turboplanner

Yeah he could have landed in the large cake that was on the 19th :) I just caught the end of this on the news and apparently the wing came off prior to his crash landing! I love the news reporting :)

He himself said on the 6 pm news it was engine failure, and most of the damage was due to his very generous decision to avoid golfers who had just walked out, and hit trees.

If it is DL it should be banned like many other unsafe practices.

It's a lot safer than smoking, drinking, over-eating and many other lifestyle practices, but it's small enough to become an easy target with great political points, and very expensive now if you have an accident because you were negligent (and remember negligence is negligence even though you didn't intend to forget to put fuel in, do a flight plan.

It certainly doesn't need loose cannons chirping from the Biggles era when so many other exciting pastimes were eradicated.

Good luck with the venture guys.

When two different cultures work together, the result is a new culture, and with innovative Australians in the mix, unfettered by low volume production, the result can be very powerful.

I've worked in the Transport Industry with American ownership, Japanese ownership and Italian ownership, and all produced different results from the Australian and Home Countries.

Brumby have set a good culture of reliability and toughness for conditions to date, so the future looks very exciting.

.....listening to Kelly Osborne's latest hits, he just loved studs and the new ring through the nose, which.................

Who do you think you're impressing Oscar?

I would agree with collapsed bladder tanks, but not with Jab tanks; give some people the slightest excuse and they will take the easy way out, and then you will see more fuel exhaustions.

Personally I liked the LSA tank which was tall, and you could visually inspect the fuel level for flight planning. If you know what the fuel quantity is before taxy, then you have half a chance by getting the fuel burn as accurate over time as you can.

By going to wing tanks there's a safety improvement in terms of a collision, but you then have to deal with the very small height.

If you know the fuel burn accurately, and your fuel input is greater than the duration of the flight plus the 45 minutes reserve, which would be most of the time, then you are working with a known minimum, so it's not an issue.

If you want to go touring, then you need to establish a dipping regime and do your own calibrations, marking a dipstick, and starting with an empty tank, and always, including calibration, if the aircraft is facing east when you do the fill, you need to wheel it around and park on the same spot facing west to check the difference.

The gauges should only ever used as a rough guide, and as Dafydd has said, have no chance of being accurate in such a slim tank, so there's no point in making a song and dance about it, you just have to develop a fail safe way of completing your flight without a fuel exhaustion.

.....but Turbo had good reason, she wasn't called Ida Down for nothing, and.........

........startled expression, let go a horrendous wind gradient (esoteric avref), and headed straight for the President's Tent, where.....................

Your experience shows that en route fuel burn calculations are an important part of flight management, and introduces an interesting additional difficulty with home made aircraft - the constant specification variations and changes.

A problem like you had would have been more obvious in an aircraft with accurate gauges, and given you the chance to recalculate much earlier, and people who are building in the hope of cross country flying might consider whether they really want the novelty value of a glass panel, or spending money on accurate fuel monitoring, and maybe saving the aircraft at some stage.

Sounds like you have a needle or main jet tuning issue - there should be a seamless transition from the part throttle needle phase to the full throttle main jet phase, which could be needle sitting too low/wrong taper, if the main jet is the correct size.

Another issue with the flat Jab tanks is that if there is a slight slope, or a tyre is slightly down you can dip the tank and still get a false reading.

.....one day Ratso had been conned into attending a local horse show, and becoming bored had rummaged in the back of the Rolls and found his wicker picnic basket from the previous weekend, in which there was a jar of oysters.

With a gleam in his eye he quietly sidled up to a horse stall and started feeding the oysters to a grey mare, leaving the stall door ajar.......

.............but Turbo had run out of ideas, and sometimes kick starting Ratso's daily brilliance was like trying to start a Morris Minor on a cold morning (aviators can substitute the engine of their choice so we don't upset Harriet).

"What goes with oysters>" he thought, but.................

........Proof Reader of Chinese laundry tickets..........................

Not appropriate advice for Jabiru wing tanks.

"...........rocket.............."

............sip on those poncy Pimms, or..................

So do you have an engine ready to sell them?

Thanks RKW.

You are tying yourself up in knots Oscar drawing conclusions of your own which go way beyond what I remember seeing.

If the board members don't want to follow their constitution and they let others to do their work, things can go wrong, and backfire on them.

I did see RAA quoted as saying something a bit stronger than your quote Andy, but as someone has said, it has gone as RKW suggested, but I don't recall it being attributed to the CEO.

I remember thinking it strange that they would be asking CASA to do something about the situation when they have the power to take action themselves.

Try the Courier Mail.

I look forward to the day they put it in plain English. Just not necessary. Necessary last century but not now.All those abbreviations were setup eons ago when we only had telex machines and a non local phone call cost the earth. Yep I am old enough to remember operating a telex!

It's an extra cost for the training of Airservices personnel.

It's extra time and mistake prone for pilots (cost me two days on the ground once).

Even though it has killed pilots, Airservices are frozen in the past.

Same with airfields; we've built our software systems to use code in the background, not be a slave to it.

For example it's faster to type a name than it is to look up ERSA, make a note of the code and then type that; in fact we can now global search for photos by inputting a small section of a digital photo.

When I read a story about someone's trip to YOLW, I don't bother going any further, I just move on to the next story.

This is a bad look, on any inspection of it. The new CEO has - it seems - shot his mouth off and managed to simultaneously make himself look rather foolish, while also conveying to the readers of the article that one of the most populous aircraft in the RAA fleet has 'serious' safety issues. I have no idea of the depth of knowledge he may have of aviation in general and RAA operation specifically, but I do not recall that being highlighted in the commentary when he was appointed. Prima facie, that seems to be fairly well up there on the scale of two shots to the foot without pausing to re-load.

.............a bridge out to it so he can get there without having to swim with his holiday shirts and toiletries between his teeth, and.........

Nev's will be the one blowing all the smoke!

OK, The Bert Munro book was unbelievable - like when he was on the way back to California from Bonneville, and drive around the back of Edwards Air Force Base until he found a gap in the fence, and when he was caught in the restricted area in his old $60 car and home made trailer with the streamliner on board, talked he way into being taken around to see the top pilots on the Bell X1 program, and from that getting them to help redesign the streamliner to stop it getting out of control every time he lifted his head to see.