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This thread is alive again. Its had a long hiatis due to too many things going on in my life. Land subdivisions here and buying a new property. to put a house and hangar on at a Airpark airstrip, demolishing our house here in Burpengary in late october and moving 2 houses into the big shed here while we have been waiting for the house build company to get their finger out and finally this week they have started the new build. So Mabel had to be taken out to a mates place last October to be stored as there was no room here in my big shed or in my hangar which has another aircraft in it that I bought in partnership with a mate. I have been working on going through it to get it ready to fly. So I havent done any work on Mabel since then. Another mate george in the hangar next door to mine has almost finished his new Savannah build but he owns 2 hangars back to back. He was now not needing his Dtreak Shado and decided to pull it apart and he offered me the section in his hangar so I gratefully accepted and I have now moved Mabel from my mates place over to Georges's hangar so now I can get some work done. I have more time now abeit travelling to and from to the farm to get a few things finished around the place so we can sell it as we are getting too old to look after 125 acres now and this is why we decided to get into a airpark Red tape and council incompetance in trying to get this house built is just crazy..We signed the new build contract for the house in Burpengary back in December and its only just starting now. The new site at the airpark we are now fighting with the council with their red tape and money grabbing tactics as well....this is why yoiu cant get anything built in this country. The amount of this red, blue, back and pink rainbow tape is just out of control no wonder we are turning into a thrird world economy I need to stop whinging about it...but it is so frustrating Anyway after my rant ..I have just got back from a week at the farm working and will be working on getting the wings on Mabel. I will be putting some dihedral on this one. The engine has been run and the tail feathers are on..just need to put the rudder on get the wings on and the new struts cut and fitted. A few more things done then get her ready to fly So will post some more as I get it done Some pics of Mabel in the new hangar and the Mrs apparently went to the airfield and got me towing Mabel there. I didnt know she was there..she was spying on my with the Find My app on the Iphone...cant get away with anything anymore. The Mabel song was done by my mate Danny used a AI song maker. It was just a audio file but I grabbed it and put some pics to it. Its a pretty good song. He wrote the words and the AI did the voice and the music. The world is getting crazy now Mabel song.mp4 IMG_1018 (1).mov

My Savannahs have always been adjusted by feel. Not very scientific but practical. I recently did a few hours in a factory built pretty new sav at a flying school. What a terrible aircraft to fly to what I was used to in my aircraft. I thought it may have just been me and not being in the pilot seat for a while. My mate who used to fly my sav also did a few hrs in this same aircraft for his BFR as well. I asked him if he thought the aircraft was crap to fly and not like mine was. He looked at me and said..yep..I thought it may have just been me. So we both compared notes and yes he hated it as well. I setup my aircraft by making the cables the tensions I thought would be fine. I never used a gauge. Its pretty easy to do when using your brain. The complaints we both had on this training school aircraft was the rudder was way too tight and the same with the ailerons. The ailerons the bolts in the hinges were too tight..the bushes were rotating and not the bolts inside the bushes rotating. This is a mistake made by a lot of builders. The bushes need to be fixed in the hangers and never rotate. The elevator wasnt too bad but the stick was adjusted way too far forward it wasnt a natural position. I am a tall guy and it was a little bit of a strect for me. It was quite uncomfortable. The cables should not be like guitar strings. The tension needs to be enough so there is no slop in the system The cable needs to be a little firm in tension not tight. I tried the cables on the rudders on the training aircraft and they were very tight by feel at the rudder. Couldnt really try the elevator cables unless I climbed into the hole of death but the elevator is pretty heavy compared to the rudder so the tension could be a bit more and it wouldnt be that noticable. But having the nosewheel rods and the rudder cables all connected to the same point it was just way to tight. Yes there is a manual to go by but sometimes common sense is a better solution Mark

Different strokes for different folks Skippy....who gives a crap about what you think...he obviously wanted and likes it.

Displays & Traffic Warning Systems – f.u.n.k.e. AVIONICS GmbH WWW.FUNKEAVIONICS.DE They only have a TM-250 on the website

Do you have a link to this device...if its std 1090 adsb it should work..sort of like a TCAS

John are you based at Gympie Airport?

Trevor has recovered surprising well. Still lots or rehab he has to do and its a little difficult for him to walk. He has only just been allowed home in the past 2 weeks but we are all amazed at how far he has come as most of us didnt hold out much haope after more than 80% burns. Trevor is a very tough nut. His partner kept us informed every week on his progress in hospital. There was a lot of ups and deep downs but he has survived thank god although he does of course have some life changing issues now.

You can get good quality caps from Element14 or RS components make sure though you get a 50V or 63V rated one to be on the safe side. Do not fit a 25V one and it needs to be at least the 22,000 uF capacity

Capacitors do "wear out". age and the constant pounding of the pulsed DC they are trying to smooth takes its toll. usually replace the capacitor every 5 to 8 years or so depends on usage but age also plays a part in the capacitor ability to filter the DC

Thats the rate but you dont get that rate when looking at the news or XE.com, you can never get that rate. I use a Forex company to get the best rate but a bank transfer you lose 1 or 2% sometimes even more. The worst of course is paypal. Good Forex companines are about .3 to .8% on transfers. No VAT on outgoing but of course GST here on the cost of goods PLUS the cost of freight

Yes about 3500 and 4500 euro from memory for the 2 or 3 blade props. Usually double the euro and that will be roughly the sell price

Just some info for the RV crowd and others of course but I have had several RV guys now chase me for these new props ..Seems there are a lot of RV guys who want to change props Looks like GA can have a foot in the door now Eprop have released their Ascalon range of props for 100 to 270hp direct drive engines like Lycoming and Continental You may have seen the chicken throwing incident video 🙂 They will be coming in 2 and 3 blade configs and currently 74 and 76 inch diameters but other diameters will be coming soon. Speaking to them tonight I also got a update on the jabiru props. Looks like they will have 2 and 3 blade props available for the 4 and 6 cyclinder engines.They are going through their last testing and should then be making the production molds so some hope on the horizon for a better solution for the Jab engines

Yes still making them when I get a chance. I make them in smallish batches. I have none in stock at the moment will be a few weeks.

That was the prop I had bought for my S21. He managed to break his original Eprop dropping the noseleg into a deep wet hole one day. He has more hp so apparently he still had enough ground clearance to fit my larger prop as it was the only prop I had here. Its a 190cm because my engine will be close to 120hp. Although Eprop now are recommending going to a 4 blade if your 115hp or more rather than using a bigger 3 blade

Mike you been looking at Tony's aircraft..he did it himself. Seems to be going well. Did you head up Townsville way or was he down your way

Looks like the russians are trying their hand at copying the Rotax now NAIS‑2026: UDC Unveils M105 Piston Engine for Light Aircraft – RuAviation RUAVIA.SU Against this backdrop, United Engine Corporation (UDC) unveiled the new M105 piston engine at NAIS‑2026. The public demonstration signals the transition from

I gather you didnt get the gist of my comment. I didnt want to spell it out and start a flame war of woke BS or animal right activists. Here we would have used a defrosted chook I would think...but in Europe you have to be seen to be kosher You cant say anything directly anymore because someone will be offended and thats almost a capital crime now days

no animals were hurt in the filming of this episode :)..they are in Europe remember

Eprop have been working on 2 blade props for not only the jab engines but much larger usual aircraft engines. This has been a long process but they are at the pointy end now doing certification testing. They havent released any yet but they are not far away. The 3 blade props are designed for the Rotax engines mainly engines with a gearbox. Direct drive carbon based 2 blade props have always been a slippery issue. Mayny have tried but most have failed in one way or another. Just look at the problem with the Hartzel prop issue on the Titan engines in the USA. Cato have come up with a new development but yet has to prove itself for anything long term. I doubt though they have done this sort of testing.

Most airframes are very safe, the big factor is the donk you use. I could start a flame war by just mentioning one engine name

Trevor Mills was the pilot involved in the accident at Old Station late last year. He also was a good friend. He had a RV8 as well with a suburu engine init initally and I flew in it with him but later he did the turbo conversion. His engine went bang on takeoff and luckily he survived but he walked 2km back to Old Station with 80% burns and broken ribs and back injuries because the fuselage had twisted and he couldnt get the canopy opened quickly enough. He is still in the RBWH and will be for a while yet. He has just had a massive amount of skin grafts. I love building my own aircraft but when it comes to the engines I prefer to stay with tried and tested engines. A lot of auto conversions may be ok but there seems to be far more engine outs in aircraft that have auto engine mods done in them

The pilots name has been released. It was Greg Ackman, He was the owner of Mobile One a antenna manufacturer. I bought a lot of antennas from him over the years and use a aviation one here and at the farm. He was here about 18 months ago dropping off a couple of antennas. I dealt with him since the early 1990's. He was a good guy..didnt take crap from anyone either. We got on very well. Vale Greg Ackman

Nev I have made over 60 sets and they have been sent all over the world. I cant believe things that I make for me end up being so popular I sent 8 sets to Iceland !!!! even my post office had never sent anything to Iceland 🙂