turboplanner

Must be a big audit Turbo.KP.

Relax.

Has about the same effect as swine flu - you won't be feeling well for a while, you'll be surrounded by men in gowns, and then you'll be stuffed.

my jab engine, for that matter all aero engines........use oil, its apparently normal.If our motor vehicles consumed oil at the same rate, we'd be concerned. ( my toyota from 1 service to the next, uses next to nothing )

So.........why are we using oil in our well maintained 4 stroke engines. ( puzzles me )

In any engine, before deciding it is burning oil:

1. Always accurately measure and write notes of amount of oil added, and time/hour interval (You'd be amazed at the stack up error when people round out.

2. Record always measure oil with the dipstick plunged to a set level

3. Always measure with the aircraft level on a known pad in a known direction and with the engine in the same state - preferably cold after an overnight drain, or hot immediatey after use, but not while oil is draining down.

4. Always ensure that the engine is not being overfilled, because it will get rid of this oil and SEEM to be burning it. All engines have a different max, or method of determining when enough is enough (and this is the best part of the thread I remember because the guys, who KNEW, spelled out what that was.

These four things solve most problem engines when they are put on oil report.

I understand you might already have covered most of this given your comparison with the Toyota, but that overfill position on the Jab could just be the answer.

They haven't finished Keith

Go catch some Yellowbelly in Cullyamurra Waterhole.

Having just traveled north from Adelaide to Port Augusta and south again out into the wheat country north of Kapunda, I need to be more careful judging wheat cprofessionals.

Thousands of square kilometres with not a single furrow even slightly bent - artwork on a massive scale, but then I started checking the corners. They all use dual tyred four wheel tractors and wide seeders, yet were seeding right up to the fences only leaving a very small headland!

While I mentioned Quirindi, I was thinking about a quiet country strip with one in the circuit.

I've slipped up more than a time or two, but my point was that the terminology has good reason to be there.

You are a wheat cockey aren't you?

I don't think he is; I think he's expressing the same sense of frustration I'm feeling.

What would be wrong with talking to the CFI of an operation which hires aerobatic aircraft?

to see:

1. What is technically required in terms of qualifications

2. If he will let you, with your level of skill anywhere near his expensive aircraft.

You worry to much Frank, 'cross' definitely refers to base, if he had meant crosswind he would have called it 'criss' so the easiest way to remember which is what is to remember 'criss cross' and remember you generally fly crosswind (cris) before base (cross)

However, once traffic starts to get above six in the circuit, aircraft if differing speeds are inclined to bunch up at times, and not all aircraft radios will be working at their specification level, so radio will start to become important, and working out what someone else said, or meant, can be very important to avoid an accident.

If you then step up to a City airfield with perhaps 12 in the circuit proficient use of the radio and radio terms becomes critical. There's no time to try to figure out what someone somewhere means by "Cross".

The positions were hammered out in blood, "Crosswind" after you make your first turn after final, "Downwind" after you make your second turn, "Base" after you make your third turn, and "final" after you make the fourth turn. The tower controller will call, for example "Aircraft on Crosswind break right!", and you may have a fraction of a second to avoid a collision, or even in a quiet circuit you might need to make the same call one day, and the pilot will need to know immediately that you mean him and not someone on Base.

There is another reason for correct radio terminology, and that is that although someone's transmitter may be on the way out or your receiver is scratchy, you can still get some idea where the other aircraft is by the syllables.

"....bottle of Phenyle in case they turn back, and if this doesn't work, then......"

Phenyle

https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=phenyle

Particularly when used to a Cherokee, which I was.

If you go to the religion thread you'll

see them there from Fundamental all the way up to Extreme Esoterical - that is an eye opening thread.

Not sure what you mean by that. Way too oblique for me.

No more outrageous than post # 79 I'd have thought.

Forget the excuses, just count the number of bullies stacked on GG.

REALLY? I know how much credence I place on that little piece of excreta.

Are you actually defending that outrageous piece of misrepresentation?

The thread is about the Bureau of Meteorology by the way.

• Percentage of Australians who believe the ABC provides a valuable service to the community: 84%1
   
   
  

 

 

 

References

 

1. Newspoll, ABC Appreciation Survey, June 2014, national random sample (n=1902) conducted by telephone, people aged 14 years and over.
    
    
   

He can see where you've been though.

Do you want to sell magazines Andy, or do you want to attract new blood?

I know this is a big leap, but existing members are not new blood.

I wonder whether the members had any Agenda items.?

Old news, I have been paid out 10 grand tax free years ago. Time will tell if I am effected .

Whoops - too late - I guess my flight over the Southern Alps last week would be regarded by turboplanner and Doug as totally irresponsible - since I would have needed to get to 12,000 ft in order to glide to a safe landing if the engine had stopped and I only managed 7500 - I suppose I had better stick to flying around the Canterbury Plains in future. In fact, if I dont fly at all then I really will be completely safe. Rather boring though!

We don't have anything in Australia that compares with the magnitude of the southern alps.

In your case, you even knew the performance requirement, 12,000 feet for your suggested safe flight yet still persisted, so you are asking for it.

There's no way a properly trained and competent airman even in an Ultralight would be restricted to the Canterbury Plains, and the rest of the sentence is just whistling past the graveyard. You need to have a heart to heart talk to a good pilot.

Trikes and power lines seem to be going together these days.