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G’day Skip, The noise level was unnoticeable. It was that effective you really only had to crack it open a very small amount. I never flew in rain hard enough for water to enter. I custom made the fiberglass scoop to fit the exact exit angle I needed. From memory the width of the scoop was about 1/4 of the length of the radiator. I used this heat box and scat hose from aircraft spruce https://www.aircraftspruce.com.au/catalog/eppages/homebuilderscabinheatbox.php if I was to do it again I would probably use the heat box/ splitter that Jabiru use which is around half the size. jason

No, Nev. when not in use I diverted the air to the low pressure area at the cowl exit. We have plenty of hot days in North Queensland and the engine never got anywhere near hot. jason

When I had my Rotax powered 601 HDS I made up a fibreglass scoop similar to this gyro setup. It captured a portion of the hot exit air from the radiator which was then plumbed to a cabin heat airbox. It was simple and extremely effective. jason

Here is the coroners report. https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/COR 2022 005430 Form 37-Finding into Death Following Inquest_Signed.pdf jason

The Jab in the link is a 912 conversion. 😊 jason

RF maybe you could speak to Ole at Australian aircraft kits. I believe he did the tidy conversion posted by pylon 500 in this thread. Jason

Here are some specs compared to Douglas fir. https://boatcraft.com.au/informationpages/pdfs/HoopPine-DouglasFirComparison.pdf jason

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2021/aair/ao-2021-017/

Bill, when I had my Xair I got my tyres from here Trailer Parts | Garbutt | NQ Wheels & Castor Supplies I tended to pick up a few goat heads so got the heavier tread. They worked very well. Jason

https://www.raa.asn.au/safety/accident-and-defect-summaries/ jason

4 years, Alf. Not a day I’ll forget in a hurry. jason

G’day Brett, I’ll lay money on your problem being your ducting to your radiator not allowing enough airflow. i’ve recently had to mount my radiator vertically on the engine mount near the Firewall on my 601 HDS and had the same problem. I originally had a Plenum over the radiator fed by various inlets but eventually had to make a NACA duct feeding directly to the face of the radiator to allow effective ground cooling. It now runs waaay to cool but that’s a simple fix with some Aluminium tape. Jason

No. On his way South from Innisfail to Dysart. Landed at Ingham due to Weather and crashed it whilst landing. Jason

That link was back in 2014. There was a Storch that flipped on landing a couple of days ago though. Jason