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ALWAYS be sure not to include a ROT in an equation because it will nullify the whole equation.

If that equation happens to be take off distance, you probably won't.

......breaking wind [avref].

Cappy looked at it doubtfully because T500s look like they've been flying low over the ocean and a shark has made a leap and taken the rear half of the fuse off. They all have very short fuses and so do their owners.

88mm didn't say a thing, just pointed at the RH suspension leaf, and Cappy went pale as he realised he was expected to sit on it, but anything was better than another Doubtfire kicking.

The Thruster suspension shook his monocle off and Cappy was luck to grab it before the prop did, but just then ........

........of $250.00 right there" said Constable Doubtfire, and once again Cappy was ejected from the BoB.

He headed for Kapooka where, sitting beside the runway was an old ...................

.........slow down as much as bull, so in desperation Turbo took Cappy back to his grandpa's cabin in the hills where there was a fast flowing stream.

Turbo picked up a gallon drum of Phenyl from the shed, held it behind his back and walked Cappy to the stream and poured the Phenyl all over Cappy.

When the fist fight was over they picked up 28 Rainbow Trout which had turned belly up downstream.

Grandpa welcomed them like long lost songs which blew Turbo away until grandpa told him they were short of a singer for the night at the local dance. Cappy now smelling much better refused and it wasn't until grandpa oulled out a jug of moonshine that Cappy consented to perform.

Cappy on the left, Turbo in the centre and Turbo's nephew Rufus on guitar (his brother is always out of camera) Junior is seen on the left towards the end. We know his mother, but his pa could be anyone's.

....wearer was no longer wanted in town.

Hollywood has done more to wreck history than any other group of people in the world.

Billy the Kid didn't die fighting other gunslingers, he'd work his moleskins since he was twelve and the townspeople decided they only way to get rid of the smell was to shoot him. This started a trend; Wild Bill Hickock doidn't die in a gunfight, he was sitting in the local diner with his back to the window and Jake Turbine walked up and shot him through the window thus avoiding the smell.

Being shot through the window can be a painfull experience and Wild Bill Hopped around for an hour or two bue he and his moleskins expired before Sundown.

"The problem with Cappy", thought Turbo, thought Turbo "is that shooting someone and dragging them down to Sh!tters Ditch behind a horse is no longer PC"

TE had been trying to solve this PC problem and at one stage decided to replace moleskins with Chaps, like the old cowboys used to wear. They let the air through, and for obvious reasons didn't pick up that exponential smell, TE's big mistake was to make them from sheepskins and release them in New Zealand.

What could he do about the Odour of Cappy...........

Chaps:

17 hours ago, facthunter said:

CASA proposed 762Kgs  way back then. NO I'm not being niggly but there's a significance in this selection of a weight limit. Middo might have realised what a can of worms it was for the AUF/ RAAus At least he knew what we stood for.

 The latest management openly coined the term, The "NEW" GA Something the OLD GA won't have a bar of under the 2 M's style.

  The CAA got a NEW CEO with no love whatsoever for homebuilts and such crude concepts that could be made from non certified materials.

  The weight thing has already lost us the maintenance concessions for owners and  time grinds on with little action. Clearly RAAus can't be the back door to GA. That's never going to be a goer, but for heavens sake lets get somewhere. The 600 kgs was a borrowed limit with lot's of extra restrictions and is a stop gap as well. A sensible weight limit is a safety issue. Build planes that carry US, fuel and the other things we might be expected to carry  and are strong enough to do so WITHOUT losing the  "privilege of designing , building, operating and servicing" our type(s) of craft with 2 people on board. IF you want more GO GA. Your choice. Nev

Good summary FH; As the title says this was a Consultation Paper, and Comments closed on September 28, 2019, so there's not much point in coming up with comments now.

From the 10,000 RAA members there were 408 responses.

To put it in perspective, CASA had pointed out that (at the point where we were given certain exemptions from GA regulation the MTOW was 450 kg, and they had allowed an increase to 600 kg which was the International LSA limit.

760 kg was going to represent a 68% increase on the MTOW which allowed CASA to make a case for a substantial difference from GA.

760 was also going to create a substantial mud layer between RA flying and aircraft and GA flying and aircraft in terms of build, maintenance, pilot licence and flying regulations.

......clean Cappy's moleskins.

For our thousands of readers we pause here for a minute to explain the significance of what's just happened. Cream Moleskins are the uniform of male and female country people. Brides rip off their bridal dresses, and much to the dismay of the perverts reveal they are wearing their eight year old moleskins and the Reception can start.

Not many people know this, but one of Turbo's English relatives Winston Turbine invented moleskins.

He was potting away with the 410 shotgun at the moles whenever they surfaced. He'd been selling the skins at thrippence each, but decided to make a pair of trousers. The first thing he noticed when he wore them was that they kept out both rain and wind, and then he realised they were self cleaning, and Winston realised he had a marketing opportunity. They were first marketed by TE (UK) Ltd, but today they belong to the world.

They quickly ran out of moles to make skins of course and a new material was invented, but this needed washing when the odour reach the point of .........

....and then his jaw dropped and he broke into a loving smile as he saw Waitress Elsie's short skirt and long legs.

He should have been looking 600 mm higher because Elsie's punch smacking in the mouth and he went down stunned.

It was Elsie who had done a strip act on the roof of a Ford Bronco at the Deni Ute Muster straight after her wedding in 1983, and she'd been Captain of the Wagga womens Netball team for the past 15 years. We'll say no more about that, and you'll know why if you've ever seen a country Netball batch.

The Commanchero straightened up and Elsie hit him in the oranges with the sharpest knee in Wagga ...............

...didn't see the new dining tables on the footpath. His shin hit a chair and he jumped, howling with pain, knocking over a drinks waiter who had been holding 8 beers for a group of Wreck Flyers [avref]. Just as they all stood up scowling, their jeans stained by the beer, the Comancheros rushed out. Capp had fallen down between two chairs and was out of sight. The first Comancheo..................

....moved closer for a look, but Turbo was in no mood for a Mavis Move as it was known locally and said "I  know, and it's the biggest bum I've ever seen"

They were in the Kapooka Red Dog Saloon, a place where the Kapooka ferals hung out and they gathered round for the fight, but there was a giant shadow in the doorway and in strode Constable Doubtfire. "leave him alone Mavis" she said "Turbo's right, you've got the biggest bum in town"

Those who were there that night remember Mavis's eyes widening and then she said "At least I don't need a sircingle to hold my guts up"

Doubtfire took the cap and badge off and it was on.

The Red Dog had a sawdust floor, which was good for hiding blood and teeth and it ran red that night. Every time Turbo laughed, his nuts jiggled and he cried in pain, so there were plenty of tears too especically from Cappy because his sweetheart was losing. Grabbing a gin bottle, Cappy ...................

....Hi Chi Min wasn't that happy either at having his name brought up on a Chinese forum. He lashed out at Cappy, but caught Bull on the pistle, and Bull in turn kicked .......

......Salty. Turbo respectfully points out that an arrow on Turbo's shirt can't point at him, and this one was pointing to his left, where Salty was standing. Bull was in DS, and...................

[Turbo is writing this in considerable pain; he had picked up lunch and a cup of coffee and was complying with Covid-19 lock down conditions in the car where the top came off the coffee and burnt his nuts.]

..........didn't understand that Victorians had just received their T Shirts with the Eureka Flag and a message from Dan, who'd just achieved the polularity status of Hi Chi Min without having to grow a beard.

Turbo got two shirts and a special message which read ...............

You actually did get your replies, but chose to ignore them.

None that I've ever flown with.

he blinked in the white web trying to find a thread he was familiar with. Finally he .........

2 minutes ago, RFguy said:

Hi Turbs

Understood. yeah. OK.  This engine was a long way down. And I could notice the difference between 5150 (where i first started flying it) and 4900. Remember I started flying it at 5150, so I dunno how long it had been below 5500. I did check the linkages and cable  for loose anything .   So I have not flown for a 13 days now, due to U/S plane and  bad weather , so when I get there on Sunday, I will be interested to how the freshly serviced airplane performs. 

 

That 912ULS is a 9relatively) new engine for it, and has  400 hours on it now. The previous engine was sold off at 1500h. 

 

cheers- glen.

There's something not right here; you were telling us you were a new student. Are you saying you weren't given a set of pre-flight and pre-takeoff checks for the aircraft? They have all the RPMs speeds etc for the aircraft. You're not expected to go hunting for data becaise you cold easily pick up a spec that didn't appply to your aircraft.

46 minutes ago, RFguy said:

1. Hey Turbs !  that's a bit mean.

 

2. The static RPM on that aircraft when I started flying was ~5150 rpm.  It had fallen to 4900 rpm in 30 hours ish of its flying since I started flying it.  The day before it I decided it was no good, was 4870

 

The spec was 5500 or better. 

 

1. No, just trying to save you from an EFATO, which could cost you  your life

2. If in your pre-takeoff checks out at the runway when the engine has warmed up, your runup check is 5500 rpm or better,

    if it doesn't make 5500 you turn around and take it back to the workshop; every time.

    It might be nothing more than an oiled up plug, or it might be more serious and could starve you of power or cut the engine        anywhere in the circuit and kill you if you couldn't make it to a forced landing. You can't roll to the side of the road in an aircraft.

  Floats and sink in any carburettor engine, usually because they have been installed incorrrectly and have been rubbing for hundreds of hours. In the two other engines the exact same thing could happen for the eact same reason.

1 hour ago, RFguy said:

well you are right about the shaking and popping Nev. 

The Brumby Rotax  last week- the oil on the Friday I noticed had been getting black much faster than usual... and it was at 49 hours out of the 50 for the oil change ( the maintenance guys they do oil at 50 h on that aircraft) . anyway, put it to bed, and the next morning during run up tests I noticed severe vibration in the mid RPM range. One of the rotax floats in the Bing pair had sunk. sunk ALOT overnight. so taxied it back to the hanger.   And that it probably started sinking the day or two before and the oil going black was a tell tale of the mixture going rich on one side . I need to pay more attention to the tailpipe colour. and that it wouldn't make spec full static RPM.. 
-Gimme a Jab engine any day.. Or a Continental O320 etc. 

And so a leaking float decides which engine you fly behind? What about the pilot that flew after an RPM check failure?

19 hours ago, RFguy said:

Hi OME. I would not completely agree with the way you trying to convey an idea- the statement "That means that as the crosswind comes more and more from the side, the aircraft loses the headwind benefit of the wind. That's why you need to keep the Thrust up during a crosswind landing." 

I think that's simplistic. 🙂

I can see two reasons to keep thrust up- 1) you want to carry a little more speed so that the forward airspeed to crosswind airspeed ratio is a little higher , and b) you might want to go around, having some thrust already in the bank might make that easier.   Carrying more speed might not work if the thing doesnt want to settle on the deck. I have seen videos of taildragger pilots in a high crosswind smacking it down on the deck like an aircraft carrier- NO ROUNDOUT- flown onto the ground. and no bounce. obviously takes some skill.

Listen to him RF - he's just conveying a simple basic. Overthinking it with what someone might do introduces infinite variables. There's also a difference between using a crabbling method and crossed controls amd there also a big difference if you are hit by one or more quartering gusts, and apart from that the parasitic drag varies with the angles.

It's much safer to learn live from an instructor.

.....difficult to read the Japanese writing on the levers, and before they knew it Turbo had dropped a 500 lb bomb on Hiroshima, which  attentive NES readers would know is only 20 km from the take off point.

The Mayor of Hiroshima said "................

........accidentally let the tiniest squirt go, which landed on Turbo's.................

.....give the ferret a run, or check the sheep, or make sure the chookhouse door is shut, you know.........

.......they rigidly pay attention to their IAS to make sure the headwind doesn't reduce it too much, sometimes proudly proclaiming they were "flying on instruments" and cursing at the inaccuracy of the EFIS which they always swore by, and deciding to write a letter of complaint just about the time the engine started to cough from Bernaldo's Law which says: "If tank he is empty, journey he is ending",

and then remembering they'd forgotten to take out the dog before leaving home.

Nob, who had watched Top Gun 27 times yelled "We're rocked and roaded Goose, Ret's kick the tires and right the fires, forgetting for the moment that a Zero doesn't have a gas turbine engine. Turbo was just about to bail on the flight when.............................

45 minutes ago, cscotthendry said:

You never know what is going on in other peoples' cockpits.
We went to a popular fly in brekky a couple of weeks ago and arrived about 8:30 am. The airfield has parallel runways, 12-30. All the traffic were using 12 and there was lots of activity. We were number 3 on 12L and there was another aircraft behind us. On 12R I saw atleast two aircraft in circuit, one of which was on final when we were.
As we wererolling out on 12L, I saw an aircraft taking off on 30L against the traffic flow! The radio burst into life with pilots calling the offending aircraft but no response. As I was taxying to the parking area, the miscreant FINALLY made a radio call to turn base on 30L again. I got on the radio and blasted out a “You're going the wrong way!” To try and headoff a disaster.
I never figured out how this moron didn't see all the airplanes landing on two runways in the other direction, nor how he managed to taxypast all the traffic on the taxiways going the other way, nor how he didn't hear all the radio calls announcing everyone's activity. This guy had no business being in the air that morning.

That is a classic case where a Compliance and Enforcement system is missing from a self administering organisation. If someone had been on duty as a "marshall" or similar he/she would have sorted out the traffic, and where radio calls were defective arranged for retraining, or in a serious case, a suspension. 

....ailerons (avref) or the way. Nob would be flying a Zero of course. He'd liberated it from the Yamato Museum at Kure, 20 km from Hiroshima after Turbo told he he had seen it and it looked as if it would be in good enough condition to start.

They crept into the museum at night with jerry cans, and with the assistance of some aerostart, got it to backfire a couple of times. When the security guards came rushing in, Turbo told them they were fumigating the room, and the guards nodded their heads and retreated, coughing in the smoke. 

Nob flew the Zero straight through the huge glass windows narrowly missing a couple of hi-rise towers, and now here they were in the Ginza drinking Saki and deciding which was the fastest route given the bad weather expected tomorrow in ............................

The dark web was very dark, so it was no surprise that bull, onesie, Salty, HiHo, Planey, nd the Thruster could not find them, but Cappy and Turbo quickly found the half mile queues waiting to vote for The Don in the US election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_Museum