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By the time you printed everything, some of it would be stale or gone altogether. Surely exams would allow access to the CASA website for up-to-date document referencing? (I don't know.)

Nope. The only mod it had, supposedly, was a nitrogen blow down bottle for the landing gear. Why do I remember all this stuff from 30 years ago. It was VH-UJM from GAM at Essendon, and it is still flying - with both wings.

I recall, hopefully correctly, the CAA examiner (Barry Diamond?) did Bob's Australian CPL flight test on the Thursday of Skyrace 94, (yes, after the FAA pulled his ticket) and was in the bird with him while he did his full airshow practice routine on the way back in to Valley Field. I was there, it was unbelievable! And then we saw it many times again over the weekend. Same routine, same precision, same straw hat.

Hoover - Skyrace 1994 and 1995 at Valley Field. Yep, I was there too. Unbelievable it was watching him do his thing. Man, the noise when he killed both engines! Damn thing sounded like an inbound SCUD missile. I seem to recall too, some Australian announcer from USA. Gordon Bowman-Jones, that's it. Man he was annoying with his bullshit. I can still hear his voice. "Here comes Bob on the down line - both engines totally dead!" Ah no dude, one's actually still running on this pass. Valley Field was a great viewing venue - just like RENO - with the mountains in the background. Been there too. And sadly - upon arriving back at Launy airport to come home on Monday, we saw smoke rising and a few T-28's on downwind to land, maybe Judy in the lead? Some asshat showpony did a roll on takeoff and didn't make it. Airport passengers saw it happen and were shocked. Some years later, I spied the rudder of that ship hanging on the wall at the Launy model aircraft club.

Geeze Alan, what the heck! Cut straight to the chase. (and it's a no and a no from me!) Bit of a probing question.

From the website - "In recent years, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has shrouded, but our engines are not infected and continue to conduct various performance tests" I must say I especially like to have MY aircraft engines not infected with any virus.

They recently banned those huge round hay bales. Horses just weren't able to get a good square meal.

Jabiru - she was a nice little plane, but hitting a horse? That'll halter.

What goes Clip Clop, Clip Clop, BANG BANG BANG? (an Amish drive-by...............)

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Backseating an L39 at 500 feet at 250 kts from Portsea to about Safety Beach, a while back. it's a friggen hoot.

I give up..........

Hi from Australia. Looking at your photos link: The very first thing I see is that your oil cooler was not the one supplied by Jabiru for that age of engine. My own engine is 130 on by serial number from yours. Your cooler is nothing like the one Jabiru supplied back then. I have 550 hours and near 18 years on mine (not in the same type of airplane). The cooler supplied by Jabiru back then was a small generic automotive transmission cooler with 5/16" (8mm) auto transmission hose. One of your hoses looks to be way bigger than the other. Hoses are also different to each other. Your installation is not "by the book." Some may say "so what? - it's just an oil cooler." I say you're on your own when deviating from the Jabiru manuals and instructions. What you have there is not standard. I have seen a few non-standard installations go bad, big time. That's all I have to offer. The more alarming thing I see in a photo of your propeller hub is the use of mixed and incorrect length bolts and nuts - some nuts are short, some are long, some nuts have no bolt thread showing. Silver nuts? They certainly are not the supplied standard AN hardware. I presume they are metric hardware? Fitted to a 1/4 inch imperial drilled prop hub? me, in OZ.

or if not presented near you, ask for it to be! https://www.casa.gov.au/resources-and-education/education-and-training/seminars-and-workshops/avsafety-pilot-seminars#Noncontrolledaerodromes–ManageYourRisk

Check out fire sleeve from Revolution Racegear.

Well, someone did say "park it in the back of the hangar"

Ah - OK, I found some other site which said about 1700. Airservices site does say 3400. (Lots of Chiefs, not many Indians.) I never saw 3400 when I was there!

There are not 3600 ATC controllers in Australia. Somewhere around 900. Plus about 800 or so other staff.

The MARAP process came in around 2015 or so. So it's nothing new.

MARAP is like an STC for RAAus factory built aircraft - yes. It came about (in part) to be able to support older aircraft where original parts (as per the Type Acceptance Certificate data sheet) became no longer available. Listed propellers for example. Until MARAP came a long, perhaps the only other option to change prop was a full CAR 35 engineered and CASA approved STC.

And GerryC - Simon says thanks.

Thanks GerryC, that's probably the sort of thing he's talking about, there is a specific plan/drawing he is seeking, he knows what he wants.

Someone I know in New Zealand has a request: Volkswagen Induction Manifold Heater Assembly: I seek help in being able to locate a drawing of an Intake manifold that incorporates an oil feed induction manifold Heater (similar to the one in the Taylor Monoplane Drawings) which also serves as an Oil Cooler – similar to those used in the conversion of Volkswagen Engines by Rogers and Revel for Amateur-Built Aircraft in the 60–80's. I only have about 3% of an idea what it even is. Sounds like real old technology and anyone likely to have been messing with this stuff might be long gone. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Bill, I have done that exact job in Azusa alloy wheels, 15mm off centre was enough for me. No problem at all. Countersink slightly to take off any sharp edges. Probably fill the old holes/half holes with epoxy if you can, araldite, whatever you have. Moving the hole for the tube valve made the world of difference, Valve finally sits properly, and adding air is no as easy as it's supposed to be. I say DO IT! The general problem seems to be that the TR87 style 90 degree valve tubes do not have the valve in the centre, it's offset. Originally, I did originally start with centred 90 deg vlave tubes, but every one bought since then - same brand, same tube - was offset. It's a far better solution I think to modify the wheel to take the normally available anywhere TR87 tubes.