flindersflyer

Talking of Savs and Rotax, anyone here had trouble when starting. Friend has a Sav with 100hp 912uls. Of late it seems to be bucking and kicking whilst trying to start and getting worse. Today it just shook the proverbial out of the airframe. Seems like it is advancing too soon and backfiring. Any clues or suggestions regarding cause would be welcome.

I don't have enough money for a wallet Steve. We must catch up soon and look at the Lightwing. I'll be at the club Sat morning. Hopefully see you there.

Behave Tomo:busted:

Pray tell ........... will the handle make much difference to the flying characteristics .... Enjoy your machine you lucky @#$%^

"A Town Like Alice", about a young Englishwoman in Malaya during World War II and in outback Australia post-war. "Pied Piper", about an Englishman entrusted with the care of 2 children whilst on a fishing trip to France after the outbreak of WWII.

... "to the back of queue Hugh you ewe or I'll have you for ..........

That's a better way to put it Alf. "Fly the wing not the pod."

Haven't had a lot of experience (only TIF) in this type of aircraft, but as it is a weight shift machine I just went thru the process of turn left, pull left and vice versa. As for ascend and descend think of yourself as the front tip of the wing, pull down, push up. If one has ones wits about one (as one should when in charge of an aircraft, boat motor vehicle) then surely a mistake would be unlikely. My biggest trauma was getting used to nothing around me. But after ten minutes I settled down and had a great time. I asked the instructor about stalls and he demonstrated one. I must admit, I was hardly aware that we had stalled and all we were doing was sinking. All in all a great experience and I can't wait to move closer to a field where I can get an endorsement on these.

...find way out of Cowra to sea and set about having whale of time. We bedda ged owt before Mavis arrives with her ...............

... with a pitch of close to 50 to the inch, which made it a very fine thread indeed. Particularly when taking into account the diameter of the ..............

ABC reports it as a missed approach, then nose high climb out. Pilot didn't see the Ferris wheel.

Probably time to move this conversation out to General Discussion chaps. Tally ho and all that.

Thanks a lot Ian. I have enough trouble sorting out simple macros I RECORD and getting my head around how the language works let alone seeing how the site lets us know we haven't received any likes yet.

Lol .....cybernet term, at this rate we'll all be computer mechanics/programmers. Do they run courses at uni that cover computer jargon. It's a whole new world ....wel of language anyway.

Oh ......... phew I thought it might have been Post Mortem. Not a nice way to find out about stuff.

Excuse my ignorance Ian, but was is a PM?

If FBW were introduced then the entire intake and exhaust management systems would need to be reconfigured, more sensors and relays required etc. . Should an engine misfire for some reason, the computer management system may shut down the engine. This happens quite a bit now days in motor vehicles built after 1990. It would no longer be an easy task to identify the cause, especially by you the owner. The aircraft would have to be hooked up to a scan tool to detect the fault code and then the fault traced back and rectified. Considerable knowledge of the system and components would be required to identify and rectify a fault, often requiring removal of a component and testing with a new component. Becomes very expensive, especially if the tech doing the work has no used parts he can try, and you as the end user will pay for all the components fitted to fault find whether they were the cause or not. I could go on about this but cutting it short, it would turn a relatively cheap excerise of fault finding into a major cost. (EG: 2 yr old Mercedes shuts down. Roadside services can't assist. Vehicle transported to Mercedes dealer. Dealer has vehicle for 3 weeks whilst trying to track cause of fuel system shutting down. Nobody in Aus can figure it out. $100,000 equipment shipped to Aus from Germany. Tests completed. No finding fault. Another tech guy sent out from Germany and off the top of his head at an inspiration, he checks a mercury switch (installed to prevent fuel flow in case of roll over) under the dash. Switch mount has somehow come loose and switch is closed. Fuel system shut down. This was not indicated by the software diagonsis.) Imagine the cost. In this case to Mercedes but caused a lot of headaches for all concerned. My thoughts are stick with easy methods until we're absolutely sure we can trust computerised systems which can identify cause of a problem to the actual failing component.

Looks a bit like a KingAir 350. Could be RAAF doing NDB calibrations??

.. he'd just seen something very unusual. The Young Enthusiast asked Percy where he had been and was there problem. "Problem!" retorted Percy. "I'll tell you what the problem is. "That thing out there, in the sky, it's ..........

Still see it over Adelaide occasionally but normally only when big events are being held like the Clipsal 500 or Australia Day or :aussie:similar.

.. drumsdicks, it makes them get out of sync. I did that once and Bill had a terrible time getting back in sink. Oooooh! Talking about the sink I've just remembered I left my ..........." and without finishing Mavis jumped up and flew out the door.

... "I was :rilla:dancing with him to Bill Haley and the Grommets, Rock Around The Clock, back in the late fifties. OOooooooohhh! Those were the days, when you could get a decent .........

Sorry, couldn't help myself .... "like a spare pr*** at a wedding. Course there's nothing wrong with that." exclaimed Mavis. "Why I remember flying in a Jumbo and the captain announced turbulence ahead. Now a Jumbo is pretty big, but I didn't feel a thing. However when I flew with Slarti I could feel ..........