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I use the RAAus log book.

Be good to do those 4 hours asap; then you can build more hours in the XAir until you sell it. A good selling point is a plane being currently flown. You may change your mind and keep the Xair a bit longer. They are great to fly; I have fond memories of my Xair flights.

How much is the Gazelle? As that may be the best for BrendAn as he will be flying the XAir to build hours.

How many in Oz and worldwide?

As of 2022 there have been 1350 Skyranger series aircraft produced, and 350 Nynja’s bring total production to over 1800 which is a testimony to their build and performance plus very robust, easily repaired if ever required and terrific support by factory for everything you may need. How many Atec's are there in Australia and world wide; they are nice looking however not my choice of aircraft.

Agree and mix fuel as specified by engine manufacturer and warm up as they say as well. Great power to weight.

Do you fly out of where the gliding club is?

post here in classifieds to give members at look at what you have for sale. I have sold through this site.

Agree; similar o my 8:37 yesterday comment as I have seen such before; however a poor image for assessing though.

I like the carby engines and keep the maintenance and adjustments to them in order; don't particularly like the later say Rotax 9 series is or turbo engines. They need more equipment to test and service plus two yearly servicing refreshers and i'd expect will have more troublesome tuning / maintenance needs as they get more hours on. I also like good product support and many aircraft flying over many years. Composite are usually costly if heavy landed and the airframe is cracked or delaminated (sometimes this is not apparent at the time and develops worse over time in service) and require specialised workshop environments for any work. Jabiru are great in this respect or the resins used.

The straight lateral material edge is interesting as could be a developed accumulated fatigue stress that let go during the landing and opened up on take-off, just a guess from a poor image view.

Rock, paper, scissors to determine who's aircraft; maybe??

Jack Russell's are the smartest; 'Chaser' after uni.🙃

Beaut autumn conditions this morning for a fly around the valley in the Nynja at 60% power. A sign of the nice flying weather to come. I fitted a manifold pressure guage last year and when on long trips I'll set engine to the 75% power pressure and see how that goes speed / flue usage wise. IMG_0317.mov

What a great young girl.

This morning's news; an aircraft could not lower gear and fly around until rpt departures completed and burn off fuel then a wheels up landing.

Be interesting if any stone damage to vehicle paint work.

There is a US carrier 5 miles off the Gold Coast seaway and they are allowing light aircraft to land on its deck for free up until 1159 hours today only. If you want a video of your landing it is $50 USD payable to the Biden / Trump fund.

Yep, a mate has one; its their glider heritage. Jab 230's would be great with the spoiler update, in my opinion.

Thanks.

Spoilers sound interesting as can be used when rounded out to decrease lift and put / keep aircraft on ground easier. Would be better control of any float some wings cause. Can you post any images of the spoiler in the wing and the cabin control lever / system. (Just watched a you tube video on them; look a great idea; I can see where they will work favourably). Cheers

What are the spoilers; same as what gliders have?

So they are a high wing like the Topaz?

Interesting. A mate that tested the Cairns ones back in the 90’s told me how his back was after it belly flopped from about 4 meters. He was not impressed with the stall effect. He said eventual plan was to be a small Boeing jet capacity and do Brisbane to Mackay in 4 hours and operate in 4 meter wave height seas.

I'd expect that as hour rates are $100 plus up here can be towards $190 / hr. I'd say allow at least 1 1/2 hours to do a balance by the time you remove cowl fit the instruments run engine apply weights and rerun again etc then wright up log and cowl on.