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    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.
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    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.
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    We are lucky. In South Africa they have people in Parliament who cannot even read and write!!!
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Y'all hillbillies need to think before ya post, some comments are just plain stupid and ignorant...
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    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
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    Hey, what's the basic empty weight and empty arm of your J230? I'm writing a loading chart application and want some samples.
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    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.
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    Too many experts sitting in their couches blasting our leaders, calling them slouches...
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    https://www.recreationalflying.com/uploads/monthly_2021_08/VIDEO-2021-01-15-15-36-51.mp4.d12abcac21caa0a00551df1a088bee6c.mp4
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    I used to fly the TB10 Tobago in 35° temperatures and 30 knot winds, rough as guts but tolerable. I could never get used to strong turbulence in my Jabiru. I took off one day in gusty hot winds and 30°C. It was dreadful. Rolling 30° or more but really violently and the 'pot holes' were so bad I was sure the wings were going to come off. The water bottle on the passenger seat disappeared down the back of the plane somewhere and the video camera came off its mount. Landing was just as bad, I remember seeing the wing tip about one foot off the runway while floating along as Jabs do. I'll never fly in hot gusty conditions in my Jab again. Flying is meant to be enjoyed. Only glider pilots like that sort of 'thermal activity'.
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    I had to go around just after touch down in my Jab. Full flaps and the trim was full back, as expected. The tendency for the nose to pitch up is quite noticeable.
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    I reckon he/she was caught by a gust, the wind sock did stick out as he/she touched down.
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    Yes, if you are vaccinated the effects of Covid, should you get it, are far less than if you are not vaccinated. Also, because you are vaccinated the virus is killed off quicker by your immune system so you are less likely to spread the disease than the unvaccinated. My book on biology (Biology, Helena Curtis, 5th edition, ISBN 0-87901-394-X) is a great resource and less likely to be full of the crap you get from the Internet. GET VACCINATED!
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    Considering there are people who claim the Earth is flat, people who deny the moon landings were real, people who say aliens live amongst us it only makes sense that people will deny there is a pandemic. I blame this on the X files. Dammed shows like that have those at the lower levels of IQ believing nonsense and then creating problems for the rest of us. By the way, 12 hours after I had my first jab (AstraZeneca) I thought I was going to die. Uncontrollable shivers, freezing cold, dreadful aches all over. God, it was a terrible 5 hours in bed that night! Couldn't even get up to get a Panadol 😵
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    Gave away motorcycling because of the helmet law? That's like giving away driving because of the seatbelt law. Only a fool would deny that both helmets and seatbelts save lives.
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    Every time I hear about self driving vehicles I get mildly annoyed. A report I read about a driverless bus showed it cost 50% more to operate than a standard bus with a driver. Like computers replacing people in the hospital system. Actual cost is double but offset by speed and accuracy. (unless hackers stuff things up!)
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    I have been involved is system analysis and design since the mid nineties. It is obvious to me that many systems in place do not get scrutinized before being put into place. Like so much software these days we have systems that are over priced, full of bugs, not documented and not maintained correctly. Gotta live with it because all the folks with the appropriate skills to fix things are retired.
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    I made my own 'splitter' and feed the audio into a cheap digital recorder. I then use a video editor (Sony Vegas 12) and very carefully align the audio to match the video. With some practice it's fairly easy and produces good results. The 'splitter' is nothing more than two resistors in series (10K and 1K) wired across the headphone plug with the audio to the recorder taken across the 1K resistor. No buzz, noise etc.
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    Maybe it's not three on board but two and a bit?
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    Any damage to the plane will probably have occurred by dragging it through the sand...
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    When I advertised my Jabiru, I got clowns asking me how many seats, how fast does it go, how far on a tank etc. This sort of thing wouldn't happen if we were allowed to screen people before they bred.
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