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  1. pmccarthy
    Never have grabbed a beaver.
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    Skyrangers have been making some interesting trips!
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    I you can’t do it, Jerry can.
  4. pmccarthy
    Finnegan' wake was wake turbulence.😀
  5. pmccarthy
    If you can sit in a drone then it is not a drone it is an aircraft.
  6. pmccarthy
    We have a lot of motards around here.
  7. pmccarthy
    Headline here - Pilot Dies in Horror Crash. What is a Horror Crash, and how is it worse than a regular crash?
  8. pmccarthy
    Agreed. They are not pilots. I think pilot somehow means out in front, leading, like pilot whales or the pilots who bring ships into harbour.
  9. pmccarthy
    He was a great contributor here.
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    My wife gets that alarm every time she chops wood.
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    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.
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    Hope they don’t do virtual repairs on real aircraft.
  13. pmccarthy
    Another traumatised pilot looking for closure.
  14. pmccarthy
    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.
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    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.
  16. pmccarthy
    Who remembers Simon Black and his fan in wing?
  17. pmccarthy
    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.
  18. pmccarthy
    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.
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    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.
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    I charge mine when flying on a 2.4 outlet. While it is on.
  21. pmccarthy
    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?
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    It’s a fair question. When did these codes come in? I only became aware of them about 15 years ago.
  23. pmccarthy
    Most of my friends have had good experiences with the JPI.
  24. pmccarthy
    Nokia is an amazing story. It was a timber and sawmilling town in Finland and the timber was running out. They looked for a new industry and decided to make mobile phones. They built up the world’s leading business at the time. Like most people, I thought it was an Asian company until I went there and they told me the story.
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    I have been to Nokia, it is a town in Finland.
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