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It was reported.

Popular mechanics *loves* this product. Called a pruner but is actually a chainsaw with an 8 cm blade. Runs for “up to 25 minutes”. 1.5 kg unfortunately. Looks *fun*.

Can you be more specific?

I didnt explain very well about what I meant by chainsaws. A pruning saw would be almost as light.

Are you suggesting that I should have adjusted my circuit, when I was already in the circuit, for a tug that was joining the circuit?

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I second the comment about carbon monoxide. You can get quantitative detectors. Except you are in a trike, which I ASSUME would make that unlikely. Your symptoms do sound a lot like CO poisoning. You might want to check your O2 sats while flying and compare them to your day-to-day levels. Supplemental oxygen without carefully examining that issue would be overkill, I expect, although some people use oxygen from a pressure altitude of only 8000 ft if flying at night. I would expect that you can’t get altitude sickness without first being hypoxic. O2 saturation below 90% is a rough cutoff for low oxygen levels but aviators probably want it higher. If the headache is on one side of your head and throbbing (throbbing = worse with each heartbeat) then you have developed a migraine headache. They are caused by lots of things, including stress, and cause nausea. There are specific preventative treatments for migraine. If you really do love the flights, then stress is much less likely to be a problem. You would probably already know if you are vulnerable to motion sickness, and you would know if what you had was like motion sickness for you. You could read a book while a car passenger to test this. And desensitise yourself to it by doing the same thing. Apparently the three different axies desensitise somewhat independently. You could also see what rollercoasters do. Closing your eyes decreases motion sickness. You might, and might not, like to go for a trike ride with your eyes closed. Disclaimer: I gave only 230 hrs.

Sorry, I did misread what you wrote. Would you be able to answer my question?

The problem is tyres rotating on the rim with the tyre spinning up on landing or on breaking. It is an argument in favour of running maximum pressures. Does this mean that the valves should be checked and rotated back before a big trip? Spose not. This caused rapid air loss. Solutions or prevention? Should the tyre be glued to the rim? Breaking the bead was only a little difficult.

I copied this idea from Youtube. That is Bourke, NSW, with the hole in their parking area.

Thank you for your reply. I am amazed at some of the things people on this site know about. The original handle was Only about 300 mm and the current one is 800 mm, so changing the handle still would have been worth it by your measurements of what is ideal. I don't doubt that cutting down a tree with it will be a painful experience, so I hope that any one that I have to cut down is small. Also, at 193 cm, I'm pretty tall. Occasionally, I have chopped down trees right at the base, and having the full handle length available to me was handy so I did not have to bend down too much. (My understanding is that all adults have their hands about the same distance from the ground, FWIW.) Given that E= mV^2, (energy = mass times the square of the velocity), I would have thought that a longer handle would have made the axe head faster and therefore have more kinetic energy to be converted into cutting the wood. But, it is an empirical question, so maybe I will find that the handle is too long. Another option is those chainsaw-chain-like survival things that people can use to chop down trees.

It's a 400 g axe head on a normal-sized axe handle. Full-sized axe heads weigh about 2.5 kg. It looks stupid and out of proportionate. I'm taking it camping.

I'm ashamed of myself for not realising this. If the airmanship at Cabulture is so s—, maybe that's the fault of... Caboolture? Who knew? (I'm not suggesting the jackc shares my views about this matter, just to be clear.)

Oh. So you do get reports about tugs. I thought you thought you didn't get any. And, can you answer my question? If the tug operator was so experienced, how did he end up beside me when I was already in the circuit?

I was the one in the circuit, so I had right of way. He came up beside me in a faster aircraft. Again, there is no such thing as using his experience to avoid me. There is such a thing as him using his experience to do something to avoid me. Can you please suggest what it might have been? I was already in the circuit, at the right height, flying in the correct direction, so what was he doing beside me, then above me? Hmm? Furthermore, what exactly do you mean you never get any reports about tug pilots? If you were there in 2018 or 2019, you would have got the report. Did you get the report or not?

There is no such thing as inexperience causing an “incident”. There is such a thing as inexperience causing something else that causes and incident or “incident”. If the tug pilot knew where I was and was so competent, how did he end up on my right side and then above me? Why didn’t he just stay away? And why didn’t he use his radio?

Plywood floor?

Flying below 500 ft is legal if you are landing. They landed, so... They were worried about a shark following a surfer. The pilot should have left the screaming and pointing to the passenger. 🤦‍♂️

Good point about class c steps

Cheaper maintenance, and so RA-Aus people can fly your plane.

What extra privileges do you get from VH reg?

Also, if your flying school is in controlled airspace, you can learn RA-Aus there.

I'm pretty sure that if you have a RPL then you can fly a 24 reg plane in controlled airspace.