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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.
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    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.
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    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’.
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    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! 🫣
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    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.
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    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).
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    An engineer’s most important tool - aka ‘percussive maintenance’.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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?
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    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.
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    Oh, I’m a socially awkward genius (except for the ‘genius’ bit… 😛).
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    As is my beloved. Causation or correlation? 😁
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    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? 🤷‍♂️
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    Thanks. Will definitely keep that in mind if (and it’s still a big ‘if’) I decide to paint. One more nugget of knowledge to add to the pile. 🙂
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    What surprised me was the dude who was upside down in a burning plane, and still thought to pull out his phone and video the evacuation. Me, I’d be hot-footing to a suitable distance before even thinking “now, where’s my phone…”. 🫣
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    Thank you all for your comments thus far. I feel a bit like a kindergarten kid in a physics lecture, but I really appreciate all the info. 🙂
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    Whenever I ask questions about painting the plane, I get one of two answers. Either “Are you crazy? It always looks terrible if you do it yourself!”, or “No worries. You just incomprehensible the acronym, but don’t forget to farnarkle the fluglesproket”. Neither of these answers is particularly helpful, though there’s no doubt that the former scares me. So… I have a couple of questions for those of you who have actually done it. What spray equipment did you use (make and model please)? What paint (primer and top) did you use (again brand and type please. If I google ‘two pack’, I’m likely to end up with lots of references to dead rappers 😛). What environment did you do it in (backyard? Shed? Shed with extractor fan? etc) What would you do differently if you did it again? Would you ever do it again, or did it turn out to be just too painful? Part of me wants to be able to say I did everything in this build (the same part would prefer to spend money on the engine/avionics than on a painter), but the other part is terrified of getting in too deep and making a mess of what is really a very big investment.
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    It’s the old luck versus experience thing. I did good cross-country training, including real situations turning back when the weather was deteriorating. However, it still took a bit of get-there-itis on my part long after I had my certificate to teach me that it really isn’t worth the risk. I flew into worsening weather, and was lucky to turn it around without hitting the ground. Never again! That was the real learning experience, when you’re up there alone and suffering the results of your decisions. I’ll bet you that he was thinking the same things that I was; maybe I was lucky, maybe my extra experience to that date made me turn back just a fraction soon enough? Who knows, but one thing’s for certain. There are many things that might kill me, but flying into bad weather ain’t gunna be one of them (any more).
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    I’d forgotten how many stops planes used to have to make. And here was I complaining about having one stop between Oz and Europe. 😛
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    Therein lies the conundrum. If you get a store-bought plane, it all looks flash and, of course, you can’t change anything. If you build yourself, you have to trade off your ability to change things as often as you wish against your desire to make it look as store-bought as possible (for the psychological comfort of intending passengers if nothing else. There’s still plenty of folk whose concept of a home-built is that of a lawnmower engine strapped to a broomstick with some old sheets for wings 😱). That trade-off is, of course, a personal decision (and one that I have yet to make).
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    That is very neat. Does the laser engrave in to the paint surface, or just leave a stencil in the masking tape? That is, does the finished product leave the text rising above the base paint (where it could, over time, get rubbed off), or is the text set into the base paint so it’s somewhat protected?
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    May you and your floppy-eared dog remain fire free… My brother and sister both lost their farms in the Black Summer fires of 19/20. My brother rebuilt, my sister sold up, but the psychological scars remain for both.
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    1300HP! And here was I thinking that 130HP was impressive… 😝
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