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    May you and your floppy-eared dog remain fire free… My brother and sister both lost their farms in the Black Summer fires of 19/20. My brother rebuilt, my sister sold up, but the psychological scars remain for both.
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    1300HP! And here was I thinking that 130HP was impressive… 😝
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    Neat looking paint job!
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    Has anybody tried to read it? I was on about page 180 when I realised I was only about a third of the way through! if you have to memorise all of that to be able to fly in controlled airspace, then I think I’ll have to stay OCTA. 🫤
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    Big day! Well done. 👍
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    Yep. Years ago, while working for a reasonably large company, I hired a contractor to do some work which he didn’t do. When we refused to pay his invoice, he issued a winding up notice on the company. Needless to say, he didn’t get very far… 99% of winding up notices are meaningless. 🙄
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    Who know what changes CTA access will bring, but for OCTA, group G is the same as group A as far as medical is concerned - just self declared.
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    The stall will occur if the actuator can’t reach the limit switch for some reason (eg too much load).
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    I bought tefzel wire recently from a performance vehicle supplier (Performance Motorsports) on eBay. Cheaper, but no guarantee that suppliers there will have the size/colour/length that you want.
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    That’s really remarkable, Red! I enjoy reading them (particularly the oddball ones).
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    It amuses me to think of how ‘slapped together’ the final result would be to do it in 400h. No deburring, no corrosion protection, no checking, no good. 🫤
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    How to get depressed quickly. In the latest Kitplanes magazine annual roundup of kits, the ‘beginner’ build time for a Ventura is listed as 400 hours. I’m up to 380 and I’ve only just started on the fuselage… 🫣 p.s. I’m not really bothered; I just found it amusing. I know I like to take things slowly, but there’s no way a beginner is going to get anywhere near finished in 400 hours!
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    Is it possible that the POH is in miles per hour, not knots? Regardless, contact the factory directly. They’ll sort it quickly.
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    Congratulations!
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    I’ve got a Victa 72V mower and edger. About 5 years old now and going fine. Good wide cut (unlike the 18V Ryobi one my son was given which is absolute rubbish), and much lighter and quieter than my old 4 stroke. However, now that I have 1500 sq m of very fast growing kikuyu to mow, I got an electric Toro ride-on about a year ago. I can’t see me ever going back to petrol.
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    First time I had to drive on the ‘wrong’ side of the road, I kept trying to change gears with the door handle. It’s surprising, though, how quickly you switch.
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    My beloved gets to choose our car colours, and her choice is normally red. However, her current car is white because she hated the ugly dark reds that seem to be the only option these days. Definitely a vote for nice bright fire engine red!
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    I used to use the foldable ones (no longer have them, sold with our plane). Never took them up when loaded, but really handy for getting fuel when away from home as they take diddly-squat space in the luggage area when empty. However, do check that you’ve tightened the cap properly before carrying them (full) I someone else’s car! I think my daughter has forgiven me… 🫣
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    Only time I’ve flown into Milawa (long time ago, so may have changed), I had to get written permission in advance.
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    Double post
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    Frank and Thruster’s posts struck a chord with me, and could possibly be summarised as: Things that I think will kill me Midair collision Structural failure Engine failure Things that will actually kill me Unintentional stall Flight into cloud Low flight/hooning
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    Don’t know if this helps (as it refers to a different headset), but my Lightspeed headset has a physical microphone volume preset control built in (somewhere, hidden under a little cover that I could tell you about if I looked up the manual again… 😛)
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    I can identify. 🫤 Just as I’m really enjoying building (every day!), one son wants me to build an office in his garage (new progeny means he’s running out of room in his quite small house), and daughter wants a fairly complicated new interior for one of her built-in cupboards. Happy to do them, but it’s really hard to get started on them when the shed is calling…
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    If you’ve watched a kid who’s been struggling to keep up in life suddenly be able to function after starting medication, you may not be so dismissive of either the diagnosis nor the treatment. No, it doesn’t need to be a ‘forever’ drug, nor does it turn her/him into a zombie. If you’ve experienced it, you’ll understand. If you haven’t, then please ignore all the mindless crap you read in the media and socials. 🙂
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    That’s the trick though. I am (was?) a software engineer, and if the marketing types/customers could actually define what they really wanted instead of complaining when we couldn’t interpret their vague handwaving, then life would’ve been so much easier. However, given that 99% of software engineering comprises just regurgitating, the same patterns over and over, I think AI will do a pretty good job.
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