Old Koreelah

Perhaps a niche application for these diesel-guzzlers would be to get a hybrid aircraft up to cruise level where electric power could take over; the batteries would have been saved the huge load of take-off and climbing, ensuring much greater cruise range.

Please feel free to post this on the EVENTS calendar (see on the left panel)

It is now quite easy to use.

... I made the doors 5m wide and they swing out and hold open with chains welded to star pickets belted into the ground. A bit hard to open in any winds over 15 knots but that is OK as I don't want to fly then anyway.

Morning Dean, just catching up with your posts, which are very impressive. You seem to have a very positive attitude to this flying thing.

Two points: as you've noticed, vertically-swung hangar doors don't like much wind. Even a relatively light breeze can keep many of us without sliding doors from going flying.

We have bifold doors and I once opened one without checking the windsock and was thrown 5 metres.

I suspect more pilots are injured by hangar doors than by aeroplanes.

When you find some spare time, you might create your own personal avatar. Perhaps a pic of your plane or something unique to you or your area, even a small map. Just click on the big F above "Farmpilot" and then select "edit". You can then download the image of your choice and zoom it in or out, centre it and then set it in concrete.

Thanks Ian. Tonight I'll clear my desk, crank up my steam-powered iMac and get to work.

Just have to get other organisations to cooperate by providing calendar-friendly info. You'd be amazed how out-of-date some are.

...Seems s simple switch change to illuminate both lights at once.

The existing light assembly seems to be a simple “Downlight” arrangement which is exactly what I have seen at Bunnings Aerospace...

Roscoe if you want to be seen, this neat little unit from NZ is worth considering:

https://www.sparxfly.co.nz/2014/sparxfly_acc.shtml#wigwag

I installed one and it has no trouble driving a pair of small, cheap eBay driving lights, similar to these:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Pair-4-inch-Work-Lights-CREE-Spot-Flood-LED-Light-Bar-Reverse-4WD-12V-24V-Spread/274035042852?hash=item3fcdc2ea24:g:NqMAAOSwvxBeBykn

They are a huge improvement on a crappy set of "aircraft LEDs" I got out of America.

I run them thru a rotary switch with three settings: landing light (both on), strobe (a quite effective alternate flicker) and wig-wag (one on, then the other).

I currently have them mounted on my undercarriage as an interim measure, but I plan to recess them in the wing leading edge, as far apart as possible to maximise the Wig Wag effect.

Although I've received plenty of assurances that they won't run hot, I'm a bit concerned at sealing them in front of a wood and fabric wing without ventilation holes.

Has anyone had experience with overheating of this sort of unit?

Roscoe I totally agree with KGWilson's advice; replacing my halogens with cheaper LEDs means I have mobs more light from my limited spare current. No radio interference.

This was a doddle for me with my 19- Reg, but I have no idea of the legality in other registration categories.

...America now has the lowest level of R&D of any developed country, and the lowest level of tertiary-qualified people, per capita, overall....

A worrying trend, OT.

Decades of stupid policies have decimated America's standing as a technically innovating society.

Apple has been under pressure to move their factories out of China and build iPhones in the US, but it's not going to happen because the US just hasn't got the skilled workforce they need.

I've read that over half of America's PH.D. students are imports; cuts to immigration may deprive Universities of the world's best and brightest.

Bernie Sanders could turn that around with his policies to support innovation and education, but what hope has he against the moneyed elite?

Well Turbs, that's a start. At least now I know you're talking about ADS-B.

It would be nice if every aircraft carried this system, but the price is beyond most of us.

You might remember there was once a proposal that it would be cheaper for the authorities to subsidise every aircraft to fit ADS-B than to upgrade the old primary ATC radar network.

If you have been following what I and others have been saying, there are other, potentially much cheaper and therefore more widely used traffic notification systems. Why not support them?

There's nothing to make up my mind about; none of us have any legal exemptions, I've referred you to our obligations.

 

Turbs you're a clever man; how about you just explain, in simple terms even I can understand, how your legal documents have anything to do with a suggestion made by a number of us, that would improve safety.

Well at least think of the thousands of others using the airspace before going off half-cocked.

 

Turbs I find this quite insulting.

It seems you have made up your mind about what I am trying to say and nothing can change that.

Oh dear. I don't think I'll bother any more.

There's nothing criptic about the answer.

 

Start with the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (CARS) and the Civil Aviation (Safety) Regulations 1998 (CASRS) and follow the outflowing paths from there, and THAT will show you your legal obligations.

 

Turbs I am grateful to you for the links, but you seem to have no bluddy idea what I've been saying. Are you suggesting that if all pilots brush up on our legal obligations that would be improve safety as much as much as full traffic awareness?

I did, and particuarly the suggestion that CASA should interfere with the operations of people in aviation by forcing a company to disclose its Intellectual Property to a competitor. That's fantasy stuff...

 

Fascinating reaction to a suggestion that our safety authority use its influence to improve cooperation between the various Nav. software apps. 

Another amazing achievement by the other team:

I happened upon that amazing video a few days ago, OME. I thought I knew a bit about WWII and its aeroplanes, but this story was news to me!  Amazing things can be achieved in wartime. 

A Russian prince who escaped the Bolshevics! 

...The point is there are regulations which everyone is required to adhered to, and they're not that hard to understand.

 

Turbs I'd love you to expand on this cryptic answer. What particular regs are you referring to and how will they allow every pilot access to reasonably reliable traffic info, without costing more than a thousand dollars installation  and expensive annual maintenance? 

Forget Ozrunways & Avplan.  Airmate has everything you need, runs on anything & it's free.

 

Never heard of this, Kevin. Their site promised I could read reviews, but none delivered. 

Can you tell us more about this ap?

One thing the android version does NOT have is the ability to show adsb paints...

 

I was going to suggest OzRunways should slow down on the fancy stuff and develop a way for us to see all traffic.

Does this mean OR can show traffic that doesn't use their system? Did I miss something?

...Unbelievable. We are not prepared.

 

Sadly, I don't find that at all unbelievable. This country has a long tradition of not being ready, of ignoring the careful analysis of past disasters. How many inquiries have been held and how many recommendations have been ignored?

I spent most of last night attending to flood events (three days after a dust storm) and it was obvious that few people have learned from past experience. Short memories.

Mark there is a quite a bit we agree on. Let's continue this debate on the WUA site, under the title

How can Australia become the Innovative Nation as once promised?

...all the nanby panby do gooders who want to change the world and change it NOW. 

 

What a disappointing attitude and quite insulting to the many thoughtful people who actually care about our future.

...There is way too much money being earnt by the climate change screamers its a pure economy by itself...

 

Crikey Mark, where do you get this guff? The fossil fuel lobby outspends the climate change movement by miles.

...most people forget that around the world there are plenty of cities that have the population of australia in them..we are just a dot on the map...

 

True, but the world takes notice of small countries that use their brains.

 Greater Sydney has more people than the globally-influential nation of Singapore.

Israel, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland are tiny compared to Australia, yet the world listens to them.

...Why totally wreck our economy...

 

Innovative, intelligent blokes like you will prosper when Australia breaks free of the corrupt hold over us held by the cashed-up coal lobby, dependent as it is on the near monopoly of the amoral Murdoch media empire.

We will be far better off when our economy diversifies away from dependence on selling fossil fuels- a market that has a very bleak future.

As long as no one was killed, that's the important outcome. Every one of these types of pilot error accidents (some designs seem to attract more than others) gives us an insight in to just how venerable we are when we leave the Earths bounds to do something that's not natural for us beings...

 

Fair go AM! Just because most of us are as old as Methuselah, doesn't mean we deserve veneration.

(Bluddy predictive spelling strikes again- we're all vulnerable to it.)

Skippy I agree, but The Good Oil only comes in strange medieval bottles.

what diameter of blast tube jetjr? and rigid or flexible? Coming from the existing duct or from another opening?

 

I don't have any blast tubes at all, but I have put in shields  to intercept radiant heat from getting to the coils.  

 

I hadn't thought of that; might check if mine are copping radiant heat.

Bruce you seem to have had success at the"black art". Well done.

That's a blurry big hole in your cooling duct- even bigger than the standard one. It always amazed me that Jabiru would divert any of that precious cooling air. 

I closed mine off to ensure all the air coming in went past the fins and ran separate scat hoses to cool the coils.

I've noticed on the Jab/CAMit forum that some people run separate air ducts to cool their fuel pumps,

... the American tanks up until the 1960's utilised largely petrol engines.

 

The first tank to use a diesel engine, the M551 Sheridan used a GM 2-stroke Diesel...

 

...it is a bit surprising that diesels were not used for tanks, you would think that they were a better option than petrol, especially with the extra risk of petrol with respect to refuelling fires.

 

Bruce it surprise me too; I believe during WWII only the Russians used Diesel engines in their tanks.