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  1. APenNameAndThatA
    I was paying $700 per month in Archerfield fir hangar space. If you find hangar space, it might be competing with someone who wants to hangar an SR22.
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    Try to see the big picture. Russia invaded Ukraine, and > 50 000 people got killed. It does not really matter if this building or that building got hit.
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    I was surprised that the aircraft hit the wake turbulence when it was at the same altitude as the helicopter.
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    Exactly. People make mistakes all the time flying. IIRC, 1.6 per flight for airline pilots. Hence the need to engineer safety.
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    One thing to consider here is the so-called fundamental attribution error. The error is that we tend to blame our mistakes on our circumstances and blame others’ mistakes on their character. Simple example: when I’m irritable it’s because I’m under pressure but when someone else is irritable it’s because they’re an a-hole. In the case of the mistakes that others make, IMHO, it is most productive to wonder what things could happen *to* us to put us in the same position. My own thoughts are: the I’m safe acronym, being under time pressure, being rusty, and forgetting my written check lists. When a checklist is interrupted, it is very easy to skip items. Habit capture is where we are supposed to do something different but forget to when the time comes, and just keep doing what we do out of habit; maybe he moved the control lock to a different part of his checklist. In this case, target fixation is just a type of distraction from the list.
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    The whole idea of human factors engineering is to organise it so that if the pilot stuffs up no one dies. I had never even thought of putting the control lock in such a place that if it is in place, the yoke no longer feels in a natural place and the plane won’t fly. I spose they are placed so when they are in place, there is no tension in the system.
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    Anthony Albanese was practically picking a fight with them. The Greens might have sunk any referendum associated with the Uluru Statement, too - that’s a fight you can’t win by fighting. Greens 🙄
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    ‘cording to Youtube, shiny aluminium is coated aluminium - aluminium alloy that is coated with pure aluminium. 10% weaker than aluminium alloy. I don’t understand why it’s made of shiny aluminium, unless they are going to make it do that people don’t have to paint it. Which would make it more likely to leak water.
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    The tribe have voted and I was wrong. Sorry.
  11. APenNameAndThatA
    Dude, given how much flight time you have, its silly of you to big note yourself and discourage less experienced pilots from doing flight plans.
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    It depends on the type of flying you do. If people here only fly within 25 miles of home, with no airspace, no frequency changes, never in iffy weather, never with enough weight to need to leave fuel at home, always with much more fuel than they need, and just go to the same place over and over for years, then they will probably not do flight plans either.
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    I wonder if that means that, roughly speaking, relative to airspeed, your fuel consumption for a given trip between two set points will be squared and your fuel flow will be cubed?
  14. APenNameAndThatA
    I would much rather an aircraft with eight motors and propellers - lots of redundancy. Two rotors? Hell no! If one stops, you crash, end of story.
  15. APenNameAndThatA
    That’s your wife being wrong - unless she’s scared of your driving and not game to say. My understanding was that very old and very young drivers have about the same number of accidents.
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    They tried to use it but failed. What is more, the separatists from the two have been conscripted with very little training and are being killed in large numbers. My view is that Russians in Ukraine were being treated badly but that was being used as an excuse by Putin to try and have USSR 2.
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    That is an important idea: mound the SkyEcho as low as possible. My aircraft has see-through doors, so I can mount it low on a door and it will be able to see out sideways. ✅
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    The range would not the be the only short thing.
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    Will 50 cm away be far enough? My iPad is on one side of the cockpit, and the GPS antenna for the Dynon is just below the windscreen, so 50 cm is about as far as I can get.
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    How the —— do people on this site know so much? Excellent idea about tyre temps.
  21. APenNameAndThatA
    As far as I know, you need a backup phone for your phone/tablet before you can ditch paper maps. The cost and inconvenience of paper maps is considerable.
  22. APenNameAndThatA
    I think you might be right. What about baby powder?
  23. APenNameAndThatA
    Not everyone on this forum agrees with you…
  24. APenNameAndThatA
    This is advice from a motorbike adventure rider. Motorbikes have tubeless tyres but he still carries tubes in case of sidewall damage. Also, tyre iron. He inflates tubes for 24 hours to make sure stay inflated. I think I should add a second can of air/goo, and something for the valve. Instead of a jack, I think I would support the plane and dig a hole. EDIT: not a good idea to use WD40 on tyres, as Fact hunter points out.
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    Is an mr funnel a Mr Funnel funnel?
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