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4 hours ago, Moneybox said:

Anyone who witnessed the incident, with footage, or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.

 

This is the last line of the media report. Is that usual or is there something they are not telling us?

With ATSB on the scene that comment probably wasn't necessary, but with police at the scene first they may have declared a "crime scene" which doesn't imply that a crime has been committed, just preserves the scene better and more formally, and that may have triggered the Crime Stoppers requesyt which is the formal way police ask for information from public witnesses and filter it to free up police time. Witness calls to Crime Stoppers would flow to ATSB when they get involved just like evidence from first responders.

....named Mosul, given a Drifter [avref] and had the job of impersonating a Recreational Flyer who had drifted off course, couldn't find his way back because the GPS battery was flat and the spare GPS battery was flat. The enemy would usually have a laugh and let him go. Turbo would then fly the route home dropping gin bottles, and Cappy would show up right on track for the runway every time.

Not many people know that Cappy has a photographic memory and is a displayed artist of some not so there was no need to bring a camera and Turbo would just infiltrate among the enemy in the danger zone borrowing cigarettes from them as he moved through clarifying great spots for the artillery to lob ordnance.

It was a good system; Turbo would pinch a bike and back to the lines, the artillery would wipe out the enemy and the British Commandos would run in, clap their hands to scare any laggers and claim another victory.

One dark night though an enemy soldier caught the whiff or the aftermath of Cappy's evening feed of mosuls and grabbed him by the ..........

5 minutes ago, Geoff_H said:

When I suggested that I do gps navigation, 500 hrs experience with gps navigation, I was told that I might encounter RAIM.  I thought that RAIM only applies to IFR. I carry 3 GPS, Farming 196, small pocket GPS and phone, could all 3 go flat once?  

From memory about 3 people on this site over the years reported that 2 had failed and they'd winged it to get home.

In many cases, such as eastern Victoria, it wouldn't make much difference.

In other cases the lead you need for the second GPS you've never had to use could be at home.

Even that wouldn't be a problem most of the time because you would have a pretty good idea of where the key towns were.

But one guy who used to boast about modern equipment on this site got lost ....in a helicopter.

.......breakfast in the Uighur Mountains in his youth.

He mentioned this to Cappy and said he had come away with a gin addiction and from that moment nothing was too much trouble for Chairman Xi. They disappeared to the Observation deck Cappy had built for the CIA and Chairman Xi frowned slightly, but then they disappeared for a week and chits were sent down, meals and gin sent up, gin bottles thudded onto the Spratly grass, and they decided what they would get Albo to do.

Not many people know that Albo was a Commando in the British Army during Gulf 1. Of course they weren't up to the standard of the Marines, but Albo was very handy with a knife in the back and ..........

......inadvertently stepped into the most lucrative rackets in the Country, where the judges would meet in a pub and decide who was going to win this one, and what the suckers were going to pay.

These were the people you'd see down at the airport polishing their half million dollar Sportcruisers.

Turbo designed more or less an electronic gumball maching where you'd touch on wiuth your AMEX Card, and then type in the problem and details of the prick that had crossed your path, and the screen would show a video of Judge Judy, the machine would click a few times, then say "Sorry we lost" and fifty bucks would be charged to the credit card. Same disappointment, but you still had your house.

So Turbo sold the system to Cappy for $3.9 million, and they both ensured Cappy's identity remained secret. The money that flowed in built twin mansions where the old bungalow used to be in the Spratleys, and the parties became legend until Chairman Xi showed up one night and .............

11 hours ago, Blueadventures said:

Hearing that an instructor is involved it's interesting that he has not provided advice and connection to an engine service person.  Seems the instructor is leaving it up to the owner to sort the engine issue and is prepared to run a time expired engine with unknown maintenance history.  A very good instructor would not do such in my experience as they would ensure the aircraft is airworthy and if asked provide advice on required work before operation of the aircraft.

It's troll time again by the look of it.

....members of the Judicial Workers Federation, which has always had a low profile, quietly dispensing their justice from the days of Captain Cook.

They were beginning to fell they'd dispensed a little too much justice to Dan when ......

.....the original intent but the Court was now stacked with Judges all from Wangaratta and the Wang Bowls Club lawn was growing weed..................

.........his wife who had just driven through a fence to avoid ...........

Most private drones, even the bigger ones would be blown out of the way or flicked off by an RPT aircraft; more information needed.

10 hours ago, Flightrite said:

Graveyards are full of ‘expert’ aerobatic pilots! 

True, but the track and heights of this VH registered aircraft don't indicate aerobatics, but the common killer; sighteeing and/or getting photos of homesteads.

The aircraft is flown low - 500 feet agl is a good height for a standard camera lense.....and also the minimum legal flight level, and most people about to take photos are not focused on a suitable height for a stall.

The pilot starts out with a shallow enough turn but the person with the camera is shouting "CLOSER!" "CLOSER!!!" "Stay there!, I've just about got it!" and the pilot gets tighter and tighter until the aircraft lets go.

I'm not saying this is what's happened here and with ATSB investigating, their decision will be based on a lot more actual evidence, but I don't see any evidence here of beat ups straight over the houses or aerobatic displays, just multiple turns above the properties which I've done lots of times. It's normal to rev the engine or give some other pre-arranged signal, because people on the land are prone to saying afterwards that they didn't see you, and "Oh yeah a plane went over the house about that time."

If you want to avoid a similar accident to this, don't do the circling bit, come straight in towards the property, offset so the person with the camera can get a good shot, climb out. That was you have a clean, stable 500 - 600' camera pass and your turns are similar to circuit turns. Passenger needs a shot from another angle? From your shallow turn at higher altitude drop down to camera height and fly another straight line towards the new view requested.

Another way to avoid this is what I do - hire an Instructor and do a 15 minute brief before the flight: the Instructor is in the LH Seat, he/she is PIC at all times and responsible for height, other traffic etc. I point to where I want to shoot once we descend to photo level, and it's optional for the PIC to abort. We then just fly on and come come round in a cloverleaf for a second attempt. In a pre-planned 1 hour flight I get roughly 40 good shots, a few fuzzy ones, and about three go rounds resulting in good shots. We haven't spoken over the photo area and when we land the Instructor is happy and I'm happy.

.......talk of the DG Pub when he clean missed the red bunny, who walked in shortly after, glowering and ordering a bottle of Glenfiddoch which he proceeded to down a glass at a time as he told anyone who cared that someone had tried to shoot him.

"Well you look like a rabbit in that red gear", an old man who hadn't recognised him drawled, and Dan threw his glass at him, missing and collecting CT on the nose, which started to bleed profusely. CT threw a blood-soaked chair at Dan which bruised him on the coxic.  Mrs Dan, waiting outside in the car listening to gaelic music, heard the noise and rushed in, belting the old man with a knock out blow. Skye, the barmaid who had arms as big as Dan's thighs belted Mrs Dan in the face, disfiguring her. Dan, with lightning speed dropped one on Skye, but Skye had been faster and had him securely by the nuts. "Do you kow who I am!!!!" screamed Dan, but CT chuckled and said "Brer Rabbit?"

At this stage the local Highway Patrol, standing in for Protective Services rolled in and started arresting people. Sergeant Doubtfire immediately sided with Skye after getting the secret signal. Constable Alastair Pritchard from Wangaratta recognised Dan and sided with him, switching off his body cam and wading into the old man and Skye, who nonchalantly grabbed his nuts with the other hand and started doing the stomp on the dance floor. Mrs Dan went for Sky'e eyes, an unprovoked assault, an an old woman from Craigieburn knocked her out with her gin bottle.

In the Court hearing afterwards Dan gave evidence that they'd just dropped in for a counter tea, had a great time listening to the band and enjoyed the meat pies. Mrs Dan complimented the hotel on the wonderful floral arrangements. But the old man laid charges and .........

6 hours ago, BigDiggs88 said:

yea ok, interesting you do say that through because the manual does state about RPM variations after start, more so about rpm stability before retarding the throttle to look the reduction shock absorber but cant find anything about the advancement of throttle. I am aware smooth steady power adjustments are best. major concern was in the event of a go round you would want power on hand to recover, but the 3 -4 second hesitation was the concern. the advancement on throttle to have the issue is definitely quite aggressive. aircraft has only done high speed taxi runs at this stage till I'm happy with the gremlins. if you would have manual ref i could view just to put my mind at ease then id happily accept it. just want to determine if its operational error or a genuine issue.

 

In the material in the link I supplied it explains how the throttle is opened by vacuum createwd by your throttle demand (accelerator pedal in off-road  vehicles, hand throttle on snowmobiles and jetskis, and throttle lever on aircraft. If you're descending to land and meet wind shear (I've done it twice) immediate wide open throttle is required to stop you sinking into the ground. Both my times were with the Bing carb, so the vacuum is fast enough for hand throttle with the vaccuum system in correct specification in the carb. On the other had I had one on a 450cc engine that defied all efforts to stop that fluffy fail in mid range and I replaced it.

6 minutes ago, onetrack said:

Correct link in Turbo's post is here....

 

https://electricmotorglider.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CV-Carb-Web.pdf

 

tks

45 minutes ago, BigDiggs88 said:

Thanks buddy, if it wasnt metering the second stage properly would it not be across the entire upper RPM range where it becomes an issue?

No, Bing call the three stages Idle Range, Mid Range, Full throttle.

The needle usually plays the most important part in Mid Range so coming into Full throttle range where jet size plays the most important part, the engine should be clearing if it is fluffy in Mid Range.

This explains the sequence: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://electricmotorglider.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CV-Carb-Web.pdf

........but out of his dream walked a hostile Dan Andrews in a red shirt, red chef cap and six days growth.....................

See if the Manual shows the settings for the second stage. Might not be metering enough fuel in second stage.

....even in the freezing blizzards of the Himalayas, aircraft could take off and land, particularly ..........

....quickly translated the Malaysian, which the Shangri Lasans couldn't understand into English, which they could.

He built underground refuelling facilities and a Terminal with a big Shangri La sign on the front, and hit the social media in his "Influencer" persona offering flights for just $30,000.00 from anywhere in the world with the tag "Go there feeling old; come back decades younger.

The demand for Turbine Shangri flights was so great they had to buy new aircraft and ....... 

......advantage they have is taking off from a standing start and going like a cut snake.

Turbo did what he had to do; he swallowed a pyrrolizidine alkaloids pill, threaded his belt through the encabulator mounting and was soon flying [avref] at a handy five metres out of reach of the hordes of four wheelers, some of which had already started to seize engines.

Flying over a nearby hill, Turbo saw an airport and there sitting on the runway .........

7 hours ago, BrendAn said:

why do you dismiss accidents that are not raaus. plenty of cessnas crash. at the end of the day they all have the same result regardless of the aircraft.

I don't dismiss non-RAA accidents. because they cover long distance cross-country, busy airports more complex equipment, but I don't broadcast them to people who are just learning to fly every basic aircraft over short distances and will never encounter the issues in this area. No point in making people depressed about a lot of fatalities from things they will never e.cncounter.

2 hours ago, BrendAn said:

I am as always talking all accidents in Australia, ga and ra. What we see on the news. Surely you have seen all these news stories too.

Sure I see them, but I drill down to the categories to get like-for-like so it relates to RA aircraft, not some very complicated flight relating to IFR or a very complicated aircraft.

3 hours ago, BrendAn said:

You always say this and I always say I am only talking about Australia, I can not remember so many accidents on the news as there have been in recent years.

Well put it this way the base load of RA fatalies about ten years ago was about 12 people per year. If you are hearing of more than 12 per year in RA Australia, then its time for RAA t step up and take action.

...a Rotax for the first time doesn't sound like a normal aircraft, and the noises may have been revving the engine over the farms which is a fairly common occurrance to alert the people inside the house.

6 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

There seems to be an aircraft accident on the news nearly every week for the last couple of years. 

Only because people have been reporting GA accidents, RPT accidents, Military accidents, and accidents from all over the world in countries with vastly different standards and regulations compared to Australia. 

Although RA don't seem to be reported as well as they used to be, and people don't see every Australian newspaper report on RA accidents, the RA fatalities still seem to be much lower than the 10 per year average of about ten years ago.