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  1. Student Pilot
    What sort of illegal activity? If your worried about your aircraft then maybe a trail camera triggered for movement or a security system. Is this to get landing fees? Are you a council member or law enforcement? Is there lots of after hours illegal activity?
  2. Student Pilot
    Porters can have fuel issues with the wing/ferry tanks.
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    I think you'll be right Nev.....
  5. Student Pilot
    Has an English look to it.....
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    I think we have as much to be feared from the US as Russia. Expecting Oz the follow their lead with actions, sanctions and policies then first in to take our markets after. Overzealous bureaucrats, incompetent regulators and entrenched "we know better than you" attitude from the powers that be seem to be more the problem than some sinister plot to take freedoms away. GA is just a shadow of it's former self, the ASIC is partly to blame along with privatisation of public airfields, councils milking/extorting, price of avgas, CASA's detrimental intrusion into every crevasse, every minor detail of aviation are all to blame for the demise of GA. All these combined have made GA out of reach to the average man. To fly GA you have to now have more than a considerable income to participate. RAA seems to be resisting the forces so far....
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    There are asic based security checks as well as ASIO checks, why both? If it's terrorism based threats the worry then why not leave it to ASIO? They have files on all pilot licence/firearms/explosive licensed holders why duplicate the checks?
  8. Student Pilot
    There are many levels of security from local to federal, it seems none talk to each other.
  9. Student Pilot
    With formation flying most time is spent with your eyes outside, being so close a display of traffic on a screen is not that helpful.
  10. Student Pilot
    Possibly a 30 year old aircraft and a rotary wing one at that. There are many things that can go wrong with choppers, have you had a close look at the mechanical gadgets required? There are many things to check with a walkaround on a Hughes 300, not the lest being a heap of what look like fan belts that transfer power to the main mast.
  11. Student Pilot
    I use normal Apple maps (less clutter) with ozrunways, most of my flying is away from zones. If I'm going through or close to airspace I use a VTC.
  12. Student Pilot
    Belphor or summit like that. A 70' span biplane pure jet, what a brilliant idea! The 2 hoppers might give some problems with emptying on solids giving a few asymmetric problems. They were that confident in the design that two seats were incorporated behind the pilot for an engineer an a joyrider 😁
  13. Student Pilot
    Distinct difference the way it's commented on between an accident in Oz and overseas. An accident in Oz there's outrage if anybody makes a comment of why, how. Always indignant criticism about waiting till all the facts have been looked at and the accident investigated. Anybody who makes any comment is called an armchair expert and derided. Hands up all those with airshow, warbird, formation and American circuit procedure experience?
  14. Student Pilot
    I was thinking more battered Sav....
  15. Student Pilot
    What's a Sav?
  16. Student Pilot
    FAA/CASA edict "We're not happy till you're not happy"
  17. Student Pilot
    You mean like in a Liberator? They also had crank driven superchargers, I think they called the turbo a power recovery turbine. The likes of the Neptune had 3 I think turbos geared directly to the crankshaft also had a gear driven supercharger.
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    Here tis.
  19. Student Pilot
    I'm sure I've seen a pic of that with Col pay at the controls off the ground?
  20. Student Pilot
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse Seems there were folk all over the world with similar ideas
  21. Student Pilot
    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.
  22. Student Pilot
    The epoxy types have a rough/sharp abrasive supplied to sprinkle onto the applied epoxy. They have far superior grip.
  23. Student Pilot
    Ahh, just read the "removing" 🙄 That would depend on what sort it is? Paper glued? Epoxy sprayed?
  24. Student Pilot
    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.
  25. Student Pilot
    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.
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