Tell us about your last flight

[facthunter]

Also consider a lift destroying  roll along the top of the wing. Nev

[Thruster88]

Got to fly a new type on a ferry flight, first time pusher.

[facthunter]

How'd you find the Engine Noise level? The Build is good isn't it .  Nev

[Thruster88]

Was a little noisy even with Bose A30, yes it looks well built,  will get to know it better in the coming weeks.

[Blueadventures]

BFR done and dusted today, then onto ride on mower maintenance, thought it would be a quick two blade change.  Not to be and doing a bit extra.  

Edited Wednesday at 08:03 AM by Blueadventures

[Moneybox]

9 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

Moneybox,

 

"The iPad lasted all of 10 minutes dying as I passed over the dry Lake Austin just south of town. "

 

Have you installed a ventilated iPad docking station ?

Is your iPad fully charged before you take off ?- this will reduce the inflight charging temperature.

Can you shield your iPad from direct sunlight?

 

😈

 

 

Skippy, the iPad was fully charged and shaded however it didn't have a fan. It was just the extreme temperature in the cockpit from the high ambient temperature and the few minutes doing the runup with the canopy closed. The interesting thing is it still recorded the trip even though the screen was shutdown. I had it charging from a powerpack. Once I got my final waypoint into the MLG iEFIS Lite that was the best way to go. The MLG compass heading is much easier to follow than the wobbly ball in the magnetic compass.

[Moneybox]

Up and ready to face the cold gusty wind. Half hour wait for daylight, I guess I got up a bit early but I went to bed very early as well.

I collected another 20L of spare fuel, not sure if I can fit both Jerry cans in the seatbelt and still clear the stick.

I’ll be fighting a strong cross wind for better than three hours so I’m pretty sure I’ll add fuel in Paynes Find, not because it’s empty but because it draws more from the LH tank and I have no control over that.

[onetrack]

The weather conditions are looking a bit vicious between Paynes Find and Cue, Moneybox. You're in for a rough time, I'd reckon.

[T510]

Bit of fun doing XC's in the Cub

[skippydiesel]

DC3's on the ground? 😈

[danny_galaga]

2 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

DC3's on the ground? 😈

Yeah, what the hell?

 

T510, please explain!

[T510]

2 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

DC3's on the ground? 😈

Yep, a handy reference point to ensure I was maintaining my track.

 

3 parts planes and one in flying condition I believe.

[Thruster88]

The DC3's are just north of Molong, checked them out the other day while going to see the Rans s12. 

[T510]

1 hour ago, Thruster88 said:

The DC3's are just north of Molong, checked them out the other day while going to see the Rans s12. 

That's them, they are in Larras Lee, just north of the Mitchell highway

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/qR28wZ8xu7bCx9UPA

Edited yesterday at 02:36 AM by T510
added google map link

[onetrack]

The blokes who've been there, tell me, every field S of Mexico has a DC-3 parked in it!

But most of them will never fly again, though. They nearly all got parked in unplanned landings, so I'm told.

[Moneybox]

Well I did post my flight home this morning.

Has it been removed?

[rgmwa]

Didn't see it. How did it go?

[Moneybox]

38 minutes ago, rgmwa said:

Didn't see it. How did it go?

Had a report on my trip home in cloudy conditions. Loaded a couple of photos from above the clouds at 7000'.

[sfGnome]

The gremlins must have got it. Glad to hear you’re home, but you know the old saying - no photos; didn’t happen. 😁

[rgmwa]

I reckon he’s still in Northam. 

[Moneybox]

I was out there at first light with misty rain and gusty winds. I spoke to my flight instructor last night to get his opinion of fighting a strong crosswind for three hours. His only concern was that the wind velocity was beyond the crosswind capability for my plane to land. I was not concerned about that because I had alternate runways to select at each site.

 

I lifted off at 6:25am, should have seen a sunrise but couldn't even see the horizon. I circled the airport at YNTM until I hit the cloud at 3000'. I leveled the synthetic horizon and dived 700' into clear air and stayed at 2500' for the next hour. It was more like smog than cloud but eventually it cleared enough for me to climb above the  cloud. 

 

 

At 7500' it was bright white everywhere and smooth flying but at 30nm to Paynes Find I needed to get down again.

 

 

There was clear air over that string of dry salt lakes I usually follow so I headed east. It was a decent sized hole but I could see it was closing so I wound up the throttle poked the nose down a bit and sat it on 125kts, just below VNE. I overshot the hole by a bit because the other cloud was at a lower level, then I backed off the throttle did a u-turn while holding about 120kts and dropped through into the dirty air below. From there into Paynes Find I was dodging the heavy downpours but it's a great place to land with two big wide gravel airstrips at 90° to each other.

 

I had to attend to a nature call while I was there so got my back soaked for the few minutes I was outside. I wanted to add some fuel but was reluctant to open the tank in the pouring rain so I took off again heading north. It was not a good decision because visibility was poor and the clouds were low but this is all flat country so it was a case of stay low or try to fly above it. I chose to fly low level all the way into Mount Magnet where I chose the gravel runway that was directly into the wind. I put 20L into the LH tank because it seems to favour that one although the return fuel might be all going to the RH tank, I'll have to check that out and perhaps fit a multi port valve.

 

The trip to Cue was more of the same, howling wind and low cloud. I just zig zagged my way avoiding the downpours dropping from the heavy cloud above. When I got to Cue it was dry and I had a choice of taking the unused gravel runway or the wide sealed runway. The sock was horizontal directly across the runway but here there are may acres of flat nothingness so a good opportunity to try a cross wind landing. It was bouncy final but this plane is really easy to keep heading in the right direction. All went well until I was about 10' off the ground and it dumped me. One bounce and I was on the throttle landing better a hundred metres further on.

 

Mrs M was there waiting. She said "Can you do it again for the camera?" I don't want to do a trip like that ever again.

[rgmwa]

I think the technical term is scud running. Good to know you made it OK but it’s risky when you’re dodging low cloud, rain showers and strong winds. I got caught once going the other way along your route. Never again if I can avoid it. 

[Moneybox]

We are meant to be outside the main cyclone region but it's a bit wild out there.

 

 

It'll could intensify as the cyclone heads further south so we took further precautions.

 

 

That should prevent it flying off on its own.

[rgmwa]

Have you got control locks?  

[Moneybox]

59 minutes ago, rgmwa said:

Have you got control locks?  

Yeah, long nylon ones....