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About Jabiru7252
- Birthday 23/09/1955
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Aircraft
J170C, PA28, PA38, TB10, C172
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Location
Gawler, SA
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Australia
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Jabiru7252 started following Is there any real place for ADF anymore? , jabiru engine cold start , Air India crash and 7 others
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I have dragged my Jab out of the hangar at sunrise in friggin cold weather. Used choke until it fired then no choke, keep the revs up a little (1100rpm) until the engine is warmed up. I suggest you talk to Jabiru.
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In many countries, the first people at the scene of a crash, be it a plane, train or bus crash a LOOTERS.
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I wonder if passengers went crazy and got into punch ups during flights back then like they do nowadays. Probably not as back then only 'cultured, educated' folks could afford to fly. These days any bogan in bare feet and a smelly singlet can fly. 😞
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Further to my rant on the high prices of radio, attached is a picture of a transceiver that would be around $2500 (AUD). It's NOT an aircraft radio. Covers all the HF bands, VHF and UHF and does AM, FM, SSB etc. I know some non-radio nerds wouldn't be familiar with the gobblegook but the point is an air-band radio that only does air-band and only AM and nowhere near 100 watts output would cost the same. Just isn't right.
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As a radio/electronics tech from way back - the easiest faults to locate is usually when the equipment is "dead". The Microair in my jab never faulted in the 12 years I owned it. As for paying $2800 for a radio, that's is just so wrong. An aircraft radio is just an AM transceiver, like the old AM CB radios apart from one being on VHF (the aircraft radio) and one on HF (the CB radio). Nothing, not quality control, not operating frequency, not bells and whistles, nothing justifies those sorts of prices.
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More door distractions • Blancolirio's frustration.
Jabiru7252 replied to Garfly's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
I failed to check the door on a PA28 and flew a nav with it ajar. Apart from noise it was no drama. A friend flew a jabiru and the passenger door popped open so he landed in a paddock. He was scared it would blow off and take out the horizontal stabilizer. -
Emergency landing at golf course, Los Angeles
Jabiru7252 replied to danny_galaga's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
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I see on the news (7 Aug 2024) that there is a flying car that will be available soon in Australia. How is it a car I ask. A flying car is a vehicle that can be driven on the road like a car, and when at the airstrip, it can be flown like an aircraft. The 'Two Place Quad Copter' featured in the article cannot be driven like a car as it has no wheels. And even if it did, you'd never be allowed on the road with a machine that has eight rotors capable of slicing and dicing anything in range. Typical low quality idiot reporting that has become the norm these days. (A bit like AI, seems everything these days uses AI which is bullsh*t.) There's my rant for now...
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Is there any real place for ADF anymore?
Jabiru7252 replied to BlurE's topic in Instruments, Radios and Electronics
I used Microsoft flight simulator to practice using the ADF. Then one day I flew Parafield to Broken Hill using the NDBs. What a hoot! -
Preston Beach W A Accident 16th April
Jabiru7252 replied to Rotorwork's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
Flaunting my ignorance here - why would fracturing the vertical stabilizer cause a loss of control? Might make things tricky in a cross wind landing but loss of control in flight? -
Laser welding for home building
Jabiru7252 replied to Geoff_H's topic in Aircraft Building and Design Discussion
laser headlights consist of one or more solid state laser diodes mounted inside the headlight. These blue lasers are fired at a yellow phosphor, similar to that used in white LEDs. This produces a powerful, vibrant white light that can then be bounced off reflectors and out of the headlights towards the road. Laser headlights built in this way have several benefits. They’re more energy efficient than LEDs that put out the same amount of light, while also being more space efficient, too. Just in case you (like me) had never even heard of laser headlights. Sorry about the weird text formatting, not my fault...