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.......Cappy", which made a lot of the audience gasp. This was because "doing a Cappy" was something that was usually only talked about in whispers, and it was due to the fact this involved human behaviour that was about as low as it could be dragged through the mud, thanks to his.......

Yes, my apologies Kevin, I couldn't find any information on the Jabiru VDO tacho when I first went looking for it - apart from a U.S. site with a 3500 RPM UMA tacho, that states it's for a Jabiru.

https://www.chiefaircraft.com/uma-19-819-105.html

Then, an hour later, after much more searching, I found much more info and photos on the Jab tacho, so I corrected my post accordingly. I'm still of the opinion the VDO tacho supplied by Jabiru, is a bit deficient for an aircraft tacho.

I personally find the failure rate of todays VDO gauges far higher than it was 20 yrs ago, and I've fitted quite a few replacement gauges over many years.

I'm in agreement with Turbo in his last post in the following thread ...

You can source 4000 RPM tachos fairly easily, but be aware these are more likely to designed for truck and industrial diesel engine use. An aircraft tacho should always be more detailed, as regards RPM markings, as compared to a regular industrial or truck tacho. I must say I'm a bit surprised at Jabirus choice of a tacho, they look pretty ordinary for an aircraft tacho.

I would most certainly take Kevins advice, a sensor failure is much more of a likelihood, than a tacho failure.

There's useful VDO tacho fault information in the thread below ....

The video is pretty useless, due to poor depth perception, thanks to massive levels of zoom. Any aircraft looks like its floating, from that distance.

......bureaucrats they really were, and how much of a threat they posed to the Queanbeyan Council, if any of them were ever elected to a council seat. 

"It's appalling to think what these PAD-regulation writers would do to our smooth-running council operations if they ever got in here, in numbers!", said Councillor June Daltonby Smythe-Feltonborough.

"They would overwhelm us with 2,000 more regulations, than we already have now! - and the 1,000 regulations and by-laws we have now, is keeping us very busy, making amendments and enforcing them! The extra numbers of regulations means they would all be largely ignored by the council constituents - and they'd also be unenforceable!!"

"Hush now", said Mayor Alphonsus Cuddingly-Bogthwaite. "We can easily handle more regulations if we simply put on more staff to deal with them, and print more educational material for the constituents! What else is a council structure for, but to.......

You can also get flame-resistant shirts from Workwear suppliers - not necessarily all in fluoro colour designs - but wearing a fluoro shirt might be an advantage if you crash in vegetation and you really want to be found by rescuers.

https://www.hicraftsafety.com.au/products/flame-retardant-workwear/flame-retardant-shirts?ads_cmpid=8104666930&ads_adid=84845911878&ads_matchtype=b&ads_network=g&ads_creative=408095988361

Marty, I cringe when I look at what Gyro Girl wears in the cabin, and hate to think how much she'd suffer in a crash - just the same as I think, when I see motorcycle riders wearing minimal clothing.

You can buy flame-retardant cotton drill trousers from Workwear retailers, that I'd consider as being acceptable leg wear in an aircraft, for some degree of fire protection.

https://www.workwearhub.com.au/products/dnc-patron-saint-flame-retardant-drill-pants-navy?variant=34354617974923&currency=AUD

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Hard to argue with official stats. But I have seen lots if photos of crashed LSA’s and don’t remember any where there was a fire. 

Here is just one recent RA crash where the aircraft lost power, clipped a powerline, then crashed into trees, and caught fire. The pilot died, and the passenger was taken to hospital with severe burns.

I seem to recall this passenger later died from his burns.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-05/gold-coast-light-plane-crash-jacobs-well/12122992

...... Programmes, which was designed by CASA to cope with the expected huge increase in electric recreational flying machines (because "aircraft" no longer suffices as a description), such is the coming explosion in personal airborne devices (to be known as PAD's of course), that would otherwise shortly overwhelm the air traffic authorities, unless proactive steps are taken).

A CASA spokesperson was quoted as saying - "We see many opportunities in the near future, to restrict and control and legislate for these PAD's, which must not be allowed to proliferate willy-nilly, otherwise........

The chances of a post-crash fire for large passenger transport aircraft is 20%, reports the FAA. The chances of a post-crash fire for light aircraft under 5700kgs is much higher again, but there are no percentage figures that I can currently find.

I would expect that post-crash fire figure, for under 5700kg, is at least 30%. Recreational aircraft would also certainly come in with a higher post-crash fire figure again - although the position of fuel tanks would have a bearing on this. 

https://skybrary.aero/articles/light-aircraft-post-crash-fires

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I'm not sure how much difference pants would make.

It makes a sizeable difference, the instructor was correct. Even if you aren't on fire yourself, the pants offer a sizeable level of protection against radiated heat from a fire.

For a range of small fasteners suitable for non-critical applications, I found the company below have a good range of small automotive fasteners, and they're quite satisfactory to deal with as a company.

https://www.jnsfasteners.com.au/

....hunt for the now-scarce Whitefeather birds?  We of the Fugawi Tribe (the close relatives of the Hekawi Tribe) need help with tracking animals today, and who else is best equipped to help us, than Corporal Agarn and those fine men of F Troop? In fact, we couldn't have survived this well without........

(and here we have Chief Wild Eagle discussing with his offsider Crazy Cat, the next best route to take, to get F Troop completely lost again ....)

.....like rolling dice, whilst riding in the Gravitron Show ride. Speaking of Show rides, once the Chinese learnt that Australia had some of the best Show rides in the world, they abandoned their invasion, and lined up at the Gumly Gumly Agricultural Show, to try out all the rides on offer.

"This is better than any simulator training!", cried Captain Sum Tin Wong. "I failed most of my sim rides, but these Show rides will give me a better opportunity to understand when I'm right way up, or wrong way down, and this will lead me to become a better..........

....made by their Mullah, Sheik Mohammed Al Rasheed Bin Saud, who insisted that they weren't going anywhere until they had all faced Mecca, and prayed 5 times on their prayer mats - because it was Friday.

Khalid, whose hearing wasn't the best, thought the Mullah had said "face Macca's" and went looking for the location of the nearest Macca's on Google Maps. When the others saw him fiddling with his smartphone, they all wanted to know what he was looking at. "I'm looking for the nearest Macca's", he said.

"Macca's! Did you say they have Macca's here?" said Achmed. "No-one told me they had Macca's in Australia! This must surely be Heaven! And are there 72 virgins there, too?" he cried.

"I don't know about Macca's - I don't think there's any virgins left in this country at all", said Khalid dubiously. "You do know the Americans have been here before us, don't you, and they..........

I'm afraid I fail to understand what the bloke with the Super STOL in the video was actually trying to do? If you're going to fly right at stall speed, you'd better be almost on the ground, or at 1000 feet. That rapid wing drop has killed a lot of people when it happens at low altitude.

.....bull and his followers all started utilising as beanies, such was the oversize fit of the socks. "This'll do, anyway, for camouflage and warmth against the bitter Lesser Victorian cold!" he said (because we all know how bad the Greater Victorian cold can be, and the Lesser Victorian cold is twice as cold).

"Now, all we need is some decent weaponry against the Chinese invasion!" cried bull, as he scrounged around the abandoned Lesser Victorian huts and sheds abandoned by the general population when they heard the Chinese were coming.

"I've got a better idea!", said CT (because CT had earlier flown down from Darraweit Guim when he heard his Southern aviation mate was in serious trouble). "We don't need real firearms, I can produce a good loud 'BANG!' from my exhaust with an ignition switch-off on descent, and then switching on again - and the Chinese will think we've got heavy armanent on the Thrusters, and they'll take to their heels, once they think they've got the whole.......

Ouch! That landing is a bit rough on his chest area! I think they need to arrange it, so that Superman actually lands on his feet! - as he always does!

At the mention of FOUR EYES, the eavesdropping Chinese became enraged. This was all the information they needed to prove to the world that the Ostlalians held the Chinese in great contempt, by referring to them regularly as FOUR EYES - a term usually used for the reportedly-myopic Japanese, during WW2.

"It is time we launched the entire Chinese Navy and proceeded through the Nine-Dash Line, into the Pacific Ocean, and asserted our long-held claim (dating back to 1100AD) to every parcel of land and water South of China!", shouted Admiral Dong Jun. "It is time we took back what is rightfully ours!"

At this statement, and with the Chinese Navy movements being noted, great alarm was being registered in...........

My apologies, a Saturday morning brainfart, confusing ATSB and CASA. 

Don't you just love the way CASA wash their hands of any further investigation or pursuit of aviation laws/regulations infringements - because of funding allocations?

It appears you need to have a pilots licence to be pursued by them, because they never stopped spending millions to ensure they nailed that major flying criminal, John Quadrio.

Nev, it was a design doomed to failure largely due to the manufacturer being forced to use the highly unreliable Continental inverted V12 XIV-1430 engines, which ran at a higher-than-normal operating temperature to try and increase the power output. The Continental inverted V12 was prone to fires as a result, and an engine fire destroyed the only flying prototype of the XP-67 Moonbat.

In addition, the amount of effort put into streamlining and fairings did not produce the level of performance promised - and only equalled the other, "regular design" military aircraft of the era.

The aircraft designers also entered into areas of aerodynamic instability with the streamlining, which was likely not fully understood until decades later, and only counteracted by electronic stability controls of our modern electronic era.

The Moonbat also suffered badly from Dutch Roll, and it had undesirable handling qualities as it approached stall speed, which led test pilots to decline spin testing, as they suspected the aircraft would develop an unrecoverable spin, if spin testing was tried.

So - despite looking like something that would be a world-beater in design, the Moonbat was really only an interesting design exercise that failed to deliver what it promised - even though the looks promised something out of 50 years into the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XP-67

Marty, that sounds like an entirely satisfactory plan to me, but the durability of constant flexing being applied to the Bunnings gloves would warrant some checking. I'd be looking at some better quality welding gloves.

Well, that whole episode looks like a lawyers picnic. I guess there's only so much you can do to enforce aviation regulations and laws. But as the Barry Hempel case showed, you can cheerfully fly in Australia without a pilots licence, and sporting major medical issues, that would ground anyone lesser, and no serious action is taken, if you have the right personality. 

Marty, Google "Rubber control boot", "Transmission shift boot", "gear lever shift boot", "gear shift boot", and click on "images", and go from there.