danny_galaga

Like I say. Apparently you have to land this plane 'semi wheeler'. This is not your grandad's Cub ☺️

Apparently the pilot is ok, had to go to hospital though This plane is a handful and lots of people commenting on that landing. But I've heard, maybe from here, that the 'semi wheeler' approach is pretty much the only way it can be done. That still undercarriage design doesn't help.

Took a friend, visiting from Newcastle for a fly around Boonah today. He has a ppl but hasn't flown in nearly 20 years.

Luckily my airfield, Boonah is well maintained. There are landing fees. If you have a plane hangared there you pay a yearly 'club' fee. That's not the word, but it escapes me right now, might be something like Boonah Airfield Association or something. But there are a few random locals agitating to close it down. So it survives in ten year blocks as far as I can tell.

I have broached that subject with a couple of guys at the hangar, and both are happy to oblige. In fact virtually everyone in the hangar I reckon would help. But there's no point in doing a prac if i.have no grip on the theory. I have grown up without the skill of asking for help. I have now downloaded the course that moneybox pointed to. I'll see if that helps me get going again.

The big problem I'm having is the local school closed several years ago. The CFI was great and anytime you wanted some refresher he was only too happy to oblige. While I now have over 50 hours logged on my own plane, I know I need some refreshers. I barely scraped through my last BFR, at a different school, which was bitter sweet because he basically implied he didn't want to see me again. Knowing that does not make me feel clever. In fact i often wonder if I'm special needs and everything around me is just busy work for me. I mean, does a special needs person know? So I've got a double problem of finding it hard to study nowadays, AND no local instructor. If I only had one problem or the other I might be ok. Building and flying my own plane should make me feel pretty clever, but I'm constantly sad about how difficult the nav theory is for me, something pretty much any 16 year old can do. My father did navigation as a fisherman and he left school in equivalent of grade 8. But he was super smart (just not academic) and he had a family to feed.

56. I first learnt to fly at about 27. Then left it for several decades.

I built my plane for the fun of building it. I’ve put about 50 hours on it, flying a few friends around the local area, enjoying the scenery. But I’ve never done my navs, and I’m now going through the PPE course. And I realise I’m not cut out for the full deal. 30 years ago, yes. I did one nav and did ok, but ran out of money and steam. But now, I can’t absorb anything easily, and I feel it might be dangerous to continue. All the info just swirls around in my head, but I’m not absorbing it. My skills are very iterative, so for instance I would be good at freeform sculpture. A current project involves making a custom case for a games console. I build it as the ideas come to me, no plan. But I’m looking at this course, and it’s stuff I did have some understanding of years ago, but not enough that it’s like ‘riding a bicycle’. All my flying up until now has been very ‘organic’. Is the local weather good? yes? No? If yes, go for a pootle. If no, probably still go for a pootle and scare myself silly. Luckily I don’t do that all that often, but the few times I’ve done it made me wonder if I have the right kind of sense for this hobby. So, this is a crossroads. If I give it all in, at least my house repayments will drop with the extra in the offset. And of course all the associated costs means more towards the mortgage repayments. Ponderin’ time.

Only just noticing this thread now (I think, memory like a sieve 😄) There's too many pages to go through, but in the first few. Someone mentioned getting charged for a touch and go. That actually seems reasonable to me, as you have literally used the airfield. What's the legal status of that?

33,330 ft. While not exactly a crash as such, the rabbit hole brought me to this the other night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović Apparently she got pinned inside the fuselage and rode it all the way down, hitting the slope of a wooded mountainside 😮

Willowbank, Qld. I've passed it very rarely, this time someone else was driving so I took some pics from the road. Pilot name, I assume was Nilsson. Was hoping it was my old CFI. I guess this is to do with Amberley? Looking a bit unloved 😞

Oops, my bad. Didn't read very carefully. This is why I'm not an auto electrician anymore 😄

Edit: My one and Skippys are for two different era 912, so you have to determine which you need. I bought this brand before and they seem to be holding up ok: UL FLIGHT LINE TEMP SENDER 150C M10X1.5 T-6 T-3

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Definitely worth knowing. Mine takes 90 seconds for the engine to stop. There's actually no reason to ever turn mine off, still you never know if someone's had a fiddle.

Handy to know. But she's all good. I've achieved a big reduction already. Where I suspect it might be coming in on the door frame seems to have had a smaller gap to start anyway. If I want to continue, I think I'd look at how I could seal the tail wheel gap. Not easy of course because it needs to flex.

I'm interested in getting 90% of the way there for a few minutes work. And also to not make it look like ass. If it looks really hokey I'll never have a problem with people feeling queezy, because they'll never board the plane 😄 😇

My thoughts exactly. It would be ballz

Not a bad idea. The only thing is it took me X amount of effort to get 90% there, but that last 10% would probably take X² effort 😄

Have a look at the door. She's a wibbly wobbly sculpture 😄 . The gap varies from say 0mm to 10mm. Obviously over 6mm is still not sealed, but it is reduced. If I were to run 6mm closed cell, it would actually be impossible to close the door, since compressing 6mm closed cell down to 0mm is Schwarzenegger territory 😇

I deliberately used open cell because the gap varies a lot around the edge of the doors. With closed cell, the doors would be impossible to close. It's about $7 a roll. If I have to replace it once a year it's no big deal.

Yes. Don’t have the packet here, but i THINK it’s this one. One roll for each door https://www.bunnings.com.au/moroday-6-x-19mm-x-5m-white-econo-weatherseal-tape_p4061865

I can't remember where the hell I put my thread about stopping co ingress in my plane. But here's the latest. I put light open cell weather strip around the door edges. The doors on the Bushcat are not a brilliant fit so the gap varies a lot. Using 6mm open cell allows for a high tolerance. And it seems to have worked. The amount I can smell is a LOT less. Nev pointed out a lot of planes pull fumes up via the opening near the tail wheel. That would be my next point of attack. But the doors were a lot easier to do 😄

I mistyped. It was Eastern Airlines. Did you notice in the interview, they show the original plane she worked in, hanging in the Smithsonian 🙂

This is Doris Self. I learnt about her from the documentary King of Kong. Which is about trying to break the world record of Donkey Kong. It's a ripper of a movie. I've shown it to people who had reservations about it because they weren't interested in videogames. They loved it. It transcends videogames. Sadly she died in a car crash not long after this interview 😞 Anyway, she has relevance in this thread for two reasons - she got really great at something late in life. Also, she was the first air hostess for East West Airlines 😊