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6 hours ago, facthunter said:

That's got people in stitches, OME. Reminds me of the bloke who fell off a bridge in Paris and carried on as though he was In Seine. Nev

When Cleopatra fell off the barge she got counselling, but he said she was still in de Nile.

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I have been watching vids of the shot down drones and haven’t seen a Rotax yet.

I think that was a milletary model.

Why two hand pumps.  High quality bicycle pump will do it. It is worth removing a wheel just to find out which keys and spanners you need and how you will prop it up.

43 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Tune it to run on ethanol. Nev

With nitrous injection.

The headset sockets should be positioned so an accidental tug does not bend the plugs. I have ruined two headset mic plugs in my Foxbat where the sockets are in a rail behind my shoulders. The plugs are vertical, a simple lean forward can bend them, cost of the Bose replacement is about $300 each as the whole cable and noise canceller must be replaced. Or solder in a $50 plug and the headset looks crap. Never had a problem in 50 years of flying planes with sockets in the instrument panel.

Nice room at Tumut.

That prop looks like a real pain.

WACs get PRDs. Female American soldiers get periods.

Aren't acronyms wonderful.

Dan is getting too silly to watch. And too much click bait.

Six minutes is too long to be taxying in April.

Foxbat support is not in doubt, unless Putin takes over all of Ukraine. They are still shipping aircraft.

I think it was Kimba.

This one goes for 2.5 minutes. Horrifying. 

So he went all that way without a basic tool set?

I need to replace a PJ-068 microphone plug. That is the standard 5.23 mm plug on just about every headset. I can only find them in the USA with exorbitant postage charges. Is there a supplier in Australia?

I would be worried about Nylocs that aren’t actually locked.

In the late 1970s / early 1980s VicRail moved into the petroleum business, entering into a joint venture with a number of local oil companies to build operate an oil pipeline between the Altona refinery and a tank farm beside the North East Railway at Somerton, where another pipeline took jet fuel to Tullamarine Airport. The tank farm was never built.

The pipeline was sold to private interests by the 1990s and is still used to carry jet fuel to the airport, and since 2008 no fuel has been carried by rail in Victoria.

Mike Dalton is a member of our club and specialises in aviation risks. [email protected] +61 419369678
 

2 hours ago, old man emu said:

If a car is travelling up to the speed limit, and one of it's front wheel enters one of these potholes the driver could lose control and veer to one side of the road or the other, colliding with a big tree or a big rig, depending which way it veered. Was that incident caused by unlawful speeding?

We have potholes everywhere at present. I can cruise my Prado at 100kph and it just rolls over them. But if my wife's Corolla Hybrid hit one it would bust the tyre and shatter the rim, the tyres are really low profile. So she has to swerve suddenly instead. What would an investigator conclude?

Meteorology may be a weakness of RAA training compared with GA. I don't know that, but remember that meteorology was a big deal in my GA training many years ago. Having said that, lots of GA pilots seem to get themselves into unexpected IMC situations.

I suggest sending the fastest first so there is no danger of slow planes getting rear-ended.

Mount Beauty to NSW could have been challenging in yesterdays weather.