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    It was a great day for flying, and good to catch up with some of our friends and tour mates. I can second that Gayndah seems to be flyer friendly and we're looking forward to attending the events they plan to hold.
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    IMO, Don't buy cheapies. Get good comfortable headsets that you can wear for 3-4 hours without getting pains on the sides of your head or a pain across the top where the headband goes. Also, noise cancelling is good for being able to hear others transmissions and good for reducing noise fatigue.
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    Agree with your post, but the last bit??? Is that an attempt to be provacative, or an attempt to try and discourage disagreement? Either way, I think your post stood on its own merits up until the last bit.
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    A couple of posters have mentioned that non radio equipped aircraft are allowed to fly into Oshkosh. Can someone fill us in on how they do that? Call me skeptical, but I have watched in cockpit video of the arrival at Oshkosh and it is very radio intense and the traffic is frantic paced. I just can't imagine how they slot non radio aircraft into that unless, like Avalon have a separate runway for recreational aircraft, they have a separate runway, for the non radio equipped aircraft. Edit: I just looked this up, and the NORDO procedures are for non radio aircraft to land at a nearby airfield, phone the ATC ops people and obtain specific procedures and time to arrive. Also, approval for NORDO aircraft is NOT guaranteed.
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    Another interesting story HITC! I had the opportunity to go up into the tower YBSU. While I was up there I watched the controller interacting with the traffic. Every time an aircraft was on final, he would pick up a pair of binoculars and look at the plane. I asked him why and he said something like "You'd be surprised how often I remind pilots to put the gear down". BUT, I call thread drift here...
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    Very interesting video! The gear warning was quite loud on the video, but I'm wondering whether it was also piped through the intercom to the headsets. They say that there are two types of pilots who fly with retracts, those who have landed wheels up, and those who will.
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    HITC: With all due respect, I don't only look when I hear radio calls. To suggest that that is the case is a mistake. I think to suggest that anybody does that is a mistake and false logic. It is a bit like saying that, because rain comes from clouds, if there are clouds in the sky it must be raining.
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    You bring up a significant point; that is mistakes in communications. I think this happens when a pilot is overloaded mentally either from environmental factors or human factors. I have heard many instances where pilots have called the wrong runway headings, altitudes and directions. I still do it myself at times, when I get behind the flying. Usually when I hear another pilot make a mistake, I assume he's doing the right thing and just calling it wrong, but that could turn out badly too. But at least with a radio, you know someone is nearby and you can start to look for them.
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    Pylon: One way to make that work might be to designate a certain window of time of each hour for non-radio equipped aircraft to arrive. That way, pilots with radios would know that non-radio equipped aircraft might be in the area at that time, but can reasonably expect that outside those times, that all the other aircraft in and around the circuit can hear and call.
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    Nev: While what you say about transmit button jam is true, I think this is why radio manufacturers are required to have transmit timeouts built into the electronics. Also true is that few people check their transmission quality and on that point, about the only way to check is to ask another pilot for a radio check. The responses are highly subjective in spite of the "numbers" reported for signal strength and readability. This is why I proposed some time ago, to put up a repeater that records a transmission and plays it back. Mark Kyle implemented this and obtained a license from ACMA to do it. The system suffered from the inevitable teething problems, but wasn't utilised by the local pilots much anyway. Mark did this at his own expense and effort and it would have been good to have got the local flying community behind it. I don't know if he has resurrected the system, but I still think it's a good idea that should be implemented nation-wide.
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    Alan: I see a very significant reason why it is different at an event; Traffic density. It may be legal to fly without a radio, but IMO flying into a major fly in without one is worse than driving in peak hour traffic without brake lights and turn signals. In city traffic, a fender bender might spoil your day. A fender bender mid air can ruin your life, and someone else's too! I have witnessed first hand the chaos caused by a non radio equipped aircraft arriving at a major fly in. It could easily have ended in tragedy!
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    If OzKosh turns out to be as big and successful as we all hope, should aircraft without radios be excluded?
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    LOL, you had me going there. I believed it right up until you said "high speed"...
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    Evans coolant is not approved for 912/914 engines with the new style heads. I'm not sure it has been disapproved for the older style heads...However, your engine will run cooler with a glycol/demineralised water coolant than with the Evans. I used to have the Evans in my Nynja and it always seemed to run quite a bit higher than the school aircraft I hired sometimes. My new aircraft has the new style heads and runs normal coolant and the temps never get much above about 100C, regardless of how long I sustain a full power climb. IMO, do yourself a favor and flush out the Evans and use coolant/water. You can get it pre-mixed from auto supply stores. Make sure it is silicate free and ...(something else free...sorry I forget what it is) but one that complies is the Nulon from SCA.
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    Weather permitting, we're going. It's my favorite fly in.
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    All of the above!
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    Phil: My missis is definitely getting good with the navigating thing, especially since our Outback Adventure. She has come up to speed rapidly, on reading aerial nav charts and keeping track of area frequencies and other details for me. I always have my own cheat sheet with this info, but it's usually easier to ask her than to ferret around through my list, especially when it's properly bumpy or there's a bit of traffic about. I am in the process of editing down the hours of video footage we shot on the OA.
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    John: This is just a guess but... Try fitting a new oil filter. The oil filter has a temperature activated bypass in it which is why Rotax say don't go over a certain RPM until the oil reaches 50C. It's possible that the valve mechanism is defective Or something is jammed in it. Unlikely, yes I know, but an oil filter only costs about $25 so it's cheap and easy to try. Edit: If this fixes the problem, cut open the problem oil filter and have a REALLY good look for anything that may have jammed the bypass valve. It may be chips coming off the PSU gears and that's very serious stuff!
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    On those kinds of vessels, you are nothing more than self-loading cargo. When my family first immigrated to Oz, (I was just 15) we came by cargo ship. We were the only three pax on board. I had the pilot's cabin on the aft side of the bridge and I used to go on the bridge and was sometimes allowed to steer the ship. My parents had the Owner's suite. We dined with and got to personally know all the officers. Now THAT's ocean travelling, although we didn't realise it at the time. At the time, it was just the cheapest way to travel.
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    Tom: Welcome to the forum. I've just returned from an outback trip. I'm in the process of editing the videos we took. If you take a look at my website, there is a Google Earth layout of where we went. It was a great adventure and we took two weeks doing it with a group. FWIW, coming to Oz green, I would advise you to try and join a group of others doing a trip if it is possible. The group I was with have some members who have some experience doing these trips and their knowledge of conditions and situations was invaluable on the trip. Also, as the saying goes, "There's safety in numbers". To be clear, The Outback is not to be taken lightly.
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    Mike: It was an amazing adventure and we have some wild tales to tell. Looking forward to catching up with you at Old Station.
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    This wasn't tecnically my last flight, but it was part of my most recent flying. We flew out to The Rock and other outback places. More videos to come as I edit the footage.
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    At the risk of hijacking your thread Mike, we are also hoping to make OS this year...Did I mention that we're flying out to Ayers Rock first? Heading off Saturday, weather permitting.
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    Great job fitting the spats mike!
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    Brent: Hopefully, it won't change. It will get intense, especially just before and after you go solo. But when you get out on your own and get a bit of experience behind you, then you'll REALLY start to enjoy the flying! Expect your early days flying on your own, to be a bit nerve wracking. Then, as your experience and confidence grows, you'll start to relax a little and really see why flying is so addictive. Thanks for your lesson updates, I really enjoy reading them, they bring all those memories flooding back.
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