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  1. Moneybox
    I use the free app HANDBRAKE to reduce video size. Dead easy to use and no noticeable reduction in quality.
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    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-24/pilot-dies-in-light-plane-crash-near-northam-east-of-perth/106836910
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    I went for a class-2 medical because I hadn't had a decent medical checkup for many years. The mistake I made was disclosing 70 years of medical history that they used to put me through the wringer. After months of tests and analysis they were calling for more so I spoke to my GP, he said "Don't worry there's nothing wrong with you, I'll write them a letter". That did it, I immediately passed but it only lasted two years so next time I just did the class-5 declaration. Your flight instructor will direct you to the correct quack for your CASA medical. Mine flight instructor told me, after the fact, that you just tick all the right boxes and you'll pass. I thought that might be ok until you attempted and insurance claim and some relevant medical history was disclosed then you'd be stuffed.
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    Baz, I’ve followed your build and from what I’ve seen you have all the skills required plus some. You’ll easily knock it off and your age is certainly no barrier. I didn’t decide to learn to fly until I hit 70 and took a serious look at my bucket list. I’m 72 now and have flown 95 hours but would have done a lot more if my other interests didn’t get in the way. I think it’s important to make sure your finances are in order before commencing. I’ve seen too many unfinished projects and too many dropouts before finishing flying lessons and that is a waste of time and money.
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    Brings back memories of my first car, a two door Fiat 600 with suicide doors. It ended up having matching arcs impressed into the front door skins that fitted the rear wheel arches. When the exhaust broke on the Zenith I smelled the fumes right away. I didn’t hear it until I landed an hour or so later. Now I have an RAAus CO detector that hopefully never has a reading.
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    Surely you didn't fly the Jabiru to NZ? I'm in the Pilbara right now. On my prospecting lease P46/2135 just east of Nullagine. I'd love to fly here but I think if I left the plane sit at the Nullagine airport overnight it'd be missing the wheels by morning. You're welcome to drop in the Cue sometime but you'd have to check our movements, we don't sit still for long. Right now I'm trying to arrange freight from Perth for a pair of Excavator tracks. I walked it up a creak deep into the hills in the middle of the lease before the RH track came apart. Fortunately I was on the ground at the time. 😂 Phil
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    I realise some might be concerned about a fire risk of using the Chinese copy but any electrical device can fail in the same way. At $45 a pop repair of the old one would seem like a waste of time. I'm not flying much at the moment so I can't prove its worth but for the ease of fitting I feel it's well worth a shot. We're right into gold prospecting season now so the plane is securely tied down for an extended period.
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    I guess it's better than crashing into them? 🤪
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    My Chinese knock-off regulator will never be really put to the test in the Zenith with very little electrical accessories fitted. I still have the Ducati one because in the end the problem was a stuffed capacitor. I think the carburettor balance problem could be easily fixed. Balance them with the balance tube shut off then fit a little larger balance tube, that's if it really is a problem.
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    My point is the Ducati item is dodgy. If you want good electronics/electrics you don’t look to America, Germany Italy or the UK. The Asians lead the way.
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    danny, if the original part was reliable I'd have bought one but history shows that it will most likely fail. Apart from that it's not really a critical component.
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    That one I put in the Parts List is one from China, looks the part and is an exact plug-n-play if you are replacing the Ducati one. Mine is working well since I replaced the capacitor.
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    I bought a couple online but in the end found an RAAus one in the glovebox of the plane along with a PLB. I just had to put two CR2032 batteries in. We took it on our last flight and was happy to see a zero reading.
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    I've failed to remove the pitot cover so I had to complete a circuit and land again. I just made sure I held sufficient speed for a safe landing.
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    Why do planes burn so fiercely? I thought jet fuel was like distillate that doesn't ignite all that easily and burns slower than gasoline.
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    I was too busy studying the beautiful bands of colour on the wings.
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    I need to practise sideslipping. The Zenith has no flaps and sometimes I don't manage to drop enough speed finding myself a couple hundred metres down the runway in the flair before touchdown. I miss the mechanical flaps on the Sportstar. Yesterday I spotted this beautiful little plane in classifieds and thought that would make a nice upgrade now that Mrs M has decided she loves to fly. I called but it was sold long ago. It'd be nice if people removed their ads or marked them as sold. I think the view might be much better from the high-wing.
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    We used to call them Painted Crays (vegetarian), the others Red Rock Crayfish (carnivores). We went out last week and had a couple of flying fish scoot across the water ahead of the boat.
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    Going down today, not flying but driving. I haven't got over this problem of landing and then having no wheels. I have a vehicle parked at Northam airport but that's another 100km further. That doesn't work out so we'll take the motorhome because we'll need the diesel heater tonight.
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    We bought 2698 sq m of industrial on Wongan Rd and 10,000 sq m of residential in Stonestreet Way. We've ordered a shed for the industrial block and the hangar but nothing yet for the 2.5 acre block. We wanted somewhere with a few more services than Cue.
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    That's the sort of thing we want to do. There's no good reason the be here in the summer. We just sold the old 1910 stone cottage along with the mining lease M20/522 that runs through our back yard and the prospecting lease P20/2405 100m further away. That's the last of our Cue mining interests for now.
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    Yes the Zodiac does work well. I'm not fully confident in it yet. I was practising stalls this morning at 4000'. My airspeed was dropping to 27Kt, the lowest reading on the MGL Lite, and then Zero before it dropped a left wing. It just seems to sit in the air doing nothing before the stall. I miss the steam gauges of the Sportstar.
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    True BrendAn but the term of hot weather is usually much shorter. Cue can hit over 40 for a good four to five months of the year. We can handle a couple of months and then it seems we're wasting away a lot of time sheltering inside from 10am until sunset. Our electric hot water system is rarely turned on and sometimes the cold is too hot for a comfortable shower.
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    I woke this morning, raised the blind and looked at the trees that were dead still, a rare occurrence but perfect for Mrs M's first flight. I hadn't be up for more than a month so I decided on a practice flight first over Lake Austin, a few stalls, a few steep turns and a few touch-and-goes. This is before, her smile was even bigger upon our return. That sick bag is still in the glovebox unused 😉. This is the Great Fingal mine. The historic gold mine office can be seen at the top of the pit. It's a heritage listed building with an uncertain future. There have been years of discussion on how to save it. One option is to move it into town but that tends to destroy the heritage value. We took a flight over several of the old gold mines. My aim was to make her first flight as interesting as possible while keeping it short. Clock time was 0.6hrs so about 0.5hrs in the air. Shortly after landing the wind came up with a well timed shower of rain.
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