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  1. Had a wing drop on the flare in a Warrior once, first instict was full throttle and go around.

    Recovered the plane.

    Now this was during a check flight and l had  a experienced intsructor on board, as we want around we discussed what happened.

    What we think happened  is we lost lift on the left wing due to gusty conditions.

    There were trees on the right of use that may have also been a factor.

     

    Passed the check flight, he was very happy with my reactions and the discusssion afterwards.

     

    l think its more a lack of training and the fear of calling going around might be the problem here.

     

    regards Bruce

  2. Lots of rust dust coming out of the sills.

     

    Now if that was a 57 instead of 59 it would have looked very different.

    Ladder type chassis as against a perimeter one.

     

    Now if l have a accident in the Sloper (see avatar) l will be fine.

    Ejected out through the safty glass windscreen and found safley 50m away from the fireball.

     

    regards Bruce

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  3. Goodaye all

     

    Internally finned sump needs to be taller as the crank and rods need to clear the fins.

    A windage tray may be need to scrape the flung oil and keep the oil at the bottom.

     

    Heat does run from hot to cold here, so it could work but the extra stuff required and size may be a problem.

    Couple of years ago l did see a finned cooler that clamped to the spin on oil filter, not sure about its effectivness.

     

    It is easier to control a external oil cooler.

     

    regards Bruce

     

    regards Bruce

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  4. 12 hours ago, turboplanner said:

     

    Sloper, if it's really important to you why not contact CASA and find out for yourself.

     

     

     

     l may or may not have said to  CASA person that a clear sky is a safe sky,  and they make it too hard and expensive to fly.😅

     

    But yes it looks like l have to call them. (When l am calm and relaxed)

     

    regards Bruce

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  5. Goodaye all

     

    The cancer scare was a missdiagnoses.

     

    It took 3 PET scans all said l had it.

     

    4 biopsys, 3 of which were inconclusive.

     

    The last one which they knocked me out for they went for a lump and it was ordinary scare tissue.

     

    Told to go away and have a happy life.?

     

    Most stressful 8 weeks ever.

     

    regards Bruce

     

     

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  6. Goodaye all

     

    Still around and healthy.

     

    l did have one of my hips fail and cause some metal poisioning, back on my feet and the the metals are slowly getting out of my system.

     

    Hopefully get my medical back around Easter.

     

    Some of the symptons were very nasty, not that l noticed.?

     

    Due to the hip no work on the Couger the last 12 months.

     

    Revising the fuel system to one 80lt tank and removing the back seats.

     

    regards Bruce

     

     

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  7. You have to remember its all risk assessment nowadays, a safe pilot is a grounded pilot.

     

    You can drive a 50t truck down the road, operate heavy equipment, but fly?????

     

    RAA members could get a petition to go before the minister expressing there lack of support in the current medical standards.

     

    l seem to have been deemed as having sleep apnea by casa, even though my doctor says no.068_angry.gif.cc43c1d4bb0cee77bfbafb87fd434239.gif068_angry.gif.e6e3bad802304927655e1c48b61088cd.gif068_angry.gif.cc43c1d4bb0cee77bfbafb87fd434239.gif068_angry.gif.e6e3bad802304927655e1c48b61088cd.gif

     

    Heard a interesting rumor about Ospreys, yes the thing that the US marines crash, sorry use and emergency rescue in being pushed by the medical fraternity here in Australia.

     

    regards Bruce

     

     

  8. Goodaye all

     

    l should have a artical l wrote for a car club somewhere.

     

    Basically the oil companies got rid of a zinc additive because it destroyed catalyic converters when ULP was introduced.

     

    This was sneekerly done in the 80's with many new engines knocking lobes off the cam, and the car makers didnt realize why this was happening.

     

    l'll try and find it and post it up.

     

    regards Bruce

     

     

  9. Had a problem on a Holden V8 with carbon build up, raised the compression a lot, burnt out starters and finely backfired destroying the carbureter.

     

    Then it managed to suck a piece of the carby into the engine, heads off.

     

    Thats when l found it was carbon buildup that caused the problem, 3mm thick.

     

    With that much carbon there was no damage to the piston.

     

    Back together and it was all good.

     

    l was blaming modern starters as being cr#p.

     

    regards Bruce

     

     

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