DAVID SEE

If you’re looking for a reasonably priced 95-10 how about a ‘resurgem’ powered with the four cylinder 2stroke radial, take off and land 25kt cruise 50kt tricycle undercarriage Hyde. disc brakes, wet wings, trim and electric start $4,500ono. It’s sitting in my hangar, I’m now to heavy for it but am still flying the Lightwing.

Also have a 447 sitting all wrapped up to keep the hornets out

Sorry fellows, I’ve been out of action on and off for a while. I did have a look around and found it, but it’s not 80kts it’s 100kts, sorry for a bum steer

I have a drifter with an airspeed indicator to 100 knots, I know the drifter will get no way near that in one piece so would an 80 knot indicator be better as you are using more of the indicator in the instrument.

Hi fellers, thanks for all the info. I got myself upside down under the instrument pannel today and started tracing the wiring back, I would get power then it would go out again ‍♂️(b@$;&$?) finally found the wire that's solderd onto the fuse holder had came unstuck from its solderd joint but was out of sight in the heat shrink, re-solderd and working that good you'd think it came from town. Cheers Davo

OK thanks people, will be back at it on Wednesday, so will let you know what transpires

have had two fuses blow over the last couple of weeks, I replaced one today and now I'm not receiving any power to the VHY (uhf works fine but now there's no lights coming on in vhf) it's a icon IC-A200. My question is, will I have to send the whole cradle and all the wiring away with it, or can I just send the radio off by itself? And if so, can anyone advise me on where to send it? Thanks in advance. Davo.

Thanks Farri, sorry mate but I didn't explain things enough as I I was trying to put a photo of the back of the tacho on here and somehow the gate got knocked open and my query bolted out the gate.....what I didn't say was that I'm actually changing tachos over (old one buggerd) and wiring is all still there, but the new tac has no indication of what wires go to what blade?My wife googled what she could but no luck yet. Anything we found had four or more terminal blades on the back, and this one has three if I hook it up wrong I'm afraid it might let the smoke out

Cheers Dave.

G`Day David, You need the Grey wire that is part of the bundle of wires that come from the Stator Coil. Your Taco, should have two terminals! one goes to earth and the Grey wire goes to the other.Frank.

My wife googled what she could but no luck yet. Anything we found had four or more terminal blades on the back, and this one has three if I hook it up wrong I'm afraid it might let the smoke out

Hi David,Can I make a suggestion,

This is an aircraft that you are going to fly and possibly take passengers in with you, if you are not 110% sure of what to do please pay a qualified LAME to conduct the replacement for this or any other part you need to change out.

 

Like all instruments the tacho is pretty important and should be functioning correctly. It concerns me that people will carry out work on aircraft when they have no idea of what they are doing.

 

Cheers

received new tachometer. and instruction sheet is not much help It is a VDO 333015032x I have googled it and found the correct setting for the switches in the back of it to suit my 582 but haven't been able to find which terminal is + & - and which one is for the eng. pulse?

Will try and add photos -----no I can't seem to work that bit out Can someone explain how I can do that please. I'm not real clever when it comes to these things

Thank you Franko. Came through good and clear

Cheers Davo.

Sorry Guys, Can`t upload the PDF as it`s too large a file, tried reducing, still too large, anyone who wants it will have to give me an Email address.It`s no bother to me.

 

Franco.

Dave. [email protected]

Almost unbelievable.....phone call from Doug 1/2hr. ago. still shaking. RIP old mate.

Condolences to family and friends. Old Station won't be the same without you.

I'm seeing a discoloration of my prop.

Over these last few days of wet weather I've noticed my 'brolga' prop has gone a lighter colour. Does this mean it's absorbing moisture. I have sometimes seen a change in colour after washing it. It doesn't seem to have any effect on it as it still runs as smooth as always. I often polish the prop with 'Mr. sheen' after washing.

Any thoughts or ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers Davo :o)

The ALA at Frogs Hollow (10nm. nth. of YTDR ) is now permanently.

A portion of the property, 700 acres, has been sold and unfortunately the house, hangar and airstrip were in that portion so please replace the Frogs Hollow co-ords of S 24*49.35 E 150*08.39 and insert our new place of abode along with our new strip, unfortunately the strip here is only 450mtr. so it will be a bit short for your twin, Steve. We are about 5 to 6nm. south of Frogs Hollow, the strip is the same orientation as Frogs Hollow and is right by the house at.....S 24*58.3 E 150*05.4 the strip falls away to the south, preferred approach is for '35' as it's uphill. If coming in from the north, there is a single power line runs east / west across the end of the strip, it's no real worry, but it's best to know that it's there. We are a couple of mile south east of the quarry, in among the leucaena.

This property is owned by Dave Jewell, who flys a Trike and has done for many years, but is starting to do his three axis training, I don't think it will take him long as he is very comfortable in my Lightwing

Cheers Davo.

Hey Keith,

After looking at the program; looks like its going to be a lot of fun!

 

Plus, it's a good excuse to catch up with everybody that I haven't seen for months :)

 

Letitia

Negative........ 25 was factory built certified trainer........the weights I posted are from the factory placard attached to the aircraft.....Maj...

Hi Maj. I was under the belief that 25rego. was not certified, but was registered as being approved for training. the 55rego. came out as the certified model

and what is the difference between the two?

Cheers Davo

P.S. see you at Old Station

Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!

I understand the frustration:contract:

Bypassing the "print" option in oz, is easy.....take a screen shot, then print that....easy as.

I take screen shots of my route, print them, then use them as my backup in flite....perfect.)

Assuming you are using an iPad.??

Pardon my ignorance, but how do you take a screen shot and print it??

I'm not as familiar with this thing as the grandys are but they aren't here to show me

Hey Doug how do you put a pic on here?

I'll put my old girl up for show.

A bit of history I found on 25-0032 history. A video of her flight across Australia with two flight star aircrafthttp://australianlightwingdatabase.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/the-alw-database/comment-page-1/#comment-3

Hi Doug, Just finished watching it.....what a great trip, and most of it at tree top height it seems.

 

sorry to hear they lost a man in the roll-over, but a good doco.

 

Cheers Davo

I can't keep forking out thousands of $$$ every year rego is due?last year cost me $1470 (prop) $130(reg) that's $1600 for rego for

that year!

rant over. no flyerme:crying:Shattered dreams

I'm in a similar boat. My LW 1 was flown for 18 years by the previous owner with a grey head 582. after a engine failure it was fitted with a blue head 582 and I've flown it for more than 3yrs. now they send me a letter to say they wave me 12mths. rego. on condition that I supply a engineers report on the upgrade from the original 503. it had a 532 for many years prior to the 582. RAAus can't manage to keep any info. (photos of rego etc.) for 12mths. so if we obtain a engineers report, will we have to get one every year? because they will have lost by following year you can nearly bet on that.

Go onto the RAA site and check out the amount of De-registerd aircraft

Cheers Davo:angry:

:oh yeah:Just watched the 4 videos..........awesome!!!!!!!

Watched No.3 four times. That thing must of been built like a lightwing .

(The big grin is supposed to go after lightwing, still learning to drive this thing)

Cheers Davo :o)

I need to replace my old IC-A20 which I let go with the Fisher when I Sold it.

Looking for info/comments on the IC-A6 which I think will suit my needs

Cheers Davo :o)

I took a friend up a few years ago and he very seriously asked me why I always flew into the wind????? Gave him a puzzled look, and he said "you always fly against the clouds, why not turn round and fly with them."

I managed to explain while keeping a straight face:oh yeah:

Good on you Ross. Pleased to see the result come out the way it did, when the politics and 'secret service stuff' starts getting you down, remember, we are all backing you.

Cheers Davo:thumb up: