jackc

Previous owner of my Thruster used Motorex 2T? Maybe I need to do some research?

And, that makes me SAD 😞

The Millennials and younger of today jumped off the marketing model of yesteryear long ago. They are the ones who bounce their phones off walls when their Internet connection is too slow. Us Dinosaurs with the money still look for the old marketing model that USED to work, and still expect it to do so 🙂 If only I could turn my clock back to the good old times…….when Amazon was only a big river in South America! And aeroplanes only had big round engines 🙂

Proof that IF you put in the effort, you have a better chance of reaping the reward. That principle applies to all sales, regardless. Sadly, its hard to find a sales person committed to their craft these days, furthermore there is a need for specialisation of sales people to sell specific products within a broad range of choices. Today we have products that have never been more complex in features and a consumer who wants to know more even though they don’t understand much of it.

All that grief for another 15 horsepower 😞

Then WHY do they greet you at the door and ask IF there is anything they can you help with? Dont want to help people? Then don’t expect good sales….. I phoned an Aviation supplier 2 days ago enquiring about one of their products, a significant cost item. I asked a some questions that the salesman could not answer, I told him I need that information to enable me to make a purchasing decision. He said he will find out and phone me today……they have been good in the past so I keep going back……I don’t care about the price…..I just want to buy stuff and be happy and make sure some of my ‘happiness’ rubs off on those who care. I try not to be bitter and twisted but admit it’s becoming a marathon in these modern times…….

How to lose 10lbs of ugly fat? Cut your head off 🙂

Some people in retail are their own worst enemy, plus some are not suited to the role…..IF that is the case find a back of shop job for them, everyone has certain qualities and to make them happy and dedicated, employ them in that role most suited to them. Turbs, don’t ‘ dartboard’ me……I have done more to help people on this Earth than you will ever know BUT I am quick to identify where solutions to problems are needed AND offer them…..

Here is my old beast, named it “The Flintstone”

I have an iPad and Avplan which has a lot of stuff, I don’t think I will be able to come to grips with staring at it while flying as screen has a lot of stuff. Downloaded Airmate as suggested and it may do all I need? Still will get the Aera as I am an electronics geek, my hand held radio has VOR (might be handy) and ILS…..doubt I will ever need to go there 🙂

Fan to firewall!

These guys have parts…. https://www.cps-parts.com/menus/rtx/parts_2_582.html I hesitate to say an after market trade will start doing larger rebuild components for the engines as time goes on, but the crankshafts may be a problem? To many of the 582s in circulation to just abandon them?

There are 70 units arriving January’22, so I have been told. After that, who knows?

It’s an outright buy for everything in the crate, ready to bolt in and fly away.

New ones will be harder to get next year but parts around for a long time and you will be able to get a zero timed rebuild done for about $7000 when I last checked a month ago. In fact was even thinking when I get the new one, might sent the old one away and get it done for a spare I will probably never use 🙂

I started my business, selling Directronix Viatel Teminals, NO research, $2000 capital, a secondhand car I bought and repaired with magnetic signs on it. Running the business from a busted arse $40,000 house. Cold canvas selling and marketing. As I went, I saw more opportunities and followed them for 30 years. NO qualifications in ANYTHING and had 30 years of FUN making money, now retired 🙂

Been doing that all day since I got my Moderna Vaccination yesterday……

Nev, the buck stops with me fitting a brand new 582 🙂 Could never justify $30K for a 912 at my age......not long 'til EOL. My Aeropup has a 912 80hp in it with 350 hrs running on condition......I will die with it!

Its a shame we don't have a list of importers WEB sites somewhere, none seem to advertise......guess its word of mouth. JBs? NONE of our family will ever shop there, again after how I was treated.....their CEO is a SOS, NO skills of negotiation.

I have been told it can be done by a man who would know. I did not ask the question, I simply told him I was dropping in a new 582 complete and he mentioned it in passing. For me a Thruster is a Thruster.......not interested in shredding the skins off it at 5000 feet trying to eek a few more knots out of it 🙂

How many importers become agents for an aircraft and stock NOTHING, or can't get in reasonable time. When I want to buy something, I want it in reasonable time. I phoned a supplier here in Australia for a plane to BUY and all I got was a long winded waffle about how there is no money in it blah blah. Look, I was in business for 30 years and at times had in excess of $100,000 stock of miniature radio gear, I ended up with customers in 11 countries as a distributor and engineering support......ALL on my own, with Mrs in the office. Today, IF I started an Aviation Agency, I would be in a 747 flying around meeting people to set up my agencies with, thats how I did it years ago in radio. I would work out my plan, order $300,00 of kits 'n bits into stock and when I had it all.....open for trading and just do it.......be a good start 🙂 Would like to order in 4 Aerolite 103 kits and just bloody do it 🙂. 12 months wait on orders from them right now. Importers here need to get off their arse an do some sales and marketing, and sell stuff people can afford to buy......not super plastic fantastics full of ' Home And Away' screens 🙂 AND have stock that IF a prospective customer shows interest, THEN break his leg......get an order and a bank cheque of him and just DO it. 2 days ago, I went to Officeworks with my Mrs to get her a new iPad and was greeted at the door by a Drone (first impressions). I said would like to buy an iPad please, opening line was we don't have any Pro models in stock and don't know when they are coming. OK, what other choices are there? he i opened his phone and looked on to their WEB site and thrust the phone at me to look any it.......well my Mrs knew whats next......she bolted 2 aisles away! I said FFS, you are a salesman SHOW me the actual units, Im not squinting at your stupid phone. I bought what I wanted and the nice counter jumper at the till asked if I had all I needed, I said yes but no credit to your knuckle dragger in aisle 3 who needs heaps of training 🙂 I could rave on some more......but the thought will give me depression......

Well for me it now comes to this…….I will do what ever it takes to possibly increase my chances of surviving any fatal event in an aircraft I have control of. I don’t care of statistics, I care about possibilities as if the time you may need a ‘chute’ and you don’t have one……you are screwed definitely. If you have it and never need it, having it is no loss. Instructors train pilots thats it……it up to the pilot to further their knowledge and abilities to make themselves as safe as they can be. Lack of regular hours is probably a major problem that causes ‘rustiness’. I have an MCR licence, covers road trains down……how long since I drove one of those combinations? Be 15 years or more, IF someone asked me to do a ‘run’ now? I would refuse it, becauseI my skills are too rusty to do the job safely.

You roll the dice when you leave the ground in a heavier than air machine, powered by a mechanical device 🙂 You roll the dice when you drive your mechanical contrivance to the corner shop and dont wear a seatbelt because you think they are useless 🙂

Well, messing with Avplan tonight and think I found a good feature for the Aera GPS. Can import the flight plan from Avplan to the GPS 🙂

Not looking at a parachute as the ‘easy’ way out…….it’s part of the overall safety strategy. Besides I told my wife I would always fly solo with a parachute, to make her feel a bit happier. I have to keep her happy 🙂. What man has a wife that a husband can walk in the door 3 weeks ago and tell her just bought another plane, no she did not throw the fridge at me, but simply said ‘I hope it’s a nice one’ 🙂.