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    I've just had an email confirming that the Mallard lost was the one that has been recently based at Watts Bridge and the pilot was the Evans Head developer. Very sad to hear this. We wish to pass on our heartfelt condolences to his family and also to the family of the passenger who was with him.
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    Nev: Yer "yerong" mate must've been from Canberra. Everyone I met there said that.
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    I also hear people say something along the lines that type X is going to get a weight increase to Y and so they will be able to fly their type X at the new weight automatically. This is NOT the case as their aircraft may not have been built to the standard for the (new) higher weight class.
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    Jerry: I have only been asked for my ASIC twice. Once was at Dubbo airport, but the main one was Ayers Rock where you have to fill in a form beforehand with your ASIC details. Leave yourselves plenty of time to get the ASICs as bureaucracy moves like molasses going uphill in winter. BTW! Glad your aerophobic wife liked the videos.
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    Great video! I love that song!
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    Ahh, so it is. Interesting that it shows up on my ipad connection, but not on my PC connection!
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    Jerry: Our plane cruises around 110KIAS. Flight times varied, but the legs between "pit stops" was generally around 2 to 2-1/2 hours. If you all have PPLs, then GA aircraft would be the way to go. You cannot fly RAA aircraft on a PPL and I don't think there would be many RAA aircraft that you could hire for a trip like this. Most of our group were RAA aircraft, but privately ownd. Speeds ranged from around 140KIS (Virus) to 75KIAS (Savannah). I may do a public version of the William Creek - Broken Hill segment in the future ... If time and inclination permits. For some reason, the link that I am able to post on the forums here doesn't link up the other videos in the sequence. Best just to go to my You Tube channel and view them directly. If you have the bandwidth, select the HD versions. The easiest way to get to my channel is to go to my web site and follow the link from there.
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    Jerry: Not all the scenery out there is boring. Here's a link to our outback trip series. We didn't do too much on ground filming (we were having too much fun!) but there's plenty to see on the way from A to B out there. We were with the "short form" group and we were away for just short of two weeks. Our trip took us from Brisbane to; Roma, Charleville Charleville, Windora, Birdsville Birdsville, New Crown Station, Ayers Rock Ayers Rock, Kings Creek Station (Kings Canyon) Kings Creek Station, Cadney Homestead, Coober Pedy Coober Pedy, William Creek (with a fly over Lake Eyre) William Creek, Leigh Creek, Broken Hill Broken Hill, Bourke, Moree Moree, Brisbane A couple of the legs of our trip are missing from the series; We had some issues with cameras on the Kings creek to Coober Pedy leg, and the William Creek to Broken Hill leg is not for public viewing.
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    Umm, that would be Netflix in the US! Sadly, not available on Netflix here in Oz.
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    Sad. I have flown with Bruce and landed on that beach with him. There is nothing inherently dangerous about landing on that beach (if you know what you're doing) and he and Woody have done it many times. I send my condolences to the family of the deceased, and a shout out in support for Bruce and Woody. I hope the others get well soon also.
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    The way that thing was wobbling on final, it looked pretty gusty and swirly. Would have been a scary landing, having already bent the nosewheel. Glad it turned out ok for the occupants.
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    Haydn & Alicia: Another great video! Thanks for that. Our flying group is planning a trip down that way this year. They will be very interested in this.
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    The cabin width will surprise you. I ran the measurements of my cabin against the specs in the Cessna manuals. The Legend, measured at the door just aft of the instrument panel (this is where Cessna measure their cabins) is 160mm wider than the 172 and 106mm wider than the 182. I haven't verified the Cessna measurements against actual airplanes, but if their manuals are to be believed, our little "Cessna without the rivets" is roomier than the 182. I will admit that the Legend cabin is not as tall as the 182, and the Legend has no back seat, so overall volume of the 182 is more than the Legend, but for two people ... edit chevy: sorry for the late reply. For some reason I am not getting update notices on this thread, even though I have posted to it.
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    One of the reasons I wouldn't own a low wing bubble canopy airplane. If you ever have to put one in a rough paddock, it will most likely end up like this. Even a tail dragger can end up like this, so that would not save you in that situation. There are other reasons I don't care for these aircraft too, but this is one of the main ones.
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    Mike: We're based at Watts Bridge, so there's every chance we'll be at YCAB at some point. I'll PM you before we come over.
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    Mike: As far as I know, Silent Wings are still importing the Legend. We had ours down at OzKosh on show on the dealer's stand and there was a LOT of interest in it. Give Greg a call if you're interested in it. So far, there are two in Oz but more may be coming after the turnout at OzKosh. Marty: Yep, I get a thrill every time I open the hangar. I always considered the Cessnas (152-182) as what a small airplane looks like, especially when they went to the shark fin tail. Edit: And it flies like it looks!
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    Toumbaal plains in NSW near Yamba. Kind of expensive, but very nice house to rent with its own private airfield. toumbaal-plains
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    The BEW of my Legend is 313kg, that leaves 287 for payload. Fuel capacity is 130lt which translates to 93kg, that leaves 190 odd kg for pax and baggage. AND the Legend is the LSA Cessna should have built
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    Yes, RIP Ross, but has there been any word from RA Aus on what happened?
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    I really hope we do find out what happened here so that we can learn whatever lessons are appropriate from the loss of our good friend John Cresswell ... But I'm not holding my breath. As far as I know, we still don't know for sure what happened to Ross Millard, or Rob Pavan. Ra Aus investigate these accidents, but do they then publish their findings? If I've missed these reports I'll be happy for someone to point me to them. If I haven't missed them (because they weren't published) I think now might be a useful time to bring some pressure to bear on the organisation to publish.
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    I'm devastated to find out that Crezzi was one of those lost in this crash. I knew him fairly well and talked with him many times. We will sadly miss him. RIP John and my condolences to his family. What a loss!
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    My experience with tech support has been very good. It's just that I seem to have had a few problems with the GPS. The first problem was "finger trouble" that I resolved ( the techs didn't pick the fault). The GPS used to lose lock on all the satellites, but still show good strong signal level on the GPS status page. It turned out that I had the WAAS option turned on, and here in Australia, we don't have the WASS/EGNOS ground stations. I think the GPS was sometimes picking up correction data from the satellites that were over Japan and it confused the software. When I turned the WASS/EGNOS option off, that solved that problem, but like I say, tech support didn't pick that up, I did. Now, the GPS heading line freezes and it will show me pointing off track and if I turn to correct my heading, the heading line doesn't update. Then some time later it will update and show me pointing off track in the opposite direction. Now, I monitor the heading info on the GPS with the heading info on the iPad and I can tell when the GPS heading has frozen. But I shouldn't have to do that.
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    I had an Avmap EKP V installed in my aircraft by the manufacturer. I have had a fair amount of trouble with it. Some of the problems were operational problems resulting from not knowing how to use it properly, because of a very poor user manual. But there are other problems ongoing, like the heading line freezing. I am still waiting for tech support to find and fix the bug. I couldn't reccommend these GPSs.
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    Are you suggesting that might have been Robbo?
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    Yep, that one bugs me too.
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