Flightrite

There's zillions of these Rotax engines around the world, can't be too much of a problem vapour lock surely?

Shame they don't have a "Hard on" emoticon...... I've seen some damn nice RV8s, a bit out of my budget at this time though.

A real mans 8, fighter like interior/controls?

Cessna!!!! Finally the answer IS Cessna ?

 

AT-17 bobcat

I was gunna say Cessna for a joke, bugga!?

Would like to have viewed this vid but it won't download on my iPad for some reason..

Yeah it's an odd ball??

Odd one this bird!?

Ah the good 'ole days, late 70's YMEN?

Regarding the topic old Sir Reg loved women in aviation??

I'm not sure what type of fuel injection Rotax use but the GP engines use a TBI system as far as I know, don't think the Rotax is set up like that?

As Nev said above 'unbalanced turns with sudden back stick', add in low airspeed and it's all over red rover! Crazy thing is its optional to spin in and kill yourself!?

Please don’t fly into controlled airspace without holding a current CASA license and medical in an RAAus aircraft!

The fact the controller knows you is not enough, you need to meet the controlled airspace requirements, meaning current CASA license, medical, current RAAus qualifications and an aircraft with calibrated instruments including altimeter, transponder (if the airspace requires it) and an approved engine (no automotive conversions)

Exactly! The rules might be dumb but pilots are meant to be a cut above the rest of Earths inhabitants, but sadly that's not the case so many times! The lack of knowledge in some pilots at all levels is staggering! I've said it for years it's way too easy to get a pilots license and retain it!

Don’t know why I am buying into this but anyway, here is my twopence worth. Flightrite is correct in saying the 0-235 has adjustable tappets and does in fact have adjusting screws on the rockers. Another thought, I don’t know where you are at with the engine but if it hasn’t run for a while I would give it a decent ground run and do the compressions again while the engine is hot. You may well find that the compressions improve. 60/80 is the minimum acceptable but 70+ is more normal in my experience.

I agree. If the owner was amicable I would habe run the engine hard for sometime. I bet the comps would have improved ?

Don't forget that even though the O-235-C1 has adjustable valve clearances, there's no screw adjusters on the rockers, as in most other engines.

 

The clearances are adjusted by purchasing longer or shorter pushrods - another added hidden cost, just to simply get correct valve clearances.

That's actually incorrect. The 235/290 are the only Lyc that has adjustable tappets, the varying length pushrods are for hydraulic lifter engines.

It wouldn't be hard to detect a diff reading down to 60 over 80, the air escaping would be very noticeable. You be seen engines that where idle for sometime slowly improve with usage as well.

981.5Lbs / 445Kg BEW for my RV-9A, but that was before autopilot servos and wheelpants. 450Kg after. Still, a 150Kg payload, less 80Kg of pilot gave enough fuel for a Sydney-Brisbane flight or a 2 hour local junket with Mini-Me. I could have got a bunch more if I hadn't stuck an O-340 in it! At least on VH- now I can take 2 adults, AND fuel!

I was more ref to a 7. A lot of Aussies are fat! Typical for an Aussie more like 90-110kg? The Vans machines are very capable, could never understand why anyone would limit their ability like that? The best Vans (in my opinion) is the 8, proper conventional u/c of course.???

I know a lot of people bag the Airbus with its multiple flight envelope protections (can't stall it in normal law) but I found the 'bus' easy to drive and not having to trim was oh so sweet??

That is another thing do.

I don't like charging them in flight, so to preserve battery life, I get a heading and fly it and turn the ipad off. I turn the ipad on every so often to check that I'm where I think I should be.

I carry one of those jumpstarter packs which has a USB charge port if I really need it,, but I've not needed to use it in flight as yet. if I'm going somewhere unfamiliar I will print my map off before leaving.

I've not flown in Europe, but from what I've seen their maps are really cluttered and airspace a bit tight, so that may make that a bit more difficult.

I too never charge in the plane. I also have a 10A battery bank as a backup. I travel a few times a year up Nth to see my family it's over 700 miles so in that 4 hrs or so I check about a dozen times as well as I have a full set of WAC's for the route and even take segmented screen shots of the route on my iPad, anal I guess!??

At the end of the day only you can make that choice? By the way what was the airframe the engine as attached too?

See if you can find out its usage in recent times. I used to operate one in my Citabria. It was 41 years old with a TT of 1050 hrs (rare that's why I bought it) and comps where all around 70/80, used very little oil, ran like a Swiss watch. They are one of the most under stressed reliable engines Lyc made wth a TBO of 2400 hrs, you would have to go out of yr way to kill one. They are one of the few engines that have adjustable tappet clearances, it's a long shot but if the clearances are tight that won't help wth the compression testing, air escaping during the test via the oil fill tube means rings, via the exhaust means valves. Good luck, purchasing any plane has a certain amount of risk.

A typical 7 would be around 470-500 kg?, 600 MTOW in RA ya wanna be stick thin with every 2nd molecule removed from the fuel!??

I disagree....Most western corporations have swung so far to the left with diversity and equity crap that generally women get away with far more than men ever would.

I suspect the reason that harassment and bullying are rife at Airservices would be because they moved the goal posts so that normal behaviour now fits bullying and harassment criteria.

I may be wrong, but I am extremely suspicious of the claims and smell a class action on the way, with money to be made for lawyers and their financiers.

You could be right there re the goal posts theory, the line in the sand has shifted over the years to where it's a little blury! The attitude is still there but the repercussion net is getting wider all the time!

That Roco ( Rotax engine ) plane which had to have a coolant leak fixed at William Creek has another $20,000 problem. There is damage around the nose-leg attachment which indicates probably a heavy landing. Nobody has come forward to claim it ( the landing ) as their own however.

So far it is not doing as well as the Jabirus. A light air-cooled engine and a glass airframe are hard to beat cost-wise.

I remember seeing that busted plane at Willy Creek late last year under some trees. Rotax engine have a good name but the risks of something going wrong are greater especially out in the boon docks! As a side note there was an RV7 there with RA rego, hmmmmmmm?

Sadly bullying is part of the human make all the way back to the caveman days? Times have changed, attitudes havent?

I keep an eye on all yr Vids??

Side stick controls are becoming more popular from GA to Jets. Airbus are going to have company? My own two birds ha e a floor mounted stick/s, they work well.