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  1. BurnieM
    XPS is a BRP house brand that they appear to have been using to market oil for their other engines for 20+ years. Looks like Lubetech (US) had some earlier manufacturing involvment but now appears to be sourced from Castrol (US). This new aviation oil was developed for the high temps of the 916 but has now been approved for all Rotax aviation 4 stroke engines. A full synthetic should handle higher temps without breaking down but I do not see it lowering temps at all. I always understood semi-synths were used in aviation for their ability to suspend lead (to allow for avgas use) and a lot of the development and testing seems to be about reproducing this feature in the full synthetics additives package. Odd, unless you have a really significant temperature problem.
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    Actually, no. I had a friend who worked for Caltex then Shell. Even tho they tried, distributors in Australia/NZ would go out of their way to say absolutely nothing. Oil formulations here have a number of differences to even the same branded product in the manufacturers home company. I agree with going with premium brands. It seems like most 10-40 or 5-50 oils (synth or semi-synth) would work in Rotaxs, obviously no friction modifiers so the car oils are out but all the premium motorcycle oils should work. Unfotunately the mc oils are as expensive as Aeroshell. Big question; what is the legal situation ? No guesses please.
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    This blog has some interesting articles and some replacement parts; https://pointsforpilots.blogspot.com/ 912ULS with 2400 hours in 28 years
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    https://base2final.myshopify.com/collections/featured/products/fly-low-leather-patch-hat
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    Was that a press release from Garmin .......
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    Foreflight do not need the product as they already have their own. So probably they are going after the customer base. Only problem is these sort of takeovers have very mixed results.
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    I'm in the software industry. Yeah, nah.
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    While RAA will be getting CTR access 'soon' I do not see us getting more than 1 passenger any time soon so to me they seem pretty comparible (for class G) except on a RPL/PPL you can fly a 4 seater will lots of luggage and full tanks. Anybody have the numbers on full RAA license/rego vs CASA ?
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    I hear water can be useful too.
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    Anybody applied for it yet ?
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    I believe currently when you get your RPC you can no longer takeoff/land at Bankstown. Can somebody confirm. BT lane of access and training area are fine but where do you take off from ? When WSI goes live we lose Bankstown lane of access, Bankstown training area and part of Camden training area and these areas all become controlled. You would require a massive westerly detour if you want to stay uncontrolled. I believe this is a significant part of RAA getting CTA access. The size of this political problem is why I think owner maintained group A will have access. Question I have is what equipment requirements will there be ? ADS-B ? A harder attitude to 2 yearly calibrations ? ?
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    You mean Western Sydney International ? Almost certainly this was a factor.
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    Except that it looks like owner maintained group A will also be allowed into Controlled Airspace so ?
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    As regards LAME maintained, I suspect this is partly political; 'my GA plane is LAME maintained so why are the RAA guys getting away with cheaper maintainance'. Same with Basic 5 medical which I suspect will be simialr to us with similar restrictions.
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    Most of the work has already been done so you have already paid for it. Wait till they get into MOSIAC 🙂
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    While this is the current situation the new CTR endorsement and use of it has not been defined. Particuarly, whether we will need more than our current self declared medical to use it. What happens with Casa basic 5 medical seems to be intertwined with this. I do not think we will know for another 6 months.
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    Surely CTA transits are a skill to be taught, learned and practised like anything else. I can see that people who learned 20 years ago and currently only fly in class G may be taken back but even old b*stards can learn. Non-standard radio calls from all types of pilots are more of a concern.
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    Depends how Basic 5 medical turns out. Could be that they become so close to the same that nobody bothers.
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    Can I point out that many (most?) KTM engines are built by.... ... Rotax. BMW, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki all have the design, testing and manufacturing facilities to build LSA engines but they do not. Why not ?
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    Have you looked at the mounting systems on other 912 equipped aircraft ? Something like the Evektor or Sling who have been using 912 for a long while.
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    Two points; I have never received complete or relevant information from a company in receivership. Never. Interesting that Sling Aircraft are addressing their recent massively increased demand by expanding their in house manufacturing facilities. Yes they are a smaller company but appear to have a more strategic management. Not saying they are perfect.
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    Lets see what happens with basic 5 medical. They could end up being very similar.
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    While current kit builders will pay whatever they have to, I don't see many new kits being sold in the next 2-3 years. This willl create further problems.
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    The NSW Fuelcheck app is handy to have on your phone. It will give you locations and current pricing.
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    Agreed but with basic 5 likely to be restricted to 1 passenger, how is this different to what we have now with RPC ? If anything the number of crashes with DAME signed off pilots appears to be higher. Not suggesting that this is a factor but am suggesting that self declared is an extremely small factor. Yes you are legally covered but in many (most?) aircraft scenarios you are dead.
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