Old Koreelah

Impressive machine, but those tiny wheels must have limited the terrain it operated from.

Anyone starting a project would love a crystal ball, because of how rapidly the fuel landscape changes during a build. Glad I stopped work on my diesel aeroplane over a decade ago.

Nev perhaps that’s a job for a clever person with a 3-D printer.

It’s only 100mph tape. What happens when he gets to cruising speed?

Simple belt drives seem to be viable. As well as being lighter, they also help soak up power pulses.

Ian this topic was very well covered in the Jodel forum a decade or more ago. Some members were installing diesels in their homebuilt Jodels. As Area 51 said above, PSA have made millions of very reliable light diesels. Chas Kenney in NZ has installed one: http://www.aviationbanter.com/showthread.php?t=11469 PM me and I’ll send you his email.

Just got back from cutting a person out of a crashed vehicle. Excellent directions this time, because we were given a precise rural address. The trapped person deserves a medal for patience and good humour: a motorist stopped when he saw the Ambulance attending the overturned wreck in the table drain. He was shocked that someone was inside. He, like lots of others, had driven past it this mornng without a thought.

The plurry Mexicans would have to be different!

Location of the accident is always the issue. The traveller calling it in may not have noticed the name of the last village they passed thru. Our VRA rescue squad often gets activated for a job on the highway, X km north of Y. After we’re on the road, we call in for more recent info and often get a very different location. A few times we’ve driven miles and not found the incident because the caller has no local knowledge. The worst is new residents who re-name a property (and it’s access road) and expect us to find it. Rural Addressing has saved lots of lives. Every block and gateway is allocated an address; 3204 means it’s 32.04 km north or west of the start of that road. This makes it easier for emergency services, who may have been rostered into that district for the first time that week..

I used to wear my PLB on solo bike trips and still wear it on long trips away from phone range.

The Australian GME Accusat ticks all the boxes for me. Worn in a pouch on the belt, it’s easy to open and activate after you’ve scrambled out of a wreck, or while still sitting inside. GPS tells Canberra exactly where you are within a few minutes. Cost about $400, but you might do better.

You need a model with GPS and cellphone link, obviously. While it might be convenient to mount a cheap used iPad permanently in the cockpit, you’d miss the many benefits of its portability. Bet your iPad gets lots of use outside the aeroplane as well, so why not the best you can afford. A good new one is cheap as chips compared to regularly updating a laptop. I haven’t used a computer in many years- everything gets done on my iPhone or iPad, including secretarial work for two organisations, lots of research, correspondence, thousands of pix and videos, watching movies and listening to music.

I know a well-respected LAME who always flies his Jab with a little bit of carb heat.

About 15 years ago I asked Don Richter about installing a Jab 2.2 and shimming the base gaskets to lower the compression ration so that I could safely use lower grade fuels. (At the time I had a 42hp engine and couldn’t imagine needing the Jab’s 80+) He convinced me it was dumb idea. Now I can’t imagine flying with less power. That would be ideal, but costly for such a small run of engines. The big car makers build more engines per day than Jabiru has in a decade. I’m quite happy to have some hands-on management. For over a year I kept my RH tank full of AvGas and used it for TO and climb, then switched to the 98 car fuel in the LH tank. Never a problem with the car fuel, so it won out.

Flying in NZ they told me that if you don’t like the climate, just wait a minute. Pilots seem to check the weather channel every half hour, with good reason. I was impressed with his turn out to sea, in case he had to do a 180; better to have land in sight during the turn rather than a vague image of the sea disappearing into the cloud.

Interesting. I built my tanks from the same stuff, after the supplier’s chemical engineer assured me that vinyl ester could cope with all fuels. I can barely smell it when I sniff the fuel sampler; had a port and polish on my honker a few months ago and sense of smell is very slowly recovering.

I weaned my Jab engine off AvGas and onto Shell 98 a couple of years ago. Maybe it’s my imagination, but fuel burn seems slighly less. On my next trip I need to refuel but finding 98 anywhere near an airport will not be easy. Why are there so few Mogas outlets at airfields?

Does he have to pay landing fees for all seven?

Very thorough, but he left out the obvious result: the dumbing down of whole generatons across the world, including mine. Love to see some research on lead levels in Trumpists.

Very true, Nev. Very easy for our skills to soften if we keep inside a narrow comfort zone. All my recent flying has been off a nice long gravel strip (ideal for a taildragger) with mobs of flat farmland all around. Lots of perfect weather as well, so that I get uncomfortable with a few mild bumps as the day warms up. Just looked up when my next BFR is due and will be using a different instructor in a more challenging location.

I’m almost too nice to suggest the plurry wheel is on the wrong end!