Keenaviator

Yes, I believe Ben from West Sale has one (he has probably the best Waiex in the country). I also believe it is to be Lycoming 233 powered and has massive tundra tyres (or tires since it is an aMerican plane).

Laurie

Hi Mike, that link I put on this thread takes you to the medium filter at Skyshop for $42.

Laurie

BTW, the really small one I got has a big filter element like the big filter, just a smaller 'container' part. I'll send a photo.

I would go for the 230. Faster, the six cylinder motor is smoother. The extra fuel is not important. Handles hot conditions better performance wise. Use faster climb speed..Nev

Laurie

Skyshop has them.

http://www.skyshop.com.au/shopexd.asp?id=168

Mr funnel has excellent filtration an a sump. You waste a little bit of fuel usually buy that's a small price to pay. They come in3 sizes. I have a small one in the aircraft at all times.

Laurie

I always use a mr funnel.

Regards, Laurie

I have no experience at all in power chutes but you're welcome to come along with Rob to check out paragliding Geoff.

Laurie

Hi Emah. Your dad has been showing a lot of interest in paragliding and he says you are keen too. I have some leave in August and plan to be doing a bit of paragliding.

Laurie

Beautiful work. I'd like to have a go at spinning up some wheel caps for my Jabbie.

Laurie

Clearly he had opportunity before entering cloud to turn away. Still once in the cloud his flight was stable. If he had the means to hold a steady course he would have ended up flying out of it.

I'm interested in these too.

Laurie

Another vote for mogas from me. Nearly 1800 hours of mostly mogas with only scheduled maintenance.Never had fuel leaks

Laurie

No discernible washout in my UL450's wings. Just that introduced by recommended rigging of flaps and ailerons.

Bigger span wings would have to affect the cruise speed. ( less effect when you are heavy) Getting out of short strips on a hot day would be better though. Nev.

Laurie

The beauty of the paraglider is that a lot of the important skills can by maintained by 'ground handling'. As with any flying I think it's important to regularly maintain your skills (that's what I tell my wife anyway!!). Not many paramotor pilots bother trying to thermal. I've heard of much older people continuing to fly paragliders but sticking mainly to nice laminar coastal air. PM me Phil if you are interested in having a phone yack in relation to this subject before we get growled at for thread drift!

Laurie

Landing down wind with legs for an undercarriage does sound bad. Love the idea of paragliding, silent flight, thermaling etc but seems to me to require a fair degree of athleticism, adding a motor opens up more choices but the seems to introduce extra risks and potential noise problems with small high revving engines.The only time I've seen para motoring up close was at a fly-in were this guy was zooming about at low level, I suppose he might have been showing off but seemed risky to me, steep turns low to the ground, taking off wasn't easy either with a lot of manoeuvring on the ground to get the wing settled overhead etc.

Regards, Laurie

Crikey, not a Jabiru engine failure, but a Rotax! Crikey!

A paraglider is pretty easy to learn but there's plenty of challenge if you want to fly it well - especially cross country.

Laurie

All wrong ,powered parachutes are easiest ,don't even need to watch airspeed ,ready in 5 min to fly,and fits on a trailer to take anywhere ,true low and slow ,no fatalities with aerochute ever,hard to beat unless you really want to fly somewhere

Jabiru UL450

Niviuk Artik 3 M, Paraglider for cross country

Niviuk Hook M, Paraglider for the coast

Niviuk Zion 19 for stronger wind on the coast

Honda CRF230 rec registered for dirt riding

Suzuki GSX1250FA for the road

I've been using either BP 98 or shell , no problems with the fuel or the tanks, but it's made a hell ova mess of my lexan windows.What resin are jabiru using?

Some time ago I did some tests strips of glass with 'bote cote' the resin soaking in jars of mogas and avgas for well over 12 months. The glass reinforced with 'bote cote' appeared to be unaffected. I used it to secure the fuel cap insert in my Starlet fuel tank and it is still going strong.

Laurie

Apparently Jabiru are recommending that if we use mogas, stick with 95 which doesn't have as much of the aromatics which are believed to be responsible to damaging Jabiru fuel tanks. I've just sloshed my with 'Creme' which is supposed to be resistant to even ethanol blends, not that I will be testing it knowingly.

Laurie

Thanks Andy, I could have put it better. There is a middle ground and in Victoria that is not to exceed the prescribed content ( full licence holders in private cars and motorcycles 0.05 grams of alcohol per 28 litres of exhaled air).

Regarding the decision to drive, that should be made before the drinking.

I think we haves drifted a bit off thread!

Cheers Laurie

Lyle the crazy part of the law is that you can actually be booked at 0.05 you are only safe at 0.049 and below. Quite misleading in my opinion, because all the advertising campaigns state that 0.05 is the legal limit. Go figure that one.

If your aircraft's stall speed is 50 then is it safe at 49 or 51 for that matter?

Regards, Laurie.

Looking very nice Mike. Hope to catch up when my project is finished and proven.

Regards, Laurie.