Ian Burdon

Not to mention a possible mouse plague

Try get approval

They have been using this method for at least 20 years now with very few incidents. Power line caught the undercarriage and looks like he made an aircraft carrier style landing only taking out a couple of very young trees, Would have probably been a different outcome if it had been into the older orchard. But this method is far safer and more effective than quads and shotguns

Have you tried a can opener?

The point is this thread is about, quote : CASA - Draft Proposal for Jabiru Aircraft. unquote. So don't try to say that these fatalities have anything to do with flying a Jabiru. Start another thread perhaps?

Well this thread is about a draft proposal for Jabiru aircraft

None of these have involved Jabiru's as far as I know.

So please enlighten us to how a ring spanner can work it's way from the top end to the sump? I know they can become very slippery but that is stretching it a little.

This happened to me in a pa28 just after rotation. The main thing is to stay calm fly the plane and ignore the noise. Top latch did not secure. After reaching a safe alt opened air vent to equalise pressure or let incoming air out, slowed down, passenger relatched and we finished the navex. My instructor taught me this on another occasion so I guess it is fairly common in this particular aircraft. No problems with my Jab so far but always expect the unexpected is my motto.

G,day Bruce, Fitted the new suspension today. Removed two segments and it fitted nice and tight. I think over compression may have caused my yellow rubbers to fail. This may explain why yours showed no signs of cracking. Anyhow hope to be back in the air on Wednesday if all goes to plan. Cheers. Ian.

Thanks Roger. I have a removable shroud that I made up to stop rats and mice from entering the engine bay via the nose leg (this worked very well during the recent mouse plague). This sits just above the suspension bush so on removal I am looking straight at the suspension. From now on I will be doing the foot on the tyre check as well. Have been doing the main gear check. It seems as if you learn more about your aircraft from these forums than you do from the manufacturer. I would still like to know why Jabiru or RA-Aus have neglected to inform Australian pilots. If they had I would not be sitting at a keyboard writing this!!!!

Thanks for that Wayne. Don't want other pilots to c.t.g. if it can be avoided. Learn from others mistakes. It's far less painful. cheers. Ian.

No heavy landings this end.Ac has done just over 200hrs and ALWAYS hangared. What year were these defect rubbers installed and why wern't pilots in Australia as well informed as those in the UK? The procedure you describe would be difficult to perform unless you had another pair of eyes behind the nose wheel to inspect for cracking. The other pilot that I know of had just performed a 100 hourly and had checked this area thoroughly. When he heard of my problem he inspected again and saw some very small cracks. When proded lightly the rubber failed. Where did you find out about the preflight procedure for the nose leg? You seem to be quite knowledgable on this subject. Thanks for the reply Roger. Ian.

Thanks for the offer Andrew. A little busy this time of the year though.Hi Bob, if you have the yellows I would be chucking them. Mine went when I had just completed a u turn on the black stuff. They looked fine when I did the DI. Bye. Ian.

Thanks for the reply Andrew. I still think it is a good ac. Just would like some better service from Jabiru. I was offered a new prop at 1/2 price but did not take the offer at first and now they wont discount at all. The ac has already lost money on resale price as it doesn't have a clean record anymore. If I lived closer I would be knocking on their door. Maybe I could come up your way for a holiday and drop in and visit the manager instead of sending emails and getting no reply.Cheers to you. Ian.

OME, thanks for the pic down load info. I think some honesty would go a long way on J's behalf. Don't know what RA- Aus is doing on the matter. Cheers Mark. Ian.

I like that one. It can be fixed. Thanks J170.

No damage, so no worries. For him that is. If you ask me Jabiru have a lot to answere for. How many timebombs are out there. Cheers David.

Hey Andy, thanks for the reply. They should have listened to you. No avgas leak this end. RA-Aus have a sample so we'll see what happens. This was about 3weeks ago. I was told there were no other failures. I'll check out that post. I wish I had found this website earlier. Sounds like someone doesn't like canned worms. Ian.

Thanks David. RA-Aus said there were no other incidents.

Thanks planey. People need to know of this problem now not when Jabiru have, quote "done their investigations." Judging on their email to me they definitely knew there was a problem with the bush. There is no time or cycle limitations on it. Mine is a 2002 year kit. Compleated in 2004. About 400 landings. Always hangared. The other was older, I'm not sure by how much. The bush looked fine on the outside and was still quite hard, but was like crumbly cheese on the inside. Anyone with these bushes definetly needs to change them. You would not want this to happen espessially on T/O as you have full power and landing wouldnot be much better. I will post a picture of it if I can work out how. I've Just Landed and am still finding my way [:{) The pic won't upload as it exceeds the limit. I'll try putting it on my avitar. Cheers to you. Ian.

The suspension bush collapsed without warning during runup check causing prop strike. I have already posted a more detailed thread.

The suspension bush collapsed without warning during the runup check about 3 weeks ago,causing the prop to contact the ground. Not happy:( Another pilot from my area heard of my misfortune and checked his ac. It looked ok until he poked and proded a little and then it fell to bits.We have both lodged SDR's with RA-Aus. Have had less than poor response from the Buisness Manager of Jabiru. She seems to want to blame me for not inspecting propperly but this is not the case. AC have always been stored in a hangar and well maintained. An email from their spares dept told me "the red bushes are better quality, and the yellow ones appear to wear out after a period of time." Thanks for nothing!!! I thought they were supposed to warn pilots of this in a Service Bulletin. I'm just lucky this did'nt happen on T/O or landing. I also had a passenger at the time. I don't want this to happen to someone else so have created this thread. Does anyone physically check their suspension? Apparently your supposed to although I can't find mention of it in the Flight Manual or Technical Manual or on their website.