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Will check out of it's viable to replace the face. It needs the coloured V ranges too, which I guess people just stick on the glass but it would be nicer on the face itself.
Facthunter, not keen to write numbers on the glass anyway. If I needed to, I would put a little placard next to the ASI with conversions.
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7 minutes ago, facthunter said:
There are set standards used in various countries. Why not just stick to them? There's enough confusion as it is.. Nev
Oh I agree. But I've got lemons to fix other lemons. I have this ASI and its too much hassle to exchange, and who would buy it in Australia? That's why I'm thinking of just using it and being done.
Time to make some lemonade!
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Yep. I guess it's about everyone doing it at the same time. I think Russia and China do metric in their aircraft? Anyway, I've just shot a message to the instructor to see if he would care.
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7 hours ago, AndyPickles said:
I'm a tightwad. ASI are spendy. Nail polish is cheap. Unless you are mixing it up with fast and busy airplanes, no need. Formation flying? Even in loose gaggle flying, our group would be pissed if someone was looking at an ASI than at the planes around them. I'd put a dot of Green nail polish Every 10 knots in the zone you actually operate, and save some money.
I'm starting to lean this way. Just one more thing to decide it for me. I haven't done my navs yet and I was thinking of doing them in my own plane (Ra aus) . Would that matter much? Would it just be up to individual instructors? From memory the ol Jeppesen has ALL the units of measurements used in aviation around the planet didn't it?
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Hmmmm. What about formation flying? I haven't done that endorsement yet, but will. Would it be better to all be in knots there, or is it all purely visual?
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1 hour ago, turboplanner said:
If you get a Tower operator that says "Maintain 90 knots" when you're in a busy circuit you'd need to be snappy with your arithmetic.
Good point. Will swap it for a knts version
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I got a bit of a package deal on some instruments but only just noticed that the ASI is in MPH. I'm guessing there's no specific reason I couldn't use it, other than it would probably irk me the same as if I was driving a LHD car in Australia.
Thoughts?
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On a related note, a couple of bolts for my door latch were too short so I went to my local bolt shop to get something a little longer. They are 8.8 and rather small (maybe 4mm shaft) . I asked if they had some longer ones. They had trouble finding something so asked me what it was off. I told them an ultralight and they ummed and ahhed a bit. They eventually found some Allen head bolts. Maybe 9.8 or summink, and told me theyre not keen to sell if it's an aircraft. But they did anyway. I was going to tell them since it's in the experimental category of aircraft I could make it from rolls of old newspaper and no one would be liable but me. But instead, I've decided from now on I'll just say it's a kit CAR instead 🙂
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8 hours ago, kgwilson said:
Depending on the grade of SS it will also rust and is magnetic. Plated (not Nickel plated) or plain brass is the best.
Very little magnetism though. The instrument panel is held on by about twenty SS screws so I don't think magnetism will be a problem. I admit painting them might be problematic though.
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Might combine those two ideas. Same type of screws as Marty went for, but SS. and then I'll paint em 🙂
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Mix of US and european instruments.
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Heard the CEO of Boost mobile on the radio the other day. He lives in the US now and also flies helicopters. He said there may be a problem in the US but that the term 5g is a broad definition (after all, it just means 5th generation). In particular, the system in Australia and Japan are quite different to the US system so there shouldn't be any problems here.
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Just had the thought that is like to match the screws on my instrument panel. Since done of my instruments didn't come with them off thought I might add well make them all the same. I forgot to check what the size is and want to hear straight to the bike shop from work. Would they all be the same thread? Talking ASI, radio, altimeter, tacho.
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17 hours ago, Ian said:
Nuclear ships may make a comeback. It's not as if it a new idea and shipping generates more CO2 than the entire aviation industry.
Was just thinking about SS savannah yesterday. You have to put aside cost of nuclear and remember why the world is turning away from fossil fuels. Then it could be a viable proposition. Whatever we do, things will get more expensive. Those things only seem relatively cheap now because we aren't counting the cost of damaging the planet.
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Hydrogen- specialised machinery. Heavy transport.
Battery- cars, motorbikes. Some light aircraft.
Oil- shipping, trains, jets.
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1 hour ago, Thruster88 said:
There is a new in original crate 1982 Pterodactyl Ascender 11 for sale on gumtree with engine for 3k. One from the golden era of ultralights😁
How can it be new if it's 'been assembled twice'?
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Just read about Polini engines recently. Freakin cheap as!
https://www.beliteaircraft.com/polini-thor-250-engine-review-the-best-ultralight-engine-weve-seen/
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5 minutes ago, Yenn said:
I went to India in 1984 and saw the Taj Mahal by moonlight, except that I didn't really see it due to the airborn pollution. That pollution was not caused by coal, but by the burning of cow dung by every family in India.
It's coal particulates that causes asthma and death, not cow dung. 1984 is a long time ago.
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1 minute ago, BrendAn said:
Nuclear is the way forward. Probably never happen though.
It would take the government to build it as a utility service not privatised. I don't think any private company would do it because of the time it would take to recoup the cost. And if they did all they care about is profit. I believe power and Water should cover costs only. Get rid of all the grubs feeding off us
Rolls Royce are developing compact nuclear power stations. They will be roughly the size of two football fields in total. They have actually said they would love to build in Australia. Nuclear is not perfect, but Australia had to be about the BEST place in the world to build a nuclear power station.
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1 hour ago, onetrack said:
The true cost of coal needs to be measured in the vast areas of good farmland it destroys, and the lives it takes, and has taken in the past. Coal mining is one of the most destructive styles of mining on the planet, because it doesn't rip up a relatively small area for a lot of intensely valuable product - as we do with gold and lithium and nickel and cobalt.
Coal mining has taken hundreds of thousands of lives in the past, directly in underground mining (and millions more in deaths from air pollution) - now to make it safer, the coal companies only take the relatively shallow coal, which is spread over vast areas.
Yes, soil rehabilitation from coal mining takes place - but the soil structure is so disturbed by mining and replacement, it can never return to its original, valuable and productive structure. Open-cast coal mining destroys and pollutes major water aquifers. There are underground coal fires causing major destruction and pollution. The levels of methane gas released by simply mining the coal, never seems to get a mention.
The major beneficiaries of open-cast coal mining are the huge mining machine manufacturers of America, and the Global Oil corporations. Caterpillar used to make machines for agriculture, now it makes more money out of machines for coal mining, and it produces very little agricultural machinery.
I've been a gold miner, a mining contractor, and a farmer, and I think I have a reasonably balanced view. But way too many politicians are still beholden to Big Coal and Big Oil to see the way forward is not increasing the worlds reliance on coal, but on reducing it - and making sure we utilise that massive amount of free energy that falls on us daily from that big golden orb in the sky.
I detest being held to ransom perpetually by Big Oil and Big Coal. The diversification of our energy sources makes the same sense as the diversification of your income sources.
The Economist reports that in India roughly 112,000 people die each year because of coal pollution.
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Goddam scary is all I can say!
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Mods have fixed the voting now. Those of you with several Ra-aus registered aircraft- one with and one without just vote yes AND no 🙂
If you have MORE than two Ra-aus aircraft well damn! 😄 If none have transponders just vote no, if they all have transponders just vote yes. If some do some don't vote yes AND no.
Derek Liston, I think your vote counts as it's an aircraft that is often registered Ra-aus 🙂
ASI in MPH. Australia. Would you?
in Instruments, Radios and Electronics
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It's true it's important, but I'm starting to tilt towards keeping it. It's no less accurate than the KNTS version in operation after all. When I stick on the operating range decals, that's what I'll be looking at. I guess it's true what Einstein said- "It's all relative" 😄
Also heard back from the instructor, he is fine with flying navs in my plane in MPH.
As part of the deal I got, I have some superfluous instruments so I will gauge interest in the classified section. If I get enough for them, maybe I'll still get a KNTS ASI