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10 hours ago, Garfly said:

Channel 9 has the aircraft plummeting 6000' in five seconds.

I believe that'd be a rate of 72,000 feet per minute!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDhF1QMo7k

 

did they call the plane a cessna as well.

26 minutes ago, Blueadventures said:

Nice flight from Palmyra (YPYA) down to the Central Queensland Gliding Club (YMMD) for the weekend. Winter is on the way as 6 degrees in mornings. Good clear skies. Davo put on great feeds for all. Details 2.6 hours into a 20 knot head wind and a nice 2 hour flight home. I was under prepared on the trip down wearing a T shirt and shorts as the first of winter has arrived and felt cold after an hour and a bit as was 11 degrees and no cabin heat and a bit drafty (will replace some of the sealing foam of the split door window) dropped some height and got temp up to 15 degrees and much warmer for the remainder of the trip.

 

making me envious. fantastic scenery as usual.

On 16/05/2024 at 9:43 PM, Garfly said:

On that topic I found these useful:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3M4k6ChQL4

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeRU9leiS5k

 

really good explanations. thank you.

4 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

No doubt you could spin this out for hours.

i did think you had a commercial rating.  i wasn't shit stirring that time.

24 minutes ago, facthunter said:

The early ones when they had Jabiru's motor were pretty nippy. I never liked the throttle position though.   Nev

i have been in one for a couple of circuits. pretty impressive climb rate.  i wish i had kept mine, it was the first 55 ever sold and converted to 912 for hedlow flying school. they reckon it went like a cut snake with the big 3 blade warp drive prop.

1 minute ago, turboplanner said:

Fly through cloud?

my mistake. i thought you were a commercial pilot

10 minutes ago, facthunter said:

You are supposed to have continuous reference to the ground or water when flying VFR.  You can still have SOME cloud below but more than  the odd hole. (and hope)  Nev

i thought turbo was ifr

2 hours ago, turboplanner said:

The Cloud layer had been stable at 1000' for a couple of days, something I'd never seen, waited another day and it had moved up to 1300' flat bottom, good visibility to horizon so came down picked up passengers. had flight planned to Melbourne along the  Sea Level colour, had opted for a zig zag course hopping from airfield to airfield, flying along at 500' and my first town was on a hill, so the ground came up towards me; The Sea Level sector is O - 600'; sat on the ground for a couple of hours, replanned, the cloud lifted again and no more rising ground.

why would you be flying passengers around with a 1000ft cloudbase, i thought you would go above the cloud.

cliff banks the guru of the jabiru , told me the 55s were his favourite jab to fly, like a little sportscar.  he also had the first j170 wing, did the testing and evaluation on it before it went into production.

1 minute ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

if you go to the listing to have a look they have changed it and now it doesn't start for another 9 days ?

 

https://www.pickles.com.au/general/item/-/details/1995-Jabiru-Model-553J-Light-Sports-Aircraft--TTIS-1398-5/745430/

 

Item Not Yet Available For Sale

Check back soon.

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i hope the negative comments on here didn't upset the owner.

12 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

Or those who've had formal training on Performance & Operations.

yes i did find it after much searching.   i am only a dumb truck driver.

i bow to the mighty one  once again. don't tell raaus how dopey i am when you do your report, it looks bad on my logbook.😁

2 hours ago, spacesailor said:

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Pilot & Owners ( Association ) .

Pilot Operators.  ( Handbook )  .

PACIFIC &ORIENT ( Insurance )Company.

Pacific & ORIENT ( Shipping ) company .

This list' could ' be endless. 

spacesailor

 

only those who crack the turbo cryptic code understand.

3 minutes ago, jackc said:

It was so much simpler……back in then weight 

much simpler in a rag and tube, put fuel in and fly, don't worry about all that bullsh#t.

they make us do w& b sheets in flight training but i don't plan on carrying passengers or driving anything bigger than a c150.

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

It's go nothing to do with digs or insults.

 

If you read over your past posts you seem to drift from being a licensed pilot to doing basic learning and even having given it away for something else.

 

If you aren't a PIC then you aren't at the stage of needing P&O so the need to get more deeply into Metrice imperial mix isn't there. Apart from that IF ICAO has a mix and Australia has adopted that mix that's what we have to fly to so there's no point in raising alternatives. 

 

 

show me where i have said i was a licensed pilot and where i raised an alternative.  and metric does not have an e on the end, i thought the smartest bloke in australia would know that.

5 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

In that case you don't have to get involved in it. The PIC is responsible for it.

Training should have been done by the time you become PIC.

The people reading US magazines and books often screw up.

If you have a US aircraft or hire a US aircraft, you only have to write your notes with conversions once, thereafter using them. In the US they never completely finished their metric conversion program.

Sorry. I should keep off the thread I started. I simply made a statement about the mix of metric and imperial, somehow it always ends up with digs and insults from you. Thanks for that. 

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Clearly not for you; it's very elementary and the conversion only has to be done once then used as the base. I'm stunned that people who are implying that they are PIC are saying there's a problem.

I would not call me a pic for a start. 

And metric to imp conversions can cause issues even in the big plane world. Remember the airliner that dead stick landed on a dragstrip in Canada because an American ground crew fuelled them up with pounds but the numbers given were kg.  

3 hours ago, Freizeitpilot said:

Quick change battery packs can solve the recharge time problem.  There is an Australian company doing that for electric trucks. They can change out a battery pack in around 4 mins.

 

https://www.januselectric.com.au/

 

 

Some forklifts have been using a change over battery system for years.

6 minutes ago, facthunter said:

A lot of it grew out of marketing produce but at least a foot is about a foot long... I have to work in both every day making stuff. Nev

We all have to work with it but one standard would better.

19 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

Two dead chooks x 60 dead chooks /  40 dead chooks = 3 dead chooks.

Helpful as usual

2 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

I'd suggest you haven't done much W&B.

Weight and balance sheets in pounds are a pia. It takes longer for me to look up conversions than doing the sheet itself. I hate imperial rubbish

12 minutes ago, red750 said:

All items marked SOLD have been removed. It would make it easier, and avoid possible deletion in error, if advertisers, as well as adding SOLD to title of advert, to also add a comment advising date of sale. This will avoid confusion with other edits you may make, such as changing price. Your ID will show on comment as confirmation. Thank you.

 

 

red750 (Moderator).

Thanks. 

Hello, is it possible for you to remove all the sold items out of classifieds.

There are quite a few.

On 08/05/2024 at 12:59 PM, facthunter said:

There's recommended techniques for the most SAFE ways to maintain control and not stress the Plane in rough Air.. The way weather is changing in flight turbulence will become a bigger concern to Aviators. . Watch out for dust devils without the dust. .   Nev

so explain to me why, when i read aircrafts specs they recommend a higher maneuvering speed at max weight and a lower speed for lighter weight. i thought an airframe would get stressed more in turbulence if it was carrying more weight. 

6 minutes ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

Its a factory built "certified/accepted"   There she stays, apparently for the rest of her flying days.   

 

Would be good if you could do a MARAP (or whatever its called) but i think 55 rego locks you in solidly.

its been done as far as i know.   and the 55 i had ser 0003  was converted to a 912 and certified for flying training.

2 hours ago, FlyingVizsla said:

According to the RAAus Technical Manual Section 5.1 Registration markings 10.1 - a 55 registered is a Factory Built Aeroplane under CAO class 101-55 (non-LSA). 

 

We also own a 55 registered.  Unfortunately, if the engine is out of hours or years and therefore "on condition" it can't be used for hire or training.  The MTOW is also a very limiting factor.  Ours can only take two people if they are under 52kg each or you leave the fuel behind.  Buyers give up when they realise that, and it doesn't go like the clappers either.  Had many inspect, only one made an offer, but hasn't come good yet.  Perhaps auction is the better way to go.

have you ever thought about raising the mtow.   i read somewhere it can be done because stall comes in under 45 with full flaps at 544kg. the 430 was done with a clean stall.