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Jiefuster

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  1. Flexwings are magical!
  2. Mayday = LIFE is in grave or imminent danger. Either it is or isn't and respectfully, any forced landing onto terrain that is 'best choice at the time', the outcome is highly likely to be uncertain, and you are at grave risk of smacking your body into in moving bits at considerable speed. Thinking about it takes mental resources which you need to focus on flying, particularly at low level. Make the call. Cancelling is easy. Getting help is not so.
  3. Go to YYWG and take a TIS in a machine with the wing in your hands where you feel the wind moving, and airspeed is a sound not a number on a dial. Try a trike. Just excellent fun and such a buzz.
  4. Not hitting - getting. Fat fingers!!
  5. TKs If you could tell me who built your trailer that would be good too - if they’ve done it once it might be worth my while hitting them to do another one. I had a wing carrying trailer with my last trike and really like the idea of a tilting trailer.
  6. Hi Do you have the plans for your trailer at all? Jeff
  7. Anyone know of hangar space at Wollongong fora WS trike?
  8. A good sized second seat is importnat. Where else would you fit the fuel/tent/spare cothes/tie downs/.......
  9. No import duty payable under AUS FTA on HS code for aircraft kits I understand.
  10. The Gen 4 seems to be a better, more evolved engine, with the Nicasil coating etc. Oz just doesn't have MOGAS (for Rotax) easily available if you plan touring a long way from home, and the inconsistencies in MOGAS are a concern. Did you ever think of water cooling teh heads? Rotec?
  11. Wonder why so many Jabirus change hands so quickly all the time?
  12. I notice on older Skyrangers some have a thermal blanket behind the seats to allow cabin heat to be more effective. Does anyone know if this is available for the Nynja?
  13. Can you buy the old skyranger seats at all?
  14. Hi, I agree with much of what has been said. My first instructor in a 912 took me up in bumpy air near the coast, scared the crap out of me and said 'you'll need to get used to it if you are going to x country". X country!!! Man, I'd be pleased to get around a circuit and get down again! Alive. Meanwhile it's Sat morning and what seemed like every plane in the world wanted to land to take off, but I was expected to cope with that. Instructor 2, in a quiet rural strip taught me to fly low, but instruction was accompanied every time by a good dollop of criticism, despite my absolute best efforts. Could do no right. Bumps were expected to be dealt with and I was a sissy to worry about them. Talk about feeling like failure. They still scared the crap out of me after 20 hrs..... Finally I sought recommendations and went to a real professional trike instructor in Victoria. Gave me time to adjust, to understand what was happening, taught me gently that the wing would indeed 'fly itself'. Taught me stabilised approaches and how to deal with in flight emergencies. And flights on a late December arvo as the sun was setting over the Murray. So now, after 60+hours, a fortnight ago I finally 'let go' - not literally but with my whole body. I relaxed, really just let my hands damp the movement. And yes the trike moves much more but no longer can I feel the massive pucker factor when it starts getting a little lumpy. Still sometimes mildly apprehensive, but getting there - and it's just magic when it comes together!! I can feel the wind under my hands, not on a leveraged stick behind fibreglass or tin, and know the layers by the change in temperature, and sometimes the smell. Worth the journey - you bet!!!
  15. Tony is a true gentleman and a good POC. However in considering which aerodrome to use - in the past few week a new NOTAM has been promulgated by the operator which restricts the use of aircraft under 650kg at Goulburn from using the main bitumen runway without providing 1 hours prior notice on WEEKENDS. The rough paddock, known otherwise as the other runway - good for practising rough out landings to test or break your undercarriage - is available of course but these are constraints being placed on RAA registered aircraft at Goulburn so they don't interfere with "real" aircraft during the "busy" weekends when most rec flyers need the runway. Suggest this is NOT a place lightweight aircraft are being welcomed, despite the healthy landing fees!
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