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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

My baby...

I use Windoze 10 and what ever it uses to protect me from the bad guys seems to work just fine.

Maybe they were 'escorted'. Not everyone who goes behind the fence has to have an ASIC.

I landed at Bourke, nobody around to check for ASIC. Landed at Broken Hill, nobody challenged me. Must have been my lucky day.

Gee, the flat earth clowns would be confused with this.

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.

Can't blame the parents because dickheads took away the rights of parents to discipline their kids. I do remember a story where some folks tried to steal fuel from a campervan, had the hose in the wrong hole and sucked in a mouthful of poo. And at my local boozer, a guy tried to nick a car, got caught, and the owner was 6 foot and at least 120kg. Gave the thief a pretty good flogging.

I'd say that owners of private strips might not want 'anybody' landing there at anytime because the strip might get torn up a little, hence the 'permission required'. However, any owner who does his/her block without listening to reason needs a punch in the mouth.

We are lucky. In South Africa they have people in Parliament who cannot even read and write!!!

At the club yesterday, I heard that there is a phone app that will detect the 'nano-chip' that is injected into us when we get vaccinated. Similar to the chips we put in dogs and cats but so small it's practically invisible. Why people come up with these stupid stories is beyond me and it's so sad people believe them without thinking.

I think we recently have had here in Adelaide two separate stabbings in as many days, both at reasonably good schools. Put 'challenged' kids in 'normal' schools and they WILL be bullied.

Yes. I knew a checkout chick who had to use a pad and pencil to work out $35.00 from $50.00. She was really embarrassed but I said it's not her fault, it's the failure of the education system. I think she appreciated that.

Because they dumbed down education so much over the last thirty years or so, even scoring high these days is pretty awful. I still find younger folks (say under 40) or do not know their times tables and think a square root is having sex with a nerd. Throw out the computers so students have to think for themselves. Having said that, Prof. Julius Sumner Miller lamented the poor quality of education over sixty years ago. I heard from a teacher dumbing down was done so idiots could score high marks and useless teachers wouldn't appear so useless.

Y'all hillbillies need to think before ya post, some comments are just plain stupid and ignorant...

He's a quicky spreadsheet I knocked up while dinner was cooking. Probably needs work and the empty arm is a guess. When I'm at the club next I'll get the correct numbers for the J230C we have. Incorrect loading and you get a warning. J230 loading chart.xlsx

Hey, what's the basic empty weight and empty arm of your J230? I'm writing a loading chart application and want some samples.

I would assume the nose wheel and the rudder can be adjusted independently of each other. So, disregarding the rudder, adjust your nosewheel so you taxi straight ahead with the pedals neutral. Once you're happy with that, adjust your rudder so that at cruise power there is no yaw. Remember, maladjusted ailerons or flaps will cause a yaw, but with roll. Under high power, a yaw to the left is normal, under a glide, yaw to the right is normal. Remember when your instructor kept yelling "MORE RIGHT RUDDER!!!" as you gunned it down the runway during those first few hours.