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I trust this isn't going to become the Elephant in the room.

KC - You should have hired a 3 tonne Hino Hybrid.

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This video might explain the high aviation crash rate in Alaska?? They think they're on a stage entertaining an audience, when they really should be flying their aircraft, and keeping a particularly good lookout?

M16A1 - How does the level of progress at todays 68 year stage, compare to the progress at the 27 year stage? I mean to say, we still have wire strikes, but are they reducing in number?

Don't ya just hate it, when the wheels fall off, just as you're about to land??

Interesting take on driverless automation, here ...

[/url]https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/06/02/self-driving-cars-will-kill-people-heres-why-you-need-to-get-over-it/

I can always remember one adviser stating that golf courses are the worst place to pick for an emergency landing, despite their inviting appearance - because they are full of sand traps, hollows and humps, and rarely offer a long smooth area for landing, unless you're dead lucky enough to find a long, smooth driving range.

Turbo - Will an American-based insurance company insure a private person within America, whose regular domicile is in Australia? I would have though that American domicile would have been required.

There are no standard travel insurance policies offered by Australian Insurance companies that will cover you as hirer and pilot of a light aircraft.

You are best advised to contact an insurance broker who can then advise which company would be prepared to take the insurance risk.

If the broker finds a company who would insure the risk, it would be a special policy just for your circumstances, and you would have to outline every detail of what you proposed to do.

The premium would likely be quite high, as flying light aircraft is regarded as an extremely high risk activity by insurance companies. You would also need to specify exactly what you want covered.

The company may elect to cover you for personal death or injury as a result of private flying (as passenger or pilot), but decline to insure any risk associated with claims against you for loss of the aircraft whilst under your control, or claims arising from death or injury to your passengers, whilst you were in control of the aircraft.

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At anytime I reserve the right to run into a dead end ..

Maybe that's actually what happened to Bex?

Maybe the landlord tore up his factory lease agreement?

Maybe he's been sent to a re-education camp because he was deemed a person of poor character, simply because he wanted to design a cheap ultralight - on his own?

Maybe his wife left him, his dog ran off, and someone stole his pickup truck?? - and he's turned his hand to country music, instead of aircraft??

Jack - It's available online, in the link below. It appears to be written for FAA rules only.

[/url]https://archive.org/details/BobGardnerSayAgainPlease

As far as Uberplanes flying all over Melbourne in every direction rushing people to the airport, taking them home, if you’ve ever flown, or planned to fly into Tullamarine, remember that fateful transmission; “Requesting airways clearance”. Now multiply that by thousands and see how long the queue is.

I wonder where the hoverbike fits in here? Anyone with any current knowledge or info, on how the Hoverbike is going with the Dubai Police? Have they accidentally/on purpose, decapitated any speeders in Dubai, yet?

@ev17ifly2 - Did you read, "turban air taxis"?? It actually read, "urban air taxis".

The market for transporting humans around cities could be worth $674bn by 2040, according to a 2018 study by bank Morgan Stanley ..

Ching-Ching!!!! The Corporates eyes must have gleaming dollar signs in them.

Macca's in Midland, W.A., had a DC-3 in their yard for kids to play on, for years and years, back in the '70's and '80's. Then it was "rescued" - but it still ended up in another blokes garden! - in Myalup.

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https://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/classic-dc3-completes-aviation-enthusiasts-plane-collection-ng-b88751633z

I've only ever gone to court once, over a speeding fine - and I lost. But the Judge was quite sympathetic and agreed I should take my complaint to the Roads Authority that was in charge of placing signage (my argument centred around inaccurate and misplaced signage. The Roads Authority promptly amended the placement of the signage, after I'd paid my fine).

Funnily enough, the copper who booked me was a jibbering, stuttering, stammering mess, when he presented his evidence. I thought it was going to be the other way around.

What about the sheepskin seatbelt pads? Are they illegal, too? My missus demands them, she reckons the seatbelts cut into her.

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I don't remember it, which is surprising as I was 13 yrs old at the time, and living not all that far West of Pearce airbase, and I can remember Vampires roaring overhead.

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http://www.adf-serials.com.au/dfs/The-Red-Sales.pdf

Does this mean, I may now be refused boarding, if I want to fly with my emotional support crocodile??

I've seen blokes walking around with pet rats on their shoulder. I wonder how the emotional support fox terrier would go, when he spotted a large rat on board?!

I don't mind animals, and I get along with virtually all of them - but I get a bit fed up with pet owners expecting all others to fawn over, or be accepting of, their pets.

I especially dislike people dragging their pets along to major events such as markets or shows. It must be very stressful for the pets, being surrounded with thousands of strange people, and all towering over them.

What about people flying, who are very fearful of animals? There's a lot of people fearful of dogs.

In any other situation, people can avoid and skirt around animals they're fearful of, but in a commercial aircraft with people crammed in like sardines, there's nowhere to go for them.

The idea is sound in principle - but it does have its limitations and potential issues. What happens when a passenger or driver fails to fasten their seatbelt (not unusual, quite a percentage of crash victims are not wearing their seatbelts).

If there are multiple numbers of people in a crashed vehicle, the emergency responders then have to try and figure out which person belongs to which seat - as victims are sometime not in the position they originally occupied.

A better and simpler idea is wearing a bracelet or wristband, which has less chance of becoming separated from the victim, thus leading to confusion.

The MedicAlert bracelet is well-known and well-understood, it can include all relevant medical/assistance info needed.

Actually, hair dryers, and electric motors in general, have a very much higher reliability rate than IC engines.

The greatest single reason why hairdryers die, is because they become blocked with household/bathroom fluff and this makes them overheat and cook themselves.

The second reason why hairdryers die, is because they are built in the cheapest manner possible, with a race to the bottom for cheapness of construction - and they add "unrepairability" to the design, with one way screws, and rivets instead of screws.

The idea of smaller, multiple electric motors driving props or ducted fans is quite a satisfactory idea. It reduces the chances of total power failure to nearly zero. However, more research will have to be done, as regards fast battery recharge rates.

I see the air congestion, and flight planning, and ATC logistics, as being the greatest stumbling block to their air taxi ideas. Then there's the reluctance of the general public to travel in new-fangled devices where the crash risk is potentially higher than other forms of travel (although I've ridden with some taxi drivers, who have raised my chances of sudden death, to levels far above the cheapest and dodgiest ultralight).

IMO, the air taxi idea will take off (pun intended) - but much more slowly than the pundits try to make out. The major obstacles are still there (battery energy levels and weight, recharge times, ATC issues) - they are high, and they will take considerable time to work through, and to find satisfactory and acceptable solutions to them. I believe "community consultation" to meet general approval, is one area they will also have to work on.

Are the crew of a military aircraft court-martialled for losing their aircraft like the captain of a naval vessel is?

And in other news.....a popular law firm followed the emergency vehicles and has assisted Farmer Dave of Maclagan in launching legal proceedings against the ADF for the mental anguish suffered because his beer was no longer ice cold after the power was interupted.

There there's obviously the, "pasture damage created by the unauthorised landing", which will need to be measured and assessed by a fully qualified person. This will no doubt impact seriously on milk production for the foreseeable future.

Let alone the added nervous shock to Farmer Dave, caused by trespass of a large number of unauthorised military personnel, leading him to believe a North Korean invasion was under way, and forcing him to take shelter in his nuclear bunker.

Of course, the lawyers will have to spend much more time (measured in 15 minute charge time sections), assessing the full impact of the intrusion, which shattered the peaceful calm of Mossy Hollow, and which possibly also has severe quarantine implications, leading to further calculations of more extensive agricultural losses.

It's a highway, frequented by road traffic - that comes and goes randomly and suddenly. Previously-unseen vehicles could pull out onto the highway from a track in the scrub, near the "runway", just as you decided it was safe to put down.

Accordingly, the highway traffic use has to be regulated if incoming aircraft need to land, and traffic control initiated to avoid conflict. I thought that would be a fairly obvious condition, to anyone with a degree of "forward thinking"?

In most cases, where a light aircraft pilot decides to do an emergency or precautionary landing on a road or highway, it's quite common for the landing aircraft to hit road vehicles, or other road obstructions.

In many cases, roadside guide posts and/or road signage have to be removed before the aircraft lands, as they are a potential danger to aircraft wings, particularly if the weather conditions are gusty with cross-winds, and departure from the centreline upon landing is likely.

With many of these highway runways, the guide posts and signposts are installed with a quick removal arrangement on their base, so they can be pulled down quickly for aircraft arrival, and re-erected quickly for normal road use.

Many years ago (I think it was around 1985), a former business associate with a PA-28, had engine stoppage due to fuel starvation, supposedly due to a faulty fuel tank selector valve (we suspected operator error, but he was an accomplished liar, so he got away with it).

He put down on the highway between Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie - which although wide enough at the time, didn't have enough wing clearance between the highways sealed section, and the roadside signage.

As he coasted to a halt, he caught a wing on a very substantial piece of roadside signage, and tore the wing off. He had a 13 yr old girl as a passenger, but fortunately, neither he nor his passenger were injured.

A simple bourdon tube gauge certainly eliminates electrical and sender failures - but copper tubes can fracture or split with movement or vibration, and you can lose all your oil.

While an electrical gauge setup may have a higher chance of failing to work, it's probably a better option, as against the risk of additional oil piping that can fail, and dispose your vital oil into the atmosphere.

I'm not privy to the design of Jab oil relief valves, but many engines use a spool-type or plunger-type relief valve with a needle seat that is an improved design over a simple ball-and-spring.

If the Jab oil pressure relief valve design is a simple ball-and-spring, then yes, there's very little chance of a ball sticking, as compared to a spool design.

However spool or plunger designs can stick due to varnish or gums from combustion, from carbon particles, or from tiny metal particles becoming embedded in the clearance gap between the spool or plunger, and the valve body.