Jabiru7252

I'm glad I am on the way out. Too hard to figure out the way things are done these days...

I logged on at 8pm local and could not find the latest versions of the manuals.

What version of Windoze are you using? Have you done a system restore? Do you keep you system up to date?

When windows 95 came out (in 1996) I lost the CD. Yep, it disappeared off the face of the planet. Found it twenty years later inside a book. A book on circuit analysis that hasn't been used since the seventies. I lost 5 years through stress and frustration over that. Your hinge will appear, perhaps in a bowl of soup in a restaurant in Iceland. But it will turn up.

Any idea on conditions? Gusty, lumpy? Foxbats are easy to land apparently.

If you're keen enough you could get a small audio amp + speaker from Jaycar and feed the headphone audio into that.

Oh No!!! The National Tiles advert - I HATE it. Great video though, that rotating jig is cool...

Turbo props have far fewer parts than pistons engines. What makes them so expensive? I want one just for the sound.

With your glider picture, the seat cover and grass look so similar it appears as though there is a big area cut out in the side of the glider. My brain playing tricks...

I know that if my plane had to stay out of a hangar, I'd be quick in acquiring some sort of weather/sun shade to throw over the thing. Too expensive a toy to let it get ruined. I am of the believe that many hangar owners are greedy bastards.

It's all too hard for my failing brain. AS recreational pilots I thought we could be free of the BS that GA pilot/owners put up with. Now I have to find some clown with a soft condescending tone to explain this crap to me while sitting me on her lap.

The official term used by the ATIS is "Dust Devil". Yep, believe it or not. I flew through one in a Piper Tomahawk at about 300 feet AGL. I thought a bus had hit me.

Inertia is the tendency of an object to resist any change in its velocity, including zero velocity when subjected to an external force. Kinetic refers to motion, a moving object has kinetic energy, a rock raised up 10 meters has potential energy, that energy becomes kinetic when the rock is dropped. When the rock hits the ground that energy is converted to heat etc.

One of the great positives about being a member of the Gawler flying club is that the occupations of the members is so varied, each has something to contribute. We have computer scientists, agricultural scientists, a guy with a PhD in atmospherics. We have Doctors, coppers, farmers, butchers, bakers and candle stick makers. Computer programmers and electronics techs. It's great, and I believe this forum is much the same.

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Well, if we didn't learn the 'crap' we'd still believe that magic was the reason most things beyond our understanding actually happen. And, we'd still be living in caves and grunting.

Oh dear.....☹️

The LEDS are actually flashing and it's the circuit that does this that causes the interference. So, if you know the flash rate, build a simple PI filter to suit. Maybe a Spec analyzer picture with the led light off and a pic with the led on on would be good to compare the two. Something I might play with just to 'refresh' my fast fading electronics knowledge.

Apart from the drive to the airstrip, playing with fuel is probably one of the most dangerous things we can do.

The lathe had sat in the weather for 20 years! Everything was coated in rust. The results were quite surprising. Can't find the pictures :-(

I wonder if electrolysis could be used to clean engine bits and pieces. I saw cogs from an old lathe that were in terrible condition come up really well when electrolysis was employed.

I had a friend who couldn't do better than grade seven math and English but he could thread a needle with a backhoe...

starts in games, ends in tears...

Aluminum is nowhere near a good conductor as copper (about 60%) but is lighter. That's the only reason (and a poor one) I could see for using it in electrics in a plane.