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On 03/08/2023 at 12:27 PM, NT5224 said:

Ladies and gents

Or anybody been abducted and probed? 🤣

 

 

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...............)

On 30/07/2023 at 8:20 PM, pmccarthy said:

Jabiru versus the neigh sayers.

UNSUBSCRIBE.

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.

If it has a battery in it, it 100% will have a part number on the battery.

21 hours ago, Thruster88 said:

As an RV6a owner I was un aware of this service bulletin. Most likely because it is not listed in the RV6a section of Van's aircraft excellent website. Van's do not recommended this retrofit for RV6a aircraft for various reasons. 

Yes, it sure is there on the website, for the last 4 years. Yes it mentions RV6.

VANS no longer supplies RV6A engine mounts, as found by a local here about 2 years ago.

A 9+ month old newsflash?

There are still plenty of alphas, I think the pool is increasing actually as aircraft de-register for various reasons.

2anything is not an available mark,yet. Hope the paint has not dried yet.

8___ only to date (as an initial CASA move to get the program underway) and Xnumber__

In other breaking news, Amelia Earhart is missing.

I "know" it's the Silence twister.