winsor68

No Redbull for him...

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• http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/vbtube_show.php?do=tube&tubeid=448&name=hawker-sea-hurricane-1b#watch
   
  

My niece in San Francisco was worried about here friends in Sydney getting flooded... Still good to get much needed rain... we certainly have had our share up on the Qld coast this year so you are welcome to it.

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• http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/vbtube_show.php?do=tube&tubeid=445&name=tests-jabiru-cylinder-head-lubrication#watch
   
  

• Jabiru turbo engine walk around and running with "draw through" with carb. I will try a Aerocarb 45mm.
   
   
  
  Posted by Winsor68 from Youtube... this poster has some good aviation engine videos on his channel.
   
   
  

Hey hey hey... Hold on guys!!!

I found this video on Youtube... I just posted it from there.. I guess I should have explained better....

Again Congrats FFgod...

Sorry guys... My first solo is a little way off yet... It would be nice to have such a nice video of it...

• Congrats FFgod1000...
   
   
  

• http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/vbtube_show.php?do=tube&tubeid=441&name=first-solo-jabiru-lsa-p-pilot-command#watch
   
   
  

Hey hey hey... Hold on guys!!!

I found this video on Youtube... I just posted it from there.. I guess I should have explained better....

Again Congrats FFgod...

Sorry guys... My first solo is a little way off yet... It would be nice to have such a nice video of it...

• http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/vbtube_show.php?do=tube&tubeid=440&name=hawker-nimrod#watch
   
  

What a nice looking little machine... seems like a grown up scout. Now why aren't these sort of aircraft still being manufactured?

I think it is a Europa...interesting (and more appealing) with tail wheel...

• A brief film about Bernard Pietenpol, by Grant MacLaren
   
  

• http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/vbtube_show.php?do=tube&tubeid=439&name=pietenpol-simple-light-cheap#watch
   
  

Okayyyyyy....

It's real... It was filmed at Bungupya Beach in north Qld... Though obviously the flying is done by a stunt man (it is believed that the pilot was none other than Matt Hall... although there is a rumour that it was our very own Djparco who, on the day, was bigger than Matt Hall).

Oh and it was a trailer from a Movie starring Leonardo DeCaprio...

:rilla:

This was part of some sort of advertising campaign from a while ago now...

This was part of an advertising campaign from a while ago now...

There is a lot of appeal in simple flight such as this machine offers... Ironically there is one for sale on the sight right now?

So.... High Thrust Line is bad....

Is there disadvantages to having a Low Thrust Line?

• Nice and simple? I wasn't sure if it qualified to be in Powered Chutes, Trikes or what..?
   
  

• http://www.recreationalflying.com/forum/vbtube_show.php?do=tube&tubeid=437&name=inflatable-wing-woopyfly#watch
   
  

11 people so far have said they'd introduce some minor changes - please let us know what you'd change!I have my personal opinions on the matter but I'd rather wait till I hear more viewpoints :)

 

Crezzi personally I think by the time CASA gets the CASRs finished, we'll all be in flying cars.

 

My favourite part (which I can't link to because CASA's website is playing up) is a project entitled something like "Early implementation of certain parts of Part 103 via CAO". Part of the story goes that the Ballooning mob asked for some changes to the CAOs, but they were told "wait, it'll be fixed in the relevant CASR" - this was back in 1991. The CASRs then got delayed again and again, so this project aimed to amend the CAOs as asked for in the first place. The only catch is, the project status was last updated 2 years ago!

 

Imagine if CASA were run like a business - many people would have been fired by now.

I rest my case... CASA doesn't have the skills base to manage anything but large airline type operations... time to let the light side of aviation go its own way and use common sense approaches to minimize risk.

Weight limit for basic PPL is 5700kg but you can upgrade it with a further endorsement/type rating (not sure which).----------------

 

I voted CASA issues the licence. This would do away with the constant separation of the two bodies and hopefully bring the two into one. This would also bring up the price of flying as I'm pretty sure CASA makes schools pay fees and it would also mean the existing RA-Aus instructors would be out of a job, LAMEs would have to maintain aircraft etc...

 

If we could keep all of our rules regarding maintenance etc but just had CASA issue an "Ultralight Pilot Licence" & control the syllabus, as I'm sure some people know of schools that don't follow the RA-Aus published syllabus, I think it would resolve most of the controversy between the two groups.

 

-Andrew

 

P.S My response is open to people blasting me with anti-CASA statements (Committee Against Sustainable Aviation?)

Thanks...

I too am fascinated by Gyros... the only down side is everytime I have seen one being flown the hair on my head stands on end!!! So exciting but scary even thought the logical part of my brain tells me that they should be one of the safest flying machines.

I have wondered about the tail thing myself... if it doesn't hit the ground on takeoff it often certainly does on a slow landing... are there any Gyro flyers that can enlighten us?

Thanks for the co-ordinates Dunlop... This video is a bit off topic... involves a different sort of flying but gives you a view down the drag strip- Basically the view on takeoff. You can see the hangers on the right when he pulls up. Running next to the hangers is the return road and grass runways which are also available for takeoff but are half the length of the drag strip and its over run.

Update on my flying lessons..

Things have been a bit slow since Jabiru 5229 arrived in Mackay. The weather this year has been the wettest I have experienced here and we had a cyclone as well and with the CFI living in SE QLD with the school owner being under his tutelage it has meant a fair amount of time between lessons.

The last 2 days have been a blast. The weather came good after the rain of the previous couple of days (thanks to the guys on chat for recommending the Naked Rain Dance- It actually worked!) so I picked up my instructor of his Virgin Blue flight into Mackay at 1020am and we went straight to the field to get into it. As soon as we arrived Murray left me to do the preflight (under the watchful corner of his eye of course) and we were in the aircraft on our way to the training area in order for me to get comfortable after an absolutely awful takeoff... to be expected I guess after a break of almost 2 months between lessons.

Nerves settles it was back to the circuit at Palmyra for practicing (missed) approaches. After going around and around and around for what seemed like ages we climbed to 2000 feet and skirted controlled airspace at Mackay to head for the Northern Beaches and did a missed approach in to Ball Bay Airstrip... was great experience because the turbulence coming off the hills surrounding the Northern approach was lots of fun.

Then back to Palmyra for our final circuit and landing. Fortunately Murray did not choose this approach for my first landing because the old Jabiru throttle curse reared its ugly head and we were dead stick from about 20 feet. Murray is an ex GFA CFI so it was no big deal and all approaches are of the glide variety... no dragging the aircraft in under power at Palmyra. So a total of 2.2 hours for my first session of the day!

After we landed Matt (School owner) pulled out the BIG lunchbox and provided us all with chicken and salad sandwiches for lunch. What service!

After lunch I refueled the Jab and it was back in the air for another session of circuits with missed approaches... at the end of another 1.1 hrs on the last circuit I landed for the first time. It was all over before I had a chance to realize what was happening! Taxied back in and the end of a long day of flying 3.3 hrs all up.

The next day (today as I right this) I arrived a 2.00pm for my lesson... a Cessna 172 was taxiing for takeoff and an RV9 was already up and about from the same strip. I watched as the 172 took off as most of the larger machines at this strip tend to do- straight down the drag strip! I was thinking to my self that must be scary- the concrete barriers give you about a wingspan clearance on each side (if that) and there are light poles along the sides and advertising banners right about where you are aiming in your takeoff run. I hoped in the Jab after completing all preflight checks, we started up and I started taxiing for the end of the grass strip where I had taken off yesterday only to have my instructor telling me to go left, a little more, more, more.... and when I enquired if he wished me to taxi on to the drag strip he said "Yes... we will use the drag strip for this takeoff"... Holy guacamole!!! As it turned out taking off down this strip is nothing to worry about... According to Matt it is more the mental picture at your run up point that makes you sweat. Again after takeoff straight into circuits with missed approaches but this time with a touch and go during each one. All good for another 1.5 hrs.

After landing the next student turned up for his lesson and as I watched them prepare for their flight Matt said "Lets pull this one out" and indicates his beautiful 1947 Cessna140... Whoopee!

We spent about an hour local flying including a missed approach and nice slow low pass down the strip in this Classic machine... and I can tell you it is a lot nice AND easier to fly than the Jabiru.

So... two days of training and another 4.8 hours to add to the log book. Can't wait for the next session.

When it comes to buying a second hand aircraft how can you tell what sort of forces the aircraft has been subject to? Is there any economical way to check the spars and flying wires?