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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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    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.
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    Fake as...
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    That was MY jab until a few years ago! Never had a thing go wrong, always started first go, purred like a kitten. Sold it because I'm the one that's likely to have an engine failure. 🤪
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    If I were to make ONE call while in the circuit, it would be joining downwind because anybody listening would (should) know when I'm about to turn base and final.
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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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    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!
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    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?
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    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...
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    This link shows a helicopter that could be trying to land at a pub. Anybody know what went on? https://www.9news.com.au/national/helicopter-hovers-near-power-lines-victory-hotel-near-adelaide-south-australia/d4097c97-016e-44f9-bc5c-e72d4a73e2d2
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    This link provides an insight to the male and female brain...
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    I'm convinced that many planes, gliders included, go into stealth mode when viewed from above. On many occasions I have tried to sight a plane that's maybe a few hundred feet below me at (say) my 3 o'clock but been absolutely unable to find it. This occurs almost exclusively over the suburbs but has also happened over dry paddocks. Another sign of old age perhaps?
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    Not so, the door cannot open enough to cause any problems because of the slip stream. I flew to Tumby Bay from Parafield with the door open in a PA28.
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    Gee whizz, I must be silly. I thought the diodes converted the AC voltage to DC (rectification). The regulator then 'regulated' the voltage and/or current to charge the battery. The term "high voltage AC current" is meaningless to me. The alternator generates an 'alternating voltage' that when applied across a load will cause an 'alternating current' (AC) to flow. Maybe in this world of LGBT rubbish the electronic theory I was taught has been 'cancelled'.
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    It's hard to smash your head into a low wing...
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    Back in the late 70s industry said 'give us a plane we can spin and stall' for flying training. Piper came up with the Tomahawk and Beechcraft with the Skipper. These planes are hard to tell apart. I did stalls, spins and spiral dives in the Tomahawk and one day I read that a Tomahawk lost its tail during a spin and so no more spinning the things. I have never really liked 'T' tails - they always look flimsy to me.
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    This is a typical question for the foundation Ham Radio License... There was a time when being a 'Ham' meant you knew all about radio, radio wave propagation bla bla bla. Not any more ☹️
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    Be it a website or an app, any good developer should remember "DON'T MAKE ME THINK" when they design the user interface. If the user has to dick about trying to nut out things the design needs changing.
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    what what what what?
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    Probably a moron driving the car, becoming common these days.
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    Stalls and spins were scary but I hated spiral dives. Did a few in the Tomahawk in the early 80s. Don't think anybody does them these days.
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    Heh? What makes you say that?
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    I must have suffered a brain bubble because I can't make sense of your post. Can you 'expand it' for me? And type slowly because I'm a slow reader...😄
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    Me (VK5KKS) and at least two others I know about.
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