pmccarthy

Double check floats.

At 25 LPH it would be 36,000 litres. They flew over a truck which pumped up the fuel. Probably dropped the poo bag on a string!

I was in Toronto in 1995 and the Tower was draped in a giant banner that said Windows 95. We forget what a big deal it was.

We were encouraged to crowd fund that project through a post on this site. I tried to do so but the technology beat me. Now am glad I didn’t contribute to the disaster.

I would change t.he title if I could!

I remember the good old trains where you could watches the sleepers flashing by beneath you.

Quite impressive. The runway needs some work.

Ok...here is the confession. I found it where I left it - in the aeroplane! Just as 440032 suggested yesterday.

I decided to search everywhere again. Searched two cars, the home shed, my office, the caravan, the hangar and the aeroplane again, yesterday afternoon. The plane had been searched three times by me and once by my wife, and it is only a small plane. I had even released seat catches and flipped up the seat bases.

So this morning I decided to go for a fly. Sitting in the pilot's seat, leaned the passenger seat back forward to tidy up the seat belts, and there it was in the seat back pocket. Black item against a black seat with a black mesh pocket. I must have actually leaned on it a couple of times it when I flipped the seat forward to search the luggage compartment.

It is more than just domestic blindness, because my wife usually finds things when I get desperate. Anyway, thanks everyone for your suggestions.

3 hours ago, RFguy said:

@pmccarthy
What was the hex code of the skyecho ?

It was assigned 7C5E1D for my PA28. But I disabled ADSB out when I got the Vixxen as it has a Mode S transponder.

Now RF has "come clean", this is my experience. Hot day in a PA28 with that floor vent blowing straight up. I left it to the desperate stage as I only had an empty coke bottle. Alignment with the neck of the bottle was not great, flow control was zero and the vast spillage blew up and across me and my very sympathetic passenger, SWMBO. Unfortunately, this was ten minutes before landing, where we were being met by friends. Fortunately, I have almost no sense of smell, so was less embarrassed than I should have been.

It has never been mentioned again, and she continues to fly with me. 

Australia is much more than a large island; most of our flying is done in continent.

I still can’t believe it would be stolen. But I have searched several times. It was in its case, zipped up. I still think it more likely mislaid, but I had no reason to take it out of the plane. Then again, I lose spanners all the time.

My Skyecho2 has been nicked. I don't know exactly when. Is there any way to track it down by its signal? I assume they have changed the aircraft code.

Use a pickle bottle, not a coke bottle. My wife will confirm.

Do others turn down the radio to do a run up? Is it taught?

Looks like a paper plane I used to make.

Tocumwal might be a handy stop for coffee, food and fuel when close to Melbourne. And a quick look in the museum.

Wasn’t his a purposely strengthened job?

Giving up GA, the hard thing is acknowledging that you will never own or fly that plane that you always admired. It may have been a dream, but it was nice to think about. RAA is a wonderful opportunity, but it is sort of like giving up flying, if you know what I mean.

I have beaten the system by going RAA. CASA required several annual reports from specialists that the specialists told me were not otherwise necessary and cost a lot of money, including scans and that stress test.

Latest advice is the engine is going to get a bulk strip anyway, and the insurance company owns it, so manage power right up to impact to get the best round out.

The seat rolling back on takeoff has happened to me in an early Cherokee too, years ago.

Rendering of the lenticular shape Cargo Airship that the Russian manufacturer Aerosmena will launch in 2024 , which has a payload of 600 tons. 

Aerosmena has designed a total of four different aerial platforms, each with a tonnage and specially designed to cover a need. There are models with capacity for 20, 60, 200 and 600 tons. "Merchandise transport ships".

Melbourne is in Florida

The area was settled in the early 1850s. So we have quite a few places named after battles and people from the Crimean war headlines. Such as

Sebastopol, Inkerman, Redan, Alma, Balaclava, Malakoff. 

Went for a local flight near Creswick yesterday. Each white heap is an old waste dump from a gold mine on the Berry Lead.