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  1. Jabiru7252
    If you want range and a solid airframe - Jabiru is just great. If you want to take off and land in short crappy strips, maybe a Savannah or Foxbat. Create a spread sheet with rows as features, columns as aircraft and do the research on the web. If you rely too much on folks here, you'll get biased opinions and in some cases lies and exaggerations. Read up on hip replacements and you'd rather spend you life in a wheel chair than have the surgery, the point being is that people post negatives about their experiences far more than the positives. By the way, Jab, being made here and of fibre is pretty quick and easy to get repaired if you put a hole in it.
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    I would have thought that headsets and radio/intercoms would all meet some standard so there would be no incompatibility, either electrically or physically.
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    According to my memory (and the ARRL handbook, 1977); An antenna that is physically short becomes capacitive so the coil adds inductance to cancel it (the capacitance) out. If you measure the length of wire in some coils it does not make up for the shortness of the antenna. It's a very complex topic and like the generation of lift by a wing, many folks have their own 'expert' opinions as to what's really going on. I would hardly see a quarter wave on the aircraft bands being too short, so any coil would have some other 'impedance matching' purpose. (sloping back at 45° is purely for looks.)
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    Oh Man - I forgot about that!!! Any Nazi thought police out there please forgive me!
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    Loading coil does not make for a 'ground independent' antenna. If your plane is metal, I'd expect the antenna to be a quarter wave mounted somewhere externally with the metal body acting as a ground. If the plane is fibre (like my Jab) then the quarter wave radiator will have a quarter wave piece going in the opposite direction, basically making a dipole. In some fibre planes, the quarter wave radiator will 'act' against a ground made of a thin foil Not sure if that would have to be connected via a wire back to the electrical ground. All the antennas should point vertically so the 'doughnut' shape radiation pattern is used to best advantage. Being an old fart, my theory is a bit vauge and possiblly out of touch. Having said that, if any Hams are reading, I hang out on 7Mhz and the callsign is VK5KKS.
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    Head shows signs of "pulling In" What's that? Is it something one can keep an eye on through leak down tests etc?
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    Come on guys.... starts in games, ends in tears.....
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    How much to print me a woman? She must be very feminine and petite as well as easily dominated and possessed. I'll pay cash.
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    The pilot of the Jab that landed in the paddock was very new, in fact this may have been his first trip away as PIC (apart from navex). Anyways, he did mention on the news he feared the door might come off and cause real damage so he elected to make a precautionary landing.
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    Sounds like squelch problems. Radio squelch should be adjusted so background noise is not heard. Normally adjusted when the engine is running. Don't wind on too much squelch or weaker signals will not be heard. Intercom squelch is similar but normally adjusted so your voice can be heard (and your passengers voice) but background noise cannot. Are you twiddling your knobs accordingly?
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    I posted, then deleted, then reposted, so now all will be confused because responses precede the posting. Kinda like fooling about with time I guess.
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    The worst open door incident I had was when my passenger decided he was going to vomit after becoming very sick during a rough flight. In a PA28, he opened the door to stick his head out but the slip stream was too strong. I throttled back to about 70 knots, added some flap and held her steady. Next minute my mate removes his seat belt and leans right out saying he doesn't want any chunder coming back in the plane. With about half his body out the plane he suddenly slips out, due to turbulence. Oh God I thought, just grabbing his ankle in time. For what seemed forever we're flying around with me holding his ankle and trying to keep the plane flying and him screaming and carrying on like a fool. Gradually I realised he sounded like a girl and was somehow slapping my face. Confused and bewildered I slowly woke to find my girl friend slapping me about and yelling "What the hell are you doing, let go of my ankle you idiot" at the top of her voice. That was some dream, probably caused by the pizza. (This story has been embellished with exaggerations and lies for your amusement, oh, and to test the new system.)
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    I remember in 1971 a teacher at school saying how we (Australia) will be invaded by starving millions because food and productive land will have run out in most other countries.
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    Because they are as thick as a dunny brush? I know sheep that can read and write better than some people.
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    Ozrunways is only weeks away if that for Android.
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    Standard adult weight of 87kg. I remember when it was 70kg.
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    Probably because of poorly designed software and operating systems. (All the good programmers have retired)
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    If I were the pilot I would have dropped into the hospital and given that passenger what he wanted.
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    Guilty as charged! But, I still want to hear the passenger side of the story. As for the pilot in command, that must have been a very scary thing...
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    I am itching to here the passenger have his say. Maybee the pilot was doing sumthing bizzare and the passenger needed to get control. Who nos?
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    Well, so far you're the only one who picked up on my typo. The spelling these days is shameful, my comment is not about being better or smarter than the next guy, it's about being around long enough to see the dumbing down of education for various reasons to the point where it is at the same standard as mine was as a ten year old almost fifty years ago. The folks who brought about this shameful dumbing down should be dragged screaming and naked into the street and beaten on the kidneys with big tree branches. Then again, I guess it is all part of the bogan society that we have become. Safe flying....
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    The are MANY here who need to learn how to SPELL!!!
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    If my rego doesn't arrive on time, I'll hire the club aircraft and send RAAus the bill.
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    My Jab didn't come with a bar fridge:crying:
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    Why were the golfers hitting the trees?
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