Jabiru7252

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?

I use a car GPS (Garmin Nuvi 255W) in off road mode. Works a treat. Draws a pink line from A to B and as I fly, I leave a little blue line. I can see at a glance if I am on track, how far to the next waypoint and my speed etc. (albeit in kph). A great little backup system, I use the map and compass as my primary navigation and can only blame myself if that lets me down. By the way, the GPS track can be loaded into Google Earth after a flight and played back, quite neat.

 

 

I use a Contour camera, full HD and the prop doe not cause any horrible artifacts.

 

 

Hi John. When flying on a day with cloud it is hard to tell how cloudy it is when you are close to the cloud base. The trick is to look at the shadows on the ground to get a feel for how much cloud is about (and any wind by watching the cloud shadow move). I have flown above the cloud when there were only a few floating about, definately smoother flying. Cloud distance can be hard to judge when you decide to fly down through a hole to get underneath. Flying to Melbourne once we did a steep decending turn between clouds and flew into one, big surprise as we thought we had plenty of room. The pilot was instrument rated and we were in and out in under five seconds, no dents or scratched paint. 500 feet or 2000 feet away, the big fluffy stuff looks much the same. I guess the concrete is down and your plane is back in the hangar. I'll have a sticky beak next weekend.

 

 

Can we change this thread heading from "New Engine Options for Jabiru –Rotax or Lycoming" to "Let's slag Jabiru again"?

 

 

Read section 3.5.3 in the RA-Aus Technical manual. It's not as exciting as The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy but might set a few things straight.