Gnarly Gnu

I'm starting with bare metal Nev. No paint to remove.

Yeah that's the welding weekend... post a video of the briefing?

I was wondering more about how much a high power transponder might fry your eyeballs Frank.

Any radiation issues with having these transponders in close proximity in a composite or fabric aircraft? (Not to promote thread drift but I've always wondered).

Welcome Matt! Hey wasn't it really quite cheap to fly GA 20 years ago....?

I hope to see us return to profit in the next 24 months. Possibly even this financial year (but that is less likely).

If anybody asks (AGAIN) which button on the mouse is the left mouse button I'm probably going to crack

Planedriver I also heard Sta-bil is pretty good & was looking for some to use in the generator at work but it seems very expensive here.... got a cheaper or bulk source? Is it just the 'Australia tax' again?

I am lucky that I weight 68 kgs on visiting some schools when some of the learners were close to 100 kgs or more my estimation they needed a weight increase to accomadate these over weight persons

Welcome Keff! Enjoy....

I'm quite familiar with the Party lines. The Chinese people all know this problem well themselves of course. I was referring more to multi $k machinery but yes the western owned or operated factories can produce good items for example. And of course goods from Taiwan (some would say it's the real China) are generally quite good now. It's just a shame the government for all its authoritarian control hasn't protected its own brand. Hopefully within a decade or so the situation will improve.

At work we would pay only up to 40% max for items made in China compared to western Europe / Japan, USA etc, just too many ongoing quality hassles. Yes I know when forced to they can and do produce quality items and very likely you can keep a good watch on quality if you are there to check each part in person but yeah, the country has sadly trashed its own reputation so you face an uphill marketing struggle.

If you don't start a fight you're least likely to get beat up....

One area I am particularly interested in, is have we shown a drop in overall income since the rego fiasco started ?

Friend of mine just came back from a visit to Nigeria (he is oz) reckons a lot of them just sit about in the parks all day. He thought they were bludging but I reckon they were probably hard at work with their laptops trying to buy aircraft and cars of foreigners.

(hmm, wonder if they buy Indonesian fishing boats)

Also Greg I've a QLD HR licence and forklift licence as well as a QLD builders lic

I nearly missed out on the sale because I assumed it was a scam. Lucky he called.

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...was flying a remote-controlled helicopter worth about $2,000 when it struck him, cutting off the top of his head, the official said.

Perhaps a new jihad drone?

Victim Roman Pirozek “was known to be aggressive in his flying and often executed tricks. He was executing a trick when he was struck,”

Welcome Dinger! I'm a bit clueless on PPC's but also been interested in giving them a try, just waiting for a four stroke two seater version with steering....

The video is making the news world wide...here is one from Belfast:

Reminds me speaking to a USAF C130 pilot he described a very near miss when terrain following at 300 knots, two BASE jumpers zipped just past his wing tip, caught them out of the corner of his eye as they passed.

I don't believe they invented it, just implemented at the direction of the US.

There wasn't much definite in there - criticism of security measures at minor airport (ASIC, I assume), and promising a review...

Welcome back Alan!