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    Aviation buy swap and sell
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    If you're quick there are a set of Zulus on FB for $459
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    Not just Bose but lightspeed as well, about 50/50 ild say. I've had both, both great brands and personal preferences will be a deciding factor. Surprisingly my current company (all turbine) there seems to be a resurgence of the DC's! RJW go and buy a good set of second hand Bose or lightspeed, anything else you will be later disappointed and upgrade anyway at a greater cost.
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    Am I right in assuming GRIB winds are the grid point forecast? I wasn't even aware until now that they were available for lower level. Just checked my area and at 10k as an example there is a fair bit of variation not reflected on the area forecast. I've recently had a few longer sectors (only times I really pay attention to the winds) where they were substantially different.
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    Haven't flown the 172 but the Cessna singles I've flown, the first baulked landing checklists item is flaps 20 immediately.
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    I think those fuel burn rates are for cruise power and flight levels (lower). From what I've been told you could add 50% or more to those for low level aeros. Just checked his prices and they are lower but still in the 2k range.
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    Have a google of the fuel flow and you may understand why! Mate runs a couple elsewhere and if they are making him rich he forgot to tell me. :)
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    I would suggest that the aircraft had insufficient rudder authority due to a low IAS, with full flap they can get off the ground at a surprising low speed, but won't venture far from there. Add in a little bounce on landing, and then tried to fly away that would result in a high AoA situation and a slower speed again now with no nose steering or directional breaking, possible for the pilot to then either find full rudder isn't sufficient or only apply the expected amount of rudder and not get the required performance. I don't see it being an aircraft issue and depending on which way the aircraft vacated the runway, slipstream may have even been of benefit. One light single I've flown a bit had no nose wheel steering and felt like at had a "no mans land" between having enough speed for sufficient rudder and having the aircraft grounded enough to use the directional breaking. Was very off putting. Ps the above was actually due the the ridiculous speeds the flight school mandated on final (Vref +15) and the excessive float, was no fault of the aircraft.
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    Not sure of the colour but last time I was there I saw a L39 doing laps. Maybe it?
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    Back when I was building, it was quite sad as we would move down the street repairing houses after storms/bush fires/ floods etc and you would see a house being left due to not being insured. Obviously a house costs more then most people's planes but it would still be in the top 4 big purchases. Insurance is cheap, paying a total loss isn't. Just one prop strike could cost a fortune and I'm sure there are a lot of guys in careful guys in Brisbane recently who would value insurance.
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    I'm with DJ on this one. There have been numerous incidents that I'm aware of where diligent checklist use would have prevented the event, but the pilots had "their systems" in place which failed on the day. . Checklists should be very short and be things like trim, fuel, pitch, mixture etc etc. I've had many times where I've missed something critical on a flow due to it being abbreviated/interrupted/out of sequence and caught it with the checklist. Even with the checklist it's not unheard of for items being missed, just adds another point to catch it before it becomes a problem. Manufacturers checklists can sometimes resemble more of an expanded checklist and this can create problems as well. Also physically picking up the checklist can help to remember to do it and one where you flip through shows the last checklist completed to confirm it was done.
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    Very sad news, condolences to his family, it's never nice to hear of these events but even less so when it's a site member. Stay safe folks.
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    The limit for learners and P drivers in NSW has been zero for some time now, so it can be done but I'm sure an appeal would be easier then say a .03 reading with the previous .02 limit.
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    And YWOL on 120.35!
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    Not with any of the CASA staff I've met, are all the "qualified" ones keep down south?
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    Operated by a couple of Darwin operators too, used to be operated in FNQ,was made up until about 2002 from memory? Not that any of ours would be that new. Few notable accidents here.
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    The wife or the MacBook?
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    Might be a stupid question but with 160hp and 30lph that puts it right in IO320 territory, what was its advantages? Was it purely cost op purchase/maintenance?
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    Jail instead of Gaol seems to be the norm now too, every news report I have seen has it spelt Jail. "Fired" is another one I dislike. You didn't get fired, you got sacked is what I would say to the journalist who spelt Gaol Jail.
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    Apparently you can't. NRL Community Rattled By Revelations That You Can’t Give More Than 100% – The Betoota Advocate
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    In regards to texting, email, and other electronic communications, the worst I know (family friends etc, not on here) ARE the over 60's. Their spelling may be better but grammar and punctuation are horrible. This seems to be due to not being able to/wanting to use the smartphone/tablet correctly. If I gave my Mum a pen her grammar would be perfect, on a phone nearly everything can be taken out of context due to grammar and punctuation.
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    Then it's meant to be 100, 1000, 10000.
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    Aye hang on a sec, I spel and speak bloddy good oztrailan fanks. Ain't no one at the pub caint understands me. We don't be needing that pome stuff ere.
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    Last I had herd (recently) they were quite happy with how things were going, have invested a lot of time over there getting things rolling. Obviously still in the "changeover" period between local and offshore production so ild imagine that's why (local) lead times are still rather high. Results are yet to be seen but I think their plan will work well...eventually
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    I'm sure you're right TP, but what I was thinking was GA lite would move across for (hypothetically) more weight and CTA and leave RA for grass roots? Ideal world stuff but ild like to see both ends prosper.
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