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Skippy - "AV cable" refers to an "Audio-Video cable" - a cable capable of carrying audio or video signals.

You may think you can do what you like, any time you please - but you can't. Rules and regulations for the preservation of a safe and civil society, govern almost every move we make - from speed limits, to noise limits, to unacceptable social behaviour, to laws that jail us for serious crimes. You may think you can tear off and kill yourself in a high-risk exercise, if you decide to do so. The problem is, your death from that high-risk adventure comes with an impact that affects a lot of other people - even though you try to make out it doesn't. Emergency service providers, Police, Medics, and any number of other seemingly unassociated people, all have to clean up your crash mess - from extracting your mangled carcass from the wreckage, to trying to save you taking your last breath, to dealing with the impact of death on your estate, your family and friends, and even to making a lot of work and paperwork for others - from holding investigations, right through to inquests, and settling problems caused by your crash. It's not possible to organise a "clean and simple" exit from this life in an air crash. You damage property on the ground that belongs to others, you may damage essential services in some manner - and above all, to adopt the attitude that "I can do what I like, no-one can tell me what to do" is selfish, and enters into the "Sovereign Citizen" stupidity, and lack of logic. We are governed by rules and regulations, and we have a safe and civil society, because of them. A "Duty of Care" is not rubbish, it is a proven and enforceable legal principle, and it can cost you everything if you choose to ignore your Duty of Care.

........before long, the country was running out of trucks, not just truck drivers. However, a new entity soon appeared to overcome the dreadful situation that was arising. As we all know, "Australia Run On Trucks", and one gent in particular was very mindful of this nation-stopping potential event. Entering at Stage Right was the CEO of Turbine Truck Manufacturing and Refurbishment. In a blaze of glitzy stage lighting and party poppers, Turbine fronted the assembled worried crowd and announced that very soon, Australia would be flooded with new and reconditioned trucks by the shipload, and the country would soon be back to its normal situation of tens of thousands of trucks and no-one to drive them. He did add quietly, almost as an afterthought, "And of course, requiring every Punjabi and Hindu to sit a proper truck driving course, will soon bring that about." Turbo went on, "TTMR will soon be introducing the Maharashta Truck, a product of the Sub-Continent, designed to cope with the lack of skills shown by the average truck driver in Australia today. It will have no "creature comforts" such as air-conditioning, suspension seats or a sleeper - because in the country of origin of these trucks, these creature comforts are unknown and this will ensure the drivers will feel comfortable in a familiar environment." "In addition", he went on, TTMR will send all the current bent trucks to Afghanistan to be repaired, as I made many worthy business contacts there from my time up the Khyber, and inspection of their repair facilities has proven to me that their repair capabilities are world-leading, and accordingly, Australia will benefit greatly from their efforts." Accordingly, Turbo put on a big screen video of the repair shops, which led to a roar of............ (Dear NES readers, here is the link to the YT video, showing Turbo's impressive truck repair team. Note the skilled welding without a mask, and the high number of youthful apprentices, showing Turbo's thoughtfulness in the promotion of further skills training....)

......the worlds greatest warmongerer - CASA. It was on the steps of the clubhouse that Cappy heard Turbo utter those famous words, that still ring down the decades. He stood there, tall and imposing, and said - "Well may God Save the Queen, because nothing will save recreational pilots from oblivion after this proclamation! They will never silence the outskirts of this organisation, even though they may silence the members on the inside of this...........

That's all well and good - but you supplied specific dB, Hz, Power and Impedance figures in you first post - but this relay you've found, has absolutely zero information, as regards any of those specifications?? How do you know this relay produces a sound that you can hear? "Clicks" is not exactly a definitive physics or electrical specification. What is worse - the link provided to the product on the Waytek Wire website doesn't work. So, I pull up the photo of the relay, get the P/No off it - type that into the Waytek Wire search menu - and it comes back, showing the relay, with the advice, "this item has been discontinued". https://www.waytekwire.com/product/te-connectivity-v23234-b0001-x001 Where to now, Batman??

No worse than carrying 90-100 litres of highly volatile petrol in tanks all around you? - that invariably burst open in a crash? The number of lithium battery fires is possibly only slightly higher today, than the number of petrol fires.

Skippy, the website link you provided is a Korean manufacturer site, not Chinese (and your link doesn't work because you included a full stop in the address). The reason they are refusing to provide any advice on speaker upgrades is because the site is a manufacturer site, and the page is only providing specifications of their products, it's not a "shop" page where you can buy items or get advice. They will only reply to large businesses seeking to order high volumes of their product. https://unique-sound.co.kr/products/ Is the speaker in your VW or Audi? I guess you're looking for an alternative replacement, due to the "European manufacturer tax"? (i.e. - high parts prices). The Chinese are your friend, they can supply the US3750B, plus they can supply a US3750C alternative. Unfortunately they provide no specifications for either buzzer, you will have to email the seller, and ask for the precise electrical specs. However, if you check the Korean manufacturer site again, the specs are there for the US3750C they manufacture. I would presume the Chinese specs are identical, but it would pay to check. The only problem I see, is the US3750C produces sound at a higher frequency (870Hz VS 430Hz for the US3750B) - and as you age, high frequencies are the ones your aging ears fail to pick up. I'd suggest the major problem with your original buzzer is that it has simply weakened with age, and no longer produces sound levels to the original specifications. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010041259835.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt#nav-specification https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008216109531.html#nav-specification

He's obviously full of inflated self-importance.

If you've been a regular insurance cover holder, and haven't paid the renewal on the due date, most insurance companies give you a grace period, usually 14 days. If you haven't advised them you've done a camper conversion and installed "non-standard" accessories or equipment, then your chances of making a successful claim, are indeed extremely low. Most importantly, have you determined precisely how the fire started? Lithium batteries general only self destruct if they are charged incorrectly, such as using a non-original charger, or if they have endured some kind of physically destructive event. There have been an increasing number of household lithium battery fires, usually starting from electric scooters, electric power tools, computer equipment, and mobility "go-fers" - but in nearly every case, faulty charging was the initiator. A few cases involved poor quality batteries. I'm very alert to small chargers containing voltage transformers, such as phone chargers - these often run uncomfortably hot to my way of thinking, and I never leave them unattended. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-08/lithium-batteries-sparking-house-fires-wa/105629032

Well, that's one Hyundai you won't be fixing the engine on. Luckily it was high kms. Now comes the wrangle with the insurance company over the fine details in the PDS? Such as, only being covered when it's parked in your postcode?

Sounds like the DOGE team found a new target, when they couldn't find the trillions in savings they promised, by dismantling large sections of the U.S Govt?

There's a vast number of magazines and publications that are no longer available in print form. The cost of printing and transport of the printed publication is enormous, especially when it has to be transported halfway around the the Earth. Think of the saving in trees and transport pollution when you sit down at your laptop or desktop and read the digital version of Kitplanes. Fully 99% of transactions with business and Govt and banking are now digital. It does make it hard for the oldies, and the Luddites who detest change in entire systems. The world is constantly changing.

The simple problem with aircraft is that you don't have the luxury of lots of time to do fault-finding, or to think at length about what may be going wrong. Seconds count, in almost every case of flight upset.

No, the shadow is correct, and the photos are genuine. Here's the link to the original photo site, and you can get the original photo size by left clicking on it, plus you can get the Canon camera photo metadata simply by scrolling down the page. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000525654.html

We are talking multiple flight control computers on the Airbus, and they runs 10's of thousands of lines of code continuously. These computers also check and cross-check the information feed from the multiple sources of information. They also check on each other to ensure reliability of information being provided. This is all done by coding, and coding is basically only ones and zeros in an electronic system (the binary system). When someone writes up new code for an "improved version" of software, it is supposed to be removing "bugs" from the previous version. However, as we all know, software updates are notorious for introducing other "bugs", while the update cures previous "bugs". If the software update was not tested extensively enough, it's entirely possible the update introduced system weaknesses when faced with intense solar radiation, that were not present in the previous software version. Intense solar radiation is essentially an EMF event - whereby a major burst of electromagnetic energy can cause unwanted electronic response. Remember how you can get fluoro tubes to glow without a plugged-in power source, simply by holding them close to HV powerlines? The fluoros are energised by the intense magnetic field surrounding the HV powerlines. So, accordingly, an intense burst of EMF from a solar flare can induce unwanted electric currents in electronic devices, and this can scramble the computers binary system/s as the electronics get rattled. Don't forget radiation levels are already much higher at RPT flight levels, and therefore the intensity of solar flare EMF's is much greater than we would receive on the surface of the Earth. I don't think AB are BS'ing on this, but perhaps they are struggling to get a handle on what happened precisely, when the inadvertent flight control actions were carried out on the Airbus involved in the flight upset. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/113684/why-did-the-airbus-a320-pitch-down-due-to-solar-radiation-recently-when-a-corru

Let me know how you go, trying to find that "carbon-neutral fuel derived from microalgae", bowser! - anywhere! The Japanese Govt has thrown about $3B into research into alternative fuels, trying to get away from fossil fuels, and become independent as regards their transportation fuels - but despite promising to deliver on large and reliable alternative sources, such as methane hydrate fuels, bio-fuels, hydrogen fuel, LPG-derived fuels, and a dozen other wild ideas - nothing they have done so far, has promise, as regards delivering large quantities of alternative IC fuels at modest cost. Meantimes, the battery research and developments continue on at a sizzling pace - and most of it, is coming from China.

The Mazda Vision X-Coupe is a gimmicky prototype, and it will never make it to the production stage. Car companies spend hundreds of millions on ideas like this, then throw it all in the bin, when it proves to not be practical.

.....ersatz beef, also known as "fake meat", which enrages the average red-meat-eating, manly man. However, when the fake meat is dressed up like Tony in a wig, this brings out the very worst in the meat-lovers, and it has been known for them to attack displays of fake meat products in shops, which then leads to..........

People that have learned English as a second language tend to use the term "pilot" for "driver". Variations of the word “pilot” mean “race car driver” in several other languages like French (pilote) or Spanish (piloto). The more common term for French motorcycle riders is "motards" - which word is also used as the French general description of motorcycles. Of course, there's always, "le conducteur" as a better term, too! Don't a lot of RPT Captains refer to themselves as "bus drivers"? And then there's the horror that so many aviation terms originate from French - and French was even shortlisted in 1951, by the ICAO, as the language of the air! https://www.tennesseeaircraft.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mind-Your-Aviation-Language-French-Words.pdf

I believe this is the crashed aircraft ... https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1403532354035011

This is terrible news. 2025 is going to go down as a dreadful year for light aircraft crashes in Australia. 2024 was a really bad year with 27 fatalities, 2025 must have exceeded that figure already. There were 16 fatalities from 12 crashes up to the end of July, and there have been a serious number of crashes and fatalities, since then.

The ABC News article is most certainly centred around just the effect on Jetstar, and it's not an aviation technical report, and it ignores all the other affected airlines. Jetstar are most affected because they own around 90 A320's - but only 34 of the Jetstar A320's are affected by the recall. Virgin only own 4 A320's affected by the recall, and were able to work around those aircraft being pulled from operations for the software revamp. Qantas are not affected, as none of their aircraft are covered by the recall.

Don't forget! - they use piles of cardboard boxes for the stuntmen to land in, when they make those fabulous leaps, from the tops of big buildings!

Here's an ABC news article regarding the problem. Jetstar has had about 90 flights grounded. The repair involves a software update that takes about 2 hrs - but as always, a shortage of qualified LAMEs is a big part of the problem, that is causing delays. The software "update" actually involves reverting to the previous version of the aircrafts computer programming. It appears the latest software update installed was unable to cope with the solar flares. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-29/jetstar-flights-grounded-delayed-due-to-airbus-a320-recall/106081408

As I understand it, the BOM was dead-set on setting up the new site purely due to major security concerns surrounding the old site. The old site apparently runs on Linux and some "bad actors" (in the form of potential enemy countries) had been infiltrating the old site to garner a lot of useful, easily accessible information, about the stats and conditions of many things in Australia, related to water, and even geography. Not a lot of people know that the BOM site contains water reservoir information across all States, with detailed information on locations, reservoir names, reservoir capacities, water level heights and percentages of capacity, as well as other useful information to any "bad actor" planning any kind of enemy assault on our country. Not a lot different to the Japanese who did covert surveillance of Australias geographic features and facilities in the late 1930's. https://www.bom.gov.au/water/dashboards/#/water-storages/summary/state