were standing at short final when a very high time, very highly experienced pilot got dumped on short final. His years of airline flying, right up to boss boy check and trainer time, had not prepared him for flying low and slow around the trees. He did walk away though the aircraft were turned into components.

 

More speed better - the only time yer should hear the stall warning during approach is at round out.

 

As far as I can work out, if the vortex generators are fitted, then the angle of attack at stall will be increased, the stall warning will go off at the same angle of attack as usual, and therefore the stall warning will go off at a higher speed above stall speed. So, if the warning usually goes off 5 kt before the stall, and the stall speed is lowered 5 kt, the stall warning will go off 10 kt before the stall.

I agree with you that having the stall warning go off during a turning final is not a good idea. I the first landing, the stall warning went off *and* he did not use close to all the strip. I would have thought that the safer thing to do would have been to come in faster and use more of the strip to stop.

Disclaimer: I have a massive 76 hrs.

...A truly impressive achievement, to have put men on the moon despite being handicapped by archaic measurements.

Yeah, including that most confidence-inspiring aeronautical unit of measure, the slug.