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  1. Student Pilot
    Seems some have it in for you Nev 😜
  2. Student Pilot
    Bellanca made a similar aircraft for cheap twin training
  3. Student Pilot
    I used to use a Tandy stopwatch timer, nice big numbers and could see with a quick glance
  4. Student Pilot
    What about aviator underpants? Made especially with smaller support for undersize genitals 🤣 Aviator socks so you can impress with your sensitive soft walking, or the swagger with tailwheel pilots 😁
  5. Student Pilot
    In GA? Anybody speaking up or pointing out problems finds themselves unemployed. Regulators know what goes on and ignore it, 48 years flying and it hasn't changed.
  6. Student Pilot
    Need a magnifying glass for that little 3" gauge. Used to know an old pilot who flew with a magnifying glass for reading WAC charts and engine instruments 😁 No problems with flight instruments, he never looked at those 🤣
  7. Student Pilot
    Any more capable than a brand new Cessna 182 for 60K in 1980?
  8. Student Pilot
    People pay more now for radios/nav setup than what an aircraft used to cost
  9. Student Pilot
    The process to simplify and condense the regs hasn't gone well has it?
  10. Student Pilot
    I see the Yanks are using V twin industrial engines for ultralight applications
  11. Student Pilot
    And only $650,000 US 😁
  12. Student Pilot
    A Briggs and Stratton mower engine would have more power 😁
  13. Student Pilot

    Ch601 hds flaps

    Student Pilot replied to a topic in Zenith

    Depends on the aircraft, flaps can make a dramatic difference to the stall speed. Early Cessnas and others designed for stol the flaps can go to 40 even 58 degrees on the Beaver. I have never experienced much stall speed reduction with VG's, couple of knots at best depending on the installation. Some have VG's on the tailplane/fin even on the fuse around the cockpit. VG's do however have an effect on the control feel, they firm up the controls (again depends on installation/kit) at speeds closer to stall. I've found on many aircraft the original wing performs better without any of the whizzbang additions. VG's, Robertson stol, Sportsman, leading edge cuffs, fences and fancy wingtips, they don't make that much difference, just add weight except to your wallet where they make it considerably lighter 🤣
  14. Student Pilot
    So the boys weren't game to fly it 😁
  15. Student Pilot
    Bankstown looks a bit different, I think aviating was a rich mans game then. I have had a couple of glider fights, it's something I want to do. The older gliders appeal to me more than a modern glass high performance machines. Something with an open cockpit.
  16. Student Pilot
    Looks like a Chilton, handsome machine. Very good performance for a small engine. There is a market for single seaters, a lot of folk go flying on their own. Seems very expensive but I suppose these days where a lightweight plastic fantastic sells for as much as a new C210 used to cost the @100 k Oz is resonable
  17. Student Pilot
    It can be a different experience to what you expect, just go with the flow and enjoy it
  18. Student Pilot
    Knowing your aircraft and it's systems is paramount to being endorsed on an aircraft.
  19. Student Pilot
    15 a very appealing aircraft
  20. Student Pilot
    The red machine is an Avid Flyer. A Dean Wilson design which was the first (1983?) of the light cabin machines, originally designed with a 503 Rotax. He copied the wing folding design off a 30's aircraft. It evolved up to the Avid Magnum. Dean Wilson was taken on as a partner in the early days, he left then started Kitfox, virtually the same aircraft as an Avid. Dean Wilson designed quite a few aircraft, Elipse, Global Explorer and Eagle DW1 Ag biplane. 28-482 was an Avid speedwing, a clipped wing version of the stol design. It cruised at 90 knots with a 582 Rotax. I think it was the first 28 aircraft on the AUF register.
  21. Student Pilot
    Always admired the Nieuport, how does it fly? What sort of performance? 503?
  22. Student Pilot
    There were 3? Flying around the New England with Konig 4 cyl engine. Robbie Beard was the butcher I think you were talking about and there were 2 others based in Armidale, I think one is still in Armidale, it hasn't flown in many years. The bloke built a Cygnet, it hasn't flown I think.
  23. Student Pilot
    Didn't feel comfortable in a Drifter, sitting out there on a broomstick 😛
  24. Student Pilot
    I was mistaken it was 28-482 I would be interested to know what happened to it.
  25. Student Pilot
    Thanks..
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