PapaFox

without hijacking this thread, yeah, council has a "buyer" for the hangar blocks at the end of 27/09, so council want to just cut 250m off the rwy

The Temora club Tecnam Sierra is $115/hr wet

One of the worst offenders recently appears to be the Cirrus SR22. Man do those thing develop a howling scream.

A little bit of 'A' and a little of 'B' There are quite a few different combinations at play here, but the prop does make quite a difference. Fixed pitch vs Constant Speed... CS will just about always be noiser, due to the higher power output of the motor and higher prop RPM. IIRC, Cessna's also generally don't have as much in the way of mufflers in comparison to the Pipers.

Couldn't have said it better Powerin . One catch might be that when it first opens up, the whole airspace group might be collapsed. Clicking on the plus symbol on the left side bar will reveal the classes and individual areas. I just find it handy for the pre-planning stage. You can get a good feel for the terrain, can easily see any airspace that needs to be avoided, can measure distances and bearings, etc. Particularly good when you would otherwise have to handle multiple maps.

These files have now been revised to the latest airspace changes (2 June 2011). I've attached the network links here, seeing as though the downloads section has been removed. Just save these files and change the extension to .kml Australian GE Airspace.txt Australian GE Area Forecast.txt Australian GE FIA.txt Australian GE Airspace.txt Australian GE Area Forecast.txt Australian GE FIA.txt Australian GE Airspace.txt Australian GE Area Forecast.txt Australian GE FIA.txt

Don't think we ever weighed ours, but it is rather heavy. I'd rather that than it being too fragile, though. It should be possible to work out the mass by it's dimenstions, not that I have them here with me either. Not much help am I:cheezy grin:

btw, I think all the bloodied rat fur was to be found in my hangar... discovered after the feral thing ceased to survive an encounter with a 5.00x5

Overall, the project spanned over 4 years, but there was probably a realistic time of a little over 2 years, if you take the breaks out, and combined with quite a few customisations that will always blow out the build times. Total flying cost, with the 912S and dual Dynons, paint, etc, was somewhere around $70k, though with the AU$ so strong now, that would be significantly less than that figure.

Hi Darren. Well building is over, and I'm having a blast flying. The XL's are certainly a sweet plane all round. I noticed there is an XLB and two HD's for sale in the latest RAAus mag

I've got a NextG phone and also a USB modem. Both work out at the airfield, apart from inside the club house... still is a total black hole for phone coverage

Prop RPM perhaps?

or AIDS... Aeroplane Induced Divorce Syndrome!

AFAIK the Wren mod was only performed on 182. A lot more work than just replacing a few stock parts... double slotted flaps and ailerons, which also extend with flap movement, come to mind first.

Inspected and signed off on completion prior to any testing. Still advisable to have an "inspection" by anyone knowledgable or otherwise, just to get another set of eyes over the project several times throughout the build.

Most aircraft (apart from those with single piece wings) can be built in a single car garage... technically. This relies on completed parts being able to be stored elsewhere (suspended from roof, lounge room, etc). Things can get very tight, but it is possible. I've seen others errect a temporary gazebo type structure in their back yard and build in there. Heck, I've even seen pictures of people building their fuselages in the middle of the lounge room... of course, no significant others are involved I dare say.

These aspects should already be covered in the Nav endorsement. As we all know, there is more to cross country flying than just being able to arrive at the right destination on time.

An interestig a/c is the Mk26B that featured in Charlie Borman's "By any Means" journey. 90% scale, with the V8 motor, flying two up doing aerobatics, with 19-5410 register, on film! Wonder what HQ think of that one!

Interesting. It seems this wasn't the aircraft's first meeting with the wires http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1987/aair/aair198703529.aspx

Well, anywhere where someone has set up a base reciever to feed the site.

Excellent write-up. This one has definately been on my bucket list for a while!

jcamp has hit the nail on the head.There was already an effort put in place to try to locate the plane. I had heard that even a Citation had been in the air as an aerial spotter (when you consider the search area, this is not all that excessive). Not to mention what would have happened if/when they did locate the plane, to then find that there is nobody around. Even if a message was left at the plane, finding two people on foot would be a lot harder than finding the stricken plane.

Yeah, was a Jabiru. They refuelled here on Friday, so YTEM was their last known pos. Good outcome in the end.

Do you mean the ICAO code? In that case it is EVSS