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All the talk of telephones and satellite equipment, these all rely on battery power and most can’t handle heat. I’ve packed a PLB that has a 10 hour transmission life. Most potential rescues have been responded to within 2 hours. I could have packed the marine EPIRB but it’s bigger and heavier and I’m not planning to cross water on this trip.
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I usually travel with Starlink Mini but I didn’t want to be concerned with battery drain so I packed a PLB. I have a hand held GPS with the waypoints inserted for each airstrip along the way. I don’t trust the iPad and phone.
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I’ve got OzRunways premium subscription but I have a lot to learn. These last few days working through Stuart Maddigan’s chapter 10 has taught me a lot.
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I've packed a PLB with water and snacks but it's impossible to go prepared for all situations. One of the guys up our way crash landed, got out of the plane ok and climbed a hill to get reception on his phone. A pack of dogs followed him, he was surrounded on a rocky peek and had to fight them off until a rescue crew arrived. If he didn't get reception on the phone he probably wouldn't have made it out even though he was not seriously injured.
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I think this is exactly what I need. It gives a pretty good view of bushland and cleared/farmland.
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For those trying to calculate W&B have you ever considered all that printed matter we must take on board. How much does a page of B&W print weigh? I decided to check it out. This an empty cartridge. This is a new cartridge. We have 1200 pages of print weighing 32g. So I can confidently say that an average A4 page of print weighs 0.02666666667g. I hope some find this helpful.
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All these toxins we face these days. It's great they've identified a lot of these things but it seems we are not all affected in the same way so safety measures must be taken but we never had those options back in the 70's and 80's. Some pulled through unscathed and some didn't. It's a bit like smoking and drinking, some live into their nineties and some fall off the perch at 40. If they are truly identifying those things that kill us why are so many still dying so young? I started my apprenticeship removing old asbestos and relagging boilers and steam pipes. I carted bags of asbestos out of Barraba NSW and used to blow down air filters, brakes and clutches. We never had safety glasses, ear muffs dust masks or gloves. We washed the workshop floor with petrol and car parts with kerosine. We welded, sand blasted and painted in confined spaces and I was not alone, it was just the way tradesmen worked. I'm not saying we shouldn't take care wherever possible but just about everything in life is going to kill us, sugar, fat, salt, caffeine, asbestos, silica, mercury, lead, radiation etc. etc. It's quite surprising any of us are still alive.
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Anything that is going to leave metal fragments from the cut can give you a false reading. All the years I worked in Automotive I never saw a filter cut open. Once he slices each end of the paper an stretches out the folds it's a great diagnostic method I could have used many times over the years.
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Normally shortened to FarCue
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I'm studying navigation at the moment. One thing stated in the instructions is to avoid flying over tiger country if there's an alternate route. The charts I'm using don't indicate the type of vegetation as far as I can tell. Are there maps commonly used to show what's down there apart from mountains, lakes, rivers and manmade structures?
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Sorry, $111.90 for the pair delivered to Cue.
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Cheep as chips bought locally. About $50 for the pair delivered in record time.
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It's nice to buy local but - AliExpress....
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That's very expensive for a rarely used tool. I think I paid about $40 in Ebay for a similar tool and it does the job nicely.
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We don't have any anchor points at Cue so we setting up some concrete blocks. Img 1936.mp4 I had intended to lift them into place with the Hiab but my lifting devices were too big to fit the anchor bolts. Sounds like a simple fix, just grab some the right size but nothing is simple to purchase here. Hopefully this will do the trick. I'm just using two blocks because the Sportstar doesn't have a rear fixing point. The manual suggests tying the front wheel down but it could a bit difficult to maneuver on and off the blocks.
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Zonsen Aero Engines - Rapture Aviation (Adelaide)
Moneybox replied to Rapture's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
That's one of the difficulties of a retrofit. Move it so that one thing fits and it upsets something else. No so much of a problem when you're solidly stationed on the earth but a bit different when a few kilos fore and aft can have a dramatic effect when in the air. I used to love this sort of work but I'd want it finished yesterday.... -
Zonsen Aero Engines - Rapture Aviation (Adelaide)
Moneybox replied to Rapture's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
Of course we can't see a lot but it appears to be a long way forward. I guess you've carefully calculated W&B? -
It's already happened. Hal took over in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I saw it on the internet, most certainly factual.
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They were great little vehicles, crude but reliable. It was their light weight and simplicity that made them so successful. Many thousands of them were disposed of at sea after the end of the second world war.
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I hope Rotax take your criticism on board and start producing a reliable product. That cheap nasty carburettor seems to manage ok. Of course we know fuel injection has the answer to your stated faults but those cheap and nasty carburettors keep it simple, no electronics, reasonable performance and economy, easily maintained and a good long service life. The float chamber retaining bolt is common place on small carburettors and hardly a sign of pressurised float chamber. More likely a little easier to remove and replace in situ than those little spring retainers.
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Nev, what you're trying to tell us is that Rotax stuffed up badly when they produced the 914 Turbo, as 409tonner pointed out, it works on a similar principal. And the FACT is it obviously works. Why all the negativity?
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The spikes seem to be quite effective. You see them on a lot of public structures, signs and street lights but some sheds have dozens of areas that would need to be covered particularly if there are roof trusses. It might be easier to seal the entry and exit areas.
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There's a lot of speculation here guys. If Rotax can successfully produce a turbo charged engine on basically the same principal then I'm sure it can be reliably done. Some of you're statements just don't add up like fuel being forced back past the needle. You're talking of an area within the venturi, a low pressure area drawing fuel by low pressure produced by the rapid flow of air. The float bowl is vented to atmospheric pressure, there'll be no pressure pushing fuel back down the line. Sure in a standard setup the breather for the float bowl is within the air intake but that would be a minor modification. How is compressed air going to increase the risk of icing? Lots of unsubstantiated negative comments, just what we expect from from the masses when we see new innovation. We should embrace new inventions and technology and enjoy the outcome.
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How many db's? Might upset the neighbours living in their hangar.
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No longer required, I ordered another brand.
