Marty_d

Oh I laughed and laughed like crazy with this one! the problem is at the time I was at a doctor's waiting room full of patients and worse. I was wearing a doctor's coat!

...it came to a head where one producer hired a limo, put his pig in the back, bought it a bottle of champagne...

You visit some interesting sites Bex...

Tiger Woods must get confused!!

Saw one of our geese (who aren't very used to flying) misjudge an approach to the shed roof, hit the flashing and fall 4m to the ground. If we'd had snow at the time it would've looked similar to that...

Not so sure about that.....assuming one is right handed, the efficient method is to pick up the new bulb in the right hand, step up onto your platform of choice (if necessary), remove the old bulb with your left hand, and retain. Fit the new bulb from your right hand into the socket. Step down, if required, then discard the old bulb from your left hand. Carry out a functional test with which ever hand you like.

I do talk to them, by the hundreds; that's my job. In the last five years I've given them the biggest cab in the industry, and a set of sleeper cabs with equipment aligned to the application up to 67" sleepers with cooking facilities and diesel powered air conditioning. I was one of the driving forces behind the recent fatigue regulations adopted by every State and Territory.The whole truck industry now operates under Chain of Responsibility legislation where, if the distribution manager of a large company coerces a trucking company which coerces a driver to drive out of hours, all the people up the line can be charged for any resulting accident, and already there are cases where they have been.

Today, no driver can legally have excessive or dangerous working hours. No exceptions. The last of the subbies who try to use that excuse to squeeze in extra loads are certainly being squeezed out rapidly and so they should be.

 

Maybe you have wild west Tow Truck operators where you are, but in Victoria, tow trucks are allocated, and haven't turned up unannounced at accident sites for several decades, and operate very professionally. They don't deserve to be slagged.

 

"If the regulations were relaxed it would go back to where it was"

 

If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle; the regulations are not being relaxed, so this is a pointless argument.

Let's try it again shall we?

I nearly made a horrific mistake by almost bedding a Ladyboy last night. I picked him up at the flying club new year bash. . . . He Looked like a woman. Smelled like a woman. Danced like a woman. Even kissed like a woman, but as we arrived back at the apartment he reversed the car into a really tight parking slot in ONE fluid movement…! That's when I suddenly thought . . . . “Hang on. . . .wait just a bloody minute. .. . . . . . .”

 

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I saw my mate Charlie this morning, he's only got one arm bless him.

 

I shouted “Where you off to Charlie?”

 

He said, “I'm off to change a light bulb.”

 

Well I just cracked up as you do. . . , I couldn't stop laughing. …then I said,

 

“That's gonna be a bit awkward innit?”

 

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“Not really.” he said. “I still have the receipt, you insensitive barstard.”

 

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I stopped and thought for a moment. She's right.

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Keep an eye on Michelle Obama's expression in the photos. Priceless.

Thanks Jason!

Currently operating regularly with around 300 Hrs Total time, runs great. Attached to a two seat Titan Tornado, which is included in the deal. Both fully serviceable and in good shape. Best offer around $19,000 for the lot. Titan also has around 300 Hrs , tundra tires. Owner has another aircraft..one has to go !....Maintenance history available..........Maj....

A lawyer, who specialised in suing pilots, dies and by some error in handling ends up going to heaven.

He`s stopped at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter who says, 'Sorry, but we don`t accept aviation lawyers into

Heaven.'

‘Why not?'

'Well, we just don`t.'

The lawyer complains and carries on until St. Peter gets fed up.

'Well', says St. Peter, 'have you ever done anything good in your life?'

'Ummm..', the lawyer replies, 'Yes, the other day a lady stopped me on the street collecting for a children`s charity so I gave her ten dollars. Last week I donated ten dollars to the Cancer Society and a couple of weeks

ago a tramp asked me if I could spare any money so I gave him ten dollars also.'

'Alrighty then', says St. Peter, 'wait here and I'll have a quick word with God.'

Five minutes later St. Peter returns to the lawyer.

'Listen, I`ve spoken with God and he agrees with me, here`s your 30 dollars back ......

now f*** off!'

Do the statistics on engine failure identify the cause of the engine failure? I've been trying for years to get authoritative data on any aero engines that breaks down the causes in sufficient detail to allow one to identify design priorities. However, the term "engine failure" includes fuel starvation, fuel mismanagement, misuse of mixture controls (tho not on Jabirus, obviously), carbie icing, failure of accessories such as magnetors, fuel pumps etc. Hell, one of the things Zoos mentioned was a leaky oil cooler. The oil cooler is an AIRFRAME part, you goose, not an engine part - except on those Continentals that build it into the engine. So how the blazes can anybody pin anything down onto the engine design, given such sloppy handling of the data? All right, there's an issue with Jabiru through bolts. Can you identify exactly what is the cause of that issue? I bet you cannot; and don't just tell me "it's because they are not strong enough" - if that were the case, the cylinders would fly off the first time the throttle was opened. It's much more subtle than that, and likely has a number of contributing factors. So, there have been some valve failures. Where's the metallurgical analysis to show why they failed? Without that, the only conclusion one could reach is that we'd be better off with 2-strokes that do not have valves. These data are simply too superficial to be useful. So people like Maj can rant, but it cuts no ice at all. First, fix the data base so it provides some fundamental engineering data - and mind you make sure it's correct.I'm more than ever reminded of the dog that chases cars, but wouldn't know what to do with one if he caught it. Pray tell me, exactly what could RAA do, that would be really useful, with your data base, if they had it? Duty of care my foot; they do not have the technical know-how.

- "you goose"

- "how the blazes"

- "cuts no ice"

- "pray tell me"

- "my foot"

No idea what you were on about Dafydd, but I enjoyed reading it!

There's no way my Doberman will fit in our ST1, even if I duct-tape him into a compact ball...

His drivetrain alone blows the 600kg limit. According to that source of all knowledge (Wikipedia), female reindeer are 80-120kg and males are 159-182. Common wisdom gives him 9 reindeer (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph). If we assume a reasonable level of gender equality and an average weight, that gives around 1250kg for the "engine", not including harness etc. Then you've got that solid-looking sleigh and the fat b*stard himself, and he looks as if he's well over 150kg.

However the biggest weight is the cargo. If we assume there's around 1.8 billion kids in the world (age 0 - 14, about 25% of total population), that Santa ignores all cultural / geographical / religious divides and delivers to all of them, and that each gift averages 2 kg... well, you can do the math. Safe to say it's over 600kg.

But the sleigh's performance blows away any other aircraft. Assuming an average of 2.36 children per household (this is from Total Fertility Rates calculated by the CIA) that means Santa has around 763 million deliveries to make within 24 hours. Even if he were able to do his "down the chimney" trick in absolutely no time at all, he'd still need to travel at a fair proportion of the speed of light, without allowances for acceleration or deceleration, to do them all. (Not sure if the 600kg limit includes allowances for relativistic mass increase).

Soooooo.... either Santa operates outside of normal space and time (in which case there is no government agency with jurisdiction over him) or *gasp* he doesn't exist and it's the parents in western countries that sneak the gifts under the tree. In either case, he's not flying under either RA or GA rules.

Interesting thread. Thanks to all those imparting wisdom on here, from the perspective of someone who couldn't tell a valve seat from a dunny seat.

Seriously though as others have said it's going to be a hard run for any small company trying to sell "new" engines - like going for your first job, you need experience but you can't get it because no one will hire you without experience... recreational flyers will be looking for runs on the board before parting with their hard earned IMHO. In a couple of years (ok, an unspecified number of years) I'll be looking to buy an engine. Pretty sure I wouldn't buy any type that's only been in production a couple of years. They may not have had a single problem in that time, but they wouldn't have accumulated the hours that'd make a first time buyer like me feel safe.

This may get me stomped on by those getting excited about this engine, fair enough, go for it. But I'm just giving my opinion from my perspective.

Varga and Virga are generic knock-offs. Your spam folder is probably full of advertisements for them.

Pottie think back to the good old days and what's really different to now.you where in your twenties!

no mortgage

 

no kids

 

new girl friend every 6-9 months

 

every job was better paying and more interesting than the one you left

 

you are at your physical peak, your reflexes where at their best, muscle strength was increasing as was endurance.

 

your cognitive skills weren't 100% but they where pretty close and getting better.

 

psychologically, not as many bad life experiences to undermine you in risky situations

 

and no dependants so no risk of leaving a grieving widow and family behind if you kill yourself.

 

less regulations and training are a small part of that equation

Love the idea of the Gigant, but not a lot of ground clearance with the undercarriage if it's built to scale...

hahah thanks Planey. You too, hope Santa in his 912-powered sleigh visits you.

Cheers, Marty

Of course you did.

Actually I only found out the other day... if someone calls you a "Berk" (or Burke), take offence... it's actually rhyming slang, short for "Berkeley Hunt". Never knew!

Another head for the wall of shame...