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JimG, One thing you will find as time goes on, is how sharp your flying becomes, i obviously was very nervious for the first couple of students, but then you relax, as you know you can get the sh*t straighten out if you need too, you dont need to be contstantly "hovering" over the controls, which does make the student nervious too i found, if you can sit back and "act" relaxed it really does help the student, i thought back about 6 months ago, and the instructing really does make you a better pilot, much better in some areas, i still need to work other areas though :) Bones
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this thread has motivated me to have another beer and think about how many more i need to have to get to 100kg :) Sorry guys, i had a guy i taught to fly who was 135kg, and probably only about 15 kg of fat, hes happy as a pig in it now flying happily at the same weight, you need to find a craft that will fly you, and the xenon was the only to do it for him, and he fit in the cab with heaps of room. of course you need to be into rotary wing to do it :)
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I attended for the Saturday only(drove), a good show for sure, how ever the one thing you cant argue with is the weather, so why not shift it to the towers instead of ingham, i know the weather was fine here sat arvo and sun, it would have been nice to be able to fly up but it seems closing the airport for the whole week end so the drags could run on the strip seemed a whole lot more important to the council
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Yes i agree it would, however 3000 odd' is not that high, like i mean for the aerodynamics to handle, how else do you get to 5000' for eg. IF the wings ect were loosing lift. i dont know enough about it to agrue one way or the other, just my passing thoughts, but it does bring things into reality when a couple of highly experenced guys can come to grief, and i think back to some of the down right stupid things i got away with........when ya numbers are up.......
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Holy crap, i just stumbled upon this thread, Heon tried to help me with so many troubles i was having with my 914. Just a thought, IF his plane had the 914, the DA wouldnt really have been an issue, the turbo removes the DA thing, they just keep delivering the hp regardless of DA,,,, within reason.. fly with blue skys fellas.........
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Well since there was just too many pages in this thread i decided since i had a slack day to investigate a little further. Removed the instrument from the gyro, and disassembled it, hmmmm no internal battery, just a printed card inside, so it got me stumped how it holds its memory, but will take it to the puter shop and see if they want to look at it.
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I got a fuel mizer gauge not is not holding its memory, does anyone know how to fix this problem or is it a throw away and get a new one, great tool to have, but not when its not working. The problem is as soon as you turn off the power it looses everything, the calibration, fuel level, the lot. Thinking its internal battery has died, wondering if anyone has any info???
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Actually the other way around, the work load is easier in the gyro, because of the fact your not getting thrown around in thermals, it is quiet easy to do 10hr days and still be fresh ready to go again the next day, i was going for 3 weeks straight just 10 days ago, of course it is compulsary to have just a few amber fluids that night to ensure you keep your body hydrated :)
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I thought it might have been you Simon. I wasnt saying that HTL were the only cause of Smoking holes either. It seems that lately the RAF's have had more than their fair of smoking holes, and the fact that most of them are about 18" HTL is nothing surprising really. The old Air command , were also HTL and after getting into(in hind sight) a PIO, and shoving the throttle shut, cause i didnt like the feel of what had started, its not hard to imagine, how easy it would be to leave it go for another couple of secs, and i would have been a smoking hole hole too. This machine only had 65hp, easy to see how something with 180hp can get into trouble real easy
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Holy crap with a round mast no thanks :peepwall: and that is a good angle but even better if you bank it back the other way straight away
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"To state that HTL machines "typically have problems with PPO" is a bit on the strong side." I would say most of the smoking holes in the ground were made by HTL machines though, i have more hrs in HTL machines to know, and that is why i found out why my work load was so high i was glad to make the change clt OR at least machines with very good sized HS, even the(i cant put the name up, it starts with Z) is a HTL machine, but it has a HS the size of a dinner table, and is one of the most nibble, stable machines i even flown, and i got a few hrs in differnet machines.
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Hmmm doesnt seem to work for me??? is the address right?
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Ok well i couldnt for the life of me find a "for sale" section, so i but an add in the classifieds as well as this I have a 914 TCU and waste gate control motor for sale, both brand new, never used make me an offer
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This is all true, nothing like flying for 8 hrs trying to find cattle in country you can hardly see the ground in, how ever as stated you do after awhile tune your eyes for what you looking for and nothing else, it is VERY hard to see a guy on a 4 wheeler after awhile. The one piont i would like to bring up is this, a couple of years ago, a glider went down just east of YCHT, i was at the airport the afternoon he went missing, and was asked if i could be there at first light to help look, of course i was, well after 3 hrs flying with my misses for a spotter, i was working my way back for a fuel up and go again, then the powers to be FOUND out :cops:that i was flying a GYRO in the search, i WAS ORDERED to land and take no further part in the search, however they were happy for a few FW a/c with the same motors to continue in the search, and be paid for the fuel. I of course didnt listen to them and continued anyway, the wreckage was found within a search area that a C210 had covered that morning in heavy fog
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Here is a bit of info for you, the reason grids work, is because cattle, and horses for that matter have no depth perseption, so i guess all they see is a big hole, no idea how deep :), That why cattle and horses normally will jump into a water hole, because they cant tell how deep it is. you wil actually find in some places there are just lines painted on the road to look like a grid, they work til the cattle work it out. heres something else for you, cattle will walk up steps but not down(can be forced, but they dont want to, again because they cant tell how far to the next step)
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If it was on a gyro, it would be a pusher, was the motor a 2 stroke or 4 stroke for directional, and i doubt a 582 will pull 13*, my 100hp 912 only pulls 11* If it were a 4 stroke i might be interested. Find out what what motor and redrive it was on.
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Someone please clarify fuel for a Rotax 912ULS
bones replied to Kyle Communications's topic in Engines and Props
basically anytghing you put a match to and it burns that motor will burn :) averaging about 120lt per day through mine now, these motors arent real chooosy what goes into them -
21* ???? what size prop, what type, i think you have a typo there with 12*
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Mt Isa reservoir ?????.....................................
bones replied to a topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
I dont know the details but there was definately a plane ended up in the lake thats for sure, damn funny listening to expert descibtion of what happened, it was a crash but the plane didnt sink because it was a plane that could land on water. WTF cracked me up it did. -
I was just talking with a couple of guys who know, i dont know his exact hrs but they would be low, dont know much more than that atm.
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So you finally got the thing in the air did you?? Now i spose you finally get up here then :)
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Does anyone have any first hand experience with this efi control system? Had a gyro in my hangar the other day with a 914 efi engine on it, but i think the computer needs a bit of a tickle up, the rev range is smooth above 2500, but below this, it is a bit rough. it will idle at about 1500rpm, but roughly. I was wanting to know if any one have any computer maps to suit this type of engine type??
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Also a REAL good idea is to have a separate fuel filters for each pump, because even if you have 2 pumps and the filter is blocked turning another pump on may not do anything, simply just before each pump put a inline filter, job done, that way if the duty pump stops, either electically of fuel blockage, you KNOW you have a clean filter and pump to try. Edit; remember to change the second pump filter each service also, paper filters do degrade in time, so no good thinking you got a good filter and pump if it hasnt been changed for awhile and its blocked too
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What you mean apart from multible engine failures and the resulting forward tuck that killed near all, lots from what i hear are still sitting in sheds unfinished or unflyable. http://brumbyhelicopters.com.au/ This is one sweet ride though, got the right engine in it for a start, bla bla bla
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Moves are being made at the moment to have the ultralight helos covered under ASRA, which will reduce costs dramaticly, one would hope any way, but the fact still remains how do you train, atm i dont know of any 2 seat helos that fit under the weight limit, NOT THAT I KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT, so dont shoot the messenger (please)
