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  1. Moneybox
    Yes obviously a problem. http://www.rotax-owner.com/all-videos/expanded-video-instructions/295-magplug I'll sort it out tomorrow.
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    No I've not removed that. You suggest I do it now while I have easy access?
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    I was pleasantly surprised when my 30mm SS exhaust tube and flex turned up in the post this morning. Now I think I have clearance to remove the oil filter too. How could they produce a fault like that and continue to manufacture it until a couple of years later they come out with a new exhaust system. That hose on the radiator comes too close when its in place (another bulletin) so I have some tubular insulation on the way for that as well.
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    Some of the old Ferguson tractors would start on petrol and then switch to kerosine and those engines worked hard and lasted forever. I guess some fuel requirements are overstated a bit. Good marketing to get us paying premium prices.
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    That tank only looks crude because somebody has formed a very basic mould without much consideration for athletics. The inside will be better looking than the outside. I had a pattern maker make our most complicated mould in wood then it was cast from aluminium. This particular mould was not for fuel but for all the air-conditioning ducts inside a dash. Same material and same process but a much more complicated design. The original mould was expensive but the end product was inexpensive and virtually indestructible and perfectly smooth on the inside. The outside finish will match the inside of the mould but in most cases its not important.
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    The majority of our modern motor vehicles have their fuel tank manufactured from the same product. It has reasonably low melting point and flows well when liquified allowing it to be rotationally moulded creating a smooth inside surface. It's meant to be chemically resistant and has proven itself as fuel resistant for perhaps the last 30 years.
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    spacesailor, If you lived in WA that problem wouldn't occur. We only have a roadworthy check on original registration of if you're picked up driving something obviously unroadworthy. Even when changing hands it's just a handful of cash and a handshake 😃 transfer is done online.
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    I don't know if anybody takes the time to read previous posts but I find information in this thread quite confusing? -------------------- I use exclusively 91 RON in the last 30 years and on previous occasion 91 or 95 RON. I have never, repeat never, had a plug fouling, starting, carbon build up or any other fuel related problem, while using this grade of fuel. Those that promote the use of higher RON fuels (including AvGas, WTF!!!!!) in such engines are, without so much as a sceric of credibility. ------------------ I have no experince and only anecdotal knowledge of using ULP in LyCons, Jab engines. My local flying school is exclusively Jab aircraft, they all run on ULP 98 RON, have done for very many years, apparently without any negative effects. My Rotax powered aircraft has a preference for 98 RON - will run on 95 RON and if needs be AvGas . ------------------ Perhaps I'm being a little picky but if you were trying to learn something by following this thread I doubt you'd have much success.
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    Usually when a plastic tank is rotationally moulded to form a tank a brass cotton reel shaped nut is first bolted to the inside of the mould. That gives you a perfectly sealed brass thread into the tank. If you have to insert a new thread HDPE can be threaded but to get a good seal it pays to put a neat chamfer onto the outside of the hole. The chamfer can give a neat fitting O-ring onto a flanged brass fitting a good seat to seal.
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    The one local guy that flies out of here said to avoid the heat. I guess that means to stay ground based in the summertime. I've just been outside pouring concrete. I ran out so got another six bags of quickset from the Cue Emporium. I was having trouble getting it evenly mixed in the concrete mixer so I decided to read the instructions. It says 'Sets in 5-15 minutes'. Right now it's 40.5° so most likely sets in 3 minutes. Anyway nine bags of cement and I'm done, the job is done too but I guess this is the sort of day he suggested I stay on the ground. It's forecast to hit 45° by Friday.
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    I had the bottom drop out just as we were approaching the end of the airstrip to land. I don't know the height we were at but it was too quick to react and we seemed to stop in ground effect at a nice level to land however we were still over the grass on the approach. My instructor hit the throttle and said go-around. We did but I thought what a waste of a good landing all I had to do was add a bit of throttle to reach the threshold 🙃
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    What is classed as a Country Airstrip anyway? I thought I'd see if Cue is there No, Mount Magnet No, Meekatharra No, however some of the smaller station strips are listed.
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    I felt comfortable following his instruction, he's my trainer, I take it he knows the best procedure, I don't so I need to follow his lead and learn. I say a steep turn however it was just due to the speed we were travelling at and the need for a rapid decent. I'm guilty of turning my rectangular circuit into more of an oval. My secondary instructor has me doing a 30° banked turn apart from during the accent.
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    One day while nearing the end of the airstrip on the downwind leg of the circuit, cruising at 100kt and 1000ft, my trainer pulled the throttle to idle. He said, you've just lost you engine, what are you going to do? Remembering my study I quickly eased the stick forward, he immediately pulled it back saying "No, look at your speed. You are wasting height". We were cruising at 1000' and easily had sufficient speed to gain considerably more height gaining time and glide distance. I don't remember what height we got but it was well worth using burning off our speed to gain the height. It gave us time to discuss a strategy. Next he said "Where are you going to land"? I said "I can easily make to runway". So he instructed me to head directly to the downwind end of the runway, I headed beyond the end of the runway so that I could turn back but he said "No aim for the end, we've got more than a kilometer of runway to land on but we want to make sure we get there first". Once we reached the runway I did a steep turn and steep decent coming in for a perfect landing on full flaps within the first half on the runway. It was a much steeper approach that I'd done previously or since but felt very smooth and controlled although a quite a bit faster. He never cut the engine and I doubt he ever will.
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    I'm not interested in getting into your personal spat nor am I qualified to do so. Some time back I watched a very interested video on two Aussie guys who practice STOL in their bush planes. They land anywhere there is sufficient clearing in the bush, obviously not for the average LSA. They were both of the opinion that all pilots should be trained in low level flight so that if ever the occasion occurred they'd be less likely to panic and it may save lives.
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    The RFDS land once in a while and are exempt of some fees. The closest airports are Mount Magnet 85km S and Meekatharra 120km N. The Dash-8 planes are regular dropping and picking up fly-in fly-out miners adding to the shire coffers. Both those would require airstrip lighting.
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    Yes there is a decent sized genset there but I doubt it's quite that big 😁
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    You might think that with a couple hundred residents they might struggle for finance from rates. That's not the case. The whole area is under pastoralist lease, they pay rates, then we pay rates on any mining lease over 10ha, in the case of our mining lease that cuts through our back yard we pay residential rates on top of the mining lease rates. Services provided for a mining lease include unmaintained roads/tracks, no power, no water, no refuse collection or anything else.
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    I think quite a few are owned or operated by a flying club. Club fees and member labour most likely look after the facilities. Private airstrips are the owners responsibility. Our airstrip is controlled by the local shire. We have 2000m of bitumen fully fenced with pilot activate lighting and a building with toilets and basic facilities. I'm not complaining about the fees but we'll see what happens if I apply to put up a hanger. I'm quite sure it'll be approved because the shire CEO said to let him know if I want to construct a hanger. The only private structure is that tiny grey square near the grey gravel patch at the top of the photo. It has two shipping containers securely anchored with huge concrete blocks and a roof spanning in between.
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    I've got these couple of Pending leases at Reedy. Just fighting Native Title and Aboriginal Heritage at present. But it was that airstrip that go me interested. Pop up there in the morning, dig a few nuggets and fly home (as long as I'm not over weight) 😉
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    Yeah "Murphy's Law" tends to kick in.
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    I'm retired so gold prospecting is just a hobby. Mrs M would like me to be a bit more serious about it but there comes a time in life when you realise doing the things you love are much more important than the cost or payment in monetary value. This is Mrs M with our haul from a few months out and about. Right now I'm more interested in getting the plane in the air but with gold at over $4000 an ounce it's tempting to put a bit more energy into it.
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    Mrs M wants me to run the detector over it all. I'd be there for weeks but I might check out a few really good looking spots. Most of this ground has/had gold. It's a gold mining lease with another nine years to run. I have no doubt the dryblower would pay well but I've sold that and I haven't got the wet plant up and running yet. There's always the risk of some idiot digging holes in the airstrip.
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    Yeah Nev, I know what you mean. I'm told there are annual fees to park a plane at the local airstrip so I'm looking for another option. Home Airstrip.mp4 My plane is still sitting in the back yard. It seems ever since covid struck everything takes twice as long to be supplied from just about anywhere.
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    Yeah I have days like that. I head out to do something, then realise I forgot to take something I needed so head back again. Once getting to my starting point I wonder what it was I needed so I head back out only to remember once I get back to where I got to the first time but I've never had the desire to head to North America.
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