Tomo

That's awesome to hear, good on-ya Rage83:thumb_up::thumb_up:

How long have you been training for now?

I'm gonna try and get my ticket there in Dalby, with Smokey' some time I hope!! (maybe in Bretts J120 though, Dad's not real keen on the Drifters)

Cheers,

Tom

Well a bit of belated to you 'bluely the fly'

I'm sure you will find the forum very interesting and friendly....

Model planes hey... I've got an aerobatic "MX-2", and a little one' about three quarters done, getting a prop today.... and then cover the wing and it should be ready for a bit of a test.....:big_grin:

Cheers,

Poor Guy....

I'd really like to fly for MAF one day myself....

If you would like more info about the accident and up to date news you can go straight the the MAF web page. MAF News - Mission Aviation Fellowship

Cheers,

All they are doing when they have do a walk around is look for large and obvious things wrong (wings missing sort of stuff) Adam.

Wouldn't you feel stupid....doing a preflight check and didn't even notice the rudder missing.....

Cheers...

How about this one? I was there two days ago.

Good old Hervey Bay, I recognised my old trail bike stomping grounds on the right. ;) Say, can I land there on an RAA license or do I need GA with a Transponder?

Wouldn't know if you could land there being Raa, but I do know that there is trikes and that there, so could be possible....!

We had a joy flight with one of the flight training guys there...at the start of the year... Just came across the photo again...:big_grin:

how about logging it as In command Under Supervision? ICUS?

Yeah but who's supervising? remember the Capt'n and first officer are off in merry land:laugh:

Hears one for you all..... Shouldn't be to hard;)

G'day Dunlopdangler....

Well it's good to see another Darling Downsy on the forum....:thumb_up:

I live at Cecil City:laugh:... don't fly anything as yet, but looking at training with Bob Keen, there in Dalby..... Possibly in Brett Hall's J120....:big_grin:

Cheers....

Yeah, Purityknight95...!

It must be that age hey!! I was 12 to when I got to have a fly in a friends C182.... and the first impression was just amazing... What I can't get over is the view... Just Awesome....

I think my dad has second thoughts about letting me go on that flight now... He's not as keen as some...!!

And now about 4 1/2 yrs latter I still haven't got me ticket yet... but getting closer I hope:big_grin: especially now that I've the RAA:thumb_up::thumb_up:

Have Fun..!!

Good on ya Craig:thumb_up::thumb_up:

Day's of anticipation and concentration, and now you can relax a bit... (first time is always the most nerve racking, because your not really shore what's happening).... and what happens...your body thinks so too... ZZZZZZZZZZZ

Cheers,

Tom

Thanks Tomo!Now I see! :)

My instructor called me this evening confirming tomorrows lesson. I think he said that the Tecnam Echo doesn't have Magnetos!? Is that right? Or should I say ... Did I hear him correctly??

Sorry for the confusion....:confused:

Tom

I just scanned some pages out of my Jim Davis book, I don't know how your book explains the magneto's, but this is pretty simple and easily understood version... well I reckon it is anyway...;)

I don't know how it will turn out, you may have to print it out on a full page to be able to read the writing... anyway i will leave that up to you....:big_grin:

Cheers...

G'day Craig,

I sure you will enjoy your first lesson tomorrow...:thumb_up:

And I'm sure we all look forward to hearing how you go....!!

You probably understand about the magneto's now from the other guys, but just to show you what they look like in real life, I came across a photo that I took of a Jabiru 2200 four cylinder engine.... I know you will be flying in a Tecnam, with a Rotax 912 in it no doubt, but it's still a 4 cylinder, and works in the same way.....

The wiggly circles are around the magneto's or distributor's... and the two arrows show the two leads going to each cylinder... which there is two cylinders on each side...

Cheers,

Either that or he just held them on lightly, before he actually needed to use them... It's just like driving down a hill in your car, you don't ride brakes all the way down, you use them firmly and in short amounts... that is probably how he got them hot, but that's not the bent plate and O-ring problem, that's for certain.....

I wonder if it happened to both sides?, I didn't see any where that he mentioned of anything like that, did you?

Cheers,

Me TOOO:wave:

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It looks to me that the glue stuff that the pads consist off reacted with the heat and wore down very quickly, that's why there is bits of pad glued to the rotor/disc...

Ah...;) I think I just found his problem.... It's a moving head caliper, right... Take a close look at the springs on the bolts to make it spring apart once it's released... well the spring has closed up to it's maximum ability, which didn't allow the other side to move in (the side without the piston), so cause the piston side to go out farther to compensate which in turn bent the plate with the pad on it.....and pooped out the O-ring....

I'll attach a zoomed up pic of the spring that's closed up to it's maximum ability...

What do you all reckon....???

Cheers,

Can't see it, the first thing to go would be the 12% wing chord, and 10-15kn of cruise speed. I love my Sonex but an hour under the bubble it the Aust. summer more than enough! For X-country work the high wing J230 wins everytime.

MP I just noticed you fly from Gympie? My grandparents live there and I would assume you would of heard/seen them before... He's the owner of "Polley's Coaches", Duncan Polley:big_grin:

Tomo i found a DVD at Airventure called "crasher3" an hour of RC prangs. some could be used as training aids in real plane groundschool. models behave exactly like the full size examples. a whole section on ground handling accidents. jets were best tho. flying naphalm bombs.

ozzie

what jabiru need to develop is a low wing version of the J430.

I wouldn't have a clue about a real life acft yet, but on my RC airplanes I like to make the wheels Toe-out, because it helps with ground handling a fair bit, mainly stops it from tipping forward on it's nose if it hits a lump or something when taxing/Landing,taking off etc... don't know if you'd experience that with a real life acft, but I assume would...just not as easily....!

Well thats my five cents worth, :big_grin::big_grin:

Cheers

Ok....Thanks,

I know this is a bit off the subject, but did you see the New Inventors last week...? There was this fella with a Contra-rotating helicopter (it had no tail rotor, just the two main rotors on top of each other, and rotate in opposite directions), I bit like the Rc ones you can get...!

I think the hole idea of the thing was because It was electric, and without the tail rotor it could last a lot longer in the air... because apparently the tail rotor can use over 25% off the power.... and it is a lot safer as well, he reckons anyway....thats with contra-rotating rotors...!

It could last in the air for about 20 or so minutes i think, at the moment, with one charge

He was planing on making 1,2, and 4, seater's and also an un-maned one...!

I thought it was pretty interesting anyway...:thumb_up:

Cheers,

Is it a helicopter? I thought it looked like a gyro-copter...!:confused: I might have seen something else maybe.....!i_dunno

Rod did say that it may never see production....He's just playing around with different things/ideas.....;)

Yeah now that's an Idea, an Aussie made motor glider:thumb_up: