Jabiru7252

Forget the Bex, take "Baldwin's Nervous Pills'. Cures nervousness, irritability of temper, want of strength and energy, fear, dread, neuralgia, hysteria, disturbed sleep, melancholy, insomnia and all nerve pains and diseases. I think it was cocaine or heroine. If you remember this stuff, you must be about 100 years old now.

Blues skies, light breeze and about 30C here in Adelaide.

Oh No - another spin! I'm not accusing you of getting smart, I just wish I was smart because this rudder/aileron stalls thing is just (apparently) so complex. I've been flying since the early 80s as a private pilot and have always thought I understood it. Regardless of how it is described, when I do stalls and the wing drops (which is rare) I'll bring it up with opposite rudder, and if somebody claims it's due to magnetism, then so be it.

But, the rudder input is applied AFTER the nose comes down and the wing is NO LONGER stalled? Man, I am sooooo dumb. Thanks for the comments.

Picking up the dropped wing, stopping the yaw - same thing different colour. Rather than confuse poor newbies just use both terms, after all, they are both correct! I was taught that applying opposite rudder speeds up the downgoing wing and thus increases its lift stopping the drop. Still, what would I know?, I fly a Jabiru.

Well, we could do with a few dyas of solid rain here in Adelaide. Good riddance to Summer.

AndyWe both know that & having diodes fitted is the norm for GA aircraft etc too but specifically the question is why Jabiru doesn't USE one on the starter solenoid & also why no battery master solenoid for that matter too ?

JakeJ

All this electrical jargon makes my head spin. The simpler the better for me. I replaced the Jab solenoid with a better one, and installed an automatic battery isolator. A heavy landing or prang throws a weighted swing arm which disconnects the earth terminal. The lever is easily accessible so the battery is isolated whenever the aircraft is not running.

Very nice. Looked like a few bumps but otherwise nice flying conditions.

I have recently gotten my pilots license and have had only 2 flights since. The most recent was a little more than a month after the last. I did not actually want that much time between flights. I tried to go several times in that period but cancelled due to weather.Finally saturday I was able to fly again. I planned on doing touch and goes. I was admittedly a little nervous having such little pilot in command time. Once I got to the runway and took off I felt completely comfortable and confident flying the plane except for one thought. "Now I have to land the plane." The same thought I had when I did my first solo. As I descended and approached the runway I did everything I was trained to do. I rounded out at the right height and did my flare correctly so I did not balloon, then touched down gently on the runway.

 

I am curious as a new pilot what do people think is the maximum appropriate time to go between flights before you should go up with an instructor again? Also once you get more hours does it get easier to go longer times without flying?

The longest I have gone without a check flight is six weeks. If I have not flown for a long time, I aks\\\\ ask an instructor to come up for a few circuits.

The idiots say this was a Cessna, sure looks like a Savannah to me. Then again, I am getting old.

Apparently it clipped power lines. No mention as to why they did what they did.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/light-plane-crashes-at-primary-school-injuring-pilot-and-passenger/story-fndo1svg-1226586890487

You have to love political correctness don't ya.I can't stand the thought of 2 blokes doing any of that sort of stuff, it makes me sick. I guess that makes me a Homophobe. I can't help it anymore than they apparently can't help being gay.

 

So how is it, that if I voice my opinion, I am discriminating against them (gays), but they (gays and do gooders) can call me a Homophobe until the cows come home and nobody maligns them for it .

 

This post is not about Gays and Homophobes it is about the double standards we see so often from those who insist on political correctness.

 

Equality is something that is unimportant to people who have have it.

 

Regards Bill

Agree with you totally. Any abuse I get is water off a ducks back, although some years ago, I was forced to used half a brick to help reinforce my right to my opinions.

I did my first stalls (and spins and spirals) in a Tomahawk, that gets the sphincter going!

To test your girl friends faith and devotion, see if she'll play dutch ovens.

How uncouth we are...

Lots of info if you Google for it. There are competitions held for groups (usually Uni students etc.) who can build a small plane and have it fly unassisted to a given location and drop a package. It think that would be great fun to be involved in. Where I work we do similar things, but the package goes bang. I was involved sometime back, using OpenGL to develope a simple 3D visualisation of the track taken by an 'aircraft'. Was pretty cool then but primitive by todays standards. Have fun, time is running out.....

Good grief.

My ELB is next to the seat. I simply lift the antenna and that activates the thing. My first action once I decided I'm committed to a forced landing.

Yea, very loosly coupled stick (like my Jab). That is great flying albeit risky. Belting along a river so low, round a bend and two thousand birds suddenly appear in your face, scary.

A notam for Big-City Aerodrome says flying flap-doodles operating up to 700 feet from

01 040329 to 03 310900

So, what do YOU make of the last line? Is it Jan the 4th from 0329 hours until March 31st at 0900 hours. If this is correct, why would they use 0329 instead of 0330?

I would say you're pretty rare!

"not even a spark if you bridge the poles". Never short a car battery out, even if it's dead! Why?, because if the battery had an intermittent fault (like in my car) it could appear dead one second (zero volts across the terminals) then after a bump, it could easily crank the engine. Sounds to me like the solenoid had welded itself in the on position. I have heard of this before. Google 'stuck solenoid' and you will get some pretty good articles.

So, nothing on the news this evening. Anybody know anything.

If I had an engine failure, I would be turning on my ELB before making the forced landing. I would think everybody does that. One may not be in a position to turn on the ELB (or even find it) after they have got onto the ground. Nothing on my local news channels here.

not that you should ever not use maps, but to play the devils advocate (bare in mind my very limited experience) surely there is a huge difference between using a car gps and an aviation gps?