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1 hour ago, John Werner said:

• It’s estimated that a little over 42%Trusted Source of American adults have obesity, while about 30.7% are overweight. Overall, more than two-thirds of U.S. adults in the United States are overweight or have obesity.

Oz ain't far behind those stats! 
I’m on vacation (as the yanks say) atm on the border new/qld and walking daily on the beach I see so many who have no shame! Whales in and out of the water!😂😂

Mid 70’s @ YMEN, ah the good old days👍

31 minutes ago, flyhi said:

Rotax Pn 861189 $123.05 each  $246.10 for a pair from Floods last April 2025

 

Tried to contact Floods the other day but the email goes to Rotax in Austria!🙂🙁

Yeah genuine Rotax floats are black, the blue ones are epoxy, made by Marvel Schebler, the carby people. How much were they from Floody’s?

It’s cheaper to buy from Spruce in the States inc postage than here in Oz!

Lockwood USA don’t seem to ship to Oz🙁

They sure have a captive market!🙁

Anyone seen the insane price of the blue type fuel floats for the 912. 
$940+ for a set with bowl gaskets, $1280+ for ‘certified Rotax’ floats!…..the worlds gone mad!……for a few bucks more I could buy the whole engine, well almost!😂

Reviving an old thread. I bought a Texan 600 last year. Great little plane but they do have a few quirks. 
The original importer I believe lied about the M/T weight so in the early days many where flying over weight in the RA cat.Mine when re weighed gained around 45 kg’s! They are a bastard to do a thorough annual on, pulling the cabin floor up is a real pain! Not easy to get in and out of, especially for us old codgers😂 You sit kinda high in them, great view albeit an odd look as the bonnet drops away giving you the impression you’re descending in level flight. Undercarriage is a weak point, plane built like a tank (hence heavy)

They have a poor Va speed, top of the green arc is around 97 kts. Low flap speed too, difficult to get full flap out in turbulence without over speeding them. Original Vs was 35 kts full flap, I use 40 as I don’t trust the manufacturers figures, it’s benign at 40 kts anyway. Has good short field perf due a large thick wing. Very light on the controls.

Fly Synthesis sold the company some time ago, parts are hard to get I believe.

Two years! unbelievable! But I guess it is Australia! 

Look at the bottom of a lot of home builds, some rivets are ‘smoking’ cause they are being constantly lubricated  from the oily residue exiting from the breather pipe so this in turn lets joints move around. Vibration is metals biggest enemy, not point in promoting it!

Whilst Jab are free to do what they want but one has to ask, do they really need the extra attention when these contraptions start killing people? Ugly is one thing but crazy decisions are another! 

Just came across this interesting thread as I’m doing some research as to why my Garmin TX got fried, by all accounts from a voltage spike as the Alt field CB pops sometimes.
The Volt meter at times goes off the scale, well above 15v. I’ll start with the Alt/reg, I’m not sure if there’s a OV Reg in the circuit, much to figure out🙁

Won’t see too many operating with these donks anytime soon.

too costly not to mention that training is different to recip donks, plenty of pilots could easily cook these and repair bills would be very much ouch!

Ill stick to recip donks in my bug smashers and let someone else pay for my kero burning flying😂

….oh it’s becoming rocket science😂😂

Personally I use 60 mins res everywhere drive my planes, remember min 30 mins is what you must have at the completion of landing, that’s cutting it too fine for me.

some years ago I was about to join the circuit after a lengthy flight to a drome where there was a 25 kt westerly and EW & NS Rwy’s, only trouble was that a plane had flipped on landing on the EW strip and people where frantically trying to remove the driver so hence to say either take the 25 kt X wind or divert elsewhere, hence 30 mins to me is not enuf!
I even double the min gas on the Jet I fly as well!

This subject can be over thought in some ways. Simple solution is work out the worst case rearward CoG and Fwd CoG with these  numbers/weights handy and use them as a limit, anything less weight wise is obviously ok👍

Hmmm dunno, I’ll ask a journo……yep just as I thought, it’s a Cessna😂

The boys are busy over the Grampians! 

Defiant👍

Where’s my thread drifting popcorn?😉

I was actually ref to Pvt pilots, I use the term ‘ drivers’ as that’s all I see we pilots are, just drivers of machinery!🤮 Road drivers? Well that’s a whole other nightmare😂

I spent 13 years with Mobil Oil, you’d be surprised the crap that’s in fuel especially diesel!

Nah that’s real believe me……..after a heavy night drinking there’s always two of everything😂

8 minutes ago, facthunter said:

"Someone HAS to mind the Shop".  Nev

That about sums it up in a nut shell!👍

A few mornings ago. Yoid never get me in one of these bloody things!😂

The sad part is with these types of accidents is that it’s totally unnecessary to die this way! Discipline I find is hugely lacking in a lot of Pvt drivers, some simply have no idea, some don’t care and some shouldn’t be in charge of a lawn mower!