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  1. 440032
    View from the helicopter - they left the door open! DOH! Good work all you peeps who swam out to assist.
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    Astute viewers of that series with the slings may notice the stall warning beeping at takeoff many times. Me thinks overloaded to hell and rear CG?
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    CAMiT built the engines, not Jabiru. CAMiT folded. Totally separate company.
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    Holy crap. Get off the "Roids" dude.........
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    NO NO NO! Not all wooden props are the same! Your prop MAB123 should be mounted according to the manufacturer's directions. JABIRU wood props have specific instructions and torques for the wood they are made from (Hoop pine). I own a Jabiru and Jab prop. Then, BRENT THOMPSON PROPS instructions where NOTHING like Jabiru and they have different torques for different bolt sizes too! I'm looking at his sheet NOW. His props were not hoop pine. I owned one! Other props will be different again. I cannot stress this enough with wood props: DO NOT USE GENERIC MOUNTING INFO YOU READ ON SOME FORUM ON THE INTERNET! Sorry for the rant, well ah, NO, I'm not actually, holy shit........ Mounting propellers properly is not a game of chance and guesswork. That's how they come off! Checking prop bolt torque is also an occasional maintenance task too, as per your prop instructions, remembering that seasonal temp/humidity changes need seasonal checking too. NEV, jump in here please!
  6. 440032
    Another flux capacitor failure?
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    We were on a last flight out of Sydenney back in 2012 after arriving from LA just as a thunderstorm hit. They couldn't unload planes, flights were delayed and cancelled (Melb Grand Final eve too, lots of toothless Swans fans wanting to come to Melb) Just as one flight on the opposite gate got cancelled, our Virgin flight got cleared to board, the cabin crew were telling everyone "Move to the back - take any seat WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE, GO GO GO!!!!" They closed doors at about 10:59 and we could and did depart just after curfew. It was a hoot of a flight. Especially leaving all those losers wanting to go the the footy Satdy. Suck shit losers!
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    "Western Sydney International Nancy-Bird Walton Airport" if you please!
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    Aeromedical can still come and go if need be, screw the stupid curfew. What a joke that is, gateway to Australia - closed at 11pm to 6am.
  10. 440032
    USAF re-armed quickly for this new airborne threat
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    Local aircraft recovery crews can whip wings off and make things like that vanish pretty darn quickly. I know of some Cessna that landed (went splat) short of an airfield a few years ago. It was gone within about 4 or 5 hours from touchdown, the local busybodies and NIMBYs never knew anything happened thankfully. I suppose the hardest part with a piper is that the wheels are in the wings, how do they sit the fuselage with a noseleg on a flatbed. Don't know. Recovery crews - it wouldn't have been their first rodeo that's for darn sure.
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    Grain of salt? The whole salt shaker me thinks!
  13. 440032
    Landed right between the cones too - great job.
  14. 440032
    Some people will do anything to avoid road tolls.
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    There's a place called Jabiru. That's the only place I would send my own engine to. I would not trust some plonk who thinks they know what they are doing. I've even first hand seen one LAME do some really dumb schidt to a jabiru engine.
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    I shall pass that on - thank you!
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    The guy that invented that blasted auto correct BS died recently. May he rust in piss.
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    No, not a Rotax, something a bit more modern and I'd imagine equally as reliable if well cared for.
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    A friend has asked about instrumentation for a 2 stroke aircraft engine. It's air cooled. I suppose it needs RPM, CHT, EGT? and volts would be nice. Anything else? Then - what to get? Separate eg VDO gauges or some electronic singles, or, or what? Or, some EFIS something with everything he'll need too, ASI, ALT, etc basics Something not a lot of expense, less than say a $kyview. Probably needs a radio too I guess. Doesn't need inbuilt mapping/charts. MGL something? Kanardia? This is a simple aircraft with not a lot of panel room, bare basics only needed, nothing gold plated. (So Garmin GTHO-XU1 GTS E49 is off the table.) I only know steam gauges myself but I'll have to admit they seem to be going the way of the dodo. (and taking me with it).
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    It went swimming as VH-DAB. Rans S7S with Zenith floats. It did have a go-pro mount on the fin I know, (because I made it.) WET is a new S21 on floats, coming soon.
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    Nope, no way. Ambulances would only be called for by the Captain if injuries occurred on a flight - such as by severe turbulence or other medical emergency. A simple engine failure would not trigger ambulances. No way!
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    WHY T.F. were ambulances called to the airport? (if they were, I call BS.) Like the rest of this whole story!
  23. 440032
    "History doesn't record the number of go-arounds you do, it only records the one you didn't do, but should have."
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    Ah, Peter, a correction..... CASA people probably issue fewer CofAs (all types) than all of the industry Authorised Persons in Australia do. As a CASA appointed AP myself for a certain thing, I process the applications and issue certificates under my name, on the applicable CASA certificate form/template. CASA is hands off - but does audit our activities. What we issue goes to CASA after we issue it, they don't see it first and approve it, or interfere. By time they see it, it's done and dusted.
  25. 440032
    SAAA does not register aircraft. They are CASA registered (VH).
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