mkennard

I test flew the 170 and the 230 and ended up choosing the 230. I fly mainly on my own but it just feels like a much better and powerful plane when I do my cross countries. I call it my station wagon.

https://newatlas.com/emergency-electric-engine-uc3m-aircraft/37958/

I agree, it's about safety. I purchased a PCAS once, now the company is broke, I know why, doesn't work well if at all and plenty of ghosts.

Don't think the producers will be happy with that. They charge a fee for it.

I placed mine on my rear window behind me. Might be better since I have a plastic plane but it showed up on AVPLAN no problem.

I read later on that AVPLAN need people to set up receivers around the place and upload the data to Avplans feeder systems from what I understand. In my office I can fire up AVPLAN and see traffic all around Sydney and beyond.

https://www.avplan-efb.com/avplan-traffic/

Look down the bottom.

" In 2013 we introduced the first ADSB-in capability into AvPlan EFB and in 2015 introduced AvPlan Live which expanded this to include other AvPlan EFB users. In 2018 AvPlan Live traffic was expanded to include data via a network of ground based receives to show some ADSB and FLARM traffic as well."

Also, with the latest ios for iPads I don't think you need to do the work around for "No Internet Access" anymore

https://www.avplan-efb.com/avplan/traffic-displays/

This has more information. Notice at the end a little dig at the opposition to share data?

I can't find anything on the Oz Runways site that confirms the internet side of ADSB. Someone with Premium will have to update us.

As per my test last week, I still had internet but on the Oz Runways site they still have a page on how to set your iPad to support both connections. Maybe Apple did something because now you can't set a static ip without a gateway which was required before.

Chaps, I'm a bit confused by this exchange. So to help me get it right:

 

1. mkennard, what is this method 'to set a static IP' all about, and why might it be necessary in some cases?

(I assume that if you're using wi-fi to connect to your SkyEcho - as you must - then your iPad will still connect to the internet via mobile phone towers, as usual, right? (as long as you have a SIM and current plan) Otherwise, you'd have to choose between being conspicuous to other OzRwy/AvPlan users on the one hand, and ATC + other aircraft with ADSB-IN, on the other. Right? Because if you're not online how could your device report its location to your EFB server?

 

2. And when you say that "Oz Runways doesn't show ADSB via the internet like AV Plan does" does that mean that AvPlan gets a feed from 'FlightRadar' or similar? I'm guessing that'd be the only way you could get ADSB traffic via the internet. As far as I knew, neither EFB app presents ADSB data on its map page (unaided by local devices) only the reported position of their own customers' devices, which is shared - with permission, and only with fellow customers - via the internet. Of course, this is useful - and pretty much the only way - to see aircraft that don't have ADSB-OUT.

 

3. And Mark, what did you mean by an ADSB display being offered by OzRwys in their premium version? You mean with an ADSB-IN device, right? Because, as far as I was aware, the only way to get (local) ADSB traffic onto the OzRwys map page is via your own ADSB-IN device, like the SkyEcho2 (IN/OUT) or a (cheaper) IN-ONLY model. OzRwys presents this [local only] ADSB derived traffic on its map page as a darker shade of blue, precisely to differentiate the sources. (Darker, that is, than the light blue it uses for its other-user traffic) Am I missing something here?

 

(BTW I agree, that it's scandalous that the EFB companies refuse to share their respective customer info.)

1. To connect to wifi with a device that I used to use for ADSB-in (I used a stratux) I couldn't get internet at the same time. Avplan wouldn't update any services (like weather) so setting a static ip on the wifi for the stratux allowed me to still get internet access via the sim card.

2. If I didn't have the stratux (adsb-in) I would have to rely on the internet from AVPLAN to get my traffic from adsb sources. Oz Runways doesn't get ADSB data from the internet for basic and then you need something like a stratux to get a source. Another words my friend was on the basic for Oz Runways and couldn't see my adsb paint where as I could see myself because I was on AVPLAN.

3. I think I answered point three. Does this info help?

I have come to the painful realisation that this is the ethos of too many in positions of power, from local government to the corporate level.

The old-fashioned concept of providing a service has gone.

A simpler term is "Follow the Money"

There must be a way CASA could aggregate the data to their ADSB. Just wish CASA would do something useful for us one day.

Yes, many discussions on this. One of the downsides of competition.

Mine's working well. I could see myself in Avplan with my rego. With the current ios on the iPad I don't have to set a static ip (which I couldn't anyway) for the internet to still work whilst connected to the sky echo. I was flying with another plane and Oz Runways doesn't show ADSB via the internet like AV Plan does. My friend couldn't see me.

I know one of the pilots and he spends his life in Hotels at the moment.

Would be amazing to start using this in a flight sim to play with.

Do you have to worry about downdrafts flying through those valleys?

Does anyone know how they do it in the Tecnam Twin? I haven't looked at the manual. I can only afford to fly it in a sim.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/27/airbus_rolls_hybrid_plane_grounded/

I think I should move this to another thread if I knew how. Sort of related to the above link but with more info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabiru_Aircraft

This might be a good start then you can download the POH from Jabiru for the ones you're interested in.

I googled fogging problems in boats just for the hell of it. Wouldn’t call it conclusive.... let’s go with interesting. Big difference when your boat conks out on departure and somebody tows you in or you start the 4hp backup to get back home.

 

Here is a procedure others seemed to agree with.

 

‘Spraying it through the spark plug holes is not the way to fog an engine. It has to be running and you fog it until it almost stalls then throw a big rag over the carb to stall it. That way it coats the intake, valves and cylinders. Been doing it for years on the boat engines. Never had a problem’

https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/dont-think-ill-ever-use-fogging-oil-again-anybody-else-have-problems.2030033/

Is the big difference a propellor in the way?

What radio is it?

mkennard has created a new group called NSW Sport Aircraft Club - Wedderburn NSW.

A forum for members of the NSWSAC Club. This is experimental as we haven't gone down this path before but have discussed it.

I can't seem to get the RSS feeds to work. Are they working?

It’s all hypothetical and pointless. 

The  big thing is that Australia’s total CO2 production is about 1 % of the earths anthropogenic total (which needs to be dropped by 45% to make any difference. )

This includes the minuscule amount made by the negligible number of recreational aircraft.  ( And no one should be allowed to bring up that STUPID statement that Aussie have the highest per capital production. That’s a scientifically idiotic statement because the climate is changed by the total mass of greenhouse gases not by how many people made it. It doesn’t care whether one person, or twenty million make the  amount only the total amount present. ) 

 

 

So even if we ceased ALL production of CO2 instantly it would make zero difference because it would only drop the rest world CO2 lowered production requirement from 45 to 44% of total. And make exactly no difference at all. 

Throw into the mix that the three biggest emitters ( USA, China and India) make more CO2 in a week than we make in a year and all their emissions are rising - and the elephant in the room that no one in Australia wants to mention is that there is nothing we can do to change anything - beyond hold the high moral ground ( and remember that apart from us here in Australia here, (we think we a big players in the world ) in fact most of the rest of the world has no clue who we are, where we are, and much more couldn't give a stuff what we say or do) 

 

Sure we can hold some moral position based on the glowing halos we have over our heads but we shouldn’t beat ourselves up, nor allow ourselves to be beaten up by others, because we have toys that emit probably less gases than the collective lawn mowers of the rest of the population. 

 

Two things that come to mind.

1. Imagine if we could be at the forefront of technology to help the world, we have a lot of smart people who end up taken up by overseas institutions. Imagine if we supported them here.

2. I recently thought of drugs. Why bother trying to catch people importing or making drugs. It's the same argument. They never seems to make a difference when they catch someone and there is always someone else to fill up the gap in production but they spend millions trying to catch them anyway. So if we could use the same drive for climate change we might make a difference for everyone.