brilin_air

Hi all!

Just got my 160 going with a microair radio. When the strobe light is working, I can hear it through the headsets. It is alot quieter with the noise reduction on, but is still noticable. Radio check is a 5, for transmitting and receiving.

Any ideas? Anybody else had this problem?

Thanks

Brian

Hi Captain!

At present, the plane is still being rigged up and still awaiting certification. It has only been at Ballarat since Saturday (12/07), and we are currently finishing off any little jobs like flaps etc and the inside trimming should be finished by tomorrow at this stage.

Unfortunately no, will won't be going anywhere for about a month or 2, Brian still has to have his 20+ hours yet

Although depending on how things go with the plane, he might try and sneak up to get some hours up...but without me

-Linda

Hi all.

Just a couple of photos to those who may or may not be aware of the J160 that was being built by my husband. This has taken a total of 3 years and it is at the moment getting the final touches to it. At the present time it is stationed at Ballarat Airfield until the hangar at Bacchus Marsh gets built.

Enjoy! and hopefully we will get to see alot of our fellow RAAus aviators around.

-Linda 19-5026

Hi Manny!

Good to see you have come aboard the forums! Just one more addition from the Ballarat brigade!

-Linda Dunkley

Decca~

Brian and myself are pleased to hear that you are feeling heaps better!

Good luck with the flying! Hope to see you at Ballarat soon

-Linda

Bad luck about the landing Middo, but thankfully your skill and the gods allowed you to walk away, well done.

Thanks for that. Can anyone recommend a suitable tap and supplier.

-Brian

Don, Have you checked the earth lead from the motor to the battery, it sounds like a bad electrical connection if it has only happened recently and the other guages read ok.

Brian

Thanks everyone, Paul I have seen the flight cell and they look pretty good,I just want to use the systems that are already available to me and keep things simple, Phil, just as Mazda points out the microair has an input but it is mono, not that that matters but I didn't know if it only came through on one side or not, Good idea Mazda for listening as my usual pax doesn't like my music as much as i do, My next question was going to be if I wired an ipod input to the pax headset plug would it only come through on one side so as we could both listen to our own music. Thanks all.

Brian

Does anyone know if it would work, to wire into the headphone jack another input that I could plug my ipod to so as music would come through the headsets as well as listening to the radio broadcasts ? My radio is a microair

That was an excellent price, my price is about $27,000 and is about the best that i have found around here so far, as Gavinl pointed out, as soon as hangar is mentioned out comes the big calculator, I like the door set up that Gavin has as well, no outriggers, although a coule of roller door might be dearer than a couple of sliders.

Brian

Sorry everyone for posting something that has caused anybody hurt, it was not my intention and it will not happen again.

Sincere apologies.

Brian

Hi Paul, The blue-goo, is that with the tecnam that you have used it?

Spoken with my local bridgestone tyre agent and have been told of somewhere in Melbourne that a company injects a solution like silicon into the tyre valve and when it goes off it is solid, It comes in different densities so as to give the same properties as different tyre pressures, when i find out more information i will let everyone know.

Brian

Hi Ian, just going through the same motions as you and ranbuild seem to have a fair product at a reasonable price, 10 x 12 x 3.6 for under $30,000 concreted floor included.

Brian

you could put a a thin smear of silastic on the plug and refit the leads, once it is dry they will be stuck on until you pull them off again.

Brian

I would give my right hand to be ambidexterous :)

A blonde walks into a pharmacy and asks the assistant for some rectum deodorant,

the pharmacist a little bemused explains to the woman they don't sell rectum deodorant, and never have.

Unfazed, the blonde assures the pharmacist that she has been buying the stuff from this store on a regular basis and would like some more.

"I'm sorry" , says the pharmacist, "We don't have any"

"But I buy it here" says the blonde.

"Do you have the container that it came in?" ased the pharmacist.

"YES" said the blonde. " I'll go home and get it."

She returns with a container and hands it to the pharmacist who looks at it and says to her "This is just a normal stick of underarm deodorant"

Annoyed, the blonde snatches the container back and reads out loud from the container.........

"TO APPLY, PUSH UP BOTTOM."

HOLDEN Holes, oil leakes, dents, and engine noises

FORD first on race days :)

I'm jealous, that looked great, fantastic scenery, enjoy the race on sunday.

Thanks for posting those pictures.

Brian

GO CRAIG LOWNDES

Hi Bruce, can you reproduce the problem by wriggling the wires from the sender to the gauge, check all along the whole length of the wire,and is there any fluctuations in the gauge reading while you are taxiing, I would be looking at the connections at the sender for a good tight clean contact, and if you can get the problem on the ground, earth the sender wire to see if the gauge moves, if it does not then I might suspect the gauge as being faulty, if it does move then I would suspect the sender unit

Brian

What about those semi solid tubes that you can put in kids bike tyres to stop the punctures, they could be good if they are made small enough

Hi Dave, those tubes sound like the answer, I just worry a bit if the solution that goes into the tubes would make the tyres go out of balance, just looking at options to try and cut down weight for repair kits for tyres, spanners to undo wheels, repair kit, pump. The weight just keeps adding up.

Thanks

Brian

I read in the trike forum about people putting a solution in their tyres to prevent punctures and was wondering how many people do this in the larger ultralights or do you carry a spare tube or puncture repair kit when you are travelling any distance ?

Just wondering

Brian

Oil cooler

Hi Ross, What you have in the picture looks the same as mine, you have to cut the 2 outer fins off the sump and mount the brackets so as they slope to the back of the plane, then mount the oil cooler to the brackets with the rubber spacers. The oil filter is removed and the filter housing is fitted so as the hoses can connect to it and the oil filter refitted, remember to fit the fire proof sleeve over the flexible oil hose.

Good luck, it seems harder than it really is, once you have it fitted up you then have to fit the flat duct under the oil cooler to direct the air through the oil cooler, hope this helps.

Brian