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"Roger" used to be the phonetic for "R" before the NATO phonetic alphabet became the standard so "R" is now Romeo. Roger is defined as "Read and Understood. I have received all of your last transmission". Affirm means "Yes". So if someone is asking you a question & you can answer with a yes, say "Affirm". It you are being advised of a situation where a readback is not required say "Roger". What is not acceptable is CB speak of "Copy" or "Copy that" etc.

There was an article in the October Sportpilot of radio use in class G airspace. There is no difference when you are in controlled airspace except when being provided with information from ATC a readback is usually required to confirm you have read and understood the transmission.

Very sobering and a very lucky man.

Recreational Flying is my vote. I have a PPL & RPC and built my own aircraft. I have been a recreational pilot most of my adult life starting with Hang Gliding in 1975, PPL & Cessnas/Pipers 15 years later & RAA since 2009. There are plenty of site members who have similar stories. There are some PPL people who seem to look down on RAA people & recently there has been a bit of bad blood, eg the trademark fiasco & more recently AOPA whingeing about privileges. I share the sky with many GA aircraft, use the same radio frequencies & chat to them on the ground. Never had a problem.

I'd add to the RH side the Hawker Hunter, the best looking jet fighter of all time, the BAE Hawk, best looking jet trainer and of modern warbirds, the Tornado. I also like the Sukoi SU 27 & up. Makes the F35 look like a bus.

Governments, that is the Libs and Nats have too many vested interests in fossil fuel to make good rational decisions and push for sustainable renewable energy. The funny thing is that ordinary people and business are ignoring the politicians & doing it anyway.

See this recent thread. Lots of suggestions here. Rust spots on fly wires

I put 2 quarts of Aeroshell 100 plus in with a new filter every 25 hours. My Engine is a Generation 3 3300 with roller cam followers. I have a Positech 7 row oil cooler mounted low on the firewall which holds a good 1/2 litre including the oil hose lines. The oil level is about 3-4mm below the top of the knurled section of the dipstick. After 25 hours the oil level is about 6mm below the top of the knurled section. I do not top up at all. The oil catch bottle usually has a small amount of condensate and sludge in it which I tip out and then replace the bottle on the firewall. The only issue I've had was a loose hose clip which allowed the sludge to drip down the firewall on to the bottom of the cowl and along the underside of the fuselage. It was surprisingly hard to get off.The secret is do not overfill the engine and it will perform well using little oil and won't throw any out. Don't baby the engine either. My minimum cruise is 2800 rpm up to about 3000 rpm in a cruise climb.

I put 2 quarts of Aeroshell 100 plus in with a new filter every 25 hours. My Engine is a Generation 3 3300 with roller cam followers. I have a Positech 7 row oil cooler mounted low on the firewall which holds a good 1/2 litre including the oil hose lines. The oil level is about 3-4mm below the top of the knurled section of the dipstick. After 25 hours the oil level is about 6mm below the top of the knurled section. I do not top up at all. The oil catch bottle usually has a small amount of condensate and sludge in it which I tip out and then replace the bottle on the firewall. The only issue I've had was a loose hose clip which allowed the sludge to drip down the firewall on to the bottom of the cowl and along the underside of the fuselage. It was surprisingly hard to get off.

The secret is do not overfill the engine and it will perform well using little oil and won't throw any out. Don't baby the engine either. My minimum cruise is 2800 rpm up to about 3000 rpm in a cruise climb.

Good post JG3. My neck of the woods. I usually just get high & go direct but this track offers more options if the noise stops. From South Grafton head to Buccarumbi & after crossing the Nymboida River near the junction of the Boyd River you follow the Boyd River until it turns South & then head North to the Mann River following the Old Glen Innes Road, cross the Henry River & then follow the Mann River till the Old Glen Innes Road heads North to join the Gwydir Highway. The Mann River has its source not far from Glen Innes. The Boyd River joins the Nymboida River & then the Nymboida River empties into the Mann which heads North eventually joining the Clarence to then head South & East to Grafton & on to Yamba and the sea.

My point was referring to Ben Morgans letter, the aircraft he was describing & pilot privileges, all fit in to the existing RAA category so the aircraft could be re-registered with RAA & the pilot do a RAA conversion & could then self declare medical fitness. L2 maintenance for a 24 registered aircraft is less arduous and costly that the full Lame experience. You just pay an annual membership fee and aircraft registration. CASA & Politicians are far more likely to do what I said in post 156.

Personally I think we should go the way of the UK. PPL by day rules are a medical self declaration based on a car licence once before the age of 70 & every 3 years thereafter. The study they did and consultation with industry found that class 2 medicals had not improved safety at all and in 20 years they could not find any fatal crashes that could directly be attributable to medical issues. The problem is with their ties to the EU it only applied to UK licences flying non EASA aircraft. This is one of the bureaucratic EU issues that Brexit has to resolve.

Your opinion but CASA and Politicians can be remarkably dumb. The other point is that if you built it yourself then you can do all maintenance and modifications yourself. If not then L2 maintained which is a lot less arduous and less expensive that LAME costs.

Why wouldn't CASA & the politicians just say to Ben Morgan Just go away & join RAA-Aus. Problem solved.

You blokes have more faith in never having an electrical failure than me. In all probability you won't ever have an electrical failure but it isn't certain. There is a reason that most aircraft have separate dual ignition systems totally independent of the electrical system. Have you practiced flying without the Skyview as in circuits and forced landings?

When hovering over a members avatar, the detail is partly obscured by the new side menu, presumably because the side menu is specified to be always on top. All detail is shown when clicked as it opens a separate page.

This is how Dynon specifies connections.

Silly question?.When adding a glass altitude /airspeed, panel. can you use the same pitot, with a splice T piece in the line.

Or have to provide a separate pitot to each.

 

( was going to ask at Narromine, but decided to keep quiet)

 

spacesailor

It is my home page so I like it and as I said I have a 16:9, 24 inch screen so space is not a problem

It is worrying that Google is working on self driving cars and self flying aircraft. Better work better than Google Chrome browser on my iPad mini which crashed frequently and made the device almost unusable.Boycott Fakebook and encourage your friends and relatives to do the same. There is nothing wrong with phones, Skype, email to stay in touch with friends and relatives and list servers and websites/blogs for things that are of interest to you.

It doesn't matter when you have a large 16:9 screen. It also disappears once you have selected the thread to read.

Great. It is back to front in WUA but ticking Right puts it on the left.

If you decide on a full glass panel you should have backup analogue gauges for ASI, Altitude and an independent compass IMHO. Even though manufacturers say their glass instruments are sunlight readable which is true, when in full sunlight they are not easily readable so when you are busy in the cockpit you do not have time to process inadequately displayed information. A quick glance at an analogue instrument registers with the brain instantly, not so with digital data although many panels do have an analogue type display but sunlight reflected from the glass (or plastic as the case may be) reduces the readability.

I have analogue ASI, VSI, ALT, & Tacho in front of me along with a Dynon D6 which fits into a standard instrument hole. The Compass is liquid filled and high in the centre away from any electro or magnetic interference. The Dynon duplicates ASI, VSI ALT, Compass and has turn coordinator & slip ball, A/H, AOA, Attitude & heading. It also has a voltmeter built in so a separate instrument for this is not required. There are other fancy bits like roll rate, turn rate and airspeed trend which I don't both with. If the Dynon fails I still have ASI, VSI, ALT & Compass. If the pitot & static get blocked I still have GPS ground speed, altitude and attitude.

I guess no-one can be sure of that but I don't think there has ever been hail stones recorded a big as a frozen chook and apart from that they are just water not frozen flesh and bones which as I said earlier would be like chucking a brick into the engine.

The average person believes that Stainless steel does not corrode. I owned a balustrading business and used a lot of SS in balustrading, gates and pool fencing. When frameless glass became popular and anodised or powder coated aluminium gave way to stainless steel for the spigots, I would tell customers to keep the spigots & glass clean especially around salt water pools. Of course many ignored my advice and came back complaining of the staining and corrosion even after I'd told them that stainless steel will tea stain and rust, it just stains less than other steels. The glass also suffered as it eventually etched. After a while I wrote up a maintenance procedure and had them sign it when accepting the quote. The best spigot manufacturers used a higher grade than 316. 2204 was one of these I think.

Eagles enjoy thermalling to great heights. It is not done for hunting but a way to fly long distance without expending much energy, just like we do in gliders. Chucking a frozen chook into an engine would be like throwing a block of concrete or brick into it. I reckon the fan blades and most of the compressor blades would be stuffed if that happened.

The side menu is far better if you have a 16:9 monitor which is pretty standard now as there is plenty of space horizontally compared with vertically so you will have more information on the screen before having to scroll down.