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Oh it's real, in Melbourne, it's quite an amazing bit of gear. First time I saw it, I noticed the AU Falcon door handles. Nothing of the helicopter interferes with the car, nothing on the car interferes with the helicopter. The single common item is the right pedal - yaw for heli and throttle for car. It has 3 pedals. yaw-brake-yaw/thr. It is physically impossible to be operated in "both" modes, one locks out the other. Of course, the Pol wrap job is just for show. 8A8 won't appear on FR24, no transponder, no ADS-B. The CGI looking vid is weird - yes. Watch the weeds as it goes by. Not local. That's about all I can say about it. Technology and build wise, I was impressed.

BORKED - "not working properly, broken." Ah, yes, sure was that in the middle and at the end of that baulked T&G or whatever.

To quote a famous and respected naval aviator Lt Tom Kazansky: (coughing) BS.

A mate recently had 98 fuel dissolve his aviation grade thread sealant on his Sonex fuel fittings - fittings that survived for years using avgas and 95. the moment he used 98, all over red rover. God awful sticky shitty mess. (I don't have a Jabiru (plane) nor a glass tank, but great advice from RED.)

Engine was faltering at idle, trying to cut out. All this was there one day, and not the next. Took a while to solve. I had a mate look and he could see some black smoke when it was doing it. Same faltering at idle on base and final but a little throttle kept it going, I never had any fear it would stop, it was just annoying and I knew it was not right and had been perfect for the first 500 hrs and 17 years. In all that time I have never fiddled with the carby. If it aint broke, don't fix it. Mine is about same 15LPH fuel average. My plugs are always good color on avgas - I never looked when using mogas. Exhaust is grey with avgas, sooty black on mogas. Runs exactly the same.

Perhaps describe in detail how you have determined its running rich - and at idle, at cruise, full power, all of those? What are the symptoms you see? Just the plug color but no actual running problems?? I run avgas pretty much all the time, but when I did run 95ULP for about 2 years, the exhaust went sooty black real quick, can't say about the plugs, never needed to look. 2-3 years ago I had rich flooding at idle and it was nothing to do with the carb. Checked all that, spoke to a trusted carb expert. Carb float level perfect, and carb was not flooding "on the bench"- only in the plane when it was at idle. Faltering idle that would come and go. Reading through all of the jabiru manuals there were clues. Overhaul manual - "carb flooding - electric fuel pump giving too much pressure". I don't use the electric pump at all, so it could not be that. The mechanical pump though????? Overhaul manual describes fuel pump pushrod has a 0.10mm length tolerance. Why would the length change? It can't. "Effective length" can though: I determined this was the problem with the mech pump by bypassing it, just ran it on gravity feed. No rich, no flooding. Mech pump setup is (for mine at least) PUMP - GASKET - NYLON SPACER - GASKET - ENGINE. My gaskets had crushed down from about 0.70mm thickness each, to 0.36mm T each. I had lost 0.72mm of thickness total. Remember the 0.10 pushrod tolerance? It's set at that to give the correct fuel pressure I presume. I was way past that. It's just a stock quality automotive pump, nothing special. My fuel pump was effectively 0.72mmm CLOSER to the engine that it should have been, the pump was over pumping - too much pressure (for idle at least) (The pump lever has way more available travel than the pushrod can supply.) Made new gaskets from 0.70mm quality gasket card - PROBLEM SOLVED INSTANTLY - nothing to do with the carb. Why did the gaskets crush? Too much bolt checking? Shit gasket card? Both?

Akker Dakker - Highway to hell. Cos it sure the hell is there now!

Friend of my wife's the other year said "Hey, we saw some of those hot air balloon things over the city. What are they called again?" Ummm, 🙄 hot air balloons?

35th most dangerous sport in the world, just two places down from JOUSTING. Lawn Bowls is a really popular game but the most dangerous sport as well. This game is the highest death claimer worldwide. The players are deeply into the game till their last breath. They stop at nothing short of victory, in their pursuit. Those who escape death end up with bruises, torn knees, broken hips, and bone fractures. The game generates extreme stress resulting in strokes and even heart attacks. Two guys out playing lawn bowls. One is about to take his shot when he sees a funeral procession go by. He stops, takes his hat off and bows his head until the procession passes. He puts his hat back on and gets ready to take his shot when his partner stops him and says, "Hang on. I just gotta say I've never seen anyone do that on the green before, that was really touching." 1st guy replies, "Well, we were married for 20 years, it's the least I can do."

Dan Gryder doing an off airport arrival in a Cessna 150 softly into a corn field. No scarecrows were harmed. His tip was don't stall, fly it alllllllllllllllllll the way into something cheap and soft. And he did.

And not a stalk of corn in sight.

"CHK CHK, BOOM."

Did anyone else hear the Dukes of Hazzard DIXIE horn play just as he jumped that boat? Nice one Bo.

There was no wind at the time. None. There is what I think is a crude 450m airstrip and a hangar just off the freeway. Ah, guess where, Potts Rd. Bingo.

"Severe weather warning" my ass. I was flying just east of there (I could see Elphinstone!) at that exact time yesterday, in 9/8 blue sky and almost zero wind. Weather had absolutely nothing to do with it. Look at the photos, nuthin but clear blue sky. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Had a flat tyre on landing in my Gunship Mk7 (tailwheel) on sealed runway years ago. Knew instantly it was a flat tyre - very obvious. Nothing much happened other than a bit of a left pull at the last bit of roll out. Brake did not really help and it was not violent at all. Aircraft was bloody hard to drag off the runway by myself with a flat tyre and we had to tow (drag it) about 600m back to hangar by car. I carry a spare tube and enough basic tools to get the wheel off and apart, and a small bike pump. Nothing to jack the plane up, no room for that, would just wing it somehow with some local help. Had a flat tailwheel tyre coming out of the 26 runup bay at Essendon years ago in a Citabria or sumthin. Very obvious again. Staggered it back to base, owner was in the back.

2011 era DUKE Engines 4 stroke axial engine dukeengines.com nothing on their website since 2013.

They are meant to stop you banging your head on hard car bits when it's up on the hoist. I used one at work after about the sixth towbar/spring shackle hit. The downside for that use is the front visor peak, it blocks your upward view and BANG! (and to that some say Ahhhh! That explains a lot.) I fly with a Gallet helmet in my plane, and when backseating in Harvard or L39 with a mate.

Does everyone, or even ANYONE, know how Class 5 even exists - given that it does not appear in the regulations and probably won't for another three years? CASA Exemption 01/24 Flight crew medical status (class 5 Medical Self-declaration) Exemption 2024. Does CASA medical TELL YOU about this when you get your Class 5? (No.) How are you supposed to know about and find it? I knew it would exist, and I knew how to find it. Joe/Josepine Average? - not a hope in hell. The exemption has the usual conditions you would normally see on your class 2 - requirements to wear glasses and have a spare pair within reach etc.

This photo shows the 2018 shitshow at FISK VFR approach when the airport finally went VMC after lunch on the Sunday before show opening. We drove in from Iowa via RIPON to FISK. Instead of X amount coming steadily over the span of the whole day, X amount plus yesterday's X amount came in after lunch when the airport opened to VFR. "One mile spacing, (they were calling for at that time) single file along the train tracks, no side by sides." Most aircraft were getting told to turn left and go back to the start. Many ignored the controller and kept on going. Nothing Fisk could do but focus on the next 30 aircraft. At times they were coming up 4 wide, many were way east of the tracks and turned hard left across the tracks and across the paths of 3 other aircraft. It was nuts. How there weren't multiple midairs I do not know. But, I loved our hour there watching, it was amazing. I'd love to do the Fisk arrival myself. At any one moment looking south we could quick count over 30 aircraft in sight, and it was endless. Going back to Fisk again this year.

Part 61: (243 pages of it) 61.007 This Part (part 61) applies to flight in a registered aircraft. 61.010 Definitions REGISTERED aircraft - is not defined. One could say that RAAus are indeed registered (with a sport aviation body) Civil Aviation Act defines Australian aircraft to be - "registered in Australia" (in other words, a registered aircraft!) Long gone are the days when this reg used to say "On the Australian Civil Aircraft Register" - which was then just VH. Early AUF register was not part of "the Aust civil aircraft register". One would presume it was changed to recognise aircraft registered to CASA approved sport aviation organisations as indeed "registered in Australia" - because they are. FLIGHT REVIEW means an assessment of competency 61.025 Definition of aeroplane for Part 61 - a 3 axis aeroplane - no mention of registration matters I think this one is the kicker: 61.400 (3) A flight review must be conducted in an aircraft that can be flown under the rating Your CASA licence is only good for VH (or maybe other ZK, N etc) registered aircraft. Can you fly an RAAus aircraft on your CASA licence? Nope.

My compass broke when hiking. The whole trip went south real quick.

Proof is out there. My neighbour this morning asked me "who's doing the sky donuts?"

Why are some "Federations"? I can find a definition that fits aviation groups.

I am a little more in the know with the amateur-built scene than most, and I hear nothing on the grapevine at all about Gen 4's. Nothing good. Nothing bad. NOTHING. I can only assume they are out there humming along quite happily. People only usually pipe up when something goes wrong, they don't go swinging from the trees with excitement when all is operating normally. LCH? I've never personally seen or know of a set installed on anything, and I've seen a lot of Jabiru engines and own a 2200 myself.