old man emu

It is ironic that when I was a kid, I was called "fatty" because I was fatter than the other kids, but when I look at photographs of me as a child, and compare myself to what I see waddling around the local shopping malls, I begin to wonder what names kids of my generation would have called today's kids.

I think the benefit of programs like Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and Lite & Easy are that they show you that you are able to exist on smaller portions without wanting to eat the legs off a grand piano. After you have realised exactly how little food you really need to satisfy your hunger, you can get off those programs IF the COOK is behind your efforts. I also think that if we reverted to "meat and two veg" as an evening meal, with occasional savoury meals as treats, we would go a long way to developing our own weight loss diet.

All this fancy non-European food; easy to prepare meals; coffee shops and fast food draw us into a web of malnutrition. Yes, malnutrition, because a diet reliant on these things obviously is bad (mal-) nutrition, as exemplified by the obesity epidemic.

OME

110kg - maximum safe load on any glider seat.

105kg - weight limit for tandem skydiving.

 

90kg suggestion - weight limit on many folding bicycles.- Enoch

I did some calculations:

1 litre petrol = 0.72 kg

1kg = 1.39 litres petrol

10 kg = 13.9 litres petrol

13.9 litres petrol = 1 hour's petrol consumption of a Jabiru engine (plus 4 minutes reserve)

Therefore 10kg = 1 hour's range.

OME

My wife, son and I were going to go the Lite & Easy way. We got the first week's lunches, snacks and dinners for the 1800 calorie intake. I quite liked everything, and wasn't feeling hungry, but the wife and son got stomach troubles when they ate the dinners, so we ditched L&E. I had one of the left-over meals recently and ended up as though I'd eaten a block of Laxettes. I've usually got cast iron guts, so there must be something in the food that doesn't agree with me.

The week on L&E did show us that we could survive on smaller portions, so that's what we are doing now. No fancy "diet food"; no "half a bullock" on a plate for dinner, and drastically reduced intake of biscuits and ice cream. Sometimes I get an empty feeling in my belly, but I can usually get over it with a cuppa and a pinch of will power. Mind you, seeing a smaller value on the scales each week is like scoring a Golden Point try, or kicking a winning six-pointer right on the siren.

So now I have suggestions for the 95kg goal (Drifter or Aerochute). What are some goals for 110 and 105 kg?

OME

Those of you who have met me know that I look more like an overfed Christmas turkey than a lean mean Emu machine. So, after having reached the new Middle-Age, I've decided that I have to regain the svelte form of my early years. My goal is to get down to about 85-90 Kg, or 13.5 - 14 stone in real money.

All the diet books say that you need to set intermediate goals to maintain the effort. So far I have these goals:

115 kgs - I meet the seat-weight limit for a CTS

100 kgs - I can go for a decently long flight in a J-160.

85-90kgs - I can have a comfortable (?) flight in Economy class to England.

Can anyone suggest goals for 110 kgs; 105 kgs, and 95 kgs?

Old Man Emu

"Small aviation organisations will no longer have to develop their own drug and alcohol management plans"

Crap!

When you read the criteria for a small organisation to use the CASA DAMP, you will find that to be able to use it, an organisation must have less than seven SSAA employees. That's fine, we have four (five if you include the parts storeman). However, in determining the number of SSAA employees, you have to include any organisations that do contract work for you. If we just look at the people who do our instruments, electrics, avionics, welding, upholstery etc, we get up towards 50 people. That means our organisation with 4/5 employees on the books still has to develop its own DAMP.

If you are in this situation, I can supply an DAMP for you that is readily accepted by the CASA AOD people. (For a reasonable fee, of course.)

Old Man Emu

PS: I'm happy with the change in medical requirements.

OME - Very nice mate! Hows she ride?

OME

Like the jockey shift. How you going to pull the clutch and shift with the left hand at the same time?

OME

Mardy,

Jabiru released technical manual JTM001-1 on 6/4/12 which covers all Jabiru aircraft. It is available in pdf format from the jabiru website.

OME

We tried to get the wing attach bolts out, using increasing degrees of force and heavier and heavier hammers. The rear bolts would not shift.

Our solution: Close up the airplane, and since Jabiru said it would be "OK" for ten hours, we are sending it off the Bundaberg so teh experts can get the bolts out.

OME

I find that the most dangerous four wheel drivers in the suburbs are YAF's in their little 1.5 litre hatchbacks, always with a mobile phone to their left ear and an urgent need to get from here to there as quickly as possible. Cross a main road from a side street at a roundabout? Bugger you Charlie, I'm not stopping, I got here first.

Anyway, owning a 70 year old bike is like owning your own homebuilt - there's always some tinkering to do. Today I've got to properly secure the exhaust pipes so it doesn't sound like a Bikie ride-by shooting every time I back off the throttle going downhill.

OME

YAF = Young Aggressive Female

I didn't post the above as a political statement. It was meant to be a useful piece of information so that members could get an idea of what they could expect as a rise in the price of fuel.

If you want to get all political, let's keep an eye on how much the capitalist dog fuel companies add on as their extra bit of gouge. We also might like to see how many shares in petroleum companies members of the Conservative parties hold.

OME

Correspondence from BP Australia contained the following information concerning the rise in the exise on Avgas as a result of the introduction of the Carbon Tax on 1 July 2012:

Excise on domestic aviation fuel today (14/6/12) is 3.556 cents per litre (cpl)

Excise on domestic aviation fuel 2012 - 2013 estimated 8.61 cpl, an increase of 242%

Excise on domestic aviation fuel 2013 - 2014 estimated 8.86 cpl, an increase of 3%

Excise on domestic aviation fuel 2014 - 2015 estimated 9.14 cpl, an increase of 3%

Based on Government advice correct as of 31/3/2012.

"On 1st July 2015 the intention is for the carbon price to float and the carbon pricing mechanism to transition into a non-fixed-price carbon trading scheme. The anticipated effect on aviation excise will be a change on a six monthly basis (based on the average carbon price over the previous six months) in line with the movement in the carbon price."

Old Man Emu

Tell him there's some fly dirt on the right hand side of his lens.

OME

Jabiru engine Warranty* is currently 200 hours or 12 months (which ever comes first) from date of retail sale to customer.

OME

I don't think that you will find any authorised service agents for Jabiru aircraft. Aircraft manufacturers rely on qualified people (LAMEs & L2s) to do repairs in the field. If they were to accept a warranty claim from and owner, the LAME/L2 would bill Jabiru for the labour costs. We haven't been reimbursed by Jabiru for replacing through bolts.

You have to check the warranty period for these engines. I domn't think that it is very long.

OME

OME how much movment was there, I did a check on my J200 today and found a very small amount of movement. You could'nt see the movement but you could feel it if you put your fingers on the cover strip.SAJ

OME

but my plans are 20yrs old...

OME

The reason I crated this thread was to inform people that when ordering hardware they should use the current identification codes for the things they want. This is because a lot of the old identification codes have been superceded and are no longer recognised by suppliers. The CD I supply will show which old codes have been replaced and what the new codes are. Since the old codes are not recognised, it would be wrong to list both on a website.

As for having a website, I haven't got the time to give to constant updating. Prices change with just about every delivery I receive, so I'd be forever updating the price list. This would be in addition to the update of my inventory sheets that I have to do with each delivery.

Apart from providing a link to contact me, there's nothing more that a website would do to increase my sales. If people want to contact me, it's a simple matter to PM me from this forum, or my email address is posted in several places here. If there is anything I want to say that relates to maintenance or construction, I can always create a new thread and say what needs to be said there.

As for the customer always being right - that's why I have a return policy that takes into account that people will sometimes order the wrong stuff, and will want to return it for the correct items. I find that most of my customers, and that includes people who make a living as aircraft maintenance people, don't know the identification codes of the items they want. More often than not, it's a case of "Can I have some of these?", and I've got to identify the item before I go pick it.

Old Man Emu

Well, I am charging $1.90 for the blank CD and for burning it!

The hardcopy book I have of this CD is my most important tool in my job as a storeman/purchaser/on-seller of aircraft hardware. If it helps me, I reckon it will help everyone.

If you really want me to make a profit and stay in business, you will purchase the Mechanics Toolbox and Aircraft Repair -- The Missing Manual. Of course, you can also buy hardware from me. I make a bob or two on that as well.

OME

It happened in the Pacific Theatre of Operations during World War Two. Although the Macarthur's main idea was to island-hop, it was still necessary to ensure that those islands which were bypassed were clear of enemy occupation. A platoon of US soldiers was detailed to scout and clear an isolated jungle covered island which seemed to be free of enemy troops, but caution demanded it be checked out.

The scouting parties found evidence that Japanese troops had been on the island, but there was no sign of them. The troops relaxed a little as they settled down for the night, expecting to be picked up the following morning to move on. But as dawn broke, they found themselves surrounded by fierce looking cannibals. They were caught.

The troops were manhandled into a line and the fiercest cannibal walked along the line inspecting each man. As he stopped in front of a tall soldier, he looked him up and down, grunted and pushed him aside. He continued down the like grunting and pushing soldiers away, until he came to the five foot, two inch mini mountain, Shorty Kozalowski. The cannibal's face lit up as he drew Shorty to him.

Pointing towards the beach the soldiers had landed on, he growled, "You all go. No come back." He signalled to the other cannibals who began chanting angrily and pushing the soldiers towards the beach.

When they were gone, Shorty was bewildered and turned to the cannibal and asked, "Why did you chase my friends away, but keep me here?"

The cannibal said, "Last full moon, me go see witch doctor. He say I been eat too many yellow men. Now me too fat. He tell me to go on Low GI diet."

Old Man Emu

I'm not going to handle the sales of the e-Book. If you want it, follow this link to get it:

http//www.payloadz.com/go/sip?id=1589750

OME

The loose bit is the upper forward wing attach bolt. We think it might be the aluminium insert working loose and will investigate that aspect. Since the plane is in for a periodic, we won't be signing it out until the wing is properly secured.

I posted this as a "heads up" for the next bloke who does a pre-flight on a Jab. Have someone push up and down on the wing tip while you look at the wing attach bolt. I think you have to remove a flat fairing to get a look in there.

OME

I'll let you know in a day or two. I'm just waiting on a reply from the author.

OME

We have a Jabiru in the shop for a periodic inspection at the moment. We have found that the wing attachment is loose and that we can move the wing up and down.

We reported the condition to Jabiru who told us that "She'll be right for ten hours or so." Another source told us that there was an allowable tolerence for movement at this joint. However, the recently published Jabiru service manual contains no statement to this effect.

We await developments as we delve further into the situation.

Old Man Emu

John Schwaner, the producer of the Mechanic's Toolbox CD has just released an e-Book entitled "Aircraft Repair -- The Missing Manual"

Just like the Mechanics Toolbox this new product is full of common sense information about a wide range of aircraft maintenance subjects. The information has been condensed from years of practical experience and correspondence with aircraft owners and maintainers.

At $10.95 per download, this book is a boon to those who like to get their hands oily by tinkering with their airplanes.

OME