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I use a company called C&H freight, for all my imports, never a major problem yet in 10 imports, simply send an email where to get it, and then forget it until they let you know when its about 2 weeks out then, the only things to pay, is GST on the a/c cost and freight, and a couple of hundred for wharf costs. Very simple with a good company is charge

Ok Maj thanks, not being up with the FW side of things i was abit worried it would need a big O/H coming up or something. Next question, this one has a 80hp 912, which is fine, and states 80kts cruise which i take it means 5500rpm, not exactly what i call cruise revs but anyway, so if they "cruise" at that with the 80hp, does the 100hp make much of a difference? Or is the normal cruise speed around the 80 odd kts? 2nd question, what is involved in changing the motor in a FW legally speaking, is it just an inspection by someone, or is there much more involved? Does yours have flaps? i dont think this one does, so i might not worry too much about it as i need STOL

Ok if one was looking at a second hand lightwing, with about 1400hrs what is the up coming work needed for the air frame? The motor i know about just the frame, does it have to be striped and inspected or anything??

At least these guys had a boat :) http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/02/15/288745_ntnews.html

A guy up here went for the 300 because of the better O/H hours and costs, but he could not keep it running, it was serviced at Ingham, run perfectly, as soon as he took it over the top of the range, it would start playing up, to the extent of not starting some mornings, never found the problem, sold it, and from reports is running fine on the coastal area for the new owner ??? just one of those things

Thanks all, as i thought way too easy to be true, ohhh well on to my next brain storm then Seriously though thanks to all who replied.

If this would work the difference in weight,price, and complexity would be minute, if this would work, just that it has been many years since i have had my head in FW world, and i dont have any actual experience with what i am talking(asking) about. I am thinknig it wouldnt work other wise the manufactorers would have been all over it by now, as my idea of how to do it is so simple its rediculis. Need to thinking about stuff while im flying i think

Ok so there is something i had not thought of, and didnt realise. Just to clear what i was talking about in very loose terms, would be like a helicopter blade, the ability to change the pitch of the wing, heap of pitch for T/O, using the hp for climb, then after reduce pitch(climb ability) and turn the hp into forward speed. Is this possible. i have a vage idea of how to do it simply, the biggest unknown is would it work, in theory it should(well in my head anyway ) But is this only the case because the wing is fixed in position? If the pitch of the wing was increased by say(ball park figure here) 10* it would lift earlier? would it or not? or would it just stall the whole wing out? Increasing the pitch on the wing to me would be similar to the modern Air Liner wing, as this is what it looks like it does, i sat beside one the other day hense my asking this question.

Ok i was thinking about the fact that you seem to need to pick a short take off, or a fast cruise speed, so it got me thinking. Now for a STO you need a big cambered wing with a fair amount of pitch, a fast cruise you need a low cambered wing with low pitch. So why cant you have a low cambered wing, but here is the real question, why not have the whole wing assembly to be pitch adjustable, so with the low cambered wing, with heaps of pitch to get off quick then slowly remove the pitch of the whole wing assembly, to get your fast cruise. So obviously i have not yet researched the legalities of this, as they very may well be a ruling that the pitch must not be adjustable or such. But if not is there any reason why this would not work, it just seems too easy, so if it was this wasy i would thing one of the manufactorers would have already done it??

Personally, and yep i probably get stoned to death for this but, if you need to finance a toy(airplane, dirt bike, and the likes) i believe you cant afford it. But that just me i guess, how ever i do own my home, 2 cars and a hangar, 2 gyros, a few other toys, and a business, and the only thing i owe money on is the business. all from my sweat and tears, but in saying that i sometimes think of some of the places i always wanted to go, but was too busy making money to pay for all the stuff i now own.

Good Job, Robyn, and you know well for me it is anyway, very hard on the instructors nerves while your up there on your own, even though i know i have done everything i can i am like the non stop chimney, i give chain smoking a whole new meaning on the first solo of every one :) and damn i had 2 last week so i went 2 days with out a smoke after that

Sorry i couldnt catch up when you were here, but i was up the gulf, sweating like a pig, but i think it could work, the "ball" idea always seems to work a treat up here.

Well i spread my wings abit today :roflmao:and went for a lap in a 120 Jab, and honestly was impressed, it is a nice little plane, gets along well, but damn whats the go with the nose of those things being so high in level flight, damn thought i was climbing all the time. Anyone got a cheap one ???

Bluey, what the hell??? never heard of anyone removing the gearbox to rebuild it at 600hrs, mine has done 1600 never touched it, and it cops a flogging, probably full noise 70%

A photo of the machine

Well we are over here flying busily, even though yesterday it was blowing about 20-25kts, not bad for training(5 hrs each so far), would like to see it drop off abit before i send them solo

Yes ASRA are investigating the crash, the OP's manager and ex OP's manager got on a plane this morning to go and investigate. I (very)seriously doubt this has anything to do with the wind or turbulence, Sam had enough hrs(and in a type of machine that can handle it) to handle any of that.

Russ, surely there is someone in your local area up there with a VP prop on something, they should be able to tell ya how it should be done. What i would do though is, set the prop to hold the RPM to your max you want static, then read the MP, that would be my max MP i would use when in flight, for when your triming the prop. I thought it be flying by now? and i only realised it was you at the Atherton airport a few weeks back as you drove out, i was driving the double deck cow taxi, getting av gas.

I tell ya u got to watch the power of those Rotaxs see how it was twisting that WD prop

Good to see the replies so far, it was something that got me thinking. A few years ago i flew to Wangarratta in Vic, i sat down and plotted my course for fuel stops ect all the way down and tried to do a different route home, then found all the gps pionts for everywhere, made a folder with all the printed off Ersa pages for each, numbered then 1,2,3 ect, and programmed them into the gps the same way. Then when i left i "goto 1" then "goto 2" ect all the way, but i still always had the map open on the passenger seat just to double check land marks ect. It was good cause i am a sticky beak and was looking about everywhere, only glancing at gps every now again, and lining up on hills or even clouds on the horizon for a rough marker,,, very relaxing way to spend a couple of days fly one end Oz to the other(well nearly).

Ok this was a thought that was started from the "hope this helps others" thread. I didnt want to completely hijack that one so i decided to start my own and ask the question directly. What is your preferred navigational style; chart and compass, or gps, or a combination of both, or is there some other way you do it? While im at it WHY? I could have done a poll for this but never done a poll thingy before so i just stick with asking the question.

sorry found the answer in the video clip above :)

Yeah yeah righto, but while you are all sitting in the hangar cause its too rough or too windy i still flying But dont get me wrong i am still looking for a quick little plank to get me to work and back.

Its the Mack's im going over for(not sure if its the same people though), they have got themselves a brand new gyro thingy Vince and Ewan are the 2 guys, i been talking to, Vince's Brother is a FW ultralight instructor over there im lead to believe, and so they are expanding into gyros now, should be good then, if they are already set up. Oh nd Gra what's with all the nice things you said about me, you turned over a new leaf for new year And you got your reseerve chute ready yet?

Anybody around the Esperance area? I'll be jumping on the tin bird Friday to go over there for a couple of weeks to put a machine together test fly it and do a couple of licences, just wondering if anyone wanted to catch up. Now i cant tell ya where ill be exactly, Cause i dont know yet, but i will let ya know when i get over there, its at a smaller gravel strip if that helps