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Changed by disconnecting the bottom hose from RHS radiator (when looking from prop) but now temp hit 180 degrees (which is max) Fahrenheit on climb and on ground runs - when previously 150~160 Fahrenheit was normal on climb and 140-150 during cruise.

I tried opening every bolt, tube to bleed air but still same! (The two Allen key bolts and the edge centre bolt on top of the engine bolt 24 rotax diagram - the opposite location to where tube 14 that leads back to the radiator).

I didn't open bottom bolt on the water pump - should I?

Does anyone have a method for dummies that I could try!!

My god this is a frustrating process. Mainly because there are no damn instructions on how to do it properly in Rotax manuals.

Neither could I find via Google?

What annoys me more is that I didn't actually need to do it for the 100 hourly service either.

Why did I? Because I couldn't determine what coolant was in it as I bought second hand - it was green. I didn't want to mix. And I thought a renewal would be good!

Not able to find castrol antifreeze all climate, I bought nulon red premix (after checking with airborne).

I also tried draining some out and diluting with deionised water - no change.

I suspect an airlock somewhere..,

I've given up on nulon red and bought castrol radicool (green).

I'm going to flush it all out and fill up with this.

Really need help on how to do it properly! Current grounded until I solve this!

Attached a few photos

Subscribed and Loaded fine on my iPad.

After that I tried to reload on my iphone and it worked too..

Don't know what happened before...

Enjoyed the articles and the megafauna 2014 video.... Couple of guys I know obviously went along --- I did notice I didn't need to move his trike to get mine out that week...

Maybe when I get around to doing my XCountry, I'll do a megafauna trip

If you want to market recreational aviation to the younger market then here are a couple of links to high profile media entries:Time: More Than 11 Million Young People Have Fled Facebook Since 2011

Forbes: Where Are Teens Hanging Out in 2014? Hint: It's Not Facebook

 

The Telegraph: Young users see Facebook as 'dead and buried'

 

The general consensus is that Facebook is rapidly going back to its original intention...for close friends and family to stay in touch with each other with short little statements however with the difference being for the older generation. Even my own daughter has said that she doesn't use Facebook much any more but would rather use other instant mediums to stay in touch with just the close people she knows however wants me to start a forum for her because after seeing this site she says you can have a lot more BUT, she says emphatically, it MUST have some kind of 1 on 1 instant chat

None of them use FB to message or share pics/videos

Very sad news- my condolences to all friends and family

Had two roos jump out on the highway at night in the way to kerang from Adelaide

Just veered past the leading one (ran over its tail) and brushed the nose of the other one at 100km/hr

Gives you a bit of a rush !

Wonder if they can fly the plane out again?

It's a max $5000 fine

The only good that I get from mine is when standing in line a KFC - I feel special!

In construction - the architect used to know the rules for building

Now they can't keep up - so we need more consultants to tell us what we need to do to comply - fire, access, stat authority rules etc etc

My cousins live at Kerang - didn't know there was an aerodrome - is better drop in

It is crazy that it takes anything more than a week to renew? And that would just be based on staff versus requests. With 3500 renewals that's only 10 per day - one person could sort that out!

What are they checking?

What process is involved?

I'm HGFA and will stay there until RAAus sorts it's act out

I know HGFA takes a week or less

Which ever way you twist it, picking and poking holes is poor form and hard to patch up later

Snuck in a good 2 1/2 hours at YWOL on Sat. Raining on the way down from Sydney but dry about 5km from the airport

Nobody else around -

so I checked the weather forecast again...

Nope all good so I rigged it and went flying

Hands off smooth as silk!

The day only got better

Great little plane, the Taylor.But for an easier - and no less satisfying - route to a very similar concept, why not investigate the Mini-Max range?

 

I'm about to take delivery (driving to Sydney tomorrow) of a kit for one of these. My budget is under $15k.

 

They're also supported by one of the best builder forums on the web - have a browse here

 

I'm planning to fly mine off a farmers paddock, so minimal overheads. In my view, a really attainable way into flying a proper little aeroplane.

 

Good luck!

 

Bruce

The Eros - are you putting a 503 or 582?

Regards

Mark

I reckon it will be a worthy event when Facthunter will break 10,000 ............ it's closeIs this top score or has someone else got there ?

The plane was also in fine condition and Drucker was able to fly home the same evening.

- I find this interesting considering he knocked the fence post out of the ground!

Eye didn't see that one coming

With BRS they cut the cable so it can't be fired

Note - a BRS CAN be fired by pulling on the cable even though the safety pin is in place - trike owners beware

Sure was a solid Westerly - no sign of it slowing - so I also went home too!!

Pity as there was a good program planned.

Ignorance - so it's allowed then by CASA

I can go and do this at YWOL with my recreational license then??

Or us there an endorsement I need to launch from a trailer or other moving vehicle?

Aerobatics at shows are by professional stunt trained pilots not your general aviator

Write all sorts of abuse at me --- that's fine

Yet plenty of people bag stupidity or unnecessary actions

So you don't like my comment - so what!

This should be illegal

I'll be there practicing my photography...

Bummer - but another 2nd best outcome

Made it to land and walked away - 2nd best result