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I'm sure I've seen a pic of that with Col pay at the controls off the ground?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse Seems there were folk all over the world with similar ideas

Did it tell of the lengths they went to to nobble anybody else who had the audacity to try and fly a powered aircraft? Taking others information (Including Hargreaves pioneering work) and experience and patenting it as their own.

The epoxy types have a rough/sharp abrasive supplied to sprinkle onto the applied epoxy. They have far superior grip.

Ahh, just read the "removing" 🙄 That would depend on what sort it is? Paper glued? Epoxy sprayed?

Use the epoxy based nitride ones, more expensive but you get what you pay for. The stick on sandpaper is not as abrasive and with any mud/dirt can slip badly. Also when the sandpaper type gets a bit worn and had a few cleans the edges can peel. Depending on the aircraft that can have a disastrous effect on the lower speed range handling. Believe it or not a half inch edge of wing walk sticking up can give the aircraft very bad stall manners. On tailwheel aircraft especially it's important to have stable footing.

At a slow near stall speed dumping all the load does not give the performance jump you would expect, you have to look ahead and dump while the aircraft performance is still at a reasonable level. In hills/mountains at high density altitude, (which is most bad fire days) the aircraft performance is degraded severely anyway.

Don't think so Nev, he'd have pulled the nose way up first. The aircraft has kept the nose down and steepened the turn to try and make the target. With a tailwind, slowing airspeed and high angle of bank it's in a dangerous position with not enough height to recover. Also a lot of flap out seems to slow the roll rate in most aircraft. At extreme angles of bank and slow airspeed the roll rate is virtually non existent.

I like the way ACI has huge cockpits with veneer cupboards, they spend more time having close ups of actors showing concerned looks and 70's glasses and knowing nods than presenting facts.

I disagree with the commentator that the pilot would have been using full right rudder, rudder is used to balance the turn not to make it. A long span usually needs to lead with rudder but not turn with rudder. An overshot turn is bad news, a high angle of bank worse. Overshot the turn and tried to recover by steepening the turn.

The tinfoil hat seems to amplify the noise as well!!!

Never been able to use earplugs of any sort. I get sore ears, tried for weeks on end but still gets sore. Best I've found is noise cancelling headset, helps immensely with radio communications.

It has been said they spent several hundred thousand dollars cooking up the scheme to change what people call it. All they hve done is entrench that people will call ti the BOM. Farkum 250k!!!!!! Just because some stuckup shinybum wants it?

I am always wary towards VNE.....

Having a lower VNE doesn't mean they will stick to it. The Drom conversions in Oz had a low VNE anyway but didn't stop people from flying around way beyond VNE.

Depends on the engine fitted, Pratts yes, Garret not as much but still yes.

Otter is a good machine, designed with the 1340 radial. The turbine pulls harder and flys faster than the radial ever did, this creates problems the designers didn't allow for.

They have nearly completed their goal of making GA completely safe by putting all GA aircraft out of the air so they need to move onto somewhere aviation is actually increasing numbers.....drones.

They are a car engine to start with!!!

Forced landing practice?

Landed at Paris on Monday the cloud went onto fog, before I knew it we had landed. I complemented the Captain on the landing, he said he didn't do, it was computer. It was the smoothest landing I've felt, the wheels just stared turning.

Open cockpits are a different experience, you feel to be more in tune, in contact with true flying. As long as it's not too cold!!! Thruster would be my choice for a fun aircraft, Drifter also good. Low (relatively) cost basic flying at it's best.

I have had aileron and rudder flutter at different times, it is very violent and unmistakable. The aileron problem was out of weight tolerance and the rudder was rudder trim unconnected. Gets your attention.

Wasting your time and money, CASA listens to nobody

The main reason for shrinking airports is privatisation leading to greed