danny_galaga

That sums up the whole of human history

The pilot doing the check flight was one of my instructors, Shane Whitbread. I only learnt about it years later as I had moved from Darwin five years previously. I read that after that accident, that procedure became a simulator test only. From what you guys are saying, it should never have been a test procedure in the first place.

Good heads up, but this is not a few minutes extra work. When I finished building my plane, I turned to page 1 of the manual and then went through every page of it. I checked every single bolt, nut split pin etc that I had placed, page by page. After each page, I dated it so that there could be no doubt in my mind that I had checked it. It actually took me weeks to do this. In the end, I found one split pin that hadn't been bent, on an aileron. I always bend them a tad, just enough for it to stay in place, if it's a part that needs adjusting. So on a first flight I'm confident it probably would have stayed, but clearly I screwed up. I was both happy there was only one thing I left unfinished, but dismayed I left ANYTHING unfinished. So yes, it only took a minute to rectify the problem. But it took weeks to find.

One pleasing aspect when my plane was finally inspected by the lame is that he found very few things I had to revisit. He told me he's seen more problems with some factory built aircraft. I was quite chuffed about that 😊

Look at you with your fancy cabin heat!

Looks like the LA plane was actually on (a very long) final. He might have been able to divert to the road parallel to the runway (I'll allow that!) but he might have still hit wires.

Bloody hell, that's more than recovering a plane 😲

Christ on a stick! Looks like they need to build a few airstrips in the middle of LA too 😄. A few because LA is freakin HUGE.

And before you disconnected it? It does like there's a wiring issue somewhere as others have said.

Sometimes I wonder if you are a Turing test. I'm on the verge of thinking you are a computer 😄 On serious note, Darwin as you know, basically grew AROUND the airport. That is some pretty desirable land.

For sure. Just seems like there are ONLY public roads for people to land on in a country about the size of Australia. Hence I think they should just build airstrips in the middle of every town and city there 😄

Yet another landing on a road, with just the gods preventing injury and death to people on the ground

If you've disconnected one lead of the capacitor, you've disconnected the capacitor. It's mostly there for your radio. How does your radio sound now?

I know only a tiny amount about injection moulds, and I imagine theses rubber moulds would be somewhat similar. What I do know is most moulds don't last forever. They wear out. It's certainly possible this same cap has been made exactly the same for 30 years (my engine is from about 2020) and it's even possible that the mould in question had just been made in 1990 or so and has lasted thirty years. I still like to think it's a modern mould and it's just snobbery from the richer part of the country 😄

Like I say, it's at another level in the US.