Tomo

I would not complain if this happened... :big_grin:

I've just got a Mk 8 Spitfire for mine, and man! if they flew like this one does I want a flight in one soooooooo much!

I had a syndicate Cherokee 140 years ago

couldn't help it! :black_eye:

I think I've shared this on here before, but I've had a very similar thing happen to me to Shag's.

It was on a training flight with the instructor on board and we'd being doing circuits for quite a while, when a visiting aircraft flew in, (with a radio call sign like he was in England or something, but that's another story!).

Anyway about 10 min later he was off again, and we where still bashing circuits the same as before. So nothing knew... Anyway this aircraft obviously started up taxiied to the runway I was using, we could see it all (we're in the Drifter here!!) so I made my turning finals call to let him know I'm there. All is good, he stopped at the runway line, and we thought he was holding for us, (we're on short finals now so fairly easy to see - I thought!?)

Just as we where almost at the threshold this aircraft makes an entering and lining up call and just boldly & proudly drives straight in front of me...................! I jump on the radio, and hit the throttle and he screeched to a holt, while I landed a bit further down the track.

He then got on the radio an was trying to say I didn't radio etc etc... when I said I did radio he didn't agree :black_eye: Problem was, another aircraft in the area heard me....?!

I was all worried then that I'd done something wrong, but I was assured by my instructor and a whole heap of glider pilots that I did the right thing... made for a bit of talk anyway - was a gliding comp day!!

It was a great learning curve for me, both in that you never trust your radio calls... you might make them, but they mightn't hear them...! and another thing I learnt from the other aircraft is LOOKING on finals/downwind before entering a runway isn't a five second glance, you do actually have to look ;)

Hope I haven't bored you all to sleep now!

Like I've said... I carry my phone for the exact same reason as Maj does, to contact the person keeping an eye/ear out for you. Also it beats walking to the nearest farm house if you have an outlanding somewhere to contact someone!

I don't answer it, but can text in flight quite easily, though I don't like doing it so much in the drifter for fear of it dropping out of my hand, and...... gone...!

Thanks Ian.....I hope it adds to the forum..................

Ive got a Gazelle you can ferry to the dump for me.. Nothing but problems since we got it... the engine works, but the rest is :censored:ed..

All the plugs are very similar in appearance,I didnt know you should not mix them up though,thanks for the advice......

Also the 503 I fly does vibrate a bit on the idle stopper... but you bring the rev's up just a tad and it smoothes out.

Nice pics' Ross....

That Seneca 3 has a bent prop though, must of been a hot day!

You just have to rub it in Tomo!

I have now have two brief case type tool boxes I use...

The little small one - about a foot rectangle (if there is such a combination!;) ) comes with me on the aircraft and carries ~

*ERSA

*Pencil

*Rubber

*Pen

*Peal-it stick on stickers (extremely helpful in the drifter, sticking them on the inside of the wind shield out of the wind, Ie. with Radio Frequencies, flight plan info, airfield info etc...)

*Bull dog clip (great for clipping flight plan/info/map on to the wind shield of the drifter)

*WAC/VTC/VNC and I put the ERC in as well for good measure!

*Wallet

*ASIC

In the Jab I add ~

*Flight computer

*Protractor

*Ruler

*Knee board

And in the Bigger case I carry all the non essential 'in-cockpit' junk! Like ~

*RAA Ops Manual

*Log book

*Other area WAC/VTC's etc...

*And what ever else I fancy carrying with me to the airfield!

Other stuff that I usually carry ~

*Mobile phone (I think that is an essential part to safe fun flying for all - I've gotten into the habit of texting take off and landing notices to somebody)

*Water bottle (at least 500ml)

*Camera

*Leatherman ('freestyle' at that!)

*And what ever else I've forgotten!

It packs up to a pretty small little bundle really! :thumb_up:

a few thousand every few years" all about? Average RAA pilot hours are somewhere around 50 hours per year.....

I'd be thinking it would be more than 50 hrs also.... I myself have done that in about 8 months, and I don't even own an aircraft, if I owned an aircraft I think I'd be doing quite a lot of flying a week... (save driving for one) and an after work relaxant!

Then I guess those who can land and fly from our own property do a lot more than average pilots also...

Great video Brett... Thanks!

Gotta love that last landing of the C180!

... Briggs & Stratton ..........

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Diesels are the go, but they are built relatively heavy, to combat the high compression.(please correct me tomo ,if i am leading people up the garden path since your a diesel mechanic)

Diesel would be ideal if we can try and design one strong but light enough for the job, I'm sure they will in the near future...:thumb_up:

You have to consider the prop flow also cooling which ever cylinder more than the other... more noticeable on tractor types though.

If the slide openings are correct it could be the air fuel mixture screw's... if one cylinder is noticeably hotter than the other, (taking into consideration air flow etc...) one cylinder is running leaner than the other, the hottest being lean.

Another way to find out if each pot is operating differently to each other is to pull the spark plug out of each one (don't mix them up!) and look at the bottom of them... if one is whiter than the other, you've got a lean fuel mixture problem, if it's terribly black and carbonated its rich. Technically speaking, both plugs on both pots (cylinders) should all look the same if everything is right.

Have you checked to see if the Carby's are balanced? (Ie, each giving the same amount of fuel)

That would cause rough running, because each piston is giving a different sized "Bang" and it would even out at higher rev's resulting in smoother running, or it just isn't as noticeable...

Has your engine got EGT sensor for each cylinder? on a ground run it may show up on them if the carby's are out of balance...?

Ps. I'm not an aircraft mechanic so don't rely on my speculation as being correct, but If it was me, I'd check that.

........ when he heard that unmistakable sound..... Baahh, Baaahh.... and he looked up to see a ram at full speed on a direct heading to the man himself.... :bitehard:

Ahloh started frantically looking around to see what he can do - he took note of what rivet he was up to so he wouldn't have to start over again - but instead of defending himself he started reminiscing about the good o'l days when Ditdot had the spud gun on the Drifting and all those fantastic dog fights we got up to with oranges, spuds and golf balls..... ..... "if only he was here now" I'd be right thought Aaaaaaahhhlocks :confused:.....

Meanwhile the ram is winding out to an incredible speed .......... :run:

And then he heard it...... the sound of a ......

Now...did I mention that I have some hungry cows as well.....

Ta! :thumb_up:

If only you had a distinctive aircraft............

No worrys Brad! you gotta keep the money flowing one way or another! :big_grin:

Mmmmm....... :no no:

we will have to come up with a name for it though...... using these letters - NESFW21STCAAD - representing the "Never Ending Story Fire Wood 21ST Century Artistic Aircraft Design"

Couldnt possibly allow that, as you live too near my ex-misses and she took 95% of what i'd earned, last time around.I know a bloke whose clearing his land of firewood if you're that keen to get into a business. However, don't get too carried away, it's hardly of aircraft quality

At least she left you 5%.... I've seen worse! :bitehard:

Thanks heaps for the offer, but I've had my share of clearing firewood this season... "literally"

Oh come on... you got to have a bit of creativity in building aircraft... the more holes the lighter it is you see... nothing a bit of fencing wire won't fix, slap a B&S (an engine, not drink!) on the front of a bit of brigalow, a few nylon fertilizer bags for wing coverings, using little bits of straight bamboo as wing spars and ribs... Dad's brother's wife's brother in law's old push bike for the wheels... and we have a b e a u t i f u l artistic piece of modern day antique engineering of the 21st century....

Now that is something................

and charged me yesterday

Baah Baah.....

Haven't any sheep though.... but you could always do with more goats surely?!! you know... to find every little hole in the fence, eat your wife's roses, use the car as a stage box..... etc...

But you can't have any sadly... cause we need 'em.