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Hey Old K, you should be able to check the ADSB-IN function even on the ground, right?. As long as it's line of sight, I've found you can pick up traffic (esp. high flying airliners) even 50NM away or more. I'd have thought you'd easily see all the traffic (airline, charter etc) flying over and into the Tamworth area - even sitting at home. You could use Flightradar 24 as a check (keeping in mind, of course, that SE2 - unlike FR24 - is limited to what's locally visible). And I reckon you could check if the plywood is blocking signals just by sitting in the cockpit on the ground and moving the device around. As to the ADSB-OUT part, you could have someone on the ground check if you turn up on FR24 (assuming there's a receiver feed in your area.) BTW have you tried the (supplied) suction cap mount on the windscreen? Works well for me.

Don, I understand your call for us all to view this tragedy through a more complex global-historical-political lens than we get through the daily news. Fair enough. But then, maybe all we 'westerners' - from all sides of the political spectrum and at all levels of 'expertise' - could use more nuance when it comes to explaining the crisis and its history. That, anyway, was the message I took from this recent article in The New Republic by two East-European scholars who seem pretty fed-up with most of our "westsplaining" attempts so far: https://newrepublic.com/article/165603/carlson-russia-ukraine-imperialism-nato The opening par: "War is hell for anyone in it. And it’s a predictable but regrettable call to arms for people with opinions who aren’t. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, as the fighting on the ground has escalated, so has the volley of opinions about the war. And for Eastern European scholars like us, it’s galling to watch the unending stream of Western scholars and pundits condescend to explain the situation in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, often in ways that either ignore voices from the region, treating it as an object rather than a subject of history, or claiming to perfectly understand Russian logic and motives. Eastern European online circles have started using a new term to describe this phenomenon of people from the Anglosphere loudly foisting their analytical schema and political prescriptions onto the region: westsplaining. And the problem with westsplaining is illustrated particularly well when pundits westsplain the role of the eastward expansion of NATO in triggering Russia’s attack."

What do you reckon a new one would cost freighted from Flylight (in the UK) Mike? Do you expect all Skyranger parts to become scarce because of the war?

This paper by British "leadership" academic Keith Grint puts a kind of universal spin on the tragic events. https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/ukrainian-resistance/ Excerpt: "In war, since that is what this clearly is, we have known since the time of Aeschylus and Sun Tzu that truth is the first casualty. Putin’s narrative concerns the alleged mendacity of NATO, the “Nazification” of the Ukraine, and the call for help from besieged ethnic Russians in Ukraine. But it is also locked into an overall strategic goal: MRGA — the Make Russia Great Again story. Over the last decade, this kind of nationalist appeal has been used by right-wing populist leaders the world over. This feeds the victim-claims of many of the supporters of such men — and they are always men — and makes the chances of dissuading them from their stories of robbed elections or stolen status very hard to eliminate." Here he is discussing his book about leadership and D-day.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/poland-mig-29-jets-us-ukraine Julian Borger in Washington and Patrick Wintour in London Wed 9 Mar 2022 10.38 AEDT Poland has said it will hand over its MiG-29 fighter jets to the US, in a move which appeared to take Washington by surprise and was quickly dismissed by the Pentagon. The Polish foreign minister, Zbigniew Rau, said his government was “ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MiG-29 jets to the Ramstein airbase and place them at the disposal of the government of the United States of America”. But the Pentagon appeared to reject the proposal, saying it was not “tenable”. In a statement, the US Department of Defense said the prospect of the jets departing from the base “to fly into airspace that is contested with Russia over Ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire Nato alliance”.

New York Times March 6 "It is a delicate balance. On Saturday, while Mr. Biden was in Wilmington, Del., his National Security Council staff spent much of the day trying to find a way for Poland to transfer to Ukraine a fleet of well-used, Soviet-made MIG-29 fighter jets that Ukrainian pilots know how to fly. But the deal is contingent on giving Poland, in return, far more capable, American-made F-16s, an operation made more complicated by the fact that many of those fighters are promised to Taiwan — where the United States has greater strategic interests." MSNBC March 9

This one's not about effects on GA but on the big end of town. Interesting speculation, though.

And this is a kind of British equivalent but focussing on ultralights; in these case, Skyrangers.

Anyone have experience or thoughts on these? Looks like they fit many types. https://www.beringer-aero.com/en/actualites/2019/06/25/shock-wheel https://www.beringer-aero.com/en/shock-wheel

BTW Rdog, I see you saw some of our thoughts on your channel already 😉 Anyway, keep 'em coming.

This topic (among others) was discussed on here some years ago in this thread:

This pic shows how the Taree airport is on ground somewhat higher than the river level and the hangars are a bit higher still than the runways. Last year's floods came up to cover the far (22) threshold.

Like this? Or this? ( ... okay, not an emoji but possibly apt ;- )

This is a mate's Cherokee 6, just emerged from the swamp at Murwillumbah. And here it is in happier times; having fun with its friends at Armidale (NSW).

Here is a really good walk-around / history video on the C337 from the Adelaide based Deadstick Adventures YT channel: More good GA vids from these guys here: https://www.youtube.com/c/DeadstickAdventures/videos

The author could have called it "Engine-out demo over Biarritz" but chose to dodge the hit-to-clicks that truth-in-names entails. ; -) A great vid of a rare and lovely bird, in any case.

Wow! sorry to hear about that KG. Crossing fingers that your aircraft will not be badly damaged.

He's telling us that he has now progressed into aerobatic type training (upset recovery) and that even spinning, per se, is not an issue for him - in a suitable aircraft. To me, he's just admitting to a little quirk in his way of seeing/feeling things. I see no evidence that he lacks understanding (any more than the rest of us) or is in need of changing his instructor.

Would you elaborate on that djp?

Here's another elevator failure story that happened near Dorrigo NSW in the late 80's. The pilot involved was none other than "Student Pilot" who posts here sometimes. This is from a Special Edition of Aviation Safety Digest called The Human Factor. The article title was Decisions, Decisions. Click the text image to make it readable:

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