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There is a string on this topic on Rotalk from 8 years ago. Here is one skeptical comment from this string : Re: Polishing intake manifolds by Bill Hertzel » 8 years ago I am confused. ??? A week ago you were asking about the possibility of Modifying your crossover pipe. Yesterday you post pictures of the manifolds before and after welding. This afternoon you report a test flight was successful. 6 hours later, the Parts are available for mass marketing on an Italian website. Either this is the fastest engineered project I have ever heard of, or I am missing something. :unsure:

Not sure if this one has been discussed before……but here is yet another weird engine design.

The gliding fraternity are big on sealing airframe gaps. There are specialist sealing tapes for the really serious - they are a tad more elastic than say, electrical tape, and don’t leave a residue. There are also leading edge tapes for those that choose to fly off gravel strips and through locust plagues.

Clearly VFR into IMC Very Fat Reindeer in Indeterminable Mystery Custom

May be speculation, but I heard there was grass in the fuel ??

Rotax 300hp engine https://youtu.be/S9nnTghlB-8?si=PMDluNP5DvqBG7zE

Those cables may be over 80 years old ? May have been originally gal, but the gal has long gone. 316 is certainly susceptible to sudden failure ( usually chloride induced stress corrosion cracking) but Narromine certainly doesn’t have any marine influence, so I would think 316 would be fine.

interesting what a tied down plane can do while you’re sleeping. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2413059642482637/?fs=e&fs=e

….and the RPL holder has a current CASA medical.

I have no knowledge of the matter, but I can theorise what training packages would need to be developed within RA-AUS to then roll out to instructors to effect a CTA endorsement. Then making sure instructors are actually current with Class C and D procedures themselves, and also have access to an aircraft with the right gear to enable instruction and entry into CTA. All of that takes time….and maybe a decade or however long it has been since first mooted, hasn’t been long enough.😎

CASA just released feedback on their Class 5 medical survey. The majority of respondents indicated Class 5 holders should be allowed into CTA. No big surprise there - other than a Class 5 being the minimum.

Curious - I just checked mine, and I only got an extra year !!

After all this dialogue I still don’t know what you call the person not in control of an autonomous drone.