Old Koreelah

... democracy is about the majority ruling. Not an arbitrary magic number that gives some people more say than others.so 50.0000001 should win.

Since WWII the USA has manipulated policy and organised regime changes across the world. Their alliance with Britain gave them considerable influence in the EU. That may now be over.

The right wing nutters in America will no doubt blame Obama for this as well.

Exit groups are currently in the ascendency, but after the shock has worn off maybe cooler heads will prevail and wind back some of the less popular policies in order to save the Common Market.

Proves Putins strong man image is the answer to all the problems of government. Just tell them he knows what is best for the country, and that's what is going to happen, or else. Stops the masses making silly decisions. No uncertainty. Russia is broke though. Nev

Many immigrant nations (Oz, USA, etc) and others that arose from the ashes of war have the benefit of a constitution that requires major changes to pass by two thirds, or by majorities in a majority of states.

Many nations have run-off elections to ensure they get a true reflection of the will of the people.

Why does Britain have to undergo a momentous change due to this small margin in a one-off vote across the whole nation?

The rising recriminations are likely to rip Great Britain apart. NATO is next. Vlad couldn't be happier. The Russian bear is poised to take back the Baltic States. Amidst the disunity, which European nation would send their youth to die for tiny little Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania?

Part of the problem is the dipstick (the one in the engine!) The ideal oil level is the last few mm on the stick. Reading the oil level is not as simple as with, say a Diesel engine. Bubbles of hard-to-see oil sometime remain in the filler tube after topping up, coating the whole dipstick. A few dips are often required to get a believable reading. Add the parked angle of a taildragger and checking the oil level can become a lengthy operation. (I'd love to recalibrate mine to the parked attitude, but the stick would have to be longer...)

...Time for jabiru to offer a rotax option at least in their j230.

Tom

If you regularly do long(ish) flights, consider a means of adding oil in flight, by a hand pump with a amount per stroke known. This facility would have saved quite a few aircraft being ferried across large stretches of water like the Pacific.

Thanks for all the replies, people. After considering all viewpoints I've decided against fitting an oil recycler; the extra weight and work would be better spent on installing a mechanism to add, on longer flights, a little oil in-flight.

The CAMit return system is an oil separator and return: check it out at: Breather/Oil Separator... I have no idea of the Jabiru device, it may do the same...

I'm sure you'll get replies from people more qualified than me VFR pilot, but I am qualified to say that of all those apostrophes you used, only one was necessary.

The big system that moved in had nothing to do with cloud seeding. All that effort seeding would blow away in those circumstances.(Strong winds). Seeding doesn't create the low that fed moist air to the area. Nev

...Formation of visible moisture depends on a few things, including moisture content and temperature of the parcel of air. There is another factor called condensation nuclei, without which the temp may go below the dew point with NO formation of small water drops...

Perhaps, like too many parents, they raised him to believe everything revolved around him.

...I blame his parents.

Thanks OK. I will take a look from the air just for fun, at a few times of day. You never know.

With most people doing transactions like banking online, why the hell are we still going to physical ballot boxes? Is the security of my vote any more important than the security of my money?

look at the great work being done in the UK. Wouldn't it be great to have things like this to discover.Patterns under the plough – recent aerial reconnaissance on the claylands | Historic England

Around Lake Condah the old people farmed eels and built drainage canals and lived in stone huts. There was thriving trade between communities throughout the region. The first white fellas destroyed most of this complex farming system, but many traces are still visible above the surface. I'd love to see extensive surveys of the area by proper aerial aerchaologists.

Catalyst: Aboriginal Village - ABC TV Science

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Once were eel farmers, Monash Magazine article

Life was not a walkabout for Victoria's Aborigines - theage.com.au

Fishers and Farmers: historicising the Gunditjmara freshwater fishery, Western Victoria - No 85 May 2010 - La Trobe Journal

Voting has become ridiculous, particularly for the Senate. According to the TV this morning, the Senate voting form is twice as long as a booth in the polling centre is wide. It's getting such that we will have to roll it up like a toilet roll, which equates to what it's good for.

Next month's Federal election will be lots easier: number 6 boxes above the line, or 12 below it.

Try this Norwegian site; I know people who claim it beats any Au forecast:

Weather forecast for Wellard

Geoff this forum has had several threads devoted to carby icing and the consensus seems to be that electric heating wouldn't do the trick. If you get icing, you'll need a very rapid increase in intake air temp. Design rules call for around about 50C increase in a few seconds.

A couple of those big orange garbage bags: visible, can keep you warm and dry.

A couple of sachets of Mizzo soup, plus an empty fruit tin: to boil water for a nourishing soup.

But not with the nose gear. Oh, wait, what is "yonks"?

Aussie lingo: Blockie

A small Qld town I've been planning to overnight at one day. It's got the airport where it should be: right next to town.

They also have:

Pieces of Australian aviation history restored

Bevan you might have a market for that sort of chart. Any idea of price?