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pmccarthy

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  1. The club closed a few years ago. It was being redeveloped as a civic centre I think.
  2. The needles move just a bit. Highest I have seen them was a long climb on a hot day, got about half way up the yellow band. Never seen them reach green. Really good cooling or dud gauges. Oil just lifts off the stop after 3 or 4 minutes from cold start, coolant doesn't move. Photo shows typical cruise. Been that way since new aeroplane.
  3. Ballarat has been scary in recent years too. Too many students with poor English frightening the likes of me.
  4. The attitude to risk is interesting. People fly Bass Strait in single engines every day. The chances of survival after ditching are close to zero.
  5. My new engine (80 hours) has never seen the green band on either the oil or coolant gauges. It worries me. Smart air, the Foxbat agent, say it is normal. I would mask off part of the radiators, but am not convinced that the problem is not just the gauges. I need to get serious about diagnosis.
  6. This is what I put in our March club newsletter. Tyabb Airshow 10 March Tyabb, VIC Unusual Attitudes Fly-in 16 March Lake Eppalock VIC Ausfly 22nd - 23rd March Wentworth NSW Aldinga Airshow 7th April Aldinga SA RAAus Fly-n For Fun 12-14 April Parkes NSW ANZAC Weekend Airshow 27-28 April 2024 West Sale, VIC
  7. There a nice Quicksilver for sale at present, very reasonable price. Saw it today, I just can’t find the ad again.
  8. We had the Tyabb air show ad in our club newsletter for three months.
  9. 47 hours dual and only 4 solo seems a bit strange if I am reading it correctly.
  10. They have now released the audio of the incident. It went Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.
  11. Bruce it is not clear what the problem is - if you can get pliers in there, then you can get a spanner in. What are we missing?
  12. B is Maxwell Smart's shoe radio.
  13. Continuing its focus to support pilots around the world with powerful and innovative applications, Boeing today announced it has acquired OzRunways. With this, OzRunways becomes part of the ForeFlight family.
  14. Nearmap must do this regularly, I don’t know what aircraft they use.
  15. That was the US Avgas replacement. Not relevant to our Premium Unleaded in Rotax. But interesting.
  16. I saw this yesterday and spoke to the builder, Petr Gregory. It is a one off, using a VW engine. Probably a better use than for aircraft.
  17. That second seat is where you put your flight bag.
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