derekliston
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I assumed that was the case. I too have a weird sense of humour!!! My brother is in Lanzac, is that anywhere near you?
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Not sure if you are just being a sarcastic bastard or what, but I’ll take it as a compliment! Scottish education and a lifelong interest in aeroplanes probably helped. Just as an aside, I have a brother who lives in the Dordogne, we have visited a few times and absolutely love that part of the world. Last time we were there we visited ‘L’aeroclub de Brive’ but there was no one there!
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A few years back I gave Danny a spare 701 tailplane and elevator. From the look of the aftermath of the crash, that might be the only part that he doesn’t need!
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Same pitch as my Jab 2200 in my CH701. 75kts cruise is good but ground speed Warwick to Pittsworth today was 55kts. Return though was 85kts ground speed!
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If you decide Jabiru might interest you, there are a couple of videos of my take off and landing on the fb group ‘Show us your landings’
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There is a bit of a story to that. My registration is VH-ABG, it was first issued to what was the last remaining Short Empire Class Flying boat in Australia it was named Coriolanus who was a Roman General in a Shakespearean play I believe. I named my plane Coriolanus ll and hence the picture of the Roman.
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I have a 2200 Jabiru in my CH701 and I am totally happy with it. Lighter, simpler, cheaper than the Rotax. Any difference in take off distance over the 100hp Rotax is so small as to be negligible unless you are flying in and out of incredibly short strips. Any problems that the engines had in their early days have been pretty much fixed. There are a lot of Jabirus on the airfield that I fly from and they perform well. If you look after (properly maintain) them they will look after you.
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Doesn’t make it any less dangerous and probably even scarier!
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Went out to Warwick airfield for a fly today, ended up just doing one circuit. Why there are not more accidents I don’t know. There was a 24 registered low wing tecnam or sling or something flying circuits, consistently calling, downwind for 09 and then landing on 27. Not sure how that is possible with compass, DG, and 27 written large on the runway. A C172RG whose pilot must have thought he was an ATPL, spoke way too fast and largely unintelligibly, a Warrior making occasional radio calls and a C172 which crossed the airfield midfield crosswind at around circuit height without any calls that I heard and disappeared into the distance. Really could be quite scary and all within the space of an hour!
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Much more like the Savannah than the 701 and by the way, I like my 701!!!
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Well, doesn’t Avalon get called Melbourne by Jetstar even though, I am told, it is in Geelong?
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Have to agree mate. If you allow at least an hour travel to the airport. Probably two hours prior to departure, at least two hours delay (so far) two and a half hours flight time, probably at least a half hour to collect baggage and then (for us) a two hour drive home. I could probably drive it in not much more!
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No mate, just booked with Sri Lankan to Colombo from Brisbane and they booked us on Jetstar. Absolutely crap airline. Just what we need after ten hour flight from Colombo!
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Currently sitting At Melbourne Airport waiting for our 15.35 flight, currently 17.56 and departure board is saying ‘estimated ‘ departure 19.12! Is Jetstar a shit airline? I rest my case!
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We certainly didn’t? Booked with Sri Lankan on line.
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Again bloody Jetstar!! I am sitting in the hotel in Sri Lanka after having simply and easily checked in online for our flight to Melbourne. Ok I think, I may as well check in for our connecting flight to Brisbane, but Nooooooo!!! No can do, Jetstar say we have to check in via the agent who booked the tickets?????? So, I thought I would check the flight status, but again Noooo! Put in flight number and date only to be told, no flights available!!!!! What, this airline is Crap with a capital C!
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When I first saw the news I was concerned it might be that aeroplane. I used to have my 701 on that field also.
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We were scheduled to fly Jetstar Brisbane to Melbourne to connect with a Sri Lankan Airways flight last week. Jetstar cancelled the flight and rebooked us on a Qantas flight departing an hour and a half earlier and didn’t inform us. No chance of missing that flight was there, not much. Only reason I knew at all was because my son in NSW wanted to check if we would overfly his place. He rang me around midnight and I then got onto their chat line which was the only way I found out what flight we were moved to, and you know what? They really didn’t care. I was told they sent me an email and if I didn’t get it, that wasn’t their problem!!! No text message!!! The only email I had from them, which I reckon was sent instead of the cancellation one, was one confirming we were checked in for our return flight next Thursday. Apart from our return flight home, I will not be flying Jetstar again! Nor Qantas if I can help it as long as the Irish leprechaun is running it!!
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Can tell you where Derek is. Been away from home for a month and off to Sri Lanka now, so no access to my reference material, hence some fairly crappy guesses!
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Jabiru Engine 2200 Mechanical Problem Reporting
derekliston replied to rick-p's topic in Engines and Props
I have a 2200 solid lifter engine on my CH701. I also have the new composite prop supplied by Jabiru. I am very happy with the engine performance and as a retired LAME I am convinced that a lot, if not all of the problems are caused by insufficient or improper maintenance. One problem I did have however was an oil leak that proved very difficult to trace. It was not a lot but would leave Aline of oil along the bottoms of the pushrods tubes and a very light smear on the bottom cowling. So little that after a couple of hours flying the difference was barely noticeable on the dipstick. Eventually found that it was what I consider a design glitch by Jabiru. They had apparently a problem with oil draining from the rocker boxes back to the crankcase on hydraulic lifter engines and their solution was to drill a small hole inside the top of the rocker box through to the area between the fins. When I eventually figured it out and blocked those holes, no more oil leaks. I hope that as a solid lifter engine I won’t have the oil drainage problem, but I will monitor the situation closely. I’d be interested to hear of anyone else with a similar experience. The main problem I have is not flying often enough, between ‘grey nomad’ travel and crappy weather I’m just not getting the hours. -
Probably wrong on this guess,but dehavilland albatross?
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Glide approach as standard practice
derekliston replied to gibson_339's topic in AUS/NZ General Discussion
I call taxiing, entering & backtracking if required, line up and rolling. Then downwind and base. Don’t normally call final unless I hear other traffic. I spend a lot of time at the airfield listening to my airband radio and it amazes me how many aircraft either give no calls, wrong calls, or stumbling hesitant calls. -
Sheer, pure guess. Pilot Sprite, designed by Pilot magazine in UK a lot of years ago, or another, because of the tug inference, Mitchell-Proctor Kittiwake?
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Britten Norman BN-3 Nymph?
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Sounds like it just might have been more relevant than the Brisbane one that I attended. I seriously believe it was a waste of time. Having said that, as I previously stated, I was a LAME, possibly non-aeronautical people may have felt differently.
