Ultralights

solvents like Isopropanol alcohol, ethanol, and petroleum ether wont effect the gelcoat on fibreglass, we use it when working with polycarbonate and lexan.

feel like a bit of stir, if your turns are balanced, regardless of high or low wing, then gravity should be acting through th base of the seat. and in non cantilevered high wing aircraft, the lift forces act through the aircraft floor just as they do in a low wing. remember, the lift strut transfers the lifting loads to the fuselage, and its attached to the lower section of the fuse!! so high wings also lift from the bottom .

why is there so much use of the rudder when flying heavy stuff these days? even flying the Jabiru, a aircraft that needs rudder quite a bit, i still only use the rudder to balance turns, thats about it, in turbulence, letting the aircrafts natural stability will do a very good job, no need to overuse any flight control. in the bumps, relax the controls, and only use the stick to correct large upsets from desired flight path, your ride will be smoother, and the aircraft less stressed.. the same goes for heavy jets i am told.

it seams the newer crops of pilots love fighting the stick and rudder in the bumps.

i dont recall many incidences of rudders and tailplanes failing on the older stuff, DC10's L1011, 747s etc.

i have had a pair of David Clarks for 17 yrs now! and still used regularly. i have just upgraded to Lightspeed Zulu, though a little on the pricey side at $1450 but bluetooth phone calls, Ipod music and very light weight, i can hardly feel them on my head.....( i fly about 10 hrs a week though), but if they last as long as my DC's then its a small price to pay.

i think my david Clarks were about $400 17 yrs ago, and the price is still round the $500 mark today.

and i can also vouch for the headsets sold here, i have purchased a pair for students o use in the Jabiru, and they have never caused a problem and are reliable. they are a little heavier than im used to, but still ok and very good value for money.

i tried embedding the video, but cant seam to get it to work..

so ill try this.

video of the segment.

amazing viewing..

unfortunatly a few Jabirus have gone down in tiger country, and Fortnatly, the have held up pretty well, with the crews surviving.

our old CFI is now flying the Ejet for Virgin, she loves it, and like the boeing, no computers to override you if you really get in the s..., from an engineering point of view, about 10 yrs ago, Embraer bought 2 aircraft over to syd for us to crawl over and make an assesment on, they are built pretty well, and in a conventional sence. alloy aiframe, composite interior and secondary structure, easy access to pretty much everywhere except vertical tail and elevators, but those areas are minimal maintenance anyway.

Back to Iron Maiden,Has anyone seen "Flight 666" it was a very good insight into that whole tour.

as for the "if its not a boeing im not going thing, i have managed to make it work so far, never flown on an airbus yet, and try to avoid flying Qf at all costs,so that leaves Virgin with their all boeing fleet. internationally i have flown with QF, Emerates, Singapore, all on Boeings.

a little off topic, i saw both maiden gigs in syd last feb, brilliant stuff. on similar subject matter, one of my "students" last weekend, is a 767 driver for Hawaiian airlines, and he was saying that his company wants him and a few others to get endorsed on the A330... he is not real keen on the idea, as the airbus does not have an Off button.

unlike the boeing range, even the new 787 has an override function in fly by wire system. so you can overide the computers that wont let it stall, give false speed data to the flight computers, thats sort of thing...

if its not a boeing, im not going...

go flying! its a great way to wash your plane! unless its a jabiru..

but if cloud is to low.. this or this.

no ones mentioned Mid wing yet.. best of both worlds.

i have a similar shorter one, if its on paper, it true.

i fly both, low wing tecnam, high wing jabiru, as well as Cessna 172 and cherokee.

in handling department, there is no real difference, high wing is great for summer, but low wing cant be beaten for visibility, especially with the new bubble canopies such as tecnam and sportstars.

some will say low wing flies better in ground effect, but the difference is in recreational aircraft is negligible.

the only real annoying difference i find is refueling and dipping the tanks. low wing is so much easier, no chance of slipping off a step ladder.

Availbility and timely supply of parts / consumables for an aircraft can make or break a flying school.

Why do lots of people dislike jabirus

there Ugly,

High Wing

not the best flying aircraft compared to say, um, a tecnam..

can be uncomfortable

build quality is average.

not waterproof. especially with the glass panels. (the reason big GA schools got rid of their fleets, dont like being left in the rain)

but would i own one.?

Yes. why?

Value for money.

Very high crash survivability strength.

ease and cheapness of maintenance.

hey, there comfy!

if the aluminium is Alclad, then sanding is a NO NO! Alclad is a layer of pure aluminium over the actual aluminium alloy. the layer of pure aluminium is a corrosion preventative.

welcome to the club!

i remember reading online a few yrs ago, someone in the US, who built an RV6 i believe spent quite some time and money redesigning the cooling air intake and exhaust under the cowl, and designed the engine exhaust to exit in the centre of a round engine cooling air exit under the cowl, he improved cooling efficiency substantially to the point where the air intakes were 1/3 their original size, and the exit under the cowls was only about 10in diameter, and actually produced a small amount of thrust, this with other smoothing of the airframe gave him a cruise speed of 170kts! now all i have to do is find the story.

very carefully fold the maps before you depart. fold them in a way that you can do easily to get to the next section your on, if you need 2 or more maps, fold these in the same way, and stack them in order you need them.

pretty straight forward really! well, became sort of a nick name around bankstown when i was taking the schools cherokees and larger GA aircraft to the oaks to spend some time in a Jab LSA, the other GA students and pilot there all thought i was nuts, and one day somone came into the school asking about ultralights, and someone yelled out to me, Ultra, he knows those ultralight thingoes! sort of stuck.

ironically not long after that the new CFi banned me from hiring aircfraft from that school for taking their Piper Archer into the Oaks. aparently under the new CFI, all their aircraft suddenly became very heavy and could no longer land on a 800 mtr grass srtip. i was told the strip was too short, and he wasnt impressed with me showing him a P chart, and he banned me from the school, been flying ultralights ever since, well, except for PPL BFR's and now CPL.

hey, what happened to my Avatar pic? i take it was censored?

compared to what we hear every day at bankstown, they all got 9/10! you know its bad when you hear the tower at bankstown say this... "cessna ABC, do you know where the aiport is?" ABC in thick foreign accent.. "yes" tower " then bloody go to it!!!"

not uncommon sadly, the rex aircraft departed with a tail wind, runway 27, when there were 2 other aircraft on base and final for runway 09.... when asked what he was doing the rex crew replied, its ok the aircraft is rated to take off and land with a tail wind!

what a load of bullXXXXe.

i have only had 2 incidents, sadly 1 is power related, the other, well sort of power related....

both in a Jabiru LSA. first, on long final at Hoxton park, i pulled the throttle to idle, and the engine stalled, i tried the restart, no joy, so continued with a standard glide approach, perfect landing and rolled to a stop just off the first taxiway exit.

the second was in the Lane of entry in Sydney 2500ft above solid suburbia, a passenger of mine grabbed her handbag off the floor to get a barley sugar, and the engine lost power back to idle power. midway through the FMOST checks, well, at the T in the checklist (throttle-cycle 3 times) i discovered the throttle lever jammed at idle, so i tried to free it, only to discover the handbag now being clutched very tightly by my PAX moved as well. i discovered the handle of her bag had snagged the throttle lever and pulled it to idle. another good reason to stick to the checklist, even in an apparent emergency. if i had not followed the checklist, i would not have discovered the handbag, and completed a messy forced landing in a perfectly serviceable aircraft on a small powerline and car lined suburban street..

i want to see the footage from the camera on the tank as it makes a re-entry!