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If the govt is paying up front before people are passing and being qualified, it's pretty obvious the system is wide open to rorting.

Wouldn't a reimbursement system more effectual?

Perhaps this is a solution 

http://www.beliteaircraftstore.com/fuel-probe-system/

They also sell the gauges....... not particularly cheap though. ...

No "HUMAN" is worth those ridiculous figures

 

I would have to agree. 

There's got to be a limit to actually how much ONE person needs, to live a lavish and opulent life.

I think it just becomes a p!ssing contest between rival CEO's in the end.

There's a story around about how a group of business leaders in the US started competing against each other in the number of business jets each owned.....not to use, but just to have one more than the other...

1 to 6...... sounds like the "new" RAA....?

Normally any small engine has an idle speed of around 750 to 850 RPM.

 

Rotax idle setting is about 1800 rpm....

Significantly lower can damage gearbox gears......

A Fuel flow meter, regularly checked for accuracy works well....

Cross checked against original dip, time, gauges and known fuel burn while in flight.

Mogas 98 has a number of aromatics to improve its octane and clean running perspective but they do make it stink.

 

The smell inside the aircraft comes from the PERMEATION (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permeation ) of fuel through hoses and perhaps tanks. Using specifically made hoses prevents this smell.

I uses gates barricade fuel hose on my 5 yr rubber change and the smell went to virtually zero.

From the abc article.

Aviation Authority ordered inspections of all Boeing 737 NG model aircraft with more than 30,000 flights.

Qantas said none of its planes had completed that many flights, but had checked the 33 aircraft with over 22,600 cycles.

So they have not even made it to 1/3 of  their service life!

Flying behind a Rotax which was designed for unleaded so my thoughts maybe off on a tangent.

But unleaded burns cleaner and is cheaper to buy. 

I have a bp card and have run avgas, ocassionally just "to see" and occasionally as a necessity.  

Ultimately I think it's good to be able run both as circumstances dictate.

I'm happy to have the option to land at the Nulabor Roadhouse and pay $2.00 odd per litre or Forrest at $3.50 per litre......

It's all fun and games.... 

.... till one goes down.... 

Looked like a nice aircraft.

I'm guessing with cowls like that, it wasn't Rotax powered?

I'm hitting 75 psi when very cold on start up, so a 75 psi sender will be at it's limit.

GA have no membership fees or rego but their details are public and they are billed.

RAA PAY membership fees and rego but no public address.

That was the status quo.

Pilots made their choice as to which aviation avenue they prefered.

Maybe he should design from scratch....

Sounds like he has the funds and team to do it.....

Modifying to the extent he is will always run up against existing aircraft limits.

Yeah, I can't understand why they are so curved like that. I must have had 4 inches between my lower back and seat.

I have flown Qantas for work about 6 times in the last 3 weeks, including interstate. 

Not the Qantas as I remember from 10 or 15 yrs ago and seemed very budget airline orientated. (small box of food) 

But I will say every flight left pretty much on time. Got Turned back from Devonport due to low cloud and was put up in a hotel in Melbourne for the night. I found the Dash 8 seats were actually build for a "western" male and comfortable. The seats on their 737's look to be built for 5'2" asians... and were horrendously uncomfortable. Headrests at shoulder height? wtf is that? 

Well you're certainly not talking about our ATSB. It certainly has a cap to its budget, and remember it has to investigate land and sea accidents as well as air, but its false to say it is politically driven or controlled.  It's not legally possible these days for any organisation to say what used to be said up until the end of the 1970s, and people are critical of them for that, and I certainly miss the Macarthur Job reports, where they were able to get to the guts of a fataility and report that, for example the pilot frequented the club lounge, and was known for boasting that he could fly in cloud, had done it on several occasions, this one, with the rock filled cloud being his last. It gave you the real reason, and the specific thing to avoid. Having been called in to one investigation (which they picked up from my comment on social media)  and asked to give evidence, I can attest to their clinical, compartmental, and very thorough process.

 

Abbot used the ATSB for political glory seeking trying to find mh 370. 

$100 odd million later (and the budget blown)  Abbot and mh370 are nowhere to be found.

There was also a massive investigation into an illegal immigrant boat hitting rocks and people drowning. This was also politically motivated.

My point is that tax paying Australian citizens dying in tragic accidents are not being investigated. 

RAA accidents are a clear example of this. 

I am not questioning their ability, but it IS a government department and obviously they have political masters and as such politically motivated investigations. 

The ATSB is politically funded, driven and controlled. The last few years have seen more focus on "international" investigations to the detriment of injured and killed Australian citizens. Politicians seeking glory and foreign government adulation could not care less about dying Australian tax payers. A death in a RAA aircraft and a death in a GA aircraft... is still a death. 

The vdo (and honeywell) are a 1/8 npt x 27 tapered thread.

The Keller is a M10x1.0 as per the new oil pump housings.

I used an adapter (1/8 to M10) when replacing my honeywell to keller.

Rotax apparently authorise tapping out the 1/8 hole to m10 but I think that is wrong.

Physical sizes are similar and it is just a "butcher" job....

My "charge" light comes on red when ignition is turned on. After start up and producing volts, it turns off. I see nothing wrong with this.

One thing that concerns me is the repeated buckling behind the cockpit of the RV-series. It has been mentioned in several accident reports previously, as well as this one, and makes me wonder if something should be 'done' to resolve it.

 

Someone on this forum wrote about it (Oscar?)

Pilots were sustaining head injuries in a crash and the reason why was a bit of a mystery. 

Apparently aircraft were folding on inpact with the pilots head hitting the panel.

The aircraft would then fold back into a "normal" position after stopping.

Just some....... google is your friend...

http://www.rotronuav.com/

http://3w-international.com/wankel-rotary-uav-engine-3w-180-sre-hybrid/

https://uavenginesltd.co.uk/products/

Despite all this I do believe for special use they may be a good answer. Nev

 

A number of manufacturers are making them for drones/military drones.

I guess it is a momentary switch. You buy these as normally open or normally closed. I'm not sure if it can be changed. 

Interesting. I'm religious about turning the engine at least ten blades to feel for uneven compassion and to get oil circulating.  I sure did perform the ritual that morning.

 

Oil is still very clear, only done about ten hours/5 months, but is due to be changed soon.

 

Turning the engine over by hand probably won't "pop" the ball as you need to reach the pressure it is set at for it to lift.