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On 6/12/21 at 9:22 AM, Garfly said:

True, that'd not be practicable by any measure.  One is encouraged to separate laterally in valleys, by keeping to the right.

Ah nope. 
valley and mountain flying principles are you fly on the downwind side of the valley, 1/3 of the way up the slope. 
that’s where the least lethal turbulence is. 
if you fly on the right and that’s the upwind side in the rolling turbulence of strong  winds you might be slammed into the ground and dead before you get to the end of the valley. 

What’s really annoying is the “no-lockdown” brigade  talking and acting like there is a no lockdown option. 
everyone has to realise there’s are only two options and they both involve lockdowns. 
1. lockdowns and control spread before the deaths and overrunning of health services happen

or

2. Lockdown after we have  lost control and the deaths have happened and the health system can’t cope. 
 

At the moment there are NO other options. 

10 minutes ago, onetrack said:

China's figures for COVID-19 deaths have to be suspect, surely? It's the place where it started, and they refused to even acknowledge it existed, for at least 3 months??

 

In late 2019, the Chinese Govt claimed reports of a highly contagious disease spreading rapidly were mischievious, and even jailed the doctor responsible for sounding the alarm.

 

COVID-19 was developing in China in October 2019, and now the experts are saying it was probably in existence before that date.

 

And so many of those 3rd world countries figures must also be highly suss.

 

These places have poor reporting and recording abilities, and people just die by the hundreds, without them even being examined, or the reasons that they died, being officially recorded. 

 

Yep. Figures in most developing countries are suspect. Reporting, diagnosis and cause of deaths are mostly inaccurate. 
China is an odd one to know how true it’s figures are. 
It’s highly likely they are purposely  underreported for political reasons rather than true diagnostic reporting issues.  
 

12 hours ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

Sweden = cold.  More people inside = more spreading   Just guessing

Excess infection and death rate continued across summer and winter. Other Scandinavian countries are same cold but their death rate was 3-8 times less. 

20 hours ago, onetrack said:

Sweden has had 14,588 deaths (as of today) from COVID-19, with a population of 10,161,000.

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Yow! jumped quite a bit from when I last looked at the figures. 
so basically if you run the deaths per population and compare  Sweden to Australia they had 37.5 times the death rate of Australia. Pretty scary way to work out the herd immunity by natural infection isn’t a good approach. 

58 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

turboplanner.

Were is Sweden ? They went for ' Herd Immunity ', and is suffering the worst death rate of All country,s.

spacesailor

This is the problem with statistics. Sweden only had about 9000 deaths so in that list given above they were dropped right off the bottom somewhere. so the unknowing would look at it suggest the did well with the strategy. The truth is a bit different.
But Sweden only has a small population ( I forget what but about 10 million seems to stick in my mind) anyway the point being that the death rate in Sweden ended up being about 3 times that of the nearest Scandinavian/Northern European country. And not only that. They were one of the first European countries to run out of hospital & ICU  beds, ventilators and hospital staff. 
 

23 minutes ago, red750 said:

You are probably more at risk from an allergy to eggs than to AZ.

Yep. I saw a list of “normal” life risks that are more than the risk of AZ related clot formation. Extensive list of things that no one takes a second thought at doing. 
Risk of clots is way greater if you are female and take the pill. 
Driving in city traffic was not far off it but no one worries about that. 

1 hour ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

What I can't understand is why they are so bad at the quarantine stuff. In the olden days, they used islands...  today they fly people in from india and give them only 14 days in a cbd hotel!. No wonder we are getting new cases all the time, then they do ridiculous restrictions on people who have never even been near a covid case..

I bet if they used islands, or remote camps, and had an extra 2 weeks spent in quarantine without contact with new arrivals, we would be clear of the virus by now.

That’s what the medical community has been saying since the beginning. The political masters are the ones who have countered that advice with stuff like “there has to be an international airport nearby, there has to be a major hospital nearby, the hotels have to be near the final destination for the majority of travellers”.  All patently rubbish but good for votes and to placate the noisy masses. The idea of non-connected open air single donga style was floated and proved by the Darwin model yet pollies made endless concessions and pretences that the CBD system would work despite the obvious flaws. 

16 hours ago, spacesailor said:

" people seeing us as privileged a$#holes with transport "

You mean like the Rich Sydney boaty that took off to Queensland when Sydney was locked up.

No fine for them, I wonder why !.

spacesailor

If I recall the reason is it was actually not a breach of the rules. It was a media beat up made worse if I recall because one of the party either had a low level ( false ) positive test result or a positive for past infection but not active or infectious positive test.  
If I recall they had actually entered into southern Queensland before the border closure and had spent time in southern Queensland before coming up here to Cairns. The media quite happily said nothing about that but made out they came directly to Cairns. The details only came out during the investigation but was  not announced in the media more than a cursory comment in the local newspaper. 

I think this is an overreaction. Removing the radios will then limit your access to many airfields. So it’s throwing the baby out with the bath water. 
 

There are a myriad of (“legal”) reasons why a pilot will not hear a specific radio call even while listening diligently from terrain shielding to other stations transmitting at the same time to high cockpit workload at the time and probably heaps more. 

The legislation doesn’t say you must hear the call it says you must monitor  the frequency. There’s a world of difference. 

4 hours ago, RFguy said:

mmmm !

 

My carb coupling hose (carb - plenum) is long enough there is no room to push the carb back.  Maybe that hose could be shorter. Ill look at it at next opportunity

My inlet manifold - plenum pipes - they have O rings and rubber gasket compound, are not super tight fit- apparently never are. wonder how much is leaking around. EGTs are similar so probably not much.

 

some have suggested put a jackunder the front of the engine and compress the top mounts but I couldnt get more than a mm that way. i think I'd need to put a bit of 4b2 under the rear of the tail to stop that tipping back.

I’m digging through the depths of my memory but could be wrong but I was thinking that once the nuts and bolts are engaged (by the use of the Jack or by a compressing clamp like I have) then it’s just the number of turns of the nut that controls the depth of the rubber compression. 
 

On 08/06/2021 at 12:46 PM, RFguy said:

Not so easy to take float bowl off a J230.

Jabiru didnt leave enough clearance for the carb behind the engine. They should have made the engine mount 5mm longer.

 

As a result you need to remove both distributor caps (screws), and two hose  clamps and rotate the carb 90 deg to get the float bowl off... FFS.

 

I would LOVE a glass / clear float bowl for my jabiru bing carb

I'd be prepared to spend a significant amount of money to get one / make one. 

 

Interesting. Mine is easy. Has adequate clearance to do it without tools or trouble. But my mates is same as yours. 
He just can’t get it off without ( I think) dropping the whole carby off the engine. 
 

I’ve  often wondered if one of us has it done wrong. (His of course!!😆😆) wondered if the rubber engine mounts could be compressed up just a bit more or less and give just a few mm forward movement of the engine. Can’t remember which way would make a difference. 

53 minutes ago, facthunter said:

If you disobey the rules you might find you don't have a leg to stand on in court, later.  With the current "Strict Liability" situation if you come to grief you are in the $#it in  any case. YOU chose to fly.. Nev

True but……

real life example from a few years ago. 

A pilot was spending more than $2000 per year every for all the CASA required medicals, tests etc etc  they deemed he had to have every year. So he said bugger it I’m gonna fly anyway so he did and he got to 6 years of flying before he got sprung. CASA took him to court and he got fined $6000. He was happy he got 6 years flying for half the price. As far as I know he stopped then anyway because he felt his flying days were over anyway. 
In an odd sort of way everyone ended up happy! 
 

18 hours ago, NT5224 said:

Im quite sure some people fly unlicensed over their own properties….snip…..

 

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You might be surprised by the number who fly around everywhere(not just over their own properties)  without a licence. 
 

And  probably not be surprised at the number who have the licence but fly without a medical 

34 minutes ago, flyingbaz said:

My thoughts below for what they're worth.

I don't think it's unreasonable to agree inexperience was the cause of the accident. Putting aside the "rich boy deserves it" (which I don't believe is fair), he was legal. 

 

However in Australia to get a driver license for a car you need 200 hours experience. This experience is not to teach you how to drive a car, anyone can drive a car with a few hours of practice. It's more around the situational awareness, reading other drivers, learning to drive to the conditions etc. After the Learning permit another 2 years of restricted driving eg. limited passengers, no high performance cars. etc.

 

This goes to my point. He was perfectly legal and within his rights to fly what he did, but lacked the experience of a high performance A/C. If it were me and cash wasn't an obstacle, I would hire an instructor to be with me for the first 200 - 300 hours of flying this plane and get a professional opinion to confirm I were competent on my own before doing so. 

I agree. If it were me I would done as you suggest. 

1 hour ago, poteroo said:

Yes, not only a low hours pilot, but his transition training must have been inadequate if it didn't include crosswind ops. Surely this would have been covered?  Much less likely to happen in Australia where a signoff by an instructor implies that the endorsee or checked pilot has met the 'general competency' rule. This rule also catches people who have not conducted/experienced, an adequate BFR/AFR.

I disagree. Adequate  Cross wind  training doesn’t stop you ever having a cross wind landing accident ( speaking from experience).
All it takes is things being a bit different to the conditions in the days of training and even small deficiencies that would never be called inadequate training can rear up and bite you. 
Mine was lots of Cross wind training at normal airfields but on the day to land at an airport which has rows of trees alongside the runway with the threshold being in a hollow creating rolling turbulence as well as cross wind, and a wind sock only  at the far end of the runway out in the open which always shows a completely different wind to what’s at the threshold. All very different to a training airport. 

The logic of saying training was clearly deficient because an accident occurred is that all training is thus deficient if any aircraft has a crash which they do all the time. Careful with that that’s feeding right into CASA closing us all down.  

I clearly agree that he was inexperienced and that inexperience got the better of him. but also feel that there’s a lot of jealousy and “that’ll teach you to be rich!!” in amongst the commentary. Personally I think the discussion should revolve around the aviation issues. 
 

so he has the money and decides to buy his dream plane at the beginning of his flying life. That’s not unreasonable, many many pilots buy the best they can afford at the beginning which for most  happens to be a 40 year old Cessna. Low hour pilots ding up their  ol’ 152s and none of us calls them arrogant or questions the fact they can afford a plane, of any sort, over their neighbour who can’t afford a new car.
 

Remembering that if a  Cessna driver has a ding all the non pilots in society  say exactly the same about us  - rich arrogant b@&$“@d deserve everything they get!!  
 

I’ve  been a bit stunned at the level of venom thrown at him on forums from fellow pilots. Also stunned at the ridiculous inferences piled on top of him for other facets in his flight. His aircraft was uninsured - that was enough to have some  claim he should have his licence taken off him! 
He flew part of the flight legally and safely above 10,000 feet on oxygen. That Obviously made him a total idiot, according to some apparently. 
 

He didn’t attend the factory training program at the factory but was trained at his home field by an instructor who HAD  done it. That apparently means he’s an an arrogant  fool.
 

Im a bit saddened but don’t really expect more. The saying is that “Pilots eat their young!”  

 
 

And now to add some actual discussion of the facts rather than bashing people because they have money.  

I have read another commentary that says of the small number of M600s built ( if I recall it’s less than a hundred built  about 10 % have had runway excursions in crosswind landings some with pilots with thousands of hours. 
Apparently the linkage of the nose wheel is such that in a strong  crosswind performing a crossed  controls crosswind technique  landing ( ie. wings into the wind and Rudder DOWNWIND) the nose wheel is linked to turn the same direction as the rudder will take the aircraft. No surprise there it’s a common set up. However, the M600 apparently has a greater angle of the wheel than many other aircraft. When aircraft touches down using cross controls technique unless you are into it quickly the wheels are lined up to take you off the runway in the downwind side. 
So required technique is when mains are on the ground keep the nose off and then with immaculate precision judge the dynamic situation of applying opposite rudder to counter the effect of the wind without the balance of the ailerons. Apparently a really tricky feat in that aircraft. 
 

he apparently transitioned from C172s  where the nose wheel doesn’t have this effect at all. 

2 hours ago, RFguy said:

And there is it- it's behind  the header-tank outlet barb. so that's where it is.  Despite my Jabiru company related engine troubles, I will be sticking with the airframe. 

 

 

There are also  similar ones in the main wing tank outlets. At least in mine which is a 2006 model J430. I remember installing them in the tanks when I built it. So all up there’s at least three. 

5 hours ago, RFguy said:

I fill using the dual filter funnel, and very careful that the funnel itself is super clean.
Ya know when working on water pressure sensors in dams and ponds, the tiny breather holes got filled up with tiny snails.

Howover, I will retrofit the Jabiru with some sort of broad mesh as to catch whatever could clog down stream. ideally, meshes need to be progressively finer as to prevent a single orifice blockage soemwhere down stream.

 

Finger strainers are standard in Jabs 

On 27/05/2021 at 8:53 AM, kgwilson said:

This is not uncommon. A year or 2 back a pilot in Tassie fell asleep & woke up somewhere past King Island. The conclusion was similar. Fatigue due to not enough sleep & he had not eaten breakfast so the F and the E were missing from his personal IMSAFE check. This sounds similar with at least the F missing.

Yes indeed. 
One of my flying mates tells the story of his dear ol’ Dad who was still flying at age 82, took off from somewhere in Victoria  or maybe Bass Strait ( I forget where now) anyway got set up on autopilot and then dozed off. Managed to fly into controlled airspace across Melbourne, airlines diverted everywhere while he did, woke up over Tullamarine airport, “oops sorry guys, can I have vectors for Moorabbin (or maybe Essendon). 
I don’t know what happened to him legally or if he stopped flying after that. 
 

but point is it happens every now and then. 

Nope. They selected engine types specifically to decrease the incidence and Included only engines “comparable to the Jabiru “ as it was used to justify the restrictions placed on Janiru. 

51 minutes ago, RFguy said:

must of been fuel or engine related. Is rotax, so must be fuel system trouble related.
or.... running out of fuel in one of those  due to miscalculation is a pretty difficult effort .

 

still, did an excellent job on the beach. 

Rotax engine failure rate is 1.5 per 10000 hours flight time ( or so ATSB/CASA stated in their report from a few years ago). Why have you narrowed it down to fuel? 

This is now the second accident/incident I’m aware of where three people were on board an RAAus aircraft. 
There was a guy a couple of years ago had wife and a child onboard and crashed. Was discussed at length on this forum. Wonder what happened to him about that?  

1 hour ago, jackc said:

You want to see what the EAA wrote back to me about administration on FAR Part 103:-)

NO flying school, no CFIs, NOTHING.

Good luck in getting off the ground, hope you make it back in one piece!

Bend your plane?  Don’t sweat it......heaps more, from where the last one came from.......

Yourself?. Specify your chosen coffin to your relatives.....it might be the last choice you get in life!

Sorry mate but I don’t follow what this has to do with the topic. Can you explain? 
FAR Part 103 is about Ultralights (but not ultralights as found in Australia) real ultralights of less than a few hundred pounds empty weight. Includes powered parachutes and some powered hang gliders. But can also include really true tiny fixed wings made of “rag and sticks.” No training requirements or licensing. Very restrictive capabilities and flying activities. Nothing like it exists in Australia.    
Not sure what this has to do with Class E, with EAA or FAA-CASA comparisons.