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When buying an airplane, that's easier said than done. In my experience, the manufacturer requires a deposit of about a third, to start production. Then another third is payable somewhere near the middle of production. The final third is payable upon shipment. I don't know what happened to the buyer that paid all of the money and three years later still has no airplane. If I were in his shoes, I'd be pretty p***ed too and be willing to sue someone.

Your video seems to have gone missing. Nevermind though, you're making me jealous. Need a flying fix! Edit: Sorry, the video IS there, just doesn't show up in the post. LOVED the video! Keep making more flying videos...

Apparently there is a brand of tyre (supplier actually advertises on this site I think) that I'm told is resistant to the calthrop. They are heavy but strong. As for runflats, the only kind I know of, don't contain any liquid. They have low profile sidewalls that are heavily stiffened internally. We've had two cars with them and I hate them for road use. They are rough riding, noisy and because they contain so little air when properly inflated, very critical for pressure. I'm not aware of any runflats available for aircraft.

Would you be willing to tell us where your airstrip is so we can avoid it?

A great turnout this morning. The food was plentiful and very welcome.

They could do something similar to hexadecimal numbering and start doing 7A7, 7B7 etc... That would give them at least 26 more models before they had to get more creative. Given that the 7_7 series has been adequate since the 1950s they might not have to do anything until 2076

David: I'm hoping to go, but we have well and truly hijacked this thread. We should start another thread for these other topics

David: The one looking up pumicestone passage with the bridge in the middle is a really nice composition.

Then we know that you've got the right instructor for you. Congrats on gaining your wings and welcome to the sky.

Yeah, well like I said, persons that only half read other peoples' posts and fly off the handle half-cocked:please:

Before you go on the attack, maybe YOU should get new glasses. Geoff's post said he hadn't see the requirement for a fuel PRESSURE GAUGE, but you flew off the handle about RETURN LINES at him. AND he explicitly said he had seen the part about return lines. Get a grip storchy. Edit: I upcased the relevant lines so that hopefully they're big enough for you to see until you get some glasses.

FT: I can understand GoPro's falling volumes when you see what they charge for their cameras now. They used to be a cheap sports camera, but now I think they have pretentions to be a high end product. The hero 4 black is now advertised at $650.00! When you see the specs of the cameras that Jaycar are selling for $199.00 (full 1080 @ 60FPS) it's no wonder the GoPros aren't selling. I wonder at the claim of falling margins though. Although the GoPros are designed in the US, I believe they're made in China. Oh, and the Jaycar camera comes standard with a viewing screen on the back. With the GoPro, you have to buy that separately.

Just thought I'd update this thread with the video we shot on the day the cameras failed. Fortunately my wife rescued the day with her handheld footage. She has become reasonably good with the camera now and got some good footage in the can.

There is another thread in the forums on Rotax tacho probs. You could try some of the remedies posted there.

I was asked by the American distributors of the Legend how it performs on a 120F-130F day. 130F is somewhere north of 50C I think, and it got me to wondering where you would get those kinds of temps. Then I thought of the aircraft sitting on a black bitumen runway with the ambient air temps in the 40s. Would the temps over the runway in those conditions get up to 50C? Something to consider for us Tupperware drivers?

Also, WRT operating temps, CF components that are structural are usually autoclaved at 80C or thereabouts to cure and harden. This is why CF aircraft must be painted white in structural areas. If those components were painted dark colours it might be possible to get them to a temp that would soften the resin. My Legend is completely CF with an extra layer of Kevlar in the cabin area. It would be interesting to have a temp probe inside the wings and a gauge that reads max temps.

Love it! Maybe I should bring the monkey back LOL

Weather kept us grounded also...Bugger!

That's called "Oversharing"!!!

Ryan: Yep, on my bucket list as well. Thinking of going up this year if time and weather cooperate. From memory, it happens around September.

Unfortunately we are going to miss this again. The weather is out of my comfort zone (in the sense that I can't make heads or tails of what it's going to do) so I'm going with the safe option. Really disappointed as we really wanted to go. Next time for sure... Maybe Gympie on Sunday ...

Oooh errr, I had no idea that was going to happen

There is another thread in the forums regarding renting versus buying. I won't try to duplicate that here as a simple search will lead you to that. From your two initial choices; Jabiru or Cessna, I think you have some more research to do as both those aircraft types have some form of cloud over them, however contentious those clouds may be. Also, the Cessna is definitely GA only at this stage, the Jab may be registered VH or RAA depending on the model I think. Recreational aircraft will only have two seats. If you want to carry more than 1 passenger, then it's GA for you. Recreational aircraft are generally much cheaper to maintain than GA and usually much cheaper to run, fuel-wise. If you will mostly be flying alone, but sometimes with 1 other, it would be pointless to buy a six seater and pay all the money for purchase, running and maintenance. In the long run, you might be best off going GA and renting a small two seater when that suits or a six seater when needed. However: if renting GA aircraft is anything like renting RAA planes, you'll rarely be able to just rock up somewhere and say "I want to rent a plane right now." You'll more likely have to book it in advance and let them know how long you want it for and you'll have to fit in with the other demands for their aircraft such as training and other rentals. By contrast, owning a plane gives more flexibility of when you want to fly and for how long you'll be away with the plane. HTH

Who's going this year?

I tried a pair of polarised sunnies, but they made weird patterns in the Lexan windscreen. I found that distracting to the point I took the sunnies off and flew without them. I think there are different quality polarised sunnies and some are better than others.