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That is a good point, read the POH. For my Jabiru slips with flaps are allowed. The emergency decent method is take off flaps and slip like a MOFO.

All the way to the flare, my instructure at my last BFR made me do a 1000ft side slip to flare and land with engine at idle....was a lot of fun.

Keep it a private ALA, you need permission to land on it (unless it is an emergency) like when you mates drive their cars on your property.

This is exactly why I am on homebased on a private field, and also working towards acquiring a suitable property to have a long, flat, well drained paddock to support our Fly and Stay accomodation hanger. Eventually, we will need to become a private network of ALA's instead of airfields so we can go cross country.

Tell you about my last flight? Sure Took my vehicle mechanic up for his first light plane flight on Friday morning, perfect morning for a first flight. 15knt's, gusting to 18knt's direct down the runway line at 240 degrees. Did the W&B the night before, added 10l of fuel in the morning to MTOW, pre-flight before guest arrives so all we need to do it taxi to the club house, brief and then head off. Flight was magic, just enough turbulance in the early morning air to ensure the 'small plane' feel of the flight (JAB 160), but not enough to make you grunt when it comes. No haze, a few little clouds to play slalom with, plenty of photo opportunities, flew over his house and his workshop. Arrival back at the runway was fun, the wind has picked up, 20knts, gusting to somewhere in the low 30's and a bit of a mashing machine on the strip with the windocks pointing in opposite directions to each other. Nice approach, single stage flaps in case of go around and near perfect landing. Mechanic had a great flight, wants to go again. Took plenty of pics, and even wanted pics of him in the plane on the ground etc. Good outcome all round I think. Wile we were putting the bird away the wind picked up, went a little crazy and we had the socks spining around on the pole. Perfect timing. Cheers.

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Yeah, I am in the same boat at the moment. I fly sub 2 kg units and always run an ADS-B tracker on the iPAD when flying, only doing VLOS but working on our BVLOS at the moment. I am curious as to when we will be requried to use an ADS-B transmitter on the airframe, I can see it coming, at least for BVLOS work.

I have an SE2, but am unsure it if will meet the ADS-B mandate as the SE2 is an EC device and not a true ADS-B device. I also wonder how I will go with my UAV's that do not currently have any ADS-B functionality. Interesting times coming up

extreme corrosion on just alloy engine parts is typically an engine cleaner or degreaser that has not been removed completely and has continued to react with the surface post clean.

I have an FC-10 flight computer that does fuel flow, if you have a GPS connected it can predict distance on current fuel. This is of course dependent on you adding the fuel to the unit when you fill up. I just use it for instantanious useage at the moment, so climb and cruise fuel use. FC-10 Fuel Computer — FLIGHT DATA SYSTEMS WWW.FDATASYSTEMS.COM It came in the plane, has the FT-60 installed for for the flow meter.

Is this still only 19 and 28 registered aircraft?

One of the new Bluetooth gauges 😆

Thanks Nev, the brakes are more akin to mountain bike brakes that automotive brakes. I will set them up the way I set up my MTB brakes and see how that goes. They work, just need to be adjusted properly. Compared to before the before brakes they are fantastic. New disks on the left, old disks on the left. Have a zoom in and have a look at the bearing surface on the old disks.

Bolts replaced, new brake disks installed and taxi runs done. Trying to get the balance between too much space between the disks and pads and too much travel in the brake lever. I just need to araldite in the screw in fittings for the fairings and it will be good for a flight test (and I can get back to flying).

I know of a 182RG that retracted the gear then the instructor sayd 'retract flaps' and someone grabbed the wrong lever. Good thing it was a grass strip......