danny_galaga

As per topic. I guess one of my main questions is that it seems you need to pay club fees to own a hangar which makes sense because those fees would go towards the airfields upkeep. But what if you are renting? I’d like to think it would be like renting a house- the tenant usually doesn’t pay council rates etc. but is that so?

What other things does one need to consider?

Uber loses money hand over fist because their basic premise is flawed. The self driving cars etc is just to give the investors something to hope for- otherwise they are left with basically a fare subsidising company. Might as well have invested in state transit:oh yeah:

+1 on asking your local flying school

Did you notice one of the planes even had a ‘working ‘ radar!

So how did that work? Didn't you have to get your GA licence current before doing the conversion? I'm in the same boat, 20 years since I flew but itching to get back into it.Mark

Well done Dan - if you're game, there's an empty back seat in my Drifter for ya (still being refurbished at the other end of the 'field at Boonah)

It is rather remiss of me not to give thanks to Dave and the guys at Airsports in Boonah. Great outfit

I’m confused about why this should be an issue. Even a plastic Ryco job on my beach buggie lasted until it was full. Why are aircraftfilters less reliable than car filters?

Welcome aboard

Or more accurately, re-soloed. First time was 20 years ago in a Piper Warrior, about 22 hours. Life got in the way so here I am giving it a more concerted effort. This time in the more nimble Tecnam Golf, and 6.6 hours

Ah! Gotcha.

Yo where tf ? Can people not even take two seconds to spell check a single sentence? That gives me the shtfs!

About Uber . Screw them, they’ll be bankrupt in five years...

Top work mate! As a born and raised territorian myself I have to say I’m glad you didn’t hit a termite mound

Also does this mean you displaced the usual crocodile story on the front page?

Personally I think it depends a lot on what sort of pilot you are, inasmuch as if you are meticulous about scanning gauges every few minutes and are perfect at watching temps on climb then you would be fine with a jab, but if you are like me and operate gear a bit rougher then the rotax with its water cooling is a lot more forgiving!

Ah you have to forgive this noobs loose use of terms! I am talking kits. I don’t think I would go for anything too experimental (I have never been an early adopter). That Suzuki jobbie sounds like a good option for other people. A lot of kits seem to have mounts for jabiru and rotax so although I’d like to hear about what’s out there (for instance D motor) in all likelihood it will boil down to those two. I am doing my RA-aus conversation from GFPT at the moment so already familiar with the 912 in the tecnam the school uses but I haven’t even looked at a jabiru engine let alone flown with one.

Some good points there guys! Another thing I hadn’t thought to list is I guess the jab 2200 only comes as 85 hp whereas you have a 100 hp option with the rotax. I hadn’t thought about the traditional guys but I am guessing the cost and maintenance on a continental would be quite high. Also hadn’t considered the safety feature of a gearbox in regards a prop strike.

Looking at that engine failure report it would be interesting to see what the failure rates of the new jab engines are. But that will take time for the data. I’m not waiting around THAT long to find out

Seems to me the two big contenders for LSA are the Rotax 912 and the Jabiru 2200. What are peoples thoughts on the two? My own thoughts are these:

Rotax 912 seems to have a great reputation for reliability and have quite a few years up their sleeves for fine tuning the design. Jabiru have had some hiccups not long ago but hopefully reliability issues ironed out .

Gear drive apparently adds quite a bit to the cost of the Rotax 912 and I suppose means more parts to wear out. Direct drive on the Jabiru might mean higher fuel consumption inherent in slow-revving design?

Again with simplicity the Rotax seems to have more parts associated with oil and water cooling. But then that seems to me the partial water cooling would reduce the amount of shock cooling on long descents.

Jabiru I imagine should be a fair bit cheaper, being of local manufacture. And it would certainly be nice to buy local.

I think if all things were equal I would prefer a direct drive engine, but of course all things aren't equal. Cost, reliability, simplicity. Different amounts of each in those two motors.

Discuss!

The main question they will be asking is did he fly in controlled airspace and is he licensed to do so?

So today we practiced engine failure in the circuit area. Also, because it was a little more blustery than usual, we did some cross wind practice. But before all that, we practiced something new- herding kangaroos off the runway while taxiing the plane I will need to hone that skill though. They went the wrong way...

Always amusing when politicians claim an investigation is a waste of tax payers money when it’s THEM being investigated

The GM (Detroit Diesels) were two strokes with a supercharger.

Slightly off-topic, but I was once peeking inside a helicopter at Echuca, and the engine instruments looked like they'd been thrown at the panel - nothing was straight, with some instruments up to 45 degrees rotated. It all became clear when I asked the pilot about this; at normal pressures & temps, all the needles should point straight up. This allowed a much quicker check on P's&T's.mal

Here is a clip of the Demoiselle replica for Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Apparently the performance of the original was quite marginal (and Santos Dumont was quite a small man) so it looks like they nailed that aspect of it as well!

As far as I am aware, all the planes in the movie were based on the real deal, bar the Japanese one. The movie is based on the book by Ronald Searle (from memory, easy to google though). I read it in primary school and the illustrations are, well, magnificent

There are some people who think Star Wars is a peep into the future. Just count how many times the laws of physics are broken in that show.

I’ve ticked 45-50 but as I’ve pointed out on other forums is the that the question should be about what year you are born. Your age changes making the poll increasingly inaccurate over time. Make it year and it will remain correct forever :)