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  1. Bruce Tuncks
    Yep, I reckon this whole thing is staged to prevent sensible cockpit-based solutions,
  2. Bruce Tuncks
    I note that nobody has wondered how to apply these things ( CTA, ADSB, etc ) to flocks of soaring birds. There is a bunch of pelicans which commute between the river near Waikerie and lake Alexandria. I have seen them at 12,000 ft. They are wonderful to watch , the gaggle splits up as they glide along, but as soon as they find a thermal, they all come together again. They are big birds. Bigger than the plentiful eagles. Personally, I would prefer to hit a pelican instead of a Cessna, but they do have the potential to stop your engines or penetrate a windscreen. And there are thousands of then, outnumbering us lot at least a thousand to one. But all you have to do to avoid them is to fly above the thermals. Yep, coming to land and taking off are problem areas.
  3. Bruce Tuncks
    AND I hasten to add that I never fly anywhere near airliners. Gosh if they were to see you even in the distance, I reckon men with guns would be there when you landed.
  4. Bruce Tuncks
    Well he had a lot if incentive to land on the net huh. There was a WW2 guy who free-fell and landed on pine trees and then a slope with snow. He jumped out as he saw his parachute on fire and he opted to die without being burned.
  5. Bruce Tuncks
    My new jabiru 230 came with a zaon radar anti-collision system, and it appears to work ok. Now it is a really cheap setup, I'm sure that an airline could do a lot better. Why on earth do they not use something like this? Especially if they were going to operate outside of CTA... and what about soaring birds? I can imagine a flock of pelicans putting engines out.
  6. Bruce Tuncks
    He looked up what we made here in Australia... only bushmasters. The rest of that stuff ( and I reckon anti-ship missiles should be first on the list) we buy from overseas.
  7. Bruce Tuncks
    Those pilots should all be made to fly gliders in competitions where you have up to 30 gliders in one thermal. Midairs? surprisingly few. The worst gaggle I was ever in was near Cunderdin, where the r/h thermal was at the same point where you had to take a l/h turnpoint photo. I was so busy dodging other gliders that I forgot the photo!
  8. Bruce Tuncks
    Well, having moved, my hangar at Gawler was sold and a new one at Edenhope built. The new hangar only had to be 10m wide to accommodate the Lancair, but the shed guys said we could have a 12m wide one cheaper! On account of being a standard size. Bugger I can no longer claim that everybody has a bigger one than me. The pic is NOT the edenhope airfield one but one I built at the farm. It was 9m wide and 7.5m deep so it really was smaller than the Gawler one. Nowadays that hangar is so full of tools and bikes and buggies that there is no room for a Jabiru anyway.
  9. Bruce Tuncks
    wow thanks...great video
  10. Bruce Tuncks
    "operation over closely settled areas should be avoided at all times" says the reg and base leg is as low as you get. Yes I reckon it was in the spirit of that regulation. Plus I had a local as co-pilot who agreed. Plus, at Gawler, we have a RH circuit onto 23 for the reason of avoiding low operation close to houses. From time to time, people do a LH circuit onto 23 and nobody gets their knickers in a knot. Where was the "horribly dangerous " part? Visibility was good and every other aircraft in the vicinity was well under observation., I might add with two sets of eyes.
  11. Bruce Tuncks
    Turbs, the aim of a company is to make money for it's shareholders. Anything else is secondary.
  12. Bruce Tuncks
    Kg,I have no problem with guys like you flying in CTA, but I don't want to pay open-ended "user pays fees" myself and I will go without CTA if this is what is intended.
  13. Bruce Tuncks
    Yep, whatever happens it will need to be acceptable for recreational pilots, or else we will find other toys and pastimes.
  14. Bruce Tuncks
    Space, that hummelbird has a good top speed. I reckon it would win a race if they had a class for efficiency... for example, if your speed was handicapped by the engine size.
  15. Bruce Tuncks
    Correct djp, my poh also states the bit about being stressed to 700 kg. This is only allowable if flown vh.
  16. Bruce Tuncks
    Looked like suicide to me...I dunno what I hope for tho.
  17. Bruce Tuncks
    On flying in to Caloundra, the left-hand circuit for your base leg was over a new subdivision, so in the spirit of the reg, I did a RH circuit over swamp and trees. This caused a "please explain", caused by a formal complaint from junior instructor who was doing crosswind stuff on the cross-strip! He saw me and I saw him, quite some distance clear, but I was doing a "non-standard" circuit. Nothing more came from the event.
  18. Bruce Tuncks
    Space, my son has a Lancair which can come with wing-extensions removable for Reno racing.
  19. Bruce Tuncks
    Thanks dj, the 4000fpm is indeed 40 knots, but the advice "to slow down " is correct of course. And I didn't know that the 40 knots did not apply to Jabirus etc. I still reckon that the thing has been hijacked by bureaucrats who have a one in a billion problem if they do the realistic thing, so of course they err on the side of caution. There is a story about how Willy Messerschmidt told Hitler that he could build a world-beating fighter plane if he was only free from bureaucrats. Well in 1938, the Me 109 was a world-beater.
  20. Bruce Tuncks
    I never knew that one engine was usually safer than 2 ... The 2 engined Jabiru in South Africa would seem to me to be more reliable than a single, as long as it could fly ok on one engine. Please tell us more .
  21. Bruce Tuncks
    I would just try and register it with one engine "removed" and see what they say. It may well be that Apename is correct and that there are single engines which are more reliable than the 2 cri-cri ones. But things like a single ignition system have been registered in the past.
  22. Bruce Tuncks
    Geoff, I sure feel angry on your behalf. Could you replace one engine with a more powerful one and then, later when nobody is watching, return the second engine as a "safety" measure? This is the best example I have ever heard of where "safety" measures achieve the opposite of what is intended. Well that and some safety features on power tools which mean you need 2 hands instead of one.
  23. Bruce Tuncks
    Please tell us more djpacro. I have been looking on google for the upgust which determines rough air, alas to no avail. I sure got the 40 knot figure from somewhere, just as I got the 15 knot upgust for " smooth air". In the case of the 15 knot figure, it came from a top glider pilot who worked at WRE in Salisbury sa. Again, it is a hard figure to check out... maybe there are different upgusts for different planes? That would explain why you just get double-talk when you try and look it up. It makes no sense to me if there are indeed different figures to define "rough air".
  24. Bruce Tuncks
    sometimes I wonder if my advice was correct...
  25. Bruce Tuncks
    I have a mate who was sucked into a cloud in his glider and who subsequently oversped the whole thing. He had no effective control with no visual horizon, and he was quickly over the speed at which he could deploy the airbrakes. I told him that since his glider was made from carbon fibre, there would likely be no hidden damage to the structure as the first sign of a carbon fibre failure would be an explosive breakup.
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