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However, I'd still like to separate the two cooling systems. It may be possible to dump oil cooler air out the bottom of my cowl belly.

What is the oil temp range in flight.

......if bull is cast as Jean Van Damme, and can do the splits at the audition, he’s in and we can always cast Brine as Rebel Wilson or Bette Midler and make it a musical with....

........maybe it would work if they had him driving the beat up old Buick. Turbo negotiated a part in the movie for the Drifter with OT playing a washed out pilot fresh from Afghanistan, with Cappy playing his RIO, and Turbo cast as the long suffering mechanic who always managed to miss someone. On the bats was Planey, and Brine played the Tower Operator. the trick was how to get this team front and centre in a film about SOFG, and OT suggested .......................

.....Son of Forest Gump. Hergolt had a limp, which stuffed up the running scenes. They tried taking the shockers out of an old Buick Riviera Convertible and strapping him to the boot then filming the top half, but a texting driver in a Jimmy put an end to that and there's not much point in filming someone with two legs in plaster sitting at a bus stop telling people life is like a box of chocolates in a slightly higher voice than Forest's, so Hergolt.........

......Drifter Support Group for ininuating that a Drifter can't even handle the weight of a fry pan. The pan drifted down and eventually hit Hergolt Degroel who was walking his dog in Toegloyne St, Woeflyne, in Denmark. Hergolt loved to walk next to the woods and watch the birds, but the last thing he needed was one with a handle, especially since it flattened his dog. "What is.........."

....23,000 ft.

“That’s not the Dead Sea!” yelled OT. “How can you be so sure?” asked Mustapha

“Because I’ve flown around the Dead Sea since it was just sick” replied OT, “we’re over......”

I get plenty of air entering at door seals

I've had rain in my face from the top front corner of a J170 door, and cold air, but it's still possible that air is exiting further back due to the Bernouli effect. Some wool tufts stuck around the window area would tell you.

The Bernoulli effect on a rounded cabin area is very strong. I didn't latch a Cherokee hatch properly once and the door let go as soon as I reached flying speed with an explosive bang followed by a roar of wind. The low outside pressure held it open and I tried leaning over and pulling it shut but couldn't get enough leverage.

After reading your replies on several threads turbo, I'm convinced you have NO IDEA what an EFB is and what it does....

Just so no one is confused, we are talking about airmanship when your Ipad freezes, runs out of battery, and you forgot to bring the spare, charge the battery, load the software etc.

Same here; once mistook Picton coal mine for a water reservoir south of Sydney.

Also mis-identified an expanse of white far ahead as Leslie Dam, when it was acres of bird netting covering fruit trees near Stanthorpe...

Most people will have those experiences, and that's where ground to map reading practice helps.

Some of my basic training was done on the edge of the western plains; my instructor suggested I do my X-Country endorsement there as well, because it was so featureless that I'd learn to use the compass. I regret not taking his advice, because I did my Nav training on the coast and was spoiled by all the recognisable geography. Maybe a spot of navigating on a flat, boring ocean would be a good way to learn compass reading.

Solo could have been a problem if you made a calculation stuff up, but I know what he was getting at.

I'd been flying for some years when low cloud ( a solid base) forced me down to 1000' at Casterton heading for Melbourne. I was on full reporting and had set Mortlake as the next reporting point (73 Nm distant). The Western District to the east is flat and featureless, Mortlake was somewhere over the horizon, but there are extinct volcanoes all over it, and my navigation feature was Mount Shadwell 958' just to the north of the town, so I had a mountain and a town, what could possibly go wrong. Soon the mountain appeared over the horizon and I was more comfortable. It was ten degrees south of my heading, but I'd been forced to land and sit on the ground for about four hours at Casterton, and had replanned the flight from the cockpit, so assumed I'd got the heading wrong, so changed course for Mt Shadwell, arriving with a comfortable few minutes to make my position report.........but someone had taken the town away. Nearby I saw a town with a pub, and figured the pub name would tell me which town I was over, but all it said was "Carlton Draught". I was now out of time for the report, and made a tight turn around the town looking for the town sign on the highway. Just as I saw the sign I got the "Confirm Operations Normal" call and fluently called in that I was orbiting Panmure and had an amendment to flight plan, returning to Melbourne via Princes Highway. Unsurprisingly the Centre operator stayed on my back for the rest of the afternoon. The mountain I'd been heading for was 708' and 14 Nm south of Mortlake. This was the second, but last time I abandoned a compass heading in favour of eyesight.

You could still get valuable experience over recognisable country by sticking to the compass heading and watching the drift off course develop and making your corrections all the while knowing where you were anyway.

.........can get one of these four friggin GPSs working. Two of them have frozen; that's now 8 I've had to throw away. One is gapping, so one minute you have a track to follow, the mext minute the track disappears for 20 minutes, and I forgot to bring the lead for the other one.

"Don't you worry about that" said Mushapha, who had a Masters in Australian History, "I can remember the way from previous trips".

The block of cheese having slid off the table, OT opened the throttle and the Drifter shot into the air like a Chinese after a toilet roll.

Thirty minutes later OT said "Where are we, this looks like ocean below us, and I can see a .......................

Sorry #46 should be DG (Directional Gyro), not "DH".

However it does seems to me you are applying a standard far above RAA - which is just fine but let's not get too carried away with personal preference.

Where this has turned to custard is that in the AUF days the aircraft were simple, designed for local flights and the instruments were basic - like no DH, and the nav training was basic like “go buy a book”. There are still some flying that taught themselves to fly. Now, with 100 it’s and several hours range, more and more people are doing GA type cross country flying, but don’t have DG, or suitable training. There’s a gap there.

............sandpaper. "It keeps me sharp" he said, and always......

......While Cappy went weak at the knees listening to Johnny Cash, OT had quickly ditched the Euc-C leaves, switching to a narrow leaf, but likely looking grass for the job. It was Sword Grass, which..........

Yeah! yeah! yeah! - some bureaucrat had great fun expanding on this (applicable to far more complex aircraft/challenging conditions). I fly RAA VFR, can actually navigate for hours at time,without any reference to anything other than ground features - compass optional. If your compass can not be set up on a single cardinal point and reliable be turned to the remaining three - replace/fix compass.

This reminds me of the people who go through their complete RPC course in three weeks in the one weather pattern (calm), the one aircraft, the one instructor. First time out with the new Certificate they get a crosswind.

I believe skippydiesel; there are plenty of places in Australia where you could navigate from memory all your life. Your training area for a start, places like Gippsland where the mountains are to the north and the sea is to the south, but on the other side of Melbourne, on a Navex test, I did four legs on location within 2 minutes of each planned time, and on the fifth found not only a railway line,and a lake, but a hill in between. They were about five degrees off where they should have been, so I altered heading to suit my fix. The instructor had selected this reporting point becaise it had two rail lines/hills/lakes. Within a couple of minutes I was flying over rolling hills and nothing matched the map. If you go by memory or you go by towns you know from driving to, expect that one day something will happen to upset the apple cart and you'll be flying around until you run out of fuel thinking your destination is just over the next hill.

Another classic mistake I made at Moorabbin, for years, was to jump in and fly out to the training area with a couple of hours fuel for a 1 hour flight, and no maps because I was doing what you said, remembering the landmarks. For those years the weather was pretty much the same coming back as it was going out, so I fell in to assuming it would always be the same.

Then an incident occurred which taught me a whole new attitude. An aircraft was flying in to Moorabbin when a storm blew up that Moorabbin Airport was closed. The pilot hadn't planned for any other fields so he continued on and after an argument with the tower was told to go away, which he did, finding another airfield, but the weather was too severe, and he couldn't land, so he turned back for Moorabbin, told the Tower Controller to get stuffed, and landed. There's a long ATSB report on it somewhere, but the point is I realised that there was nothing to stop me taking off at Moorabbin for the training area, but not being able to get back in due to a weather change. Which other airfields were available? How would I find them under low cloud etc. Since that time I've always taken charts up with me for flights in the training area.

I recent years a similar thing happened at Tyabb where someone took off on a clear morning, a fog rolled in while they were away, and they couldn't get back in and landed on a freeway.

In these situations you need to be able to navigate correctly and calculate fuel burn in the air and so on.

......clap eyes on the ASIC man. “I NOT clap all the time!” bristled Mustangs. “You talking clap”.

All this talk had affected OT’s stomach and he walked off with his eucalyptus leaves. What he didn’t realise was that he had picked Eucalyptus-C and the leaves were hotter than a Malaysian Pepper. “Yeeaouuuuu!............

Tickets and accommodation booked. Much anticipation. But the advice now is to avoid overseas travel if you are over 60. Will this be all over or much worse for a trip to the USA in July?

I'd talk to Vic Health department; the News media have started to sense they can be important again after their bushfire days of glory.

Already there's a set of symptoms circulating on spcial media that's been branded as fake and while one report has said that the Chinese have begun to reduce the numbers, others are crowing that we've seen nothing yet.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/push-this-virus-back-who-urges-maximum-effort-to-counter-covid-19-20200306-p547ed.html

...changes to your baggage. Why is it necessary for the Drifter to be loaded up with 50 toilet rolls?

"Well I have a problem" said Mustapha "I wasn't named Mustapha Crap for nothing you realise, but if you like I'll........."

[Turbo notes we're back in South West China, and hopes OT is wearing a mask]

Thanks kasper.

I have a mate who says that internet voting is so good now that we could do away with pollies and vote for everything online.

Wow that would be hard on those who had paid good money to own their pollies huh.

Twelve months ago I would have agreed with you, but:

1. Having spent a lot of time on camping holidays up and down the Murray and Darling Rivers, I became interested in what seemed some very odd social media about the Murray Darling Basin Authority in the early stages of thye drought so I started doing some research and found the proponents of attacking various governments were lying repeatedly to get the general public, who would have struggled to tell you where the Darling is, to lobby politicians, call for Royal Commissions etc. Quite a few of the people following the posts believed eveything they read. It ended with three State Ministers being so alarmed that they made tactical moves which ultimately will have negative effects on farmers.

2. The Social media on the recent bushfires simply ignored previous history and took readers into fairyland. Any vote there would most likely have been the opposite of what the people would have voted for if they had been given the truth.

and so on.

Technically what your mate says is true. If true facts are presented to you, and you can go away and sit down and think them through, it's a very easy form of voting. However, its the perfect opportunity for someone to lead you up the garden path.

There's nothing like someone putting he point, and then being rebutted by his opponent with an audience present to tear down the BS, which is probably why politicians steer away from multi-party meetings.

Of course none of those who bought one will denigrate them, although there was someone on this site a few years ago that used to regularly voice their displeasure about how often the Jabs at his flying school broke.

That included one or two which failed on the flight home from Bundaberg, and the reason for that is that the issues were intermittant; they occurred at all sorts of hours in all sorts of applications with all sorts of maintenance skills. Those are the hardest issues to solve because you can't pre-set a maintenance regime to replace the part before the engine is likely to stop, and the manufacture can't quickly pinpoint the issue and come out with a kit or a change of oil specification etc. What Jabiru did with the Gen 4 engine is give operators the chance to go to a new product and still be below the Competitor's cost.

Intermittant means that many of those engines will never have a problem, so it's not surprising there are good reports.

........we can do to speed up production of vegan hamburgers with.........

......he had outsmarted the Channel 9 journalist. He had thought of throwing in a couple of “Cessna” mentions, but thought he’d gotten clean away with it until.....

....had been out collecting hundreds of toilet rolls, and had missed the horrific story.

Interviewed by Channel 9 with his semi trailer half full of toilet rolls, and in response to the simple question: “Why are you buying so many toilet rolls?” The Wiley Onetrack was lost for......

I leave you with a fine quote suitable for this occasion: Laws are made for the guidance of wise men and blind obedience by fools!

Looks like he got it right.