pmccarthy

He was a great contributor here.

My wife gets that alarm every time she chops wood.

They are designed to fail under excessive vibration, but it is hard to understand. A dead engine would fall away, but one producing thrust will go ahead and then back into the aircraft, as has happened I other cases.

Hope they don’t do virtual repairs on real aircraft.

Another traumatised pilot looking for closure.

Yeah, I have never understood what a forward slip is. And yes, I have read lots about it. You cross the controls, and the aircraft increases its rate of descent. It travels in a direction that you can decide. I have been doing that forever, it is a sideslip. I can go in whatever direction I choose.

I had forgotten it was the Firefly, with VTOL in the wings and rocket propulsion. One of my favourite authors as a nine year old or so.

Who remembers Simon Black and his fan in wing?

When the 727 arrived in Oz there was a plastic model issued very cheaply as a promotion and I bought one. Less than half the price of an air fix model and very good. 1964 I believe.

I am forced to have a placard on the panel that says “this aircraft is not built to blah blah blah standards” because it is RAAus reg, yet the identical aircraft can be reg GA. So it was built to the same standards. Go figure.

It’s 2.4 amps. It maintains a full charge with the SE operating if I start from a full charge at home. But if I am lazy and run the SE off battery for a couple of local flights, it will not return to full charge on aircraft power.

I charge mine when flying on a 2.4 outlet. While it is on.

Just got the latest RAAus email news and I offer the following edits: "RAAus is proud to announce"...naaa, "pleased to announce" is better. Save pride for important things. "in a Super Petrol amphibian"...naaa, it's Petrel. The newsletter is fine, these are very minor niggles, but why wouldn't a communication like this get a final edit? Or am I too picky?

It’s a fair question. When did these codes come in? I only became aware of them about 15 years ago.

Most of my friends have had good experiences with the JPI.