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Police state? That's overstating the situation surely. You shouldn't carry (nor I believe is it required) for you to carry your maintenance records with you. PLBs are for YOUR benefit if you go down, remember. No separate medical for RAA (generally), just plastic RAA licence, plastic drivers licence, which fits neatly into one of those wallet thingys most guys have. You REALLY cant complain about those requirements, can you? No pleasing some people, is there ft?

ahhhh ffs ft, what the hell is wrong with this initiative???? OK, the printer friendly execution left a little to be desired, but the info and concept is great. Rather than slagging CASA off, we now know from the horse's mouth what we need to do to comply with a ramp check. I for one welcome this small initiative. Give credit where its due, and stop living under that bridge.

If you want a modified "printer friendly" version with white background and black text, PM me with your email address - I cant post it as the file is too large for this website. I've laminated my copy, and will keep it with the aircraft.

A long suffering pirate had a dysfunctional parrot on his shoulder. The parrot kept saying "pieces of seven" "pieces of seven" "pieces of seven" The pirate explained that the bird had a parity error......

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I for one, welcome our new Zeus overlord (with apologies to Kent Brockman)

Back in August this year, I, (along with about 20 other guys) completed a one day course on Pilot/Operator Maintenance Training, and received a Certificate of Attainment, and endorsed by both RAA and CASA. I wonder if I still have to do the online course as well....

My new 582 that I bought at the start of the year came with thermostat as standard fitting.....

What a great thread. I've been getting random (phantom) reception noise every few minutes on my radio of late. (Running a Blue Top 582, btw) I had, till this morning, a 12v iPad charger plugged into my indash cigarette lighter socket. No phone/iPad was plugged into this charger. After reading this thread, I removed the charger, and the phantom receptions disappeared. Plugging it back in caused the phantom receptions to reappear. So, either I will try to find a high quality charger, or will use my 11000 mA battery pack for my iPad mini, and forgo the cigarette lighter charger ================================================================================ On a similar vein, is there a quality voltage regulator or indeed any other device that I can use to smooth out the choppy 582 alternator output?

Welllllll, yes what you say is true, to a point However, if you do pressurize the tyre when jacked, then replace tyre on the ground, there is so much less compression of the tyre compared to the unpressurized case, that the pressure wont rise to the same extent. So yes you will go above the POH pressure, but not by very much :)

and if you dont have a metal airframe, where is the best place to attach the earth strap to the airframe?

I replaced my lead-acid battery in March with a LiFePO4 (Lithium IRON,Shorai brand) battery, running off a Rotax 582, with an approx 5kg weight saving. To date, I've had zero issues with this battery, and have not had to ground charge the battery. From all my reading on the internet, it does seem to be a safe alternative to lead acid. The Rotax charging system is NOT the ideal way to charge these batteries, and I am currently looking at some system to provide an alternate inflight charging system. I am not endorsing the use of lithium batteries, and personally will not use lithium ion/ lithium polymer batteries anywhere (after having a couple of RC batteries destroy themselves). I'm just adding my experiences to the general pool of info about this new technology.

Hi Andy. No, you dont need OziExplorer at all. Just the Android device, and EITHER "Easy VFR", OR "VFR Navigation". It depends on your needs. I like VFR Navigation, as its major strength is its simplicity - ask for a list of nearest airports, select one, and it will tell you how to get there. It wont plan a flight or show weather, but sometimes, simple is best. However, as before, Avplan or OzRunways are both, in my humble opinion, much more polished, and complete applications.

EasyVFR. -from pocket fms folks-all planning can be done on Android device - niceish, but not as user friendly as AvPlan/Ozrunways VFR Navigation - now with moving maps and terrain maps

So, Barry Hempel was -a great all round guy and great pilot OR - a bit of a barnstormer prepared to risk others He was - fully licenced to take paying passengers OR - he had restrictions of some sort on his licence The Yak - had no problems OR - fell out of sky due to mechanical issues Yet to see any comment WITH EVIDENCE backing up which of the above apply. He might have been the nicest guy in the world, but IF he had some problems, where was his personal responsibility hiding when taking up paying passengers (including my daughter, for a joyride on her 18th birthday, a month before his fatal crash)? I met Barry a few times, and he was the nicest guy, and upon learning about my daughter's interest in flying, wanted to help and mentor her. BUT. The buck stops with him eventually, as it must with all of us pilots, when deciding to fly or not. Hiding behind doctors, or saying, 'it really doesn't apply to me, cause I know better', doesn't cut the mustard. Was he fully licenced? Don't know, but it was never mentioned when we were organising the surprise joy flight. When my daughter and I were interviewed by an accident investigator after his accident, I must admit I got pretty angry when I was told about his licence circumstances, and the risk she was placed under. So yeah, all round nice guy, but it boils down in my view to personal responsibility, towards yourself and others. Didn't see that demonstrated that day.

Geeze Bull - can I buy you a new computer or keyboard ?? (Yeah, I read your earlier explanation).

Lucky bugger!!!! rego renewal sent 11th May, with stacks of photos of rego numbers, new cockpit labels etc Rego expired 4th June 2 phone calls to RAA no info available atm Although I was just told that there is a new dedicated person who will grab the aircraft file, and ring you back.

Hi Lucas, I push this a bit, but I reckon this video has a lot of sense about running 2 strokes, from a guy who has seen more 2 strokes than most of us. One of the things he pushes is to take the carbs and engine back to stock before trying to resolve the issue. Also got great info regarding rejetting (basically dont do it, as your problem is prob not due to carb jetting) Cheers Gerry

Exactly!! I watch my EGT temps, and they are always tending towards the lower range, until I start descending, with low power, and they can climb very quickly. I try to keep power up above 3500 rpm, with the nose raised a bit, so that the EGTs stay in a comfortable range

Found this quiz a while ago - cant answer for the accuracy of the answers, but might be the sort of thing you are after to put on this site....... http://www.xsymetrix.com.au/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/10/Online-BAK-pop-quiz Cheers Gerry

If you have time, watch this EAA video, "Is your 2 stoke engine about to fail?" - It has heaps of info about running your 2 storke

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Hi Dave. I bit the bullet, and bought an AirKit ground plane independent antenna a while back - it fixed the problem, and now I have great Rx and Tx performance.

That section from about 3:05 ,across the cloud top and hill side, is magnificent. Cant wait to get my Shadow back together and get back flying.....

Scott, can you post some photos of your video camera setup? I'd love to see how the cameras are mounted. Cheers Gerry