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    When my strobe failed, I replaced it with a strobe light from a home alarm system. Worked a treat.
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    Yes, getting the lock out and back into the door is a real head-bonk. Both my doors (triple lock) have had the springs replaced. It's bad design as the spring rubs on the innards and eventually wears. As for teh cost of that throttle cable, like most aircraft parts, a blatant rippoff.
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    Pull the old lock to bits and I'll bet the problem is a broken spring, obtainable from Bunnings.
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    The difference between a spin and a spiral dive is HUGE. A spin is a stalled condition and spiral will see your ASI go off the scale. I did both in Tomahawks in the early eighties. Hated them both. That plane was spinning, the spin stopped then the plane simply dived into the ocean. Maybe the pilot was showing off and lost it as he had two teenagers on board and some old farts need to show off.
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    It was a probably a bit lumpy for a first solo - but I'm no instructor.
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    My understanding is that the 'spammers' are just 'bots' - that is, software that's doing the dirty work. God help us when they turn their attention to our cars, medical equipment and robot girl friends.
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    Maybe it was aliens - didn't an aircraft disappear without trace over Bass straight 40 years ago or more? I think the pilot reported strange lights before he disappeared. 🛸
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    When I was flying I ALWAYS had the beacon where it could be grabbed quickly and I briefed my passenger on how to use it. I ALWAYS flew as high as possible over water (usually between Wallaroo and Cowell in South Australia) and always let ATC know my intentions. But that's just me, I know of pilots who fly above 100% cloud cover and navigate by GPS alone. I know pilots who fly over water at low altitudes (due cloud) and have bugger all time to get out a mayday, trigger the beacon, brief passengers when the engine stops. They are out there with their 'she'll be right attitudes' and when they come to grief, too many take some poor soul with them. Alas, as I got older I got stupider (is that a word?) so I no longer fly.
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    When I was working I was involved in many trials and when something went wrong, you hoped the hell it wasn't your fault. Imagine being the person who wrote the code or wired a switch and got it wrong. Their head is probably on a pole in the company car park right now.
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    Beacon? - isn't that mandatory? And over-water reporting procedures? An 'experienced' pilot with perhaps a 'laissez-faire' attitude?
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    Yes - Oshkosh by Gosh. I was there for three days back in 1990.
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    I have dragged my Jab out of the hangar at sunrise in friggin cold weather. Used choke until it fired then no choke, keep the revs up a little (1100rpm) until the engine is warmed up. I suggest you talk to Jabiru.
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    In many countries, the first people at the scene of a crash, be it a plane, train or bus crash a LOOTERS.
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    I wonder if passengers went crazy and got into punch ups during flights back then like they do nowadays. Probably not as back then only 'cultured, educated' folks could afford to fly. These days any bogan in bare feet and a smelly singlet can fly. 😞
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    Further to my rant on the high prices of radio, attached is a picture of a transceiver that would be around $2500 (AUD). It's NOT an aircraft radio. Covers all the HF bands, VHF and UHF and does AM, FM, SSB etc. I know some non-radio nerds wouldn't be familiar with the gobblegook but the point is an air-band radio that only does air-band and only AM and nowhere near 100 watts output would cost the same. Just isn't right.
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    As a radio/electronics tech from way back - the easiest faults to locate is usually when the equipment is "dead". The Microair in my jab never faulted in the 12 years I owned it. As for paying $2800 for a radio, that's is just so wrong. An aircraft radio is just an AM transceiver, like the old AM CB radios apart from one being on VHF (the aircraft radio) and one on HF (the CB radio). Nothing, not quality control, not operating frequency, not bells and whistles, nothing justifies those sorts of prices.
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    I failed to check the door on a PA28 and flew a nav with it ajar. Apart from noise it was no drama. A friend flew a jabiru and the passenger door popped open so he landed in a paddock. He was scared it would blow off and take out the horizontal stabilizer.
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    Fake as...
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    That was MY jab until a few years ago! Never had a thing go wrong, always started first go, purred like a kitten. Sold it because I'm the one that's likely to have an engine failure. 🤪
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    If I were to make ONE call while in the circuit, it would be joining downwind because anybody listening would (should) know when I'm about to turn base and final.
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    I see on the news (7 Aug 2024) that there is a flying car that will be available soon in Australia. How is it a car I ask. A flying car is a vehicle that can be driven on the road like a car, and when at the airstrip, it can be flown like an aircraft. The 'Two Place Quad Copter' featured in the article cannot be driven like a car as it has no wheels. And even if it did, you'd never be allowed on the road with a machine that has eight rotors capable of slicing and dicing anything in range. Typical low quality idiot reporting that has become the norm these days. (A bit like AI, seems everything these days uses AI which is bullsh*t.) There's my rant for now...
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    I used Microsoft flight simulator to practice using the ADF. Then one day I flew Parafield to Broken Hill using the NDBs. What a hoot!
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    Flaunting my ignorance here - why would fracturing the vertical stabilizer cause a loss of control? Might make things tricky in a cross wind landing but loss of control in flight?
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    laser headlights consist of one or more solid state laser diodes mounted inside the headlight. These blue lasers are fired at a yellow phosphor, similar to that used in white LEDs. This produces a powerful, vibrant white light that can then be bounced off reflectors and out of the headlights towards the road. Laser headlights built in this way have several benefits. They’re more energy efficient than LEDs that put out the same amount of light, while also being more space efficient, too. Just in case you (like me) had never even heard of laser headlights. Sorry about the weird text formatting, not my fault...
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    This link shows a helicopter that could be trying to land at a pub. Anybody know what went on? https://www.9news.com.au/national/helicopter-hovers-near-power-lines-victory-hotel-near-adelaide-south-australia/d4097c97-016e-44f9-bc5c-e72d4a73e2d2
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