Old Koreelah

...our elected representative Minister Truss should be bold and consider folding the authority back into his government department....

... a Minister be Bold? Yes Minister!

Why would a politician take responsibility for something when he can keep it at arm's length and blame the mistakes on a statutory body?

 

 

All the members and the majority of members live in the east coast.

True Dazza, but the repeated concerns that the STAFF won't move west of the divide are getting up my nose.

Even if most members are on the east coast, it's still easier for many of them to get to an inland location such as Narromine than traversing Yowie country and CTAs to get to a place like Maitland.

 

 

..."Take off" 1200cc Beemer would make that 2200 jab of yours look like a seriously sick slug....But 160lbs...

...every car and motorcycle engine I investigated, once fitted with redrive, radiator, etc, was heavier than a Jab 2.2.

 

 

I don't think any of the airfields west of the great divide will be in the running , simply because I dont think the staff want to live out in the bush...

So who is the Association FOR?

 

 

"Now, Mr. Ford; build an 80hp version that weighs 60-odd kg... and is affordable and easy and cheap to maintain."

They already have and running around in the hundreds of thousands. The fact is 2/3's of you lot would bag it if anyone presented as an aircraft engine...

More info please, Bex; we're not all Luddites, and many of us would love to fit a lightweight, reliable engine adapted from a car or motorcycle. I spent an awful lot of time looking for such an engine to install in my beast. Every adaptation was heavier than the Jabiru.

 

 

Now, Mr. Ford; build an 80hp version that weighs 60-odd kg... and is affordable and easy and cheap to maintain.

 

 

Entertaining translation. Wiki in native English is easier:

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto

 

 

Sorry O.K I was more adding to than disagreeing yes it maybe it could also mean Jab drivers are better prepared for engine problems and always looking for somewhere to Outland as all pilots should.

No worries, Oz. Much as I love my Jab engine, I always fly with an eye on clearings.

 

 

...Just being powered by rotax doesn't make them more prone to fatalities things like VFR into IMC and codger factor (old blokes in fast planes) might be more like it.as well as airframes like the RV that aren't very crash friendly.

Re-read my post. I wasn't blaming the engine, except perhaps for the fact it might give some pilots a sense of invulnerability.

 

 

Maybe a ballistic recovery system as well .

I presume this is a light-hearted comment, Oz. If serious, I totally disagree, even though I have.

A backup parachute may be in order for those aircraft prone to poor handling when flown engine-out, and it may also be prudent for experimentals (the reason I fitted one). The Jabiru airframe would possibly be the least likely to need one, being robust and having an exceptional survivability record in forced landings.

 

Because they have that backup, it seems that some pilots just pull the Big Red Handle when viable landing sites are available. (I suspect the same sort of thing is behind the disproportionately large number of deaths associated with Rotax engines:

 

"I've got the R-motor up front, so I can take risks..."

 

 

Welcome, Birdseye. Location?

 

 

...about inhibiting motors. I have NEVER had ONE person respond and indicate they did anything with their motors...

If the job wasn't so damn time-consuming we'd probably all do it. I suspect the inhibiting procedure was developed as a once -a-year job for the Frozen North, where many engines hibernate for the winter. If I was to follow the guidelines I'd spend far more time inhibiting than actually using the aircraft. Should we do the job after every flight? We might expect to fly again next weekend, but weather, family and work could keep us grounded for months.

On a Jab you need to remove the cowls, the "eyebrows", four plug leads, four plugs, squirt in oil, turn over the engine, then seal it up again. (Mine is stored folded up with prop over the wing, so it can't be turned.) Then, before next flight we need to smear plug threads with "grey gold" - if you have it- and go back thru the whole procedure.

 

There's got to be a better way. Nikasil bores sound like a great idea; maybe one day. Meanwhile, before I shut down I run the engine as hard as the brakes can hold and release a shot of engine oil from a small bottle next to my leg. It goes via a thin tube into the intake just downstream of the carby. A cloud of blue smoke is the signal to stop.

 

 

http://www.smh.com.au/world/passengers-push-frozen-siberian-plane-20141126-11upvj.html

Camden. How did I miss that?

 

 

...BTW; Sirius is Mitsubishi, not me ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Sirius_engine

I have always thought the net is like caving: you squeeze your way into a new area, then that opens up into several mysterious little passageways that will take you who knows where?

 

 

I really like the innovation of the the side-valve, but is it selling? The market is not large.

 

 

...The answer to your next question is 10 grand.

...then be prepared to be mobbed!

Being serious (Sirius) for a moment, I'd love to know more about the internal layout of your engine. Bolting on an exiting head is a stroke of genius, but I hope the rest of it is simplicity personified and bulletproof.

 

....and light.

 

With EFI

 

Able to run on cheap fuel.

 

Parts available in every corner store...

 

...am I asking too much?

 

 

OK, is there anywhere a summary of where this is up to is available to read?

The TV Dick Smith TV doco covered much of it.

 

http://www.pprune.org/pacific-general-aviation-questions/540715-channel-7-sunday-night-program-about-vh-mdx.html

 

It's a bit out of my patch, but hopefully someone who attends the info night can compile a summary and post it.

 

 

...The 914 is just stupidly priced.

Maybe, like Apple, they are in a position to charge what the market will bear. As an Apple Desciple, I happily pay premium, knowing they invest big bucks in (almost always) getting it right. I'll get a product that works well and has great backup.

I guess you're far from making those decisions, but after all you've invested in your engine you'll also have to set a price.

 

 

Remember the VH-MDX crash?

 

On Friday 5 December 2014 there will be an information evening about the search for this missing aircraft.

 

On 9 August 1981 a Cessna 210 light aircraft, callsign VH-MDX, crashed into the Barrington Tops area. The aircraft and the five people on board have never been found, despite a massive search in 1981 and many further searches over the 33 years since the crash. BWRS have played a major part in these searches, and have never given up their efforts to find the crash site.

 

Over recent months there been interviews with almost all of the key air traffic control operators on duty on 9 August 1981. In addition, knowledge of air traffic control procedures and limitations has increased.

 

The session is being run by http://www.bwrs.org.au at the BWRS Headquarters, Learmonth Street Rooty Hill starting from 19:30. All interested members of the public are invited.

 

If you are interested in attending please inform BWRS Squad Captain Glenn Horrocks on [email protected]

 

 

Anecdotal evidence only, but South Africa and North America don't seem to be having many problems. There is plenty of hot weather in those places. Many variables to consider, but maybe they get better fuel than we get in Australia.

 

 

...Where the heck is YSCN. . . .? We never referred to airfields with codes when I was flying in OZ in the early seventies, ( Well, if we did,. . . nobody ever told me. . .I'll have to OZgoogle it. . . . .)

Phil

Maybe he means YSCO, which is a town in the Upper Hunter, named for Scotland's ancient seat of Kings.

 

 

A PSRU'ed Rotax is lighter than a Jabiru of the same hp....

You sure about that Bex?

 

 

On my last outing on the track I saw numbers I'd never seen before. Like Don said recently, I've travelled an awful lot faster on a bike than I am ever likely to flying a plane.

 

If only we could get that sort of bullet-proof reliability into an aero engine. Unfortunately adapting a bike or car engine requires a PSRU which makes it heavier than a Jabiru.

 

 

The first models of Suzuki GSX-R750 and 1000s were the first serious oil cooled engines although plenty of engines thru history have used oil for cooling underneath pistons and other critical areas...

...and it worked! They are damned reliable and seem to be the standard for street-derived race bikes. Although I'm an old Euro-twin fart, I have great respect for the GSX-R; they don't rev, they vibrate!