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    When I started flying the fun part was creating a plan and flying it. I thought the whizz-wheel was a cool piece of kit. And using it in front of your (non-pilot) passengers made you appear just that little bit smarter than the average bear.
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    I was under the impression that the Cirrus was difficult or impossible to recover once in a spin.
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    I think any interference to compass readings caused by flying near magnetite deposits would be small compared to the normal compass swing we experience from turbulence etc. Gee, trying to navigate using just the compass in a Jabiru on a hot day was a challenge. (I miss the directional gyro from my GA days).
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    Jamestown airshow was on today, lots of planes around the area.
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    It goes back to the days when reports were sent via morse code and teletype. The 'Q' code made things easier to send...
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    I was taught to aim for the airfield not the runways...
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    I lost my copy of Windows 95 CD. It turned up 20 years later in an old calculus book that never gets read. I went grey and slightly mad as a result of that.
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    I remember a young lady learning to fly the Jabirus at the Gawler Flying Club and has been flying for the RAAF for quite a few years since (C17 I think).
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    That's a relief, I was worried they used a dip stick...
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    When living in the UK back in 1980 I used to catch the express train from London to Maidstone. I was busting for a number two and being the only person in the carriage and knowing the train would be zooming through the stations without stopping I hung my bum out the window. Well, going through one station I heard over a PA system "Hey you with the fat cheeks and cigar, get your head back in the window". Not a plane story but, what the heck...
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    Most people these days are so stupid they probably thought it was normal. Check out info on millennials, it's scary what you read.
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    Sometimes, with the cost of postage you just cannot win. A mate ordered an item online, it arrived okay. Failed after a week, to send it back for repair/replacement costs as much as a new item.
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    Right at the end they show the HUD (Head Up Display) and it's blurred to buggery. I have spent at least 1000 hours looking at HUD video (when I was working) and it's pretty bloody good video. More bollocks. And again I say, there is no suggestion it's extra-terrestrial. probably a pizza delivery drone gone rouge...
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    Once you get experienced with video editing software, modeling software (Blender, Unreal Engine etc.) you can produce the most amazing stuff. We see it in the movies all the time. Been around for donkeys years... I should mention that when I speak of things like 'Blender' or 'Unreal Engine' I suggest you Google the terms so you get a better idea of what I'm trying to convey.
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    I can't remember when but the saucer shaped UFOs gave way to the long thin UFO which turned out to be the SR71 Blackbird.
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    Reports of 'UFOs' go back to biblical times and we can't those sightings on weather balloons and hubcaps, so, I wonder just what they saw.
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    With reference to Onetrack's comment; Yes, a pretty amazing sight to see. Back in those days I would have blamed it on the dope or acid, but that's just me. While I believe Onetrack I'm the sort of bloke that would say it was something 'of this world' we just don't see that often and therefore have no real explanation. Space is really, really big and if you read Einstein's Special Relativity (a difficult read) you'll understand that travelling at light speed or even a small fraction of that speed is just not possible. If you think time, speed and distance calculations were tricky when learning navigation, try throwing in weird effects like the Lorentz Transform, time dilation and ever increasing mass. (At light speed, mass becomes infinite, go figure...) It is interesting that the object Onetrack saw was green. That's the color that many Bioluminescent life-forms here on Earth emit. Maybe something to think about.
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    Is my math correct? 9.8billion divided by 20 is $490 million each. That seems absurd to me.
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    Not long after the second world war the military was playing about with 'quad-copters', that is, with drones of the sort you can now buy in hobby shops. They were not as sophisticated as todays UAVs but, because of the way they could hover, dart about, climb and descend rapidly bla bla bla they were described as 'alien technology'. Nobody had seen things flying about like this before. As more and more 'UFOs' were reported, it was in the interest of the military to let folks think they were from outer space - keeps the heat off the secret stuff occurring here on Earth. Has anybody ever wondered why today with our high resolution cameras we still only ever see blurry crap images of 'UFOs'? Dick Smith's offer of $100,000 to anybody who can prove UFO's from outer space exists stills stands as far as I know. Some folks will believe so intensely in something (flat earth, UFOs, visiting aliens etc.) they will totally ignore any scientific explanations to the contrary. It's human nature I suppose.
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    Perhaps you're missing something here. The bloke I knew who wanted a better fuel level indicator wanted something on the dash because it was a pain in the neck trying to twist around see the tube on the tank.
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    I made a water level sensor using an ultrasonic sender/receiver unit purchased from Jaycar electronics. See the (poorly produced) video attached. I used the computer to display the level but that could have easily been a cheap 1 milliamp panel meter. With some thought one might be able to incorporate this into a fuel level meter. Naturally one would need to be able to dick around with electronics etc. I can produce code for the Arduino if required. It would depend on the plane but I originally developed my prototype for the Jabiru SK55 that has the fuel tank behind the seat. Fiber-glassing the sensor to the top of the tank was the plan. I hope this provides food for thought... arduino-fuel-gauge.mp4
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    Apparently the horse was put down by vets today. ☹️
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    Jabiru7252 replied to CAV0K's topic in Jabiru

    I wonder if that's why that Savanna went into the canola fields some years back, too slow, too low and a gust of wind...
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    At least one of these is still flying out of Parafield. Used to be heaps years ago.
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    The tug plane has a big dent in its port wing leading edge. (Oh dear, somebody has mentioned this and I cannot work out how to delete my post 😠.)
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