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‘Tis a good story, but apparently the graphite off the pencils caused problems with the electronics as it just floated around the cabin.

Ok, so Boeing, a technology company brought down by having business people in charge instead of engineers, is selling these parts to a company which has business people in charge instead of engineers… 🫤 The blokes who developed OzRunways have done well for themselves (well done and congratulations), but watch it now slowly start to drift.

On the topic of the phonetic alphabet, I was asked recently to provide a list of the phonetic alphabet for a group of people who were going to be using radios to control a sports event, and I got in trouble from one of the organisers claiming that I’d misspelled ’juliett’. On further investigation, I found that the extra ‘t’ was added so that French-speaking people didn’t pronounce it ‘juli-ay’.

I did all my training on a Jab 160, and I can still remember the near heart failure when it transitioned from nose pointing up and wings level to nose pointing down and me in total panic. However, I think your instructor is right. Do it enough times that it doesn’t stress you any more because you know you can recover (and then keep practicing it - at altitude - for the rest of your flying life), and then you’ll know to keep away from that speed/attitude/power when you’re near terra firma. p.s. During my last BFR, I was demonstrating a power-off stall recovery, and, just as it was about to stall, the instructor helpfully(?!) blipped the throttle to add some rotational torque. Now *that* flipped it quick smart and pronto! 🫣

Maybe I have the wrong end of the stick with where this discussion has drifted (ie away from Skippy’s original issue with being charged for overflying), but I can’t see any issue with an airport charging whatever they want for you to use it. If they’re too expensive, then you just don’t use them, like any supplier. That being the case, it’s far better for them to bill you based on ADSB data than on radio calls. No more false identification. No possible charging for Skippy’s overfly. Incontrovertible proof that you did or didn’t use their services.

Possibly because, to take a current parallel example, orange man tearing everything down isn’t going so well, is it? Revolutions such as you and a few others are proposing generally don’t end well (and the tear-it-up folk were soundly rejected at the last elections, so it seems that your 9000 would prefer stability).

An engineer’s most important tool - aka ‘percussive maintenance’.

Yes, they are bolt together, but with an O-ring to seal the halves. I have received and answer from ICP (they are super helpful and quick, which ameliorates somewhat the less-than-helpful assembly manual). Anyhow, the answer was “expand the hole”. Unfortunately, Federico didn’t suggest by how much the hole should be expanded, but I’ll start with MB’s measurement and go from there.

Here’s the photo as promised. The tyre blokes do this many times a day, so if they said it wasn’t going to happen, I’m happy to believe them. I have asked ICP, so I’ll report back with their answer. Moneybox, I appreciate your measurements. I think that the difference between your 11.5 and my 10.5 is the difference. Thanks.

I’ll get some photos later, but the uncompressed diameter of the stem is 14.5mm, and the rim hole is 10.5mm. Nothing will compress the one down to the other. I’ll try expanding the rim hole slightly. If the worst comes to the worst, I’ll fit tubes.

Ok, I have a problem (hopefully one that Savannah owners have already figured out). In the context of assembling the wheels, the manual helpfully says “fit the valve stem to the rim”. No way could I make the stem fit. Ok, fair enough , it has to be a tight fit so it doesn’t leak, but how tight is tight enough? Anyhow, I took it to a tyre place as they do this all the time, and they couldn’t pull it through either. The stem was going to break if they tried any harder. So… assuming that Savannahs have the same tubeless wheels, how did you get the stem to fit? Drill out the hole in the rim a bit (and if so, how much)? Give up and fit tubes? Or, did yours go in easily and I’m just unlucky?

Don’t know about others, but I read the forum using the “What’s New (unread)” facility, so given that Ian is proposing to have separate ’unread’ facilities for aviation and the other (which, incidentally, doesn’t interest me at all), then I don’t see any problem with the two sites becoming interwoven.

Oh, I’m a socially awkward genius (except for the ‘genius’ bit… 😛).

As is my beloved. Causation or correlation? 😁

Harking back to the original post, I took the day off today and did nothing but watch some footy and read the latest Sport Pilot (amongst other things). I must be a bit strange, ‘cause I quite enjoyed it. Maybe I’m the only one? 🤷‍♂️