dan3111

I was up at my local caboolture strip today and there was a jab fueling up with one nation on it up the side . I couldn't,t help my self so went and asking the pilot about the sign righting . Jamie's was the pilot which Pauline around south east qlds to the local election talks . He was on his way to pick up her it is funny to see a polly that's flys around in a 24 Reg RAA aircraft .

Report. I cut the vdo sender apart in the lathe and found a worn spot in the resister bar which the fine wires are worn to the stage there open circuit at the 4 bar spot . It has done 100 hours

I think some of the coolant pipe threads leak worse on some of the different coolants on the market . I have seen one 912 leak on all heads pipe bends witch was using Evans all its life .

I was flying last weekend the vdo oil pressure gauge went to max over worse country as normal it would have to , at this stage looks to be the sender which it 100 hours 18 months old . After talking around seems to be a common thing ,I,m had bass ring fitted and proper was balanced when sender was fitted so Didn,t save it . I'm going to remote mount it this time and try that . Sorry for the miss wording above stupid iPad two locks up and will not let me correct tithings . Mrs. Apple are doing there best to get older pads to stop working with there up dates so you by new ones they learnt of Microsoft that trick . Cheers Daniel

Drip trays a good that if you have room ,I also heat tape exhaust pipes and ceramic cited muffler if you land to can put your hand on the muffler so works the my Savannah .

This is not to do with this aircraft crash put a general comment on Lsa aircraft . I do think a lot of factory aircraft are a lot Heavyier then they say they are . A lot don,t really meet the 45 knots stall less they are loosing 1000 FPM down to earth . The first of types may have but people want flash paint and glass panels all the bells etc and so adds up to 30 kg plus on tare weight . The faster the lsa the less wing area in most cases so the danger factor goes up and up when fan stops or loss of control . I have a friend that has a Rv 6 and from when he first flew it , with wooden prop and no bells was 50kts stall to custom adding stuff now stalls at 60 kts . So it all adds up so the only thing you should add to any aircraft is lightless . Some might shot me down on these comments . But the truth is when there is any wind on the grape vine that there might be a ramp check at a fly in there not a aircraft to be seen.

I think it comes down to the person behind the controls didn,t want it to be found and make it a great all time mystery . If you turn everything off and fly it to the middle of know where ,they Didn,t plain of coming home for Xmas .

Golly By that photo the general circuit area is a lot of big prickles it doesn,t look to friendy for any testing out of there ,you would need a post at the end of the strip to run engine at full power for 10 mins before taking off . Just a dumb question which way does the strip run and where was the sun been taking off that time of morning .

I think its very hard to put a height on it as so many factors , length of strip, wind direction speed of wind ,tree height , how much weight on board , is it the normal plane you fly, and how much notice you get a miss first etc , i look back at all the AUF greats and most they died in aircraft operating at the time under 500 feet . So may be 750 feet is more of a safe height to do any turn as the greats didn,t make it under 500 feet .

Danza will tell you a true story . There was a raa CFI at Caboolture that often took the odd risk and did a lot of hours training and flew in any weather . He gave up flying sold all his aircraft interests and told his lunch man which was good friends with he had a dream that he was going to die in a aircraft . Well 90 days or so later got killed unloading the semi trailer the pipes rolled off . Flying is a really big part of a keen aviator life and is a massive hole to fill the so many friends to go with it it gets in your blood and hard not to look up when you here a plane fly over . Our roads are crazy full of p players ,drug users . Mobile phone users , and people that can,t drive so not safe on the ground as well . Dan

I often do think the same but i look back and what happened to past friends , one guy we used to fly with wrote off to scout aircraft ,two kestrel aircraft then mastered it , then became a high hour light wing pilot crashed it in the river at the end of his 300 metre stirp 912 engine failed one day , then later lost the gsc prop on the way back from the factory rebuild landed in a field . Then years later was has having a full on domestic with he,s wife when landed and then ended up crashing his lightwing into a tree with both on board . both walked away .there also so many other things he got away with and was bullet proof . What got him in the end was cancer he rooted away in hospital in he,s early 60"s and his x wife did the same about 18 months before him . I have lost a lot more friends from non flying as well . cheers dan

Was 582 or 912 by the early rego number would have had a 582 when it was built from new wasn,t too many 912 ones around then .

just a few clear plastic vg,s in the right place could save your life.

I think at the end of the day it doesn,t matter where the part is sent , long as someone does all the checks that the part matches . They still have years and million of parts to find to solve the mystery of what happened . But after all the years of searching and paper work the finding should change the tracking rules on airlines . Witch should be if the engines are running the tracking systems are on no matter what and can,t be turned off . Just like they changed the rules of two crew in cockpit at all times if that rule was in place back then we might not be searching the ocean floor now . Rules only have simple to help stop these things happing again . Dan

That must be the boat the Labour Party and a policy change about to let them all in and send the boat back will bill shorten in :) .

L,m interested in one two if you are getting a price , they seem to be compact and easy to use by the intstucton manual on line . It would be a good back up for asi ,alt , vs I , GPS , compass , etc . Look to be a great idea to mount on the panel . Cheers Daniel

Hi there don,t let it get you to far down we have had a bad run of late and not sure why weather is just more aircraft flying so same percentage or training or many other factors . I think it is a good thing to be a little worried when flying if you don,t have any fear that a big problem . Use a lot of comon sense and learn from others .

You have to look at the type of flying you are going to do and the type of strips you would be operating from . If a lot of trips then jab cheap for your money . If you are doing a lot of local stuff then a slower air craft may be more practical . Never make the mistake in falling in love with a aircraft sitting on the ground ,it must be easy to fly in most conditions and have a low stall speed to be safe all round aircraft . Dan

I would guess nose first into power line then line caught and slowed aircraft as it pitched up then felt back out of it same thing happened to a local drifter 10 years back . Cheers dan

Sorry my profile picture is old as cant work out how to change it , that profile aircraft has been retired to make into another project after 14 year of good service . I fly a savannah these days give up pusher aircraft and two strokes as well after 20 year of flying them . Taken the 912 option and tractors for less noise and a bit less risk . Dan

Lucky to survive that trike crash there nothing in front to take the impact and a motor driving you into the ground behind .

Stall speed can often be a loose term thrown around , there is a lot of different opinions on what it is . There sure is a lot of LSA manufacture that interrupt stall speed in different ways to get there planes on raa rego . The way I was tought is the point of minimum speed the aircraft crease to maintance level flight . That means not sinking at 500 feet per minute still with controls working . LSA manufactures are meant to test there stall speeds at gross weight but ofter wonder how they pass any stall speed test with a 600 foot sink rate at that point . So i would think is very hard to work out any true stall speed in a high bank turn in a nose down decent . It's more a case of measuring the minimum speed the controls work at as you are not maintaining high . Speed ,angle of attack and wing area gives you minimin level fight speed (stall speed ) Dan

It is a hard thing to to get the message throw to people and some cases you will never ever get throw to :( . There a saying ( he Didn,t know what he Didn,t know ) that sums up a lot of crashes that Didn,t have to happen. The old days you did 50knots and a head wind stop you in your tracks . I Think moden aircraft are a lot faster and climb well and engines are more reliable . But down side to moden aircraft hit things faster and harder . Cheers dan

Sometimes the ATSB get asked to recover any lost glass panel flight data and if they do they put the report on there web site, which there has been a few RAA reports on there . The 258 jab looked to have a glass panel . Dan

I think in most cases the forum is the only way people can find out about and learn from any crash , often police or news don,t know anything of aircraft or how it even flys . Most micro light or ultra light crash real reports are locked behind closed doors so only the decreased could read them . I heard a saying many years ago ( learn from other people's mistakes as you don,t live long enough to make them all your self ) . Fly safe and leave all the risk taking to the next life . Dan