pmccarthy

Every day there are dozens of single-engine flights over built up areas, water and forest where there is little or no option to glide clear. A mid-Bass Strait engine failure would almost certainly be fatal. Ditto flights over the eastern range to places like South Grafton. And all that traffic over cities where you would be looking for a golf course, perhaps a 50-50 chance. We trust our engines because they have been shown to be very reliable. When planes come down, it is more likely fuel mismanagement, stalling in a turn or VFR into IMC. If anyone is afraid of engine failure in a well-maintained aircraft then they should get their jollies with a home sim setup.

Someone who popped up on this site again a couple of days ago once strung us along for months, perhaps it was years, with a new engine he was developing. Did the same with a plane. It pays to be skeptical.

Do you mean all the single engine flying that is done legally and safely today over towns and cities? Or do you have a particular type of engine in mind?

Thinking people are working against you is not schaden whatever it is paranoia.

My latest flight was today, William Creek to Wentworth. Check out the ground speed, 155 knots. Not bad in a Vixxen!

Innaminka to Arkaroola today, flew over the Moonee oil and gas field and this uranium mine.

There are plenty of boats left under the sea but there has never been a plane left in the sky.

I guess shopping around will get 1.8- 2.0% for the airframe cover then add $600-800 for third part liability etc.

Just insured my Vixxen for north of $200k.

You don’t get much Cirrus for half a mil.

Don’t honk, new donk.

My simple thinking is that for light aircraft, MTOW assumes that you can make a safe landing immediately after takeoff if required for any reason (eg unlatched door).

Stealth version, for local flying in Kiev.

We all have long lost Nigerian relatives who want to send money to our bank accounts.

The dredges are still there and I have clambered over them, now covered in jungle stuff. It was an amazing achievement for the time. The dredge was designed so that the tumbler, the biggest part, just fitted in the Junkers.

By definition, it is not a UAV.

I used to take out an assurance policy every year 50 years ago. The subs were deductible and payout was tax exempt, that is the only reason it made sense. Then they changed the tax rules and these policies disappeared.

I have never enjoyed building things. I get my jollies out of taking old things apart, fixing the faults, and putting them back together. Have restored a few cars and bikes. I just cannot imagine building a plane, it would cause me a lot of grief. Happy to own one, have now owned two new and two used aircraft, and new is best!

I have had my red ones since 2011. The sort with the spouts inside the cap when closed. The main trouble is the yellow spouts don't bend enough when you tip the can up it inevitably spills. Made worse if you have a Mr Funnel balancing precariously in the tank filler. I gave up when I got the high wing and now transfer using a 10 litre Tuff Jug which doesn't spill a drop. But you need to do the Mr Funnel bit first when you fill the Tuff Jug. It is expensive but you only need the one.

I use the ag chemical ones for motorbikes, mower and sometimes cars. I have proper red plastic containers for aircraft mogas and I don’t use those for anything else.

I use black plastic 10 litre ag chemical containers for fuel. They are embossed as suitable for petrol and I think that was a sales feature to attract farmers to them. But I don’t use them for aircraft fuel.

Had to start with W and they couldn't think of an acceptable word? Had used a lot already.

I understand they are only producing the J230 with a long delivery time ( more than a year).

We've all flown through worse, or so I’ve been told in the aero club bar.

Number 5 sounds like me. Taxying from my neighbour's hangar apron, I collided with a marker cone I don't have.