Blueadventures

Almost ready to fly, did its w&b last Monday. Its looking great.

Testing my air brake🤪 Also needed an image of the mits with the fingers exposed to operate the brake, push radio knobs and adjust the mini ipad screen, they are very practical and also warm.

He sure is, took me for a fly in his Karatoo many years back and Miss Sandgate is in top notch condition as well and he looks after them great.

Flew Palmyra to Lake Dunn (bit to the north of Longreach) weather was going to be ordinary with 30 knots and rain forecast for today (Sunday). Friday night windy had dropped wind by 5 kts and rain by 0.5mm so decided to give the trip a go. Flight out 207 nmls was completed in 2 hours flight time and return was 3 hours due to the head wind and deviation adding another leg due to low cloud over the great divide up our way. At least 25 aircraft made a trip of it most for two nights. Only got to 5 degrees C and cabin heat was nice plus nice to dial in for no foot pressure holding rudder. Had a great evening burger meal and Shane arranged Avgas and 95 so all and all a terrific catch-up. Flew over a couple of the many coal mines up this way. (Two short videos at end.) IMG_0569.mov IMG_0525.mov

Adjusted the rudder centering bungee tension and did a 36 minute flight to evaluate the trim. In preparation of a 2.5 hour each way trip planned for the weekend. With the adjustable trim wheel I was able to move the bungee 11mm towards the port side so there was no right rudder foot pressure required. On landing I measured the bungee position and set the trim wheel back to its centre and moved the bungee car to the 44 mm from centre reference so that it is set sweetly and I can make any further adjustments as required. It’s a great addition to the cockpit. IMG_0500.mov

Take care with the thread (pitch, size, straight, tapered, metric, other, etc), needs to be correct as if wrong the housing cracks easily. Can be re tapped to suit certain thread sizes. They get cracked often when care not taken, (close enough is not good enough.) Be warned all, hope this helps.

Will we see you on TV, Aussie Gold Diggers?

Message sent.

For me it's something you want to do, some don't. I called in a hangar this afternoon as I was on my way home from being at my aircraft. The pilot there during our conversation said he meet a pilot who had just decided to stop flying; he was 100 years young and started flying at 85; he is another who wanted to fly and did it. Enjoy your flying endeavour, it's in your blood. Cheers.

Enjoy a look this week.

Will fly on one engine. Sue gave us an update last Thursday. The USA one is flying into Oshkosh. It’s built to fit Mozaic. I’ll let Jabiru announce the specs and performance etc in their good time. Some detail will be on their Webb site.

Just chasing any info about these from anyone using them, particularly in Australia. I havn't got one fitted in my aircraft.