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  1. You have to meet the rotax 5 psi max so pumpwise that looks OK. However, the higher the head the more the gravity flow pressure on top of the pump pressure. If that horizontal line along the fuselage/bottom of the Canopy is level in flight, you measure up from the line to the top of the tank and down (if the carby is below) from the line to the split of the bowl from the carby and that's your head. Compare that with the head that Rotax specify (or if they don't have it the head on a Jabiru etc. That will tell you if you're running a higher head pressure than others. If the bowl is overflowing, it's likely to be in the hangar over time. That only applies if there is an initial weep on assembly of a new carb or after new seats. All of this presupposes you set the float valve to the Rotax recommended fuel height in the bowl. On Mikunis I used to very carefully unscrew the full bowl and then measure down from the top machines face of the bowl with a vernier. I managed to spill more fuel than I measured so I bought and extra bowl drilled a hole and fitted a nipple at the botto and ran a piece of clear plastic tube up the side and could measure accurate fuel height with the engine in place.
  2. Sale - Melbourne - Lilydale - Kilmore Gap I think the Dandenong Ranges will be too high to get past to the north of them, so pretty much along the Princes Highway; in on the low alt to the south and west of the Dandenongs maybe bypass Lilydale if you don't need to go there and use Silvan Reservoir. Then be ready to turn around at Kilmore Gap ( airfield nearby to sit out weather. From there north it's a dream west of the Great divide). Note that on the charts the lowest colour can be 0' to 600'! ground level. Possible Route but Calm conditions, No Cloud (Route you mentioned) I'd get in the car and drive the route up the valleys. You only have to do it once and you'll pick up some cables, but mostly see potential landing paddocks. You don't have to fly down in the valley, but you do have to be high enough to glide over the typically impenetrable Mountain Ash to the next paddocks, making an instant decision (like an EFATO). some of those trees are 300 feet high. The drive will pretty much tell you if it's feasible. We were just discussing a fatal where, in theory if the pilot had researched the route he would have known he had a visual reference all the way down.
  3. ......Art Gallery which produced most of the dissidents and probablhy voted ...........................
  4. [IMPORTANT OMISSION CORRECTION] The Councils adopted this procedure, adjusted their budgets and increased the Rates to cover it. The State and Territory governments covered themselves by increasing car registration costs x 3. The Commonwealth Government provided VIP RAAF Aircraft, re-budgeted for two permanent people on site, and decrease Pension rates by 40%. Albo said “We had to”. Even the New Palestinians marched in the demos yelling “......
  5. ...councils and governments for a fee of only 10% of every major project and only through me, the rainbow serpent’s monitor. Within six months, he was the richest man in Australia and had begun saying silly things like ......
  6. .......eyes, for it was forbidden by the Gods to look upon a New Victorian. Just how the Gods knew Tasmania had bumped into Victoria was not explained along with whether the Gods just Messaged the Gulis or sent them emails, but if Ernie Dingo could invent the "Welcome to country smoking ceremony" where you could charge $750 a ceremony to Councils and Government, then he was going to be in on it. So he began to chant "
  7. ....aimed it at bull's heart, then spoke the magic spell. It hit bull in the Gulis. bull let go a howl that could be heard for .................................... [Cappy and Turbo, in a silly decision over a Christmas drink some years ago, decided to sail down the Amazon river by canoe from the pools in the Andes to its 380 km wide mouth. They successfuly navigated the dangerous rapids on the Maranon, stopped in for Lattes at Iquitos then into the Ucayali where, just north of Atalaya they were captured by Campa indians who had mistaken them for slave traders. Cappy, who speaks several languages of the Amazon Valley which he'd learned from Dr Livingston when he was a Oxford, was able to convince the hostile tribe that (a) they were Australians, which relaxed them considerably, (one warrior yelling "Go the Pies!" before being shut up by scowls from the others) and (b) they were searching for new medicines for humanity. They were taken before the Brujo who was sitting in a cave half way up the mountain clicking the bones of dead Spaniards. The Brujo responded by lighting a small fire and boiling some brew which he put under their noses and then his nose. Soon all three were travelling through space looking down on the earth......but that's another story.]
  8. LSALT is not important for VFR flying, because you can only fly where you can see the mountaintops, although if you're going to be flying in mining areas, Tower locations can be important because they can be in the landing strip pattern or nearby and hard to see. However in a lot of IMC crashes the non-qualified pilot was able to maintain control but died by flying directly into a mountain, building etc. IMC pilots are required to identify Lowest Safe Altitude, not for the route on the screen, but for a path 5nm each side of the direct track, so you have to survey 10 nm of mountains x the route from point A to Point B and around each airport. This drawing is from CASR Part 91 General Operating and Flight Rules, Plain English Guide starting at Page 102
  9. Check the tank height distance above the float bowl fuel height vs other aircraft with the same engine. Too much pressure will alow leakage which will get less as the seat wears in.
  10. .......called on his old drinking mate from bone who was a fully initiated Guli Guli kaditcha to pout the bone. Guli Guli’s eyesight wasn’t what it used to be and by mistake he aimed it at.......
  11. If you go back through the last 30 years ATSB reports, quite a few were similar. IFR rating and Currency flights are required to fly in IMC. ...........and that's a full stop. You can go further back over cases reported in the Aviation Safety Digests There's this type of accident, the type of accident where a raw student gets into IMC and tries to fly his way out, the person who is keeping the wings level and smashed into the side of a mountain because he didn't know he had to do a LSALT survey before he started the flight, and so on.
  12. Good point to stop. Fully trained, fully recent pilots in IFR rated aircraft do it safely all year long in RPT. It's a bit like getting out of Hyundai Getz and into an aircraft without any training. Everyone knows you push the syick to go down, pull it bak to go up, bank with the feet; what could be hard?
  13. Next do the research on (a) the cost of a Nuclear Plant and (b) the lead time in decades. There's no chance of getting enough power production on to the grid before the claimed sea rise wipes out several town and cities in Australia.
  14. ......Modern Journalism Inc. likely to be a successor to the now rarely used Reuters. Announcing the new wordwide conglomorate, the President, Chip Turbine said: "The problem with Reuters was they always waited to get their news conformed by sources and then sent the data to newspapers where the sub editors didn't processed it until they finished their poker game, and the type setters didn't start until after lunch. "We will not be waiting for sources and will be using the same lightning fast transmission speeds as Securities companies do, so if a footballer exposes himself in a nightclub, we'll have photos out before he can put it away." Not everyone was happy with this, especially ....................
  15. ........posts on recflyn in six different threads entitled Empennage Stiker stuck, Sealed Exhaust pipe, Funny thing happened today, sticker Plane, plane Sticker and Flying with sticker. The bulk of the comments were about who had posted first. No one ........................
  16. ...........on his empennage. He put it on You Tube, He wrote about it on Reddit, he started a Facebook group and he discussed it's construction endlesslt on Quora. Before long.......................
  17. ..............Thruster powered by a Subaru WRX engine. He always said he preferred sound to performance and with the Subaru he got it. By the time he fitted the redrive the Thruster's wheels had splayed out, so he ..........................
  18. ......speaker users, particularly the Woofers, the army of King Eochaid, and a good band of feral serfs from Dunny. King Eochaid sid he needed an air force and had his best thinkers copy the Da Vinci rotorcraft. It had always been reluctant to get off the ground. "We tried" said Da rather unconvincingly. They fitted a reconditioned Mazda 3 engine and the rest is history. The enemies were wiped out by falling schrapnel. King Eochaid knighted Oengus Tuirmed Temark and Rogain Mac Arndii for their brilliant idea of putting an engine the the rotorcraft. This was an early version of awarding a Pilot Certificate to a member of AUF - still a dangerous thing to do and prone to ....................
  19. .....invading Scotland. Jake the Rake wasn't the sharpest tool in the drawer, and when he was advised that had already been done over a thousand years ago, said he had forgotten that, and was let loose in the street again where he ................
  20. Sorry, typing too fast; Recreational Aviation Australia Limited.
  21. Well yes, you can just sit back and take it if they can't run a chook raffle or you can step forward, find out what happened, check that against the relevant constitution, and if necessary get rid of the chooks.
  22. One of the cases Flying Visla has been referring to is a Club or Incorporated Association under Queensland regulations. In the Other Recreational Aviation Australia Incorporated, so the procedures that count are either in their constitutions or not. If they're not then hopefully the people invoved will learn to either campaign to amend the constitutions, or learn from the incident they are alleging.
  23. ......jig which had been banned from the days Dunolly Castle in 712 AD when King Eochaid Lii Mac Echach, King of Dalriada Argyle, was let off with a warning to ......................
  24. If it's not in the Constitution you can't use it. A kindergarten committee; 1 member a frustrated Hitler, the rest all women was having trouble with the Hitler acting unilaterally against Council staff and the other members which saw them coming home in tears. His decisions existed to measuring out detergent the cleaners were allowed to use and abusing the Lollypop woman on the road crossing, so I went to the next meeting, offered to volunteer as a Kindergaten Committee Member, was voted in, moved a resolution to toughen up the Constitution including a No Confidence clause. The Hitler guy seconded the Motion, it was passed, and I moved a Motion of No Confidence in him and he was out. He appealed to the Council, and the Council took advice and found the dismissal was lawful and the Commitee and Council employees got back to work without the stresses. You can see the key thing in that sequence was to lawfully build a No Confidence clause into the Constitution. In that case, the Members did it.
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