FlyBoy1960

That was just STUPID !

Yes all good now !

I have also lost the little icon thing from the shortcuts on my browser bar ?

I have said this before and I don't want it to sound like a real complaint but every time you change the site I go round and round in circles again and again. It would be good if it was just left the same for us old users

the silicon tape is probably more needed on the fuel lines which in your photos have not been completed

I would like to say - That's good news. But it isn't, another aviator lost

Was this John from Comminya ?

The flight training school at our airfield at Jacobs Well Flight Training – Gold Coast Sport Flying Club Inc is absolutely flat out, they now have three planes and about four instructors. I don't know if this is typical of the rest of Australia but these guys are knocking out huge hours.

Absolutely terrific aircraft, I managed to catch a glimpse at Caboolture and the owner, adventurer Mike Smith even allowed me into the aircraft to sit in the cockpit (and fantasise) absolutely huge in size inside and out. Plenty of room, he even has his own coffee maker inside so he can make his "picalo almond latte's" while he is flying. There is enough room to sleep in the back in complete comfort, huge baggage area and it gets along at about 125 kn at about 35 L per hour or it may be 38 L per hour I can't remember. It is running two Rotax 915 engines and air master propellers. Absolutely unique aircraft with many stories to tell. He also said there were a couple more headed to Australia as well ! Now if he was in Canberra, how did he get out of Victoria ?

That is the same rim as my wheelbarrow ?

Airport coffee gossip about 1 week before it was public, if wrong however, don't shoot the messenger.

I read you ONLY get the first issue FREE. The rest you have to pay for ! Nothing yet in QLD.

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I was talking to my mate the other day about just how far the aviation industry has come since the Wright brothers, but he said he didn't really care. I thought that's just plane ignorance.

This screenshot is from the Comm Bank just now to the USD. There will be about 10% difference between the buy rate and the sell rate, this is how they make their money. What you see on the television will never be accurate because this is called the mid market rate which is the difference between the buy and the sell rate.

You need to go ahead and get a refund, you were ripped off and it went straight into your custom brokers pocket. Do this 50 times every year and you will have a great Christmas !

Item 34 of Schedule 4 of the Customs Tariff Act 1995 Item 34 provides a free duty rate for imported eligible goods. Aircraft parts or materials must be consumed into the whole of the aircraft during the act of manufacture, repair, maintenance or modification.

There is no duty on aircraft or aircraft parts. They are exempt. About the only thing in an aircraft that will get duty applied if it is imported on its own is fabric like seat coverings or aircraft covers but if they are reported as part of a total shipment they are like the rest of the shipment exempt. If you were charged 5% duty then this was incorrect and you are actually able to go and claim it back by contacting your customs broker who incorrectly applied the EIN code when doing the importation.

This is close but not correct. GST and/or customs are levied on the day that the shipment is exported from the first foreign location so if for example your shipment left England on 1 January then the exchange rate used in the calculation for any duty (which doesn't apply to aircraft) and GST is applicable on the exchange rate calculation on the 1st January not on the day it arrives into Australia. It is been like this for as long as I have been involved with importing before I retired last year.

It would help if you told us the airframe ?

In his defense, he has been there for about 6-7 years or maybe longer. He gets no wage of $$ from RA-Aus and is basically a volunteer. He has been to our airfield several times so he is investing a lot of his home time to the job. That has my support versus people we never see.

You can't at the moment ! Just another reason to live in paradise (Queensland)

I would just leave it alone and stop making all of the changes. Every time major changes are made more people seem to drop off

I knew I had a photo of it somewhere, this was taken roughly 2004 but I forget which aircraft it was on. If you look closely at the photo and I am sorry that I don't have an enlarged copy you will see a heating ring which operates on hot water from the radiator between the carburettor and the carburettor mount. Thinking back now this has the carburettor stabilisation bracket which I sent photos of a week ago when we were talking about the Savannah carburettor throttle linkage. Also notice the drip tray on the bottom of this photo just made out of a piece of stainless steel sheet. It had an angle on it so if fuel overflowed it would go away from the engine towards the side of the cowling. This was on a very early sting aircraft imported into Australia which I helped assemble at the airfield. Just walking past to be in the right spot that the right time. I don't know if they are still using them because I have not seen another sting in maybe 15 years

Your rating a lot of weight a long way out from the carburettor mount. The only thing that attaches the carburettor is the rubber boot and the makeshift spring which can and can't work once it has been stretched a few times. It was just a suggestion that as you are adding the additional weight out the back you are going to put more load on the carburettor boots and as you know these have a history of cracking, the more vibration and load out the back the more load you will be putting on the boots. Why not eliminate this area of failure and stabilise the carburettor completely. A lot of the carburettors are now using bigger air filters which in themselves are heavier. The small air filters are robbing horsepower so I was told. I will be really interested to see how it works out over time, you'll probably find Rotax copy it ! One of the things I'm just thinking about from memory one carburettor sits further back than the other carburettor so the one that sits further back is going to be subjected to more vibration and harmonics. My memory is slowly coming back as to why the aircraft had these brackets. The clamp which attaches the carburettor to the rubber boot never used to have a spacer that would prevent over tightening so over time people would continue to tighten this clamp until the clamp itself was touching and this would pop the carburettor off, usually on start up but sometimes on shutdown and sometimes midflight. Rotax decided to add the spacer to the clamp so people couldn't over tighten this clamp anymore and this was introduced after a fire and fatality on the ground which was a result of one of the carburettors coming off an aircraft in the Czech Republic and catching fire and then exploding. This is why the manufacturer went to these carburettor brackets. I still can't remember what brand of aircraft it was but this might come back to me the more I think about it