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    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
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    I wouldn't be dicking about with a Ipad while in the circuit!! 😲
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    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.
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    Rambles on a bit...
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    That's not a 230! let's see the J230!
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Maybe the powers that be will use smoots as a measure instead of mph, kts or kph. Google smoots if you have no idea...
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    A friend of mine stalled at about 10 to 20 feet AGL during a practice forced landing. His plane didn't have the height to enter a spin, the left wing got caught up in canola and the plane did a cartwheel coming to a stop pretty quick. One thing when you are really low, pushing the stick forward to break the stall will put you into the grass. As an experiment, I kept my Jab off the ground during a landing while the stall horn blasted but before the nose could drop I had sunk onto the runway. (as I hoped). I don't have the berries to do that sort of stuff any more.
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    Forty years flying, can't think what LOC means. Yes I can, loss of control. Yep, looked like he flew that into the ground. Dumb ass.
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    Old PMG/Telstra lineys that would have been working on old PMG/Telstra soldering. And, if the liney couldn't find the dry joint until a truck went past, he should have resigned and taken up fruit picking.
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    Maybe the pilots are all vaccinated and are scared that 5G will 'activate' the nano-bots the vaccine has put in their bodies? Believe me, some folks think that. But, being serious, tests have shown that 5G is interfering with aviation systems, surveying systems and apparently medical systems. I can't find the site, but there is an article out there (not by nutters) that digs into this problem.
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    Interesting comments on soldering. I worked for DSTO and we built many air-borne pods and other 'things' that were aviation in nature. We soldered. A good solder connection should be supported with mechanical support of the wiring. Some folks think they know how to solder, but they don't. Some think solder is a glue. I've been in the electronics game since the seventies, take it from me, soldering (done properly) is safe and reliable. Even satellites have soldered connections.
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    Gee, I see an opportunity here. Maybe I'll make up the cables, length given by the customer and flog them. I must have wired 10 million 25pin, 15pin and 9pin connectors in my life. Mainly for computer use, not aviation, not that it matters.
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    And the camera might well be worth more than the some flying club's fleet! Some IR cameras (Wescam) can cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Bruce, the club has bought my plane...
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    My baby...
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    I use Windoze 10 and what ever it uses to protect me from the bad guys seems to work just fine.
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    Maybe they were 'escorted'. Not everyone who goes behind the fence has to have an ASIC.
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    I landed at Bourke, nobody around to check for ASIC. Landed at Broken Hill, nobody challenged me. Must have been my lucky day.
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    Gee, the flat earth clowns would be confused with this.
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    jackc, I use a Garmin Nuvi 255W in 'off road' mode as a backup to my map and compass. It's just a simple car GPS but it is good enough. I like to take the stored tracks and replay them in Google Earth.
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