AVOCET

What happened next , ?

Looks like he ran out of tape .or

Battery ran flat on the camera !

Make a "check the bolt" part of your daily pre flight ,

After all , if the nut falls off the wheel .....

Mike

I left loxton at 10:30 sunday flu up to 5000 over the clouds 4/8 oct

Looked down for scans and OAT -1 cel . Needles to say ,back down to 4 ooo ish, under the cloud with bumps for 2 hrs

Mike

My condolances to family & friends ,

My family came close to getting that phone call , they are devistated , as am i ,

Cheers , no , not realy

Oscar

Years ago we had to update WAC charts and a load of other paperwork as a matter of course, but we got most of the paperwork free from DCA

Thanks Phil , likewise ,

I hope they find that J258 in QLD .

Found a bloke looking at athe Avocet on sunday morning

Ide just spent the last 1/2 hr taking off the turret cowels for a pre flight.

He came over after and introduced himself and gave me his card and said any time you need to talk about any thing aviation to give him a ring .

I found him to be cheerfull , helpfull , and appreciated my contribution to aviation , can happen every time i land , if YAM

I asked him about my i phone as a back up to pocket fms for the skyview , his answer was i need to upgrade to an i pad ,

May as well keep the map sub up , it would be cheeper , just take the maps you need for that flight .

MIKE

Rob built the J258 from a jabiru j 250 kit ( the ones they exported to usa , they have the 250 wing which has a 4 ft cord .)

He wanted to fit an 8 cyl jab engine ,so considerable mods and redesign had to be done .

Strengthening the firewall and other mods were done and the plane has been flying for a few years , although i dont know how well .

Mike

Great time , its the the first time since aug '11 ive been able and willing to go to a flyin , great bunch these flying folk !

Had 13 knt tail wind on the way back , 1.9 hrs and another cross wind landing back home ,

The avocets a handfull in cross wind above 13 knts !

More practice .

Mike ,

Mildura is Y MIA ,

Now i know where it is ,

Now , next Q . Where are you ?

Wheres MQL ?

Yes , ive also had some good yarns about "Hot Rod , Jabiru's .

A safe return please ,

Ditto to all posts , lost for words , I was flying at the same time , 2 hr flight to Loxton for the flyin

Mike

Guys:This is not going anywhere! All I did was asking for advice on how to properly seal my rocker shafts :-(

 

Avocet; I can see from the picture of your installation that the bottom of your rocker boxes are perfectly dry without any oil spill- so what did you do?

 

Thanks

On a scale of one to five Spanners ,

One Spanner being an easy job like changing the spark plugs

And five Spanners being the hardest type of work like engine assembly , right tools ect , Appropriate work space , How would you rate your ability in ,,Spanner ratings ?

Just asking ,

Cheers .

Should there be an e after the t?

Hmm if so post it again:duck for cover:

Absojabalootly

Gees , all those posts , my mistake , kept comming up on screen that there was an error!!!?

Mike ,

Ps .i think this might all ready be posted ? ?

Gees , all those posts , my mistake , kept comming up on screen that there was an error!!!?

Absolutlyjabulous

Absolutlyjabulous

Absolutlyjabulous

Absolutlyjabuious

Will do my best , glancing at the weather for next weekend ...???

Ill book in any way , and thanks for the bed offer , ill take it ,

Look forward to catching up ,

Cheers mike

Good news today from our fly in coordinator Kerrie Palamountain.The 200 seats for the hangar dinner are nearly all booked, only a few left.

It's shaping up to be the best yet with great speakers throughout Saturday.

 

Let's hope the weather is kind for us.

 

Hope to catch up with past visitors for a chat.

 

PHIL.

 

Ps

 

Contact our web page for all info.

Would mind comming .

Mike

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Google "D motor engine failure" and check results, thenGoogle "Jabiru engine failure" and check results

Now before anyone says but there are buggar all flying, that may be correct but to date the are "0" reported failures.

 

Ps. I can't believe that I just made a post in defence of one of the trolls outrageous statements.

OK I'll bite, why does it need to be inverted? What am I missing? It already fits a Jab mount and it has a dry sump.

Its already fuel injected , so flipping it just leaves the gravity drain of oil from rocker gear back to sump .

Some sort of oil feed and return to and from the rockers without poolong oil in the now sloping upwards rocker tubes .

Mike