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    This is what " planning " is all about , Making sure the final carve up of projected profits / verses geting away with it , and who can keep his mouth shut long enough to pull it off. ! Mike
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    "They "have control of your screen .Doo do , doo do ,
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    Im guessing 27, maybe 35 ?
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    Im trying to dig up photos of the avocet cockpit foam plugs , Of which i sculptured the seats for my wife & i . Then glassed over and into place A 100 foam filled space under the seat with the aluminium control colum tube going through the foam to center stick . In the prang the whole of the cockpit shatered under the impact and even the seat showed large areas of treeing and deformation , but conforming to my lower back shape & cussioned the impact and deforming the tube . The turret and motor are high enough to be thrown clear in case of head on impact . Like all things crashworthy , theres a certain amount of luck or good fortune in surving high end prangs ! Mike
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    I flu the little jab 55 lsa , i recon this is a great little trainer , lets you know how slack you can become on the rudders . At least i don't have the nerves problem i had a few months ago , My excuse now , I've picked up a "boggy ", last week in Adelaide Mike
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    Hi Laurie, I went to Gawler last week and had a fly withBruce Tunks , It went well , Im sitting hear reading the forum and looking out the hanger door , Should be any time now ! It needs to be pretty calm around-here for test flying , hills and all that . Cheers Mike
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    T TBI ISNT A PLUG & play . They have to be tuned , There heaps better than than the bing
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    They come in hot , and go out smoken !
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    Quote"... "If any body ever tells you anything about an aeroplane which is so bloody complicated you carn't understand it , take it from me - its all balls ". - R J Mitchell . Mike
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    I had to resubmit a W/B with new MTOW limits shown . If design limits of the aircraft are up to 600kg . Although in my case i was the designer & builder . Mike .
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    Plural Z Alpha , VOGONS have arrived !!
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    I had the same issue with the fuel seepage on the mechanical pump on 3300 jab engine Nothing that a good shakedown check wouldn't find . Its good practice to have nuts & bolts , screws checked after the first few flights flights and so on ,for ever more ........ Mike
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    Im waiting for the battery tec to catch up to my imagination
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    I i thought it was the PULL starter !
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    Ive been a member for a few years now , but i was going to let things settle down there for a while after there man power shortage .
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    Going down to Gawler tomorrow for some duel instruction . Due to 2 bouts of flu last year and the redesign and fitting the new vert stab . I,haven't flown for a year . Ive been hopping it at my strip but i think its prudent to do some duel time with an instructor before i solo in it again . As we all know , its also a requirement in the regs . I was hoping to get to narromine for the X ausfly in a couple of weeks . We'll see ! Mike
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    The RPL is the best thing thats happened to me since rotec made the LCH , As ive said before the avocet was designed for the then proposed 760 kgs MTOW . Hence the white elephant gag . Now all i have to do is work out how to change the rego to VH. EXPERIMENTAL . Does anyone know if this is possible?? Cheers Mike By the way , ive limited it to singe seat status . Empty weight 394 kg
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    Try $300.000 white elephant with stripes !!!
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    Are you telling us to go sit back under our toad stools and suck our thumbs ! LoL Its all relevant isnt it ?
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    D Dayfdd , could you explain briefly why its not advisable to use the aluminium fuel fittings in the engine bay ?I can understand that ally fuel line isn't a good idea due to vibration in the engine bay . Mike
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    Tri tried that , they only stock cheap black stuff made in indoneas?
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    I tried sourcing hi press hose for the SDS, i spoke to lames at parrafield and they suggested pirtec hose , CBC stock a similar orange hose , the specs are on pirtecs web site . Seems to be the stuff they use in motor racing , .i think ill go for the teflon hose when time to replace . Pirtec wouldn't recommend avgas but said ethanol was ok in their product . It seems to go hard if you let it dry out , Mike
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    Tail wheel must be for ballast
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    I have its sister for parts . The 2 i have came from Brisbane , Annard & Sons ,they have a brass plate . Be a fluke if they were your old ones ! Mike
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    Good idea , the only issue i see is , roos tend to run at ground vehicles ,emus get curious after a while , And blowing the horn doesn't always work . Drones will scare off birds as well . Mike
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