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Most of the bills I've had from them were for landings I never did.

No need to apologise, Skippy. I understood the methodology and your logic is as sound as usual.

So you have warmed the oil and returned it to the tank before doing the oil change, despite not seeing the point of warming the oil. Defies logic - no offence intended.

I’ve checked it both hot and cold. Seems to work fine either way. I would check it cold if I thought it needed topping up which it rarely does. Warm the engine before doing an oil change.

It takes fewer rotations both when the oil is warm and if you move the prop slowly. Don’t trust Google for advice but you can ask it where to download all the Rotax manuals for free.

What a soul destroying way to make a living being on a human assembly line like that and working in those conditions while the factory owner is probably doing very nicely.

You've done an amazing job on the Viper and it's truck and trailer. You must have a lot of money and time tied up in it so I hope you do really well financially out of displaying it, apart from the satisfaction of seeing people enjoy your creation.

The Australians redesigned it with a different engine and made it much better.

Good news. Hope they can turn things around and make a go of it.

Not a demo this time but a very useful discussion.

You wouldn't want to outland in this.

Outer SE suburb of Alice Springs,I think.

Do pilot and passenger headsets both do the same thing? If only one, then maybe start with checking the headset jack connections. Just a guess.

I agree, and the plane on the blurb is another giveaway. It's nothing like a P47. More like a collection of spare parts. As far as I know, only the Russians had female fighter pilots.

That was one of the issues that contributed to Van’s recent problems, although management, cost control and supply chain and increasing costs combined with a flood of orders (paradoxically) during Covid were the major factors.