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and both coils have the leads in the same direction as the engine turns?

Hi John, In our own plane we use Bose headsets and they are great, but I also have a set of rec flying headsets that I use when flying other peoples planes when I am servicing them or ferrying them around and they are a good tough headsdet that are comfortable enough to use for a few hours of flying at a time and won,t break the bank Brian

Did you take the earth wires off the coils or just disconnected them from the switch as it might have chaffed and still be shorting out to earth, or cracked insulators under the coil mount ? Brian

If you took your jabiru to bundaberg they were fitting the through bolts for free. Brian

Congrats Evan!! When you pass the next XC and you are allowed to wing it on your own, BBQ at YBSS is a must. -Linda

Then you would be flying the J160 I would guess. Manny is a good friend of ours, and a top bloke. -Linda

Jason, If you see Manny at inbound aviation in Ballarat he might be able to let you know who owns the big hangar behind them and they might have space. There is also a hangar up for sale here in Bacchus Marsh. PM me if you require more details. Brian

*puts hand up* Providing the weather is good, September is notorious with being windy. -Linda

Yes that was Brian taking the 230 for a test flight to check something . 7918 is the rego, if you see it around go and have a talk with Tony the owner, he is a really nice person to meet and talk with, like most Jabiru pilots - Linda

Pookemon, Thanks for the recommendation, will look into it. You were out and about on Thursday in Ballarat in the arvo? We were there, and saw the yellow canary doing circuits! We have a friend who has a J230 in the aviation hangar, and Brian was doing some maintenance on it. Next time we are up in Ballarat, we must catch up. -Linda

Howard. The GoPro Hero 2 has this software that you download from the website: http://gopro.com/support/ There is a editing software called "GoPro cineform studio" This is what you use to download the video from the camera which converts it to windows live video maker, from there you can make it a movie. This is how we did it. It seemed to work well. Any questions please ask, and I will try and help where I can. -Linda

Thanks guys for the input, it was filmed at 960p at 48fps which worked, we are still playing with the different settings and would welcome someone with more camera knowledge to suggest what settings we should have. We are more of a point and shoot, and if it works, that was good type of photographer. It was taken on thursday morning 10/5 and it was a great day for flying in Vic. Vev , if you look close in the middle of the film you should be able to see the ASI reading about 130, (top left of the dash) which isn't too shabby to get around at. Thanks everyone, soon as we get the outside mount done we will try and post some more. Brian and Linda:happy:

Solid lifter motor will be fine Mardy, just keep the maintenance happening and you should have trouble free flying like most of us. Brian

http://www.recreationalflying.com/media/jabiru-j160-flight-from-ybss-to-yblt.186/ Normally this trip is about 20mins, we have condensed it down to 3.39 to not bore the pants off anyone. Comments are most welcome as this is our first try with the GoPro. Next video will be outside of the aircraft. -Linda

Well done Evan!! We will be up at YBLT on Thursday arvo about 2ish Brian is doing his BFR with Manny in our baby. (Manny is somewhat a tad excited) -Linda

I am sooo jealous right now. Hope both you and Sal have a safe flight. Send some pictures please!!! :) -Linda

Bob. http://www.townsvilleflyers.com/ -Linda

It was good to hear that you both got out unhurt from that accident, how many hours were on the aircraft and engine before this failure happened SF, it is not a common problem for the jab motors to have a loose circlip on the gudgeon pin, Brian

Great vid Tex, didn't know they went so high with a hang glider and definitely didn't know that they got towed, just shows you learn something every day Brian

Didn't get that close, but it gave us a fright to think there may be others around us that we didn't know about

I just ferried an aircraft from Bundaberg back to Victoria with the owner and when we were near Dalby at 6500 ft we looked out of the windscreen and about 2000 ft above us was a hang glider, it sounded like they were getting towed up and left to slowly make their way back home. It was a first for us to see a hang glider at that altitude. Brian

I am not too familiar with the design of this aircraft but there looks to be no shrouding for the radiators and the air would take the path of least resistance and wash around the radiator instead of being forced through it ? Maybe leave the bottle where it is and slightly deflect the radiators inwards to get more airflow through them.

Is the Bolly prop heavier than the Brolga ?

Terry, Sounds like you are going on the right track with the guage, when you fitted the new sender do not use sealant if possible as it can insulate the sender and give bad readings also make sure the terminal connecting the sender wire is squeaky clean and tight on the terminal, then you can check the power and earth wires on the back of the guage to make sure of clean tight fittings, and failing all that maybe fit a diode on the back of the guage. Good luck Brian

well done Evan, you are getting closer to that $100 hamburger every day. Brian and Linda