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    https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2020/aair/ao-2020-059
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    Looks like a great place for a flying visit. Especially given that the hosts are so welcoming
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    Yeah, that was what the wink was about. All that hard yakka climbing to 2000' . ;- )
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    "Had to do the obligatory climb of Rawnsley Bluff, 2000ft up this track!" Of course! After all, they say the view from up there is amazing! ;- ))
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    A couple of vids and stuff here but you've probably found those already on the Tube.
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    https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/optimum-cg-test.141807/
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    No, not valid at all. The 2022 Sling TSi is at least 10 times safer for such a trip. No need to count the reasons why. Anyway, I'm more interested in comparing the human spirit involved.
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    Well, the Sling 4 TSi is double the AUW and double the speed of the Ranger (and has a heater) just for starters. Anyway, either type can prove that the adventurous spirit is alive and well. That Ryan of Lindbergh was way out of its envelope, too.
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    How much more one could question when the U/L concerned is not a Sling but a Skyranger. Below is one of the videos about French aviator Thierry Barbier's round the world Skyranger adventures. Sadly, he did crash fatally, in the end but, ironically, not on one of his high risk legs but due an EFATO on a local flight in Kenya in 2016. [A rough english translation is available via YouTube's Auto-translate function. ]
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    But Durandal and Glorieuse are the names of the prop types.
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    Hell, yeah ... as the tag line of the first film puts it: "Taking off with a 1000lbs of fuel is TERRIFYING" (cf. The Spirit of St Louis which was carrying 1000lbs more fuel than it had ever carried taking off from Roosevelt Field in 1927.)
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    This video explains how the Sling 4 TSi high wing (145 Kt TAS / 950 Kg AUW) was (re)designed around the 915 iS with its 141 available horses.
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    No, indeed. As they were acutely aware, as we find out by way of the amazing dialogue scenes, cutting in (sort of) real-time between the 3-cockpits. I don't think there's ever been a video quite like it.
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    Yes, they were an exceptionally brave little trio wandering out into the Atlantic. One of the PICs involved was an American airline pilot who came over to Joburg to build her own Sling High Wing kit (in a hangar near the Sling company HQ) and, rather than have it shipped back, decided to join the others on their epic voyage to Oshkosh.
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    Another time, place and type ... same lesson.
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    Yes, good point Ian. I've heard somewhere that a drawback of locking wire is that it can allow that first little bit of loosened clamp load. So maybe loctite, nordlock AND lock wire for critical bolts??
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    Yeah, that guy was surely exaggerating a bit, but, for all that ... a pretty funny - and relatable - rave of everyday exasperation. LOL
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    Anyway, if we reckon we're hardly done by, having to manage multiple time zones, imagine being a programmer writing time-related code that'll work for the whole world:
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    I don't think anyone here really has problems with UTC/local time conversions. I think Thruster was setting a trick question to get us thinking - about the trustworthiness of NOTAMs. RFguy tipped the wink above with "NO No NO !!! the question here is not about how to convert UTC to local but that the NOTAM was issued in LOCAL time not UTC !!!"
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    All very true. But it's good to keep in mind that with our worst PA-31 crash (Whyalla Flt. 904) blame was finally laid at the door of Lycoming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyalla_Airlines_Flight_904 "The safety implications arising from the accident were subject to a recall by engine manufacturer Textron Lycoming which saw close to 1000 aircraft grounded worldwide while defects were rectified at an estimated cost of $A66 million."
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