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....his sequins that sent the women in the audience into such a frenzy of desire and adulation, that Cappy started to receive threats from jealous partners, who promised to remove Cappys .......

Shaz - Below are a number of websites where you can request quotes from transport providers. Some sites are purely trucking sites, some are just general transport providers.

You need to ensure the transport provider you choose is reliable, and carries insurance.

Ideally, to minimise handling and transport damage, and to get transport providers more interested, you would be well advised to manufacture or procure a crate, for transport of the aircraft.

The crate would not need to be fully enclosed, an open frame crate just adequate to provide a solid base for support, protection and handling, would do.

There are businesses that specialise in crating items for transport, businesses that provide new or used crates, or you could do a search and try to find a big used crate for sale privately, that would do the job.

The other alternative is to advertise under Community Services on Gumtree for someone with a big trailer going from NSW to Tas, to take the aircraft to Tas for you.

Remember that shipping across Bass Strait has restrictions on dimensions, packaging security, types of items, a requirement for all oils and fuels to be drained completely from mechanical products, possibly even batteries needing to be removed as well.

You need to start with the ferry service companies who operate across Bass Strait - call them, and ask what their shipping requirements or restrictions are, or if they even accept an aircraft fuselage for shipping.

Protection against damage in transit must be the priority factor, that is where all the problems start.

Minimising the handling of the aircraft during transit, is one way to do that. Securing the fuselage properly to stop movement, is the second way to do that.

Trucking;

Loadshift - https://www.loadshift.com.au/

Truckit - https://www.truckit.net/

Freightseek - https://www.freightseek.com.au/

General shipping;

https://www.uship.com/au/

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/sydney-city/other-business-services/australia-wide-transport-service-cars-boats-machinery-caravans/1280572684

Crating;

New - https://www.sydneycrates.com.au/

Used - https://www.ubeeco.com.au/news/second-hand/

.....sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", as Paul Robeson could do so well. But Cappy soon found he was in great demand as the finest local soprano, so much so, that.......

The crash occurred at 8:12AM and the pilot was rushed to hospital with suspected back injuries. It appears that local Police were not involved, so hopefully the pilots injuries are not too serious. 

Turbo, what I'm saying is there are dead links all through the CASA webpages. I posted the newest links that work - but you'd think someone like CASA would be thorough enough to go through their webpages, and eliminate dead links and advice to look at things such as CAR 166, which is now obsolete.

Obviously, they work on the basis that if they leave a dead link, pilots must be smart enough to figure out that that advice is no longer current.

I would have thought that all aerodromes and airstrip sites, as well as ERSA, would have kept up to date with links and current advisories, but it doesn't appear that way to me, I still find dead links in ERSA.

Blueadventures has nailed it, these Anson jacks would have to be the ducks gonads - light, simple designs, and specifically designed for light aircraft.

http://www.ansoneng.com/lightweight-screw-jack/

In Turbo's link to the CASA document, there in nothing in the link provided to CAR 166 - (Radio broadcasting by pilots overflying non-designated, non-controlled aerodromes) because the "guidance material" has been removed by CASA.

Many flight operations rules changed on December 2, and CASA freely admits they're way behind in trying to update to current information.

I have never seen such a CF of regulations that are no longer in use, and regulations that have been updated - but you can't find the updated information - and there are dead links everywhere. 

The whole system looks like it's in need of a good root-and-branch pruning session.

https://aviationidaustralia.net.au/navigating-the-new-rules/

Advisory Circular 91-10 and 91-14 actually provide updated aerodrome and collision avoidance information that is current from 02 Dec 2021 - but there are still numerous advisories in circulation from 2010 to 2013, that are now obsolete, and which should be removed. Many aerodrome operators are still showing obsolete advisories.

https://www.casa.gov.au/operations-vicinity-non-controlled-aerodromes

https://www.casa.gov.au/pilots-responsibility-collision-avoidance

All fuel systems with a satisfactory level of performance have a "primary" (coarse) filter before the primary pump, and a "secondary" (fine filter) before the carburettor or injection pump.

The coarse filter is sized to permit the largest acceptable particles through the primary pump without causing damage or shortened life to the primary pump. That filtering medium is usually around 150-200 micron.

The secondary filter is sized to permit the largest acceptable particle that will go through the carburettor or injection pump without causing damage or blockage.

That filtering medium can be as high as 200 micron or as low as 10 micron, depending on the clearances in the carburettor jets or injection pump valve clearances.

The higher the fuel pressure delivery, the finer the clearances, therefore the finer the filtering requirement. A carburettor can cope with particles that will clear the jet orifices easily, so find out the orifice clearance dimensions and select the filter fineness accordingly.

Ensuring no rubbish or water ever enters the fuel tank is the most important part of fuelling. Filters are only for debris that enters accidentally. Remember that using rags around fuel fillers can produce fluff which can impede fuel flow, moisture gathers in tanks via condensation, and detritus in tanks is related to how careful the filling process is.

One has to remember that filters must still be able to provide adequate flow if or when they become partially plugged. The length of time between filter cleaning governs the level of plugging.

A 70 micron filter will filter out silt and portland cement particles. Whether you need such close filtering is dependent on how much by way of silt-size contaminants you expect to get from a fuel tank.

I'd say only tiny amounts if you're anal about refuelling cleanliness. A 120 micron filter is more than adequate for every carburettor, except very small ones.

If fuel injection is involved, then filtering requirements needs to be tightened substantially to take into account tight tolerances of critical moving parts that are operating at high pressure.

A useful quick guide is in the article below, as to the dimensions of particles, micron sizes relating to everyday products, etc...

https://gacc.nifc.gov/nrcc/dispatch/equipment_supplies/agree-contract/forms/MicronMesh.pdf

I've spent more than my fair share of time, chopping up a substantial amount of timber and firewood, with a big variety of axes!

It's worth going along to a woodchop competition, just to see how much wood a smooth axeman can remove in the fastest time, with the minimum number of perfectly-aimed cuts!

In commercial aircraft, to assist the Captain and FO in a rapid exit from a crashed wreck, or to smash apart panels to find the cause of a cockpit fire. The FAA mandates it under Sec. 91.513

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.513

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crash_axe#:~:text=crash axe

In a light aircraft, maybe not so much of a requirement.

If you're camping out, as APenName appears to be doing with his flight travels, useful for gathering wood to set a signal bonfire, after you've incurred a forced landing, and you forgot your PLB! 

The $100 baguette?

That hand-operated chainsaw is about as useful as a hip pocket in a singlet. You'd probably get a tree down faster by gnawing at it like a beaver. 

The Stihl Pruner is only 10V and doesn't cut anything bigger than 40mm thick branches. Not exactly the sort of thing you'd use to clear fallen trees or acquire firewood.

The small 36V battery-powered chainsaws are quite good, but expensive, and a bit heavy to carry for lightweight camping.

A well-sharpened machete is an exceptionally capable cutting/chopping device in the right hands.

If you have an open cockpit, but there is some type of structure in front of you, even if it's small, you will get eddies into the cockpit that can suck exhaust fumes back into the area around you.

It's the same reason why you cannot operate a station wagon or van with an open tailgate, or have a car exhaust system that ends below a back door.

The exhaust fumes are sucked back into the vehicle, even with all the windows open, in both cases, thanks to negative pressure inside the vehicle structure, at speeds over about 40kmh.

Jack, you need to check up on the building laws for Qld. You are fortunate in that you can build a Class 10 structure on agricultural land in rural locations without a building approval or engineering assessment. However, I understand that constructing a Class 10 building, even on rural agricultural land in Qld, requires engineering assessment in Wind Region C.

There's also the little matter of insurance for said buildings if you cannot produce engineering assessment reports, showing that they have been engineered to meet the expected weather conditions.

Even though Class 10 buildings have relaxed requirements due to not being approved for habitation - if one of your "home-build" structures fails, and falls on someone under it, and the collapse results in a fatality, you may be dragged into a lawsuit.

You should run the manufacturers recommended tyre pressures to help eliminate tyre creep. Tyre creep is usually caused by heavy landings as the tyre has to overcome the inertia of the rim/brake assembly as it spins up.

You can put a marker line on the rim and tyre with a paint marker to check for tyre creep. If the valve is angled as shown, there's a good chance another heavy landing will tear the valve stem where it attaches to the tube.

Facthunters suggestion is sound, you can also aid the tyres grip on the rim bead area by roughing up the bead seat area on the rim, with some coarse emery cloth, or a flexible sanding sponge pad.

Also, upon assembly, ensure the tyre bead is cleaned with a plastic kitchen scourer and some detergent, and then washed clean, to ensure there's no tyre fitting paste on it.

In addition, new tyres have a factory coating of mold release agents (rubber release) which are slippery and soap-like. Removal of the mold release compound will remove any bead slipperiness.

I bet he's proud of having the biggest kennel in the region!

Those Dome Shelters are quite popular amongst the mining people, but there are big variations in the build quality of the frame, and the durability of the covering material, depending on who the supplier is. A lot are built to a price, not for durability.

There are some highly durable covering materials out there, and it pays to check out the units that have been erected for a while to see how the fabric is travelling as regards destruction by strong sunlight.

You'll gain no advantage from fitting a regular-size handle to a tomahawk head. The length of an axe or tomahawk handle is linked to how you want to use it, and the weight of the axe head.

For hard-hitting strokes that you need to cut down trees, or cut up sizeable thickness of limbs, you need a longer handle with a heavy head.

The handle length is tied to the weight of the head, so fitting a very long handle to a small tomahawk head gives no advantage whatsoever, as the limitation in cutting ability is in the weight of the head.

The 2.5kg of a standard axe head has long been found to be an optimal weight for the fairly standard handle length of about 800mm (31" - 32") - but you can get axe handles up to 915mm (36") - which are more suited to tall people.

The ideal length of handle for a tomahawk head is around 610mm to 660mm (24" to 26"), any longer than that, and you gain nothing, and a longer handle can make swinging the tomahawk more awkward.

A tomahawk is simply designed for carrying lightness, and for light chopping actions as in cutting up small limbs. Trying to chop down a tree with a tomahawk, even with a long handle, will be a painfully slow exercise.

If you've been living in Denver for a while, you should be a little more acclimatised to altitude - but altitude sickness affects people differently, possibly because of genetics.

Some people are very resistant to altitude sickness, as witnessed by the Sherpas of Nepal, who can go to great heights without oxygen. You may have a low tolerance for altitude increase.

8000 feet is generally the level where altitude sickness is first experienced, most people are generally O.K. to that height.

As Denver is at 5280 feet, you may start experiencing altitude sickness at under 2500 feet altitude.

You may have medical issues with the balance mechanisms in your ears, it would pay to talk to a doctor about this potential for producing the symptoms you describe.

Be aware that carbon monoxide poisoning can produce very similar symptoms to what you have described, particularly at low levels of CO.

Ensure you have CO monitoring in the aircraft you fly in, to check this potentially dangerous problem. Small, cheap CO detectors/monitors are readily available.

The company name is actually Great Plains. They appear to be still in business, and their website is still functional. However, the VW aircraft conversion engines only have a limited level of supporters.

If you try to sell it as an aircraft engine, the number of potential buyers is extremely small. If you sell it as a car engine, there's a bigger number of potential buyers.

If you install it in your own car project, that's possibly the best way to use it and get maximum value from it.

The value of the engine is highly dependent on whether it actually runs, the amount of life it has left in it, the amount of time it has been in storage, and how it has been stored. 

"Ran when last parked up" is not a good sales line - particularly when "last time" is a vague number of years ago. Engines deteriorate rapidly when not being run, unless extensive storage protection has been applied.

http://www.enginehistory.org/Piston/HOAE/GreatPlains.html

The above report pretty clearly outlines a gyro pilot who took his eye off his ROD, and who could only try to make it to the beach, as the realisation dawned, he wasn't going to be able to arrest his ROD into the water.

.....he'd turn his attention to those who he knew were both loaded, and who wouldn't be bothered with chasing him down, if all their investment share values tanked to zero within weeks of the shares being issued.

Meantimes, Cappy was planning to arrange the refurbishment of a 33rd storey entire office block in either Sydney or Melbourne, planning to order several new Mercedes SUV's (all in the company name, of course - and there were several on order, because you couldn't drive the same one, two days in a row) - and then there was the little matter of which size Riviera luxury Motorised Sports Cruiser to purchase (in the name of company promotion and client entertainment, of course).

The expenditure on corporate requirements was obviously going to take up a serious amount of the funding from the first share placement, so a second placement was on the cards.

In that second placement, provision would have to be made for a company Learjet 75 Liberty for local touring, and a Dassault Falcon 6X (desperately-needed Avref) for extended international visits to the loyal followers.

Then there was the matter of appointing a suitable CEO to oversee operations and to tend to the media ratpacks. This wasn't a job for the faint-hearted, and Cappy thought long and hard, before he decided to offer the position to....

From "understanding Gyroplanes" -

"Under CASA CAO 95.12 & 12.1, Gyros are classified as an ultralight aircraft with a maximum flying altitude of 500ft AGL, unless the pilot holds a specific endorsement issued by ASRA.

Gyros may also legally operate at a minimum altitude of 300ft AGL, and even lower with the permission of the landowner."

Skippy, it appears the ACS 10584 (indicated in photos as 10584HP) has been replaced by ACS 10585HP. Google picks up an image of 10584HP on Aircraft Spruce in an image search - but when I click on the image, the page that appears is the one below - showing 10585HP in the vertical view, and 10584HP in the horizontal view. The standard mesh screen is quoted as 120 micron.

https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/appages/gascolators1.php

I'm sure they've got lawyers for sharks. I know we land-dwellers often have sharks for lawyers.

.....shiny flecks of sparkling pyrites, which were great for flogging to unsuspecting wood ducks at the Kapooka Weekend fleamarkets, as genuine Gold from the Land of the Men of Legend - W.A.

Cappy never failed to mention that the W.A.-sourced gold he sold from the tailings, was as genuine as you could get - but always failed to mention, he actually meant "genuine fools gold".

Then came the day, one buyer at the market asked if Cappy could......