Jabiru7252

I used a Garmin Nuvi 340 GPS when flying. It could be 500m out for all I care. If you can't find the strip at 500m you should be flying models.

I've done a lot of work with RAAF pilots. One day I was on base after a hard days work chasing F18s around the sky. I noticed the F18 pilot was using Oz Runways to plan his flight back to Williamtown RAAF base. Interesting the jet has squillions of dollars of 'stuff' on board but he preferred Oz Runways. Apparently he uses it when flying Jabirus during his off work time.

I was taught that if the engine died during circuits you DO NOT have to land on a runway. Aim to get back on the ground in one piece and if that means landing across runways and taxi ways then so be it. Better than landing in some poor plebs backyard or worse, in their bedroom.

I want to hear radio calls in the circuit, I give radio calls in the circuit. Unless radio calls are so frequent that they are over the top of each other then shut up and listen.

Given the huge price we pay for aviation radios I would say that they would have protection against high SWR. It's easy to implement, being found in cheap CB radios. If my radio was 'cooked' because the antenna was rubbish I would have every right to shove the radio down the manufacturer's throat.

I went to Oshkosh back in 1990. Great event. Talking to some of the folks who owned WW2 aircraft, they said that many of the planes they own are old in years but only young in terms of flying hours. Apparently motor bikes and jeeps were the same, brand new yet years old and cheap as chips in the USA. Imagine a 1942 WLA Harley Davidson motor bike still in the crate going for a song. How many hours had that B17 done before it was smashed into at the airshow? What a terrible thing.

At 77 years and 80 years of age, 'staying aware' becomes pretty dismal for most. I gave away flying at 66 because I'm starting to do stupid things and forgetting to do not-stupid things.

Another dickhead showing off?

My Ford transit van sat for two years in the back yard, started after a new battery was fitted and ran fine.

A few years ago some members of the Adelaide Soaring club did a tour of our BoM establishment here is South Australia. I really enjoyed it, and their super computer can play Quake III Arena like no other....

Apparently the Bureau of Meteorology wants us to use the term "The Bureau" and never use "BOM" when referring to them. I want to encourage everybody to ignore this (expensive) stupidity and to continue using BOM and Bureau of Meteorology. Another example of needless stupidity from very silly people. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-18/bureau-of-meteorology-plibersek-rebrand-floods-bom/101547984

It's not the statistics, it's the lame way you posted.

Just another idiot bashing Jabirus...

Howdy. My cheap digital CRO lets me save the screen to a USB stick so I don't have to photograph it. Also, if you put a diode across a solenoid or relay to stop the spike, should not the spike be limited to 0.6 volts? SDS00006.BMP

I wouldn't be dicking about with a Ipad while in the circuit!! 😲

My first PPL was the green booklet, issued in the 80s, then a plastic card came in the post, many years ago. I can only guess what a digital license is. As for Piper Warriors not having changed much of the last thirty years, I bet the amount of rust has! And it seems to me people are ripping out the 'steam' gauges and fitting flat screens.

Rambles on a bit...

That's not a 230! let's see the J230!

I did spin recovery and spiral dives in the Piper Tomahawk (PA38). I'd rather wash a horse down with my tongue that go through that again. Spirals were scariest because you could pull the wings off your plane if you panicked.

The highest winds I have encountered on landing were 30 kts and that was 30° off the nose. Being in a Tobago TB10 it handled that quite well. I found as I grew old and feeble my abilities lessened. Sadly, I no longer fly. However, like Lego, Tonka Toys and romps in the back of the EH Holden these things are now in the past. I have now taken up chemical engineering - turning alcohol into urine. It's reasonably cheap and easy to do.

I flew from Parafield to Tumby bay in a PA28 with the door open. Didn't even know until my passenger asked if it was dangerous. The gap was maybe one inch and the effects were zero.

Maybe the powers that be will use smoots as a measure instead of mph, kts or kph. Google smoots if you have no idea...

You could have a small conversion chart with critical speeds listed in knots and stick it next to the ASI. It wouldn't take long for the 'conversion' to come naturally. I am curious as to why some places refuse to go metric, it is sooooo much better.

I don't believe the doors offer any extra structural support and you don't have to unlatch them in a forced landing, even locked you can just push the doors open, they are that flexible.

The Jabiru J170 with its big wing flies very nice with the power back to idle. The fact that the J170 wants to keep flying makes it harder to land in a small paddock when the engine stops.