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Check out Australian women's pilot assocn Facebook page. Always someone to talk to who is willing to encourage and assist.

...The photos are from a hardware shop in Invercargill. Hayes I think. Nev

........ OK the vehicle is easy to spot. The INDIAN is RED, but there are [ATTACH=full]31469[/ATTACH] 3 similar to mine . Backup is. White Transit VF 97 model, pulling an Orange pop up trailer.. There are about 60 vehicles (all old) Participating about half are cars and they are pretty much 1918 or earlier . Nev

Welcome to the forum, Sparksy. Good to see you getting back into the sport. Your caution is a good thing; to fly safely you need to get a lot of things right, and it looks like you have made a great start with the right mental attitude.

Where's Bullio? Are you within reach of an aero club or school where you can build up your confidence?

An Australian manufacturer who is competitive on both the domestic and international markets. A rare breed.

Surely you're surrounded by translators, Bex. Love that camera. Perhaps some photorecon. people can tell us more.

Arrive Sun 24th, OK. staying at Hidden Valley Tourist Park for 4 nights. Nev

Might work if you get unbiased people who have real experience at troubleshooting. I'm dropping in at CAMit in about 5 weeks. Today is my last day on this computer for 7 weeks Nev

Oscar, are you saying that Jabs are built using E-glass? If so do you have any idea why? Given the superior strength, stiffness, temperature stability and corrosive (capillary) resistance of S-glass I would have thought that would be the minimum used in an aircraft application. Surely the 'very average' quality general purpose E-glass would only be used in aircraft in areas of extreme curvature where no other fibre is flexible enough?

...and we complain about CASA ramp checks.

For years we complained because after an accident there usually was no investigation and even if there was we had to wait yonks to find out what caused the prang. Now that problem has been largely fixed. Within a week or so of a crash we have been given some pretty useful feedback, but still we complain....

Always loved the idea of a rotary, but couldn't find one in my power range. Now we hear of European hybrids with a small Wankel. There is hope yet.

They may not be the most fuel efficient, but Mazda rotaries have a great reputation for reliability; you hear of completely stuffed and damaged engines continuing to run until the fuel runs out.

Anyone else using upper case would be accused of SHOUTING.

...nor does the Foxbat.

Talk of control loss, especially in pitch, makes me think that perhaps that $7,000 / 14kg BRS insurance policy is not a bad idea. I've read the arguments for and against on another thread, including the one that it may lead to complacency and be deployed unnecessarily, but if it came to the choice of trying to land the plane with the electric trim tab or popping the chute over a safe area, I'd pop the chute every time.

Mine is soon due for a re-pack, an opportunity to improve the installation.

I've gotta go and finish off the Indian. Leave for Adelaide a week tomorrow morning early (Leaving Birdwood Museum on Sunday 3/ 8/14) for a ride to Darwin with other mad people, totalling about 60 in number. Combined age of Bike and rider 170 years. It's a VERY OLD Bike so that's the reason for the high figure. You won't have to put up with me for a while because of that little distraction. Nev

Yep, I can remember my instructor years ago when I was a lot younger reached across the cockpit, grabbed me round the neck and literally said to me ... "What the F*** are you doing, where are you? You are wasting your money and my time. Lets land and come back and do it again next week." ... I must admit I am in love with living and sharing life with all you mongrels ...LOL.

Frank Woodley to play little Dave?

Excellent response, Motz. Even the most experienced pilot can stuff up. How do we shake people out of that complacency?

On Q&A the other night there was discussion of the need to re-awaken the community to the danger of HIV/AIDS. People are becoming complacent about protection and infection rates are on the rise. Yet there was opposition to re-using the most effective wake-up tool of all: the grim reaper ad.

I recently got a rude awakening when I nudged the boundary and it bit me severely. That experience was far more instructive than all the vocal warnings an instructor could give. Sometimes the most effective training is a slap in the face.

NOSE

Go clockwise around the compass.

North Odds South Evens. Plus 500.

Darren's reminders and warnings are no doubt well-meant and may promote safety, but mandating this always has side-effects. If your maintenance and record-keeping are not meticulous and you have an accident, the insurers have one more reason to refuse a claim.

I fitted a remote sensor into a small hole I drilled downstream of the butterfly in my Bing. After all the effort, the damned sensor gives crazy readings and will have to be replaced.

A previous VW-based engine had a neat oil-cooler box mounted on top of the engine. The Zenith carby fed thru this box, cooling the oil and heating the mixture as it set off down those long VW induction tubes. Never a hint of icing.

I had a moment a few weeks ago, flying north in the Hunter Valley. The only cloud in the sky was the plumes above Bayswater Power Station's cooling towers. As my route took me directly over them, I used these as an aiming point, but drifted right so that I missed them by about a kilometer, passing over Lake Liddell. At this point my engine tone changed and it seemed to struggle for breath for a few seconds before recovering. I can only put that down to the build-up of carby ice as I passed through a local spike in humidity downwind of the cooling-tower plumes.

Good idea, Dafydd. The technology is already highly developed in motorcycle anti-dive systems, so adapting that to an aircraft should be easy. On the other hand, your system is adding a technological fix to a handling limitation. The purists might object and prefer to hone their knife-edge braking skills. Those with common sense would admit that many tail wheel pilots have slowing reflexes, so they should welcome the assistance of a little bypass valve.

My own solution is to have such a weak brake system that lockup is unlikely. Bicycle disks and cable-operated callipers off a pocket bike. After a decade of use the pads show little wear.

For my kids to have an aeroplane to play in, I'd first need to have some kids. At 61yo you're placing an onerous responsibility on my shoulders, old mate. :-)

Decisions, decisions.

The lottery-win likelihood of surviving a prang by being far from the pointy end, or the certainty of being jammed down the back with a queue of overweight drinkers waiting to use the toilet?