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...use the Farmer’s Friend, a teaspoon of metho and a match. It hurt but the blotches were gone. Everything was red.....

......[for purposes of continuity the disruptive lol is imagined rather than seen]  but she wasn't chasing him as often these days.

Cappy was missing out more too, as we can all see by his one sided posts, (don't mention it to him). 

Turbo was just cruising around in his chick magnet, raking them in and ...............

16 minutes ago, Kenlsa said:

 

I think this may be in order 

Ken

Not when you're on a roll wiping out the Multi-Nationals.

20 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

Apologys if this topic is already covered but i would like to know if a 912 can replace a 582 on a t300 or is it not allowed under certification.

Its not something i am planning to do . Just curious.

If you're seriously interested in that, call up the Airworthiness and Maintenance department at RAA Ltd.

In the long term they are the people you will be dealing with in relation to your aircraft and have the responsibility as against well meaning advice which may well apply to USA or Holland but not here.

There is some serious down to earth skill in that department,  and I'd suggest you put the question in terms of the 582 going out of production. They may already have done some work on it, but in any case sooner or later an alternative to the 582 will have to be found.

..........take up much space on the lawn.

Cappy's story was just that, a bald faced fabrication for a start Cappy has never cared for his surrounding community whereas Turbo has always donated $10 per year to the single mothers' home just in case, and Cappy's idea of noble hard work is getting the cap off a gin bottle without breaking the neck. On one occasion Cappy and Turbo were out shearing at Orana, or more correctly Turbo was shearing and Cappy was pressing bales. Without any notice at all Cappy just ............

........body at the first attempt. It was a 1941 Ford Prefect, one of the ugliest little .....................

You're up to date with terminology Vertical

7 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

I would point out:

 

• As a VFR pilot of single engine aircraft, I was trained to anticipate (the inevitable) engine failure by either avoiding terrain where a forced landing is unlikely to be successful (injury /death resulting) or minimising the risk by flying as high as allowable to enable a glide to open/flatter country. 
• Continually "spot" likely forced landing sites, as the flight progressed.
• Plan my rout so as to have an exit/forced landing strategy.
• When practising/demonstrating semi or full aerobatic manoeuvres/stalls/engine outs, etc do so at altitude sufficient to effect recovery AND within gliding distance of an airfield or known forced landing site

In your case you were trained thoroughly to be a PIC Skippy. It's up to RAA Ltd to continually audit instructors to make sure that standard is consistent across all training around Australia.

The practice outline above has served Australia well over many decades with very few examples of where carrying a parachute would have made a difference in GA or RA.

In RA there is an additional safety margin in the very low stall speed, allowing some very rough forced landings without injury.

Parachutes work in Heavy GA aircraft because the inertia provides a stable platform to jump from and the larger doors provide a better exit to be able to get to and jump out of.

The low inertia which makes RA aircraft safer in a rough forced landing works against the pilot at altitude, bouncing all over the place as he shifts his weight, and the exit often involves a degree of contortion  which gives more time fo the aircraft to get out of control. In addition, if the aircraft is going forward or below you there is the additional risk with a pusher prop of doing you severe damage.

If you are wearing a parachute or BRS because you are likely to have a medical episode, you are already disqualified from flying in RA, and for that matter driving a car.

Situations where a BRS is fitted have been covered quite well; it came to prominence with the high speed, complex aircraft like the Cirrus where training was sometimes a lot less than was required for that speed or complexity. In that application BRS has saved more lives than it cost.

I haven't done an analysis of RA fatality cause groups, which could be done quite easily by RAA Ltd, but as a rough guide:

Entering Cloud/Loss of control.

Since you don't know which way is up, you don't know which way to jump, or which direction to react, so parachutes may not have saved any, except those few trapped between two banks of cloud, cloud and hill etc.

Engine Failure at Altitude+ either sit there and let the aircraft go into a spin, or pull hard back to go up, but go down

The cause of the fatality is the pilot froze in a perfectly good aircraft.

No chance he'll deploy a parachute, possible chance he will trigger a BRS.

EFATO+turnback

No chance for parachute or BRS

Failure to calculate weight and balance in flight planning

Aircraft out of control so only a small chance with either parachute or BRS

Aerobatics+structural failure  (either cause by the current pilot or structural damage by a previous pilot)

Usually complicated by rapid uncommanded, unexpected aircraft movement so virtually no chance with parachute or BRS.

PIC and Copilot each grabbing controls and fighting each other to the ground

No chance for paracute or BRS - they weren't interested in that.

The need to land in unlandable country (known by some hopefuls as tiger country)

Possible deployment of parachute and BRS, but also possible death by landing issues in the terrain (trees, rocks, water etc)

Medical fatality

The Coroner will usually identify this. This group of people should also be included in total statistics.

Parachute and BRS were no use to them.

Summary

Before Seat Belt legislation was included for cars, all fatality groups were included for analysis, and a very large percentage of drivers and passengers were found to have been thrown out of the car and killed by the sudden stop, or thrown against each other or the interior of the car, killing them. Fatalities dropped by about 50% in the year after the legislation was introduced, so results matched the analysis.

If we combine the above groups to decide whether a parachute or BRS would have made a difference, the results are not as compelling, which is probably why we don't regulate for either.  This is certainly nowhere near a definitive study, just a few groups where I can remember the circumstances of the crash and its cause.

......."WHO IS THIS!: in an authoritative voice.

"Oh I am Dun Singh Dunny Dunny" said the voice on the other end, "and I am calling you to tell you your Optic Bill is uverdue, dude" 

"SO" said the Commissioner.

"Well good Sir, If you can give me your Usernaming and Pastwording, I can be fixing velly velly fast" said Dun Singh.

The Commissioner had finally hooked one, so he .....................

............Tphone. Sales of Tphones haven't equalled Apples Iphone and many people are wondering why, because a device which can record the next Roswell, should it ever occur again given the doubtful ability of the Poms who didn't emigrate to Australia or Pakistan to build much more that a two piece balsa glider with some bubble gum for balance.

"We don't know why our sales are behind" said OT since its big feature is a ZERO Spelling Mistake feature (no keyboard), but we certainly sell a few in Guinea Bissau and Roswell ..........................

5 hours ago, onetrack said:

 

 

The ensuing uproar over the poor records and images with regard to Roswell, led OT on a mission to improve the quality of paper and imaging equipment available at that time. This led to TOSPIS launching takeover bids for major European & British producers of fine office supplies, such as Biro and the Frogmore Paper Mill - as well as lens and imaging companies Nikon, Leica and Zeiss, and Fuji Xerox.

Not all the takeover bids were successful, but the bids by TOSPIS shook up these industries, gave TOSPIS major representation on the boards, and made these operators lift their game. 
 

This led to a vast improvement in writing materials and products, and the fine imaging equipment available today - thus ensuring that if another event like Roswell happens again in the future, TOSPIS will be right there with its products, ensuring that the latest unknown aerial crash event will never be as poorly-recorded as Roswell, again. 

In line with TOSPIS's aims and desires, the next major aviation event in Tasmania will be recorded..........

 

[This is one of the truest stories Turbo has seen on Wreck Fly In; "I'm glad I found this Site" he said]

....the Americans were handling flight training, and the poor quality of the Flight Manual, written on Airmail paper which was hard to handle and useless in a dunny because .................

....French Submarines which so far consists of three steel plates and twenty 20 mm bolts.

TEMR has a very interesting history, being founded as Harley Davidson was, shortly after the British moved out of Woomera in 1952 where they were building atomic bombs and rockets.

Lang, Bob and old Harley showed up at the Brits Auction. Everything had to go; rockets, bombs, 15 Canberra chase aircraft (not one of them ever caught up with a rocket, but that's the Poms for you. In 1947 they took one to the USA on a sales mission to try to get the USAF to drop Boeing and buy Canberra. It had a Tasmanian crew but only got as far west as New Mexico where it crashed into the desert near a town called Roswell. The Canberra was protected under the Official Secrets Act so the USAF called in soldiers to protect the site and clear up the wreckage. The Tasmanians wouldn't talk, so there was no explanation for the two heads and rumours got out in the press about Aliens landing, but that's another story).

On the day of the Auction it was clear no one was interested in rockets because the only bidders were Land, Bob and Harley so they formed a syndicate and bought the lot for $358.17.

Lang and Bob sold the bombs to the Yanks, and Lang used the imaging and tracking equipment to find iron ore. Robert get the rockets and let quite a few go leading to the proliferation of UFO sightings reported at the time. Harley chose the scrap, and from it build a motor cycle empire, and .............

........full. Wild and Free that's meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......................

................aircraft are so fitted.

We should explain at this point that the good Wing Commander Bigglesworth built a Morgan in record time, and not only documented the build but entertained us with stories or a Morgan doing the near impossible time and time again.

Who could forget those immortal lines like "the wing holes didn't line up. Should have redrilled a new sheet but XXXX it's quicker to jam a screwdriver in the hole and drag it across." or "Why would you spend $180.00 on special hose when you only have tp pay $7.85 at Repco. At one stage the WingCo was pining for the girlfriend. We never got to find out what the cause was, whether she'd left him, needed money fruit picking or missed the turn but he found out she was in one of the Murray River towns. He hadn't yet done any Navs, but armed himself with a $2.00 compass from Woolies and took off into a rainstorm, climbing over the Great Divide at thousands of feet more than Mr Morgan ever knew his design had in it. A quick stop at a surprised Country strip for lunch and the Wingco was with his girfriend. Of course ReckFlyIn was awash with concern about the alpine flight with no alternate strips, and several safe routes along main roads were offered to him by helpful members. Instead he headed south into Victoria. This apparently was not what he intended, and he admitted being uncertain of his position, having to land and ask where he was. From the bits and pieces he was reporting from his phone en route, Turbo established that he had missed Gippsland, and recommended he turn left and when he hit the beach follow it home, which he did. We never seem to get those wonderful old stories these ..............

2 hours ago, aro said:

That might apply if you only fly day VFR over open country, but people do fly single engine aircraft at night, IFR, and out of suburban airports like Moorabbin. In any of those circumstances a BRS chute is good insurance.

 

Even landing in a paddock after engine failure... in something like a SR22 the landing speed is 80 knots so you're doing 150 km/h over a paddock you've never seen before, with tiny wheels, rudimentary suspension and lets face it, not much in the way of steering. If all goes well that should still work out, but the parachute might be the higher percentage play. Just because most aircraft don't give you that choice doesn't mean it's bad.

Agree with you; I was talking about one of the types of buyers that show up regularly in accident reports rather than applications.

a BRS makes Night VFR saleable to employers because you avoid the potential of a simple forced landing due to fuel exhaustion, contaminated fuel, electrical fault engine issue etc to turn into a fatal because you couldn't see the ditches, concrete walls or windmills in the dark. Same reason with IFR.

The BRS saves them from walletitis. They've got the money to buy the complex aircraft but not the time to learn properly or stay current, and they tend to disregard weather as a nuisance, so a perfect market for BRS.

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/363665738636752864/

.....if he jumps, it's going to need a particularly quick prayer, but the Rev did what all good Ultralight flyers do, and stopped before he got within the 5000 metres of fluctus clouds.

This wasn't a good idea either because the Twister was now descending in a spin, but with the natural grace that Revs had he pulled it out and landed.

On the ground there was a general discussion about what would have happened to a Heathen, BRS had been tried but BRS had killed more people through going off prematurely or turning a perfectly good aircraft upside down in normal flight, and that's when Turbo came up with the idea of the arrestor wire [Naval AvRef].

He explained; "If you get into the fluctus, run out of fuel, have a coughing fit, haven't had time to fix the skins since the rats got them etc, you'll be able to radio 122TURBO from anywhere and call for an ARREST. Since no life is in imminent danger it's not a MAYDAY so you don't have to be interviewed like a murderer, or even report the incident. Within three hours there will be a Turbine Aviation helicopter on the scene with an errestor cable, and you'll just glide down and into the cable like the US Navy did with their observation aircaft in WW1, pay a small fee to Turbine (or be dropped off the arrestor), and you'll be on the way .......................

.......part time until it was clear where he'd landed and where the Twister had landed.

Then the Rev realised that his terminal velocity might have  a different meaning if he jumped, so he decided to ...................

.......with the production of the Twister. This was a very sound Ultralite [OldAvRef], and the first one was bought be Rev F.W. Wimp who got it home and immediately started tinkering adding a couple of air horns and LEDs to fly at night. He was yet to have his first flying lesson, but he'd figured he could teach himself. "What could possibly go wrong?" he told people. Someone suggested it was so slow that if anything went wrong you could just jump out, but he realised that if he jumped ..............

......in working on Caterpillar products, before you try to part an unparted part, you have to part-loosen the part so it's partly parted, in part because the part may drop on your toe, partly severing it. In short it's wholly important for the long run, that ................

well, or so bull thought, but Turbo had paid a terrible price because his yellow machine was a Cat D7 dozer, and they don't float, and he now had to pull all 117,000 parts apart, part the parts which hadn't parted and get the salt out.

As he dropped a bull gear on his toe, he realised ............

......Swos Setka who is currently undergoing councilling and anti-fear treatment after the shocking Anto-Vaxxer invasion of his headquarters. People said the CFMEU were brutal, but they were just fairies compared to this group of misfits.

bull was still trying to get the Jackaroo started and his mood hadn't been iproved by Cappy suggesting he put a match to it.

Finally is coughed into life, emitting clouds of smoke (avref), backfiring and settling into a coughing, wheezing rhythm which allowed him to drag it into the air.

He had just made Humping Island in Bass Strait when.....................

On 20/08/2021 at 5:54 AM, jackc said:

Well here I am with the Aerolite 103 concept still eating away at me.  Been looking at engine choices and lamenting the passing of the 503 Rotax motor.  Hirth and MZ seem the major choices now. Not even sure I can buy one as the importer here dislikes me immensely, I got up his nose on a discussion of AUF past history.  Last 2 emails went unanswered.  So maybe I would have to buy from another agent and get it shipped here.

Life was never meant to be easy, especially in Aviation 🙂

 

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