turboplanner

Rubbish indeed; the Jabiru is a 4 stroke engine. We are talking about two strokes; there's a huge difference in the engineering, performance and maintenance. I've managed to sieze a two stroke engine where the specification was 16:1 and I used 40:1; I learnt my lesson.

40-1 is not fine if the manufacture requires a different mix. Good example of why 2 stroke requires specialised training.

.........all jumped up and did a Haka, poking out their tongues and rolling their eyes, pathetic really, but it was authentic, they'd taken off their shoes and loosened their ties. What they didn't know was this was bindii country and immediately there were howls of pain. From a distance the Australians didn't know this so they started doing the Ernie Dingo "Welcome to Country" where people stamp their feet and sniff smoke from the leaves dropped on a fire. The Aussies only gave the ceremony passing seriousness and that's what saved them. The Aussies stepped forward in time to Gough Whitlam's Anthem, being careful to get the word "girt" correct. Thge New Zealanders had just exhausted all the bindii on their stamping ground when they were pushed back on to a new patch, and with loud howls they tried to out flank the Aussies, who by now had accidently set fire to the whole battleground. It was NZer I'm Bob who ........

GA training for a PA28 140 or Warrior where the engine fails on take off is usually FUEL (tap change) > MIXTURE RICH > SWITCHES L>R > aim between two houses or factories. It's forced landings where, after the above preliminary it's TRIM for 75 kts followed by the forced landing checklist. It's the trim action which gets the aircraft on an optimum descent path with the engine off.

....selected WOT in the trike, which didn't make a lot of difference from idle. He swung the bar from left to right left to right left to right to make it a harder shot for CT, but that's what bunnies did, so CT aimed where the point of the next oscillation would be and broke off the Texan's empennage. It was clear this wasn't Andy because Andy would just have said "What was that?" and continued on flying. Andy had built the fencing for his horse from various materials belonging to the farms he flew over and caught on his undercarriage. The mysterious Texan now fled with the Australians and New Zealanders on his tail in a joint attack. There was a slight upset when a New Zealander hit an Australian by mistake but they all continued on after the American with the "I Like Trumpe" sticker on his aircraft. Then they started running out of fuel; ...........

Sorry no credibility.

Good on you, it depends on who gave them that information and what the agenda was. All RA owners should be on red alert; when the pilots, students, instructors, and flying facilities and service industry can produce a result like this they deserve to be congratulated.

From the map I get the following: Paragliders (SAFA) 3 Gliders (GFA) 2 Helicopters (GA) 5 Crop Spray (GA) 3 GA 8 (Total GA 16) RA (RAA) 6 If that's Jan - Dec 2024 then that looks to me to be a good year for RA, not a bad year. If people are talking publicly about RA then lumping in all the other statistics is misleading to say the least.

Yes, RA accidents with just a few exceptions are investigated by Police with technical assistance of RAA and the evidence provided to the State Coroner.

I hate to tell the people involved in this push that cropdusters and helicopters are not in our sphere, and the story throws a lot of doubt about whether GA Light aircraft have been lumped in as well. I'm surprised at what Lorraine has said, but she appears to be talking about the RA+GA+helicopter total being 27. That doesn't leave much space or RA alone, so RA may well be right down on the expected level AND NOT A CRISIS to go off half cocked on. Looks like Mick Monck has an agenda to get ATSB to investigate all RA accidents; the questions are whether all RA people could afford that, what is going on that has led to this, and how statistics for Crop Dusters, Helicopters and perhaps GA are relative to self-administrating recreational aviation. "which potentially led to inexperienced people getting behind the controls." This would be of concern to all RA pilots as well as the GA pilots using the same airspace.

Did you get to see the figures? For a few years we were on about 10 - 12 per year, they dropped during Covid and we would expect a few extras in 2024 caused by lack of recency. There may also be something else going on based on personalities from the social media I've read recently.

The excuses starting altready. I notice wind shear has been take out of the equations etc. And the other factors; I gave the unsuitability of forced laanding site but there are plenty of others where you need power and another attempt. Practising without power removes the safety margin. Sure, in the real thing you might not remember what to do, but THAT's what you should be practising, not some bandaid that could get you killed.

If I had flown some of the actions described above, I would have been killed: 1. When under instruction doing a forced landing where, as we got close each option I had was blocked by something with the Instructor saying "Well we crashed and burned on that one. (This was the 4th of 6 I did on that lesson.) without the engine we would have gone in. 2. In all my flying life I'd never had wind shear, just neat smooth descents on final. On this day I got a wind shear on final and before I reacted the Instructor gave it WOT and we ballooned up. Without the engine we would have hit the ground hard. 3. About six months later, now with an extra skill under my belt I got another wind shear on final and slammed on WOT. My highly regarded CFI yelled "ffffull throttle" just as the throttle hit the stops. Some people make direct comparisons with gliders but RA aircraft don't have glider airbrakes and pulling off a landing you are overshooting at full adrenaline for an engine out is not so easy in a powered airctraft, and most RA aircraft are very high drag, so not quite so safe to stretch out a glide, if your practice goes wrong. I've known some people do engine off glides regular and also do aerobatics and beat ups; about half of them are dead. So I would not reommend picking on some overseas story which might or might not be totally true and trying it out for yourself when (a) it's illegal and (b) you can't guarantee the outcome if you are hit by a curve like wind shear.

Does ANYONE know if it's legal?

Is it legal?

......begin the killing dive. Just then they heard on their radios "Hey buddies, what's up; have you downunder guys fallen off yet, har har, does New Zelland have electric light yet?, is it true you eat your young?, A'm frum Tixas". The Australian and New Zealand flyers instantly melted together in formation and headed for this loud mouth ...............

............chops. bull's haka was ferocious, all the more so from being a New Tasmanian and being required to learn the ancient Tasmanian Hakka which is it's correct name. They didn't call the sea which washes up on the eastern side of New Zealand the Tasman Sea for nothing, and the name New Zealand is because the Tasmanians wiped out the old Zealand warriors who fought like girls. bull explained all this in his Hakka, but he'd made the mistake of getting just a little too far away from OT, Cappy, Turbo and CT, and the New Zealanders rushed him and tore a new nose and ..................

........protest freom the New Zealanders. New Zealanders didn't have very good school teachers and the typical New Zealander would protest that the water for their cups of tea at recess hadn't boiled long enough, or anything to distract trhe teacher. The New Zealand team argued that ..............

......ssing the great AUF; we are the greatest! There was a snigger from OT and a cough from Andy and bull realised he was going to have to take firm action so he ......

How many lumens? That's what counts.

.......massacre#1 them,but Andy just called OEHOR a "girl". As all of us know by now, this was not the smartest thing to do. OEHOR .............. #1 Definition: to take two people out and dance with them.

.......boogie. Now astute NES readers will notice that bull knew just how to play senior officials, appearing to grovel by using OEHOR's formal name. OEHORE visibly preened at this and Cappy and Turbo, arguably two of the most skilled pilots in the AUF, who knew what a stall was and could hold a bearing, got the parson's nose of the formation for the rest of the day. CT was on the left, even further out and one-post Andy was on the far right although some said a trike belonged to a five year old. And so, the AUF equivalent of the Blue Angels started its routine for the day with flying straight and level. On the third try ...........

.........then bull came slowly into view. He'd taken to eating hos own prawns for breakfast while out on the trawler and had been picking the last stubborn shell out of his teeth. bull keyed the mic and said in fornmal AUL radio protocol "Where do you want me Onesie?" OneTrack .........

...Cigar from his pocket and began to imitate Churchill with his two finger salutes to the crowd, pulling out at the last second which was something he always had done up to now, but .............

Don’t be disgusting.