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  1. danny_galaga
    This is where you reduce your odds, and buy a Rotax filter from a reputable aircraft parts supplier, and not from Hellokitty99 on eBay with a 96% rating.
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    Damn, exactly as I described, except the back alley is in Pakistan!
  3. danny_galaga
    There are a number of important features in a device like an oil filter that can be comparable to the USB chargers. That is to say, you can make them LOOK legit, when they are not. One of the most important of those is how the can is crimped onto the base. It could be done by a modern high spec machine, or a busted arsed 70 year old Soviet piece of shit in a back alley in Vietnam and they could LOOK the same to you and me. Im not a LAME or industrial engineer so I'll be paying that extra $20 ro-tax each year.
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    You KNOW that we agree on the rip off nature of Rotax parts that are made elsewhere. But this is one of those cases where I would rather pay a little more to have Rotax written on the part, which imparts a guarantee that they deem it safe for use. Unless I can explicitly determine that some other brand is the exact same thing, and not just LOOKS the same, I'm happy paying an extra $20 a year or so. Unrelated to Rotax, but I've posted this article before on the perils of assuming something is exactly the same just because it looks the same, or the makers CLAIM it's the same: https://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-apple-is.html
  5. danny_galaga
    If $36 is expensive to you, you may be in the wrong hobby 😇
  6. danny_galaga
    Rotax filters are cheap. Just get that.
  7. danny_galaga
    What a stupid headline. Hydrogen is not water. The plane isn't carrying water on board and converting it. It's carrying hydrogen. That headline is just to make you click it, because of that stupid urban legend of the guy who invented a water powered car, but 'they' paid him out. Still has pull decades later. The other problem is making hydrogen. It takes a lot of energy. Best to just use bio diesel if you want 'green fuel'.
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    Still, when you watch the video and see how they were kinda meshed together, it's a wonder at least one of the pilots didn't just hit the other plane. Some things you just can't train for.
  9. danny_galaga
    That sums up the whole of human history
  10. danny_galaga
    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.
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    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.
  12. danny_galaga
    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 😊
  13. danny_galaga
    Look at you with your fancy cabin heat!
  14. danny_galaga
    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.
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    Bloody hell, that's more than recovering a plane 😲
  16. danny_galaga
    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.
  17. danny_galaga
    And before you disconnected it? It does like there's a wiring issue somewhere as others have said.
  18. danny_galaga
    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.
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    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 😄
  20. danny_galaga
    Yet another landing on a road, with just the gods preventing injury and death to people on the ground
  21. danny_galaga
    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?
  22. danny_galaga
    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 😄
  23. danny_galaga
    Like I say, it's at another level in the US.
  24. danny_galaga
    Note to self: make sure my first few navs are not near the south pole 😄
  25. danny_galaga
    The clue is in the destination. Americans are some of the unhappiest and most anxious people in the world. This leads to 1) lots of violent people 2) lots of self medicating people via drug and alcohol abuse. The way to reduce both 1 and 2 is to have a more equitable society. One where people aren't afraid to go on holidays in case their job is gone when they come back. Where you don't automatically get frog marched out the front door by security if you get fired. Where a working class person doesn't end up having to declare personal bankruptcy because they broke their leg Etc etc. To be fair, all countries have some level of problem, but the US is on another level. It blows my mind how many people there lap it up thinking they're living the good life If the US tomorrow suddenly had proper Medicare and social security, Columbian drug barons would go broke 😄
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