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I got three on the go, I had started the build on my own design 95.10, when a fixer upper drifter came along (I'm well into the rebuild on that) then a cheap 95.10 needing some work came up. At least it is only a couple of weeks away from flying. My original build hasn't been touched in months.
I have owned a drifter previously, it was written off by a flying school, I really miss that one.
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Without throwing a spanner in your works........have you considered that your airframe , made of the same material, will have similar hours and age?I could, for example, be out flying my Minicab at the moment as its a gorgeous day here in Goulburn. However, I am of the sorts not to want to fly on a tyre going bald, nor a prop that is structurally ok but also over 42 years and 900 hours old!CHeers - boingk -
Some people can be offensive without "cussin".......me included.
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This sort of stuff also happens in the LAME/AME world too.Totally agree with you, but under self-regulation, you're expected not to have spark plugs drop out etc.In my little world, if you built it, you maintained it, you flew it .......only yourself to blame. .
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Aircraft used for training are supposed to be maintained by qualified personnel.I also agree that service standards are so bad that CASA should apply the same safety standard used in GA and ensure engines are maintained by a qualified person..
I you want GA standards, then pay a LAME to do your work, otherwise go and fly GA.
The whole idea of flying ultralights was to build, maintain and fly your own a/c.
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I'm sure some do........one of our helicopter instructors was telling me how when he was a student, there were times when his instructor would hand over the a/c, then climb over the back ( I think he was in a Huey), then start punching him.What methods do you guys use - floggings? -
I wonder if that top photo was taken at Mareeba, I saw one just like it otherwise, in a place that looks just like that, when I went to pick up that cheap 95.10Found a link: http://www.englisheng.com.au/spitfire-aircraft.htmlPricey, but Spitfires will always have a certain "wow" factor and I'm sure there will be some who line up for it. -
They look like aluminium drag racing rods, I guess it wouldn't be unlikely that it was fitted out with a Keith Black engine or whatever they run nowadays at the drags.Check out the size of the con-rods! These guys will do anything to get their engines to give it all! -
Edit......just noticed Daz has got it.... I should read further.We recently put a sysncanech...sinchnech...uumm...however you spell it, on our 230. I have to say, its now twice the aeroplane.Would that be a "Sensenich"? -
I can't remember where I got the concept from, but I have always considered the elevator (and rudder) just as devices for applying force on the lever(fuselage) that alters AoA (rudder does yaw obviously). That works for canards as well. How much thrust you have available (gravity can provide this as well) will determine how much you can change your pitch attitude without exceeding critical AoA. Short story- In my understanding, AoA is relative to airflow- most important, attitude/pitch is relative to ground- not so important.
Also- hold stick further back.......not only do the houses get bigger, often they will rotate too.
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Try Bullivants or John L Robertson if you have either of those locally, they sell lifting equipment, so their products are load rated.Could anyone point me towards a local (as in Australian) supplier of 3/32" galvanised 7x7 rudder cable?Thanks in advance.Dave
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Absolutely.......If I remember correctly, there are composite prop manufacturers that warn specifically against using them on direct drive engines for that very reason. The power pulses and associated resonance they can create, can quickly destroy the type of prop that has it's blades sandwiched between two halves of a hub. It can happen in an instant with flight loads that you may not experience with ground running.engine RPM's 100% and 1 side of the prop feels the need to leave..............May sound like a joke but it isnt. There have been a number of composite props do just that on direct drive engines.When it occurs the qwuestion is, can you turn it off, or will the engine fail, before it tears itself or the engine mount of the firewall. If the engine stops before departing then you can probably do the usual deadstick landing, if the engine, prop and perhaps mount all exit, then you are about to meet your maker and there isnt a single thing you can do to prevent it, other than try and talk your passenger into emulating an engine weight out on the nose....There are things in our aircraft type that you can play with and try alternates.Im of a view that in many cases props arent something you want to play with, and if you do, then it better be a case of "Im just doing what all those others that went before me have done", rather than "gee I'll bet no one has every tried one of those on one of these....."
Andy
It really wouldn't take much to turn a blade failure into a fatality.
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I don't use "S" for that.......I use "F**K, often more than once.Of course there is, but Gnu was asking about the one with all the S's. If fact the first S, which I didn't want to mention in polite company, is Sh*t....rgmwa -
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Currency is a big issue for me, I am hopefull that this will improve significantly when I get one of these a/c in the air again.
I think attitude plays a large part, I have seen many people (not just in aviation) that are content to barely maintain a minimum standard, personally, everything I do is a competition with myself to it better than I did last time. Mind you, I'm not always successful. It helps, if you can objectively evaluate your own performance and learn to recognise the shortcomings.
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These are extremely simple to make, look good if done properly and don't restrict fast access to your switches,while at the same time make it almost impossible to inadvertantly operate them. "Missile" switch guards look cool, but are designed to make access slower and deliberate.
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My wife only likes to fly in things that serve drinks (her words), but is supportive as she understands that for me, life without flying is pointless.
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I understand what the reality of the law is.......what I was trying to say was that I find the current trend of litigation to blame others for what was essentially your own fault and the law that allows it, very disturbing, perverse even, and I really can't see it improving any time soon.Better go and see a Public Liability lawyer M61 to have it explained - might cost a hundred bucks or so, but that's nothing compared to not being prepared for the real thing.A lot of people struggle with what seems to be the reverse philosophy of these laws, but it's not that hard to avoid trouble once you understand what your duty of care is.What I've posted here are real cases based on the precedent case way back in 1924, so nothing new.
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Yeah, I understand that it's not all black and white, however, to charge someone with anything because someone else came onto their property and hurt themselves, to me (this is only an opinion) is a large part of what's wrong with this country. I do not own a pool, but my opinion, you should be able to have it completely unfenced and still not be responsible for intruders, minors or otherwise. Yes, I have no doubts that the parent would be beating themselves up for a lifetime, but their kids, their responsibility(100%), not the neighbours or their friends neighbours.Really!!!!....Hands up all the parents of the world who can honestly say that when their children were between the ages of first motion up to when they started at school that they had absolutely supervision of their children for 100% of the time. If there was more than 0.1% I'd be amazed.......after all we are only talking a few minutes of distraction in 3-4years.Are the laws correct? probably not, if they were then they would never need to change...Are they appropriate, Hell Yes!!! I mean, if its illegal to "intentionally" set a mantrap in your house to maim or kill a burgler, who shouldnt be there in the first place... then why wouldnt it be similarly illegal to create a childtrap in the form of an unsafe pool!
Why do people talk in absolutes all the time, its all my fault or all their fault.....Real world is nothing like that. The fact that the child was unsupurvised has to infer that the parent has some culpability in the death but no way is it 0% or 100%. To have a pool fence unserviceable for years....a fair chunk of the culpability has to sit with the pool owner.....In any event Im pretty sure the parents will beat themselves up for the rest of their living years over the 5% culpability that is theirs. 3 people (2 parents and the child) in effect punished for the criminal negligence of someone else!!
A charge of manslaughter of itself infers no preconsidered intent to kill, otherwise the charge would be murder. Manslaughter infers that as a result of "stupidity" you caused the death of someone else. With the little we know from the article (which may well be short of a few facts) a charge of Manslaughter tested in court seems most appropriate to me.
Anyway I'll shutup now, as this is a flying forum, but I also feel the same way about how the same rules apply to recreationl aviation.
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I see it this way (I'm sure there will be those that see it different).........the passenger was not a fare paying type, so was there because he wanted to, was aware that the pilot had been drinking, also aware of impending darkness.........natural selection occurs due to poor decisions, best suck it up, and try not to make the same mistake again.So you're at a BBQ, knocking back a few stubbies and towards sundown someone suggests you should go up for a fly. It's 30 minutes before last light and you're 25 minutes from the airport, but you decide to take a carload out, and your best friend decides to go up with you. You know you can't make the flight before last light, maybe not even the take off but you can see the sun on the hills and off you go.In the ensuing loss of control and crash, your best mate becomes a quadriplegic, so now will need major modifications to his house, a full time nurse, and an income to support his wife and children for the years he would normally expect to have dependants.Who should pay?
Completely different if he should happen to kill/injure an uninvolved bystander.....guilty.
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That is a perfect example of what is wrong.........the parent/s are the guilty ones here, no-one else. Yet our pathetic excuse for a justice system has made it someone else's. The pool laws in QLD (I can't speak for NSW)have gone way beyond stupid, and all because parents couldn't possibly be responsible for looking after their kids. These kinds of cases make me wild.Someone asked about manslaughter cases about a month ago. This is the first swimming pool case in NSW, just announced.I'm not sure if the person who entered the enclosure was an oxygen thief or an innocent family's little boy, now gone forever.This link might be easier than the attachment:
Source: Daily Telegraph/Herald Sun
BTW, I am aware that there is not much I can do about it, except say how ridiculous I feel it is.
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I find the trend very disturbing, where these oxygen thieves hurt themselves then instead of being laughed out of court and ordered to pay costs, they get a substantial payout or someone else gets fined. I really don't know how they, their legal team and the magistrates/judges who award the payouts can actually sleep at night, given the damage that they've done to this country in setting a precedent for someone else to do the same or similar. How do we turn the tables? Can we turn the tables?The problem here is you can do all of what you are saying but at the and of the day you will still be at fault. Anyone who is being irresponsible in regards to site security ect i believe to be genuinely at fault. But the other thing is if you read the regulations and legislation, the building industry is held to a separate set of rules to other business in regards to OH&S and public liability to compared to say a factory or a store ect ect. There is no common sense left in it, Where there is negligence to it i believe that the system is fair but duty of care has got to far-
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There is a goo you can buy, that once in the tyre, remains liquid, it only goes off once it begins to come out the puncture hole . It was bright green ( or one of them was) so that you would notice that there was a hole. It came in an unpressurised container and was put in the tube/tyre when fitted, as opposed to put in after the leak. Here's some similar stuff I found a link to-Super Cheap auto, Repco, etc sell it-been around as long as forever. Out of balance would occur more if you put a lot in a large dia tyre. It's really designed to be used after you have the puncture and then fix later. As indicated in a previous post pilots use it before the puncture and it prevents air from leaking out. For a small a/c tyre, thats what I would do now that it was mentioned. To store it I would look around for a sealable metal screw on cannister from Coles, Red Dot, etc to put it in and then into your cockpit. If it releases foam, then the cannister will collect it all.http://www.truebluegoo.net/apply.html
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Call me selfish, but, I'm not sure if I'd be happy about it.......... how much controlled airspace will they want for that?
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I find it a little sad that in more recent times, the trend seems to be to go out and get yourself into significant debt to aquire something really flash ( not unlike our housing trend really). Yes, I can see a case for being able to go everywhere at 150 kts in quiet comfort, but for me, and I hope, others, the pleasure of cruising at 60 kts in something that you built( or restored) and maintain yourself, far outweighs the prospect of being shackled to a massive debt and living in constant fear of losing your a/c.
There are ways of reducing costs, with labour being the most expensive part of the deal, do it yourself, if you're smart enough to learn to fly, surely, you're smart enough to learn how to fix it. Hangarage.......put it in a closed trailer. Another benefit of designing and building yourself is, not having to use certified parts, that's right, you get to determine which parts are best for your a/c, there is a massive saving right there.
It may not be as fast or flash as your mate's a/c, but it will be yours, not the banks, and it will be very satisfying.