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  1. Nothing to do with why the Lismore prang might have happened however after reading your message Ballpoint and recalling my BFR a few months ago, I can certainly understand how an instructor may not have time to intervene if things ever go pear shaped during a conversion or BFR.

     

    My CFI always rested his feet on the pedals while we were training. When I did my BFR I mentioned that I found the feel of the rudder with his feet on the pedals distracting as the aeroplane felt 'wrong'. He accommodated by removing his feet and upon reflection, his safety net if I'd decided to try something on.

     

     

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  2. "Help me! help me!!" shrieked the young woman on the third floor balcony. "Help me! I'm up here!!" she screamed out into the night. Her room was rapidly filling with smoke and becoming unbearable when she heard the sharp clack of a ladder onto the balcony handrail. "Oh thank god" she gasped to the dashing figure climbing the ladder. "I thought I was going to die."

     

    "You'll be all right luv, we're highly experienced with this sort of thing." reassured her gallant saviour "You're the third pregnant woman I've rescued this week."

     

    "But I'm not pregnant?!" she exclaimed.

     

    "Yep..... and you're not rescued yet either."

     

     

  3. ... able to be amputated at the knees and called 'tripod'. 023_drool.gif.d9ebe774dab24ff4699145182fd73e45.gif

     

    "No way icky poo yuk nasty!" protested Turbine:ace:at Nana's grand revellation. "Houses will be lost and insurers will get upset when impressionable folk will start hacking away at themselves after reading that." Fortunately, this gave ElRatto cause to rethink his plan to join the holy triumvirate and set down the pruning saw for he.............

     

     

  4. ...jewels. "Aye bewties they be," beamed McNakajima 010_chuffed.gif.0eb732edf61030e6104a9a70bfa92a9e.gif has he thrust forward his handful of glinting crystals. "They're leadium carbon diamonds anae get them from me wee rotorax when I run it on avgas for more 33% of the time." he explained. "The high temperatures and pressures of the wee austrian screamer turn all the sludge and crud into theses precious things". 022_wink.gif.9d61fed85ccaec4ccc17040770c5c601.gif

     

    Rat thought long and hard blink.gif.f1ea649b5c5807cc7028f9cd8cfae8c0.gif (well, sorta hard augie.gif.346f47c3977a17668982a7a2e09685c9.gif) at this revellation.... maybe, just maybe, that trip around the nation could be done after all 092_idea.gif.5aecf2098b24482891c0ced75da80e68.gif but perhaps he was just thinking of another austrian screamer that he'd met while.....

     

     

  5. ... even your attachment appears to sell a mixed message in response to my original question.

    I chose to stick with mogas as the engine was primarily designed for it is all. As I'm a 100nm day trip woosey, I load up with enough 98PULP for the return trip plus a large fudge factor (i.e. full tanks) so really can't help with what mogas availability is like at other locations. I've always been under the impression that the Rotax 912 series will run quite happily on Avgas provided you use a suitable oil and follow a more frequent maintenance schedule.

    I'll try to dredge up some older fluids specs. to see when, or if, Rotax had a change of heart.

     

    P.S. Probably shouldn't do this but... (can I get double banned?! 033_scratching_head.gif.b541836ec2811b6655a8e435f4c1b53a.gif )

     

    Big ups 012_thumb_up.gif.cb3bc51429685855e5e23c55d661406e.gif Yarrawonga Flight Training for stocking the new you beaut aeroshell oil at a reasonable price. VSX4 is as rare as rockinghorse piddle these days....

     

     

  6. And there dear readers, is a text book example of how ogling the centrefold in Slide Rules and Design Weights magazine will not only make you need glasses, it can also lead to acute multi threading disorder... 030_dizzy.gif.e1d4f6909e07e95d7991b9fd0d8a2517.gif

     

    "Hoot mon, yea shooda seen the tips on those protractors..." lusted McTub as he.....

     

     

  7. ...McLox, who'd been busy getting the McTzara ready to recommence haranging WREX trainees after a lengthy furlough. 086_gaah.gif.bd4f7be6e18bc8fde14d9d10614ceb18.gif

     

    "aigh buowt the onlah thung lower thun a raht's belly is a plunk of aluminium and rivets weeth rooted brakes!" complained McLox as he dabbed iodine on skinned knuckles and barked forehead. stretcher.gif.e6db89a1352782db0cab301f391c4ccf.gif "Eund tee top it all off, aye splattered sump oil down me trousers and look like eive wee'd meself!" 025_blush.gif.8e2ecc192cc98853ac4370dddcd7cf74.gif

     

    "That's nuttin' " scoffed McAndySat 035_doh.gif.20945f41f6940e42c02c6776496d81c2.gif , "Eyve not been changing oil at all, but 'ave look at this......"

     

     

  8. ... practice the black arts of aeromechanicing. "Ipso larum carbon tax, deliver me home sans muffler cracks." incanted miniMajor 062_book.gif.9837a587a9e0f48135293bc162b44375.gif as he conjured up his best ever L2 reliability spell. "Spitter spatter, welder's flash. You break again and you're lightwing ash!" 068_angry.gif.e6e3bad802304927655e1c48b61088cd.gif

     

    Nearby campers were being drawn in like moths memerised by the sparkling lights blink.gif.f1ea649b5c5807cc7028f9cd8cfae8c0.gif and wizardry emanating from duckMajor's camp. And let's face it, augie.gif.346f47c3977a17668982a7a2e09685c9.gif what self respecting Jabatoo owner could possibly resist the potential of having a few beers around a rotorcrax fed bonfire...026_cheers.gif.81d5a1f54877d0def58a291fdd662a48.gif

     

    All was good until....042_hide.gif.43f95e81b6c511aff0be550a83473031.gif

     

     

  9. ... pinch grandad's National Geographics and sneak off into the Dandenong Reserve to look at the pictures." 023_drool.gif.d9ebe774dab24ff4699145182fd73e45.gif

     

    "That's nothing." sighed Andycough 063_coffee.gif.74edab07713e335d991deaa7ab950902.gif , "When I was at Forest Hill, we'd march off base and into town to deprave the living daylights out of......"

     

     

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