FlyBoy1960

Also, you need to put heat shrink on the end of your fire sleeves because at the moment if you get a leak fuel will wick up the inside of your fire sleeve and make it next to useless. 99% of the aircraft I have seen have some sort of heat shrink on the end of the fire sleeve or they have safety when at around three or four times to create a good seal. Some people use both, safety wire and then heat shrink over the top to cover the ends. If you need to ever take the tube off then you only need to at worst cut away the heat shrink

I would be extremely worried about buffeting in your bracket. As soon as you rev the engine against the flat surface of your plate you are going to create all sorts of vibrations and harmonics based on the fact that it is just a flat plate with a huge vacuum behind once you start the airflow. Also I can't tell if the bracket is only held in place with two bolts or you are using four bolts ? I would be whacking some big pieces of angle up the back of your plate to try and reduce the harmonics, also maybe make the plate thinner at the top (less wide is what I mean) because the optical sensor does not need to be mounted as strongly as the vibration sensor

There is a lot of "stuff" behind there ? Bars, parachute, rocket, bridles. A cover would be nice to tidy it all up with a big logo printed on it.

Firstly I would reach out make contact with companies like GRS or BRS, both have systems suitable for most aircraft and have installation packages ready to go. Putting in the parachute is one thing but attaching it to the airframe correctly is another completely different exercise that requires advanced engineering. I was only reading the other day about someone that fitted a parachute into a Loele P5151 which is a ultralight version of the famous P 51. He had a Suzuki the engine mounted and it had some sort a gearbox failure requiring him to deploy the parachute. Apparently everything went perfect but because he didn't have the parachute adequately mounted at the proper points of the airframe it simply tore out the pieces of wood that the parachute was anchored to ! He did managed to land eventually and walk away but it does tell you and makes you think about it is pointless having a parachute fitted if it is not secured to the airframe correctly. This is why you really do need professional advice and assistance. Also, I was reading that GRS engineer their systems so that the aircraft descends about 20° nosedown. This way when it hits the ground a lot of the impact is absorbed by the nose year and front of the aircraft giving way rather than the aircraft land completely flat. It was a way of lessening the impact loads to the cockpit area by about 70% if I remember correctly. It was all pretty smart engineering so I would recommend you draw on the experience of these companies for your advice. Finally, the only reliable deployment method is ballistic. The other systems like compressed air or nitrogen are just not suitable in our type of aircraft. Ballistic is the only reliable deployment method from what I could remember from the article I was reading. From memory it was in some EAA magazine about five years old out at the aeroclub

I think you mean ATSB not NTSB

Its different in other states

Not true, most of the evidence used at a coronal inquest is not made public. Things that are talked about in the coronal inquest our public unless the coroner prohibits publication of such evidence. All of the reports that are referenced in a coroner's inquest are not public and on the Internet or anything like that so for example if the police prepare the 500 page report of a particular accident then that report will not go up into public domain, it will be referred to during the inquest but it will not be made public. It is only the coroner's summary which is normally made public. All of the evidence, police reports, pathology is normally kept private

The person you are referencing was at lunchtime, still in a Coma ! The survivability comments were completely unnecessary, completely irrelevant, completely cold and unsympathetic and should have been deleted immediately. I can tell you that both families have read what is on this website.

That's not really that bad compared to some of the videos I have seen from the US Marines. They are however a little bit smarter. They lower a cable with a weight on the end onto the deck of the boat. Some guy with a short straw races out and connects the cable to a locating point on the deck of the vessel. The helicopter then slightly climbs until the cable is taught and engages about three quarters climb power. The helicopter then wheels in the cable getting lower and lower until he touches down. This cable retrieval method is meant to be safer in really rough oceans but I guess once the helicopter is connected to the vessel it really reduces recovery opportunities. Go on to you tube and have a look for helicopter cable retrieval (or a similar search term) and you will be surprised at what you see

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Correct, we have been told we cant talk to avoid polluting other peoples statements who are yet to be interviewed by the Police. We all got an email about this today as a reminder, i am happy to say hello but cant give anymore details, sorry.

The floats in Rotax engines have been subject to about 3 x SB in recent years. I am told they finally have them fixed however.

Hello Mike, all good information but this engine didnt have floats. It was the 912iS fuel injected engine, and i repeat the engine sounded fine for the take-off

Yes

Having seen the accident with my own eyes its terrible to see the comments, assumptions and descriptions of what you keyboard wannabe pilots are talking about. Its absolute rubbish, you are so far from the facts that’s its hardly worth replying. You might as well say the plane was returning from an orbit of Mars, did a flypast in front of 27 pregnant women and a maggot chewed the wing off. This is about as accurate as what diatribe is being hypothesised here. Remember, other people, including family can read this and it screws with their heads when you have burns survival theories of adding this with that and that’s when you will die ! C’mon, be respectful and responsible, wait a few weeks until we can talk. We can’t talk now because we will pollute other witnesses who have not recorded statements yet.

The video won't be made available publicly because it has been seized by the police who have requested at it does not get distributed. The survivor has burns to 55% of his body, many of these are deep tissue burns which will require extensive work. He was put into an induced coma immediately on arrival to hospital and they have basically taken as much good skin as they can and patched up the worst areas of the burns. I have been told, they normally keep a burns victim of this type in a coma for between two weeks and four weeks. They have found that this is the best way to treat burns is to knock out the patient, do all of the surgery and not bring them out of the coma for several weeks at best, this way they miss out on a lot of the pain of repeated surgery, waking up, surgery again and so on. At this stage he is expected to make a recovery and will spend at least eight weeks in hospital if everything goes well and then there will be much more work further down the track to try and bring his life back to as normal as possible. This was public information as of yesterday.

The trees are at least 5-6 m higher above the top of the power lines. The aircraft hit the power lines 1st, and then crashed into the trees. They only hit the pwer lines first because the power lines were 10 m in front of the trees in the direction of travel. If the power lines had not been there then the aircraft would have smashed into the trees anyway. If anything the power lines probably slowed the arrival into the trees which was calculated on time and distance using sound as 62 knots. Based on the video footage available this was going to be an accident seconds after rotation, the opportunity to land on the rest of the runway, or in a field, or on the road was missed by both pilots in the aircraft

Well your all guessing and all wrong (mostly), engine was running till impact and making power. No right turn, actually turning left (for some reason)

The parachute failed to open because it was not deployed. The aircraft is carbon fibre which was burnt but it is no more dangerous than burnt fibreglass. The area was wet down with water to stop any dust and then it was sprayed with Bond Crete which basically binds everything together, it ends up setting like a layer of varnish over all of the areas. The fire brigade where the full reading system because that is what they are required to do but the police just used normal PPE equipment which included the blue overalls and a facemask and gloves. Investigations continue today and the airspace above Jacobs Well is shut down from 10 AM to 12 AM so they can use drones to take high-resolution images. All of the wreckage was recovered last night and removed off-site to police storage.

Yes you are correct John, unfortunately at this time, one confirmed fatality and one serious and taken to hospital. The aircraft just didn't make power on takeoff and it was like it was only slightly revving not producing full power. They crashed into trees about 1 km from the runway and never gained enough height to clear the tree line. There were so many other options available including three roads right where they crashed which could have been used very happily for landing. I know they say don't turn back but one of these roads is only about 30° off the runway heading and is clear 20 m either side so it is about five times wider than the runway they just came off. None of it makes much sense at the moment, rescuers were on-site within minutes because they witnessed the takeoff. There was also a small fire. RA-Aus are investigating

Hello again, I took the photo a while ago because I thought it was such a great idea. It is just a normal pipe clamp with a bolt 6 mm diameter going through and the part which hangs the headset is just a piece of plastic which has been machined down and then a thread put in the backend. You don't need to use plastic, I guess you could use wood or aluminium or anything else. It is just a good simple lightweight headset holder that impressed me with its simplicity

I really enjoyed that ! Great piloting skills !

There you go

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Yes its all stopping, i can hardly see a plane in the sky 2.15 QLD time today 23/03/2020