pmccarthy

The scam is to get you to pay the supposed transportation agent on your behalf. You will get an email from PayPal saying that the purchase price plus transport have been paid into your PayPal account. You will be given another account to pay the transport. The PayPal email is fake, but looks genuine.

Gerhard I am interested in why you did not want Rotax engine.

I ran 250 hours on a Rotax 912 with unleaded, and occasional Avagas, or mixtures. I run my Lycoming O360 on avgas with occasional unleaded or mixtures. Neither have given any problems. I use Mr Funnel with Jerry can fuel. The O360 has an STC for unleaded.

It has been tried and was discussed in the EAA magazine about a year ago. I haven't kept them. The writer said he used the display from a car, several illuminated dots, but his eyes were always outside at the point of flare. It might work with an audible note.

There are large mullock dumps all around the central Victorian goldfields. They are comprised of rock that was broken underground, hand loaded and hand pushed to the shaft, hoisted and then hand pushed to tip on the dump. When I see them I think of all the labour involved, and how big things can be built by a small workforce in a few years.

I think I am soft souled too.

FAA will sort him out.

My dad was at Rathmines, a navigator air gunner but he drove airsea rescue boats.

Please keep in it. We need some too and fro to keep it interesting.

Plenty of boats left at the bottom of the ocean, we have never left a plane up there.

Most of my life in PA-28s has made me insensitive, if not lazy, as they are so forgiving. I have to re-educate myself whenever I fly something different.

I am towing a circa 2 tonne van with my Prado, turbo diesel. 11.7 litres per 100 km on the flat at 80 Kph. 8-9 litres per 100 kph in the hills yesterday at low speeds around 50-60 kph. I can’t imagine doing much better than that. Don’t think lectric will do for me.

Jab fuse probably ok, hangar severely dented.

And it all seemed normal at the time, we didn’t know that it was a special time and wouldn’t last.

Mike Patey did two videos on building the cowl for Scrappy in carbon fibre, and how he set clearance. Worth a look if you haven’t already.

A couple of fatties in the seats might move the CoG foreword a bit and allow more luggage.

Like the one hoss shay in the poem The Deacons Masterpiece. designed so all parts wore out at the same time. then it collapsed - All at once, and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst http://holyjoe.org/poetry/holmes1.htm

I have seen costs quoted in discussions here of $200-$300 per hour including instructor. Does anyone have examples of current costs, or possibly aircraft hire rates, for RAA training?

Circuit calls are valuable whether or not you have heard other traffic. They may not be bothering to make calls.

You need an ASIC to hold a GA license. It’s is nonsense.

This weeks New Scientist had an article on emissions from shipping and discussed wind assistance, which can reduce fuel consumption by up to 20%.

Quite right! The Goodall write up says: The Riviera promptly made its public debut at an air show at Pelican airfield near Newcastle NSW on 6 September. A blow came on 22 September during certification performance testflying at Bankstown when a heavy landing damaged the undercarriage and required checks for structural damage. The DCA accident report stated "During performance tests at maximum weight, the aircraft sank quickly when power was reduced for round-out and struck the ground heavily, collapsing the undercarriage." The report noted that the pilot, Bob Shute, had 137 hours experience on the aircraft type. VH-SAV went into the Piper hangar for repairs over the next three months, being test flown on 23 December 1964.

VH-SAV was the only one in Australia. See https://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/narratives/siairiviera.pdf

It has taken 50 years to develop a natural gas network here in Victoria. The electric car myth depends on increasing global mining rates sixfold to produce the required minerals. That just isn’t going to happen. Even if technically possible, which it isn’t, the green movement will not accept new big mines in areas that haven’t had mining before. The rare earths are in very low concentrations in rocks, so the tailings dams will be massive and probably toxic. It is a fantasy.

The only solution is to phase in changes over the next 50 years or so. That is what is going to happen, the faster timetables are just political posturing.