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  1. Bruce Tuncks
    Ibob, you make a good case why the trolley would not START moving in zero wind... There is no relevant propelling force. Why is that different from the case where the trolley is going at exactly the same as the speed of the wind? And remember I said how an initial push would be needed to start the process. So my question remains... why is the wind needed? What if the wind dropped away to zero along the way? Why would the trolley stop?
  2. Bruce Tuncks
    I cannot see why the wind was necessary... why could the vehicle not work in zero wind, given a push start? This would of course give you a perpetual motion machine, ( eg a circular track ) and solve the world's energy problems.
  3. Bruce Tuncks
    Never sold a rusty corolla either, but once I sold a P76 for $900. A car restorer called Romeo nearly wept on account of how those p76's are worth good money now.
  4. Bruce Tuncks
    I have a great SK Jabiru for sale and you will get no untruths. And it's only $20,900. I have never sold a horse in my life.
  5. Bruce Tuncks
    So what happened in the election? I tried to look up the result but failed.
  6. Bruce Tuncks
    I'm impressed that you guys have been happy with the water 2 pack stuff. There was a guy at Gawler who painted his Pulsar with something like that and the result looked awful. Mind you, it was thought that he was going to die on his first flight in that plane, with all his previous experience being in slow high-drag stuff. He has long since retired from flying, so I can't get more details... It may well have been a different and earlier product.
  7. Bruce Tuncks
    I don't think that fear of a hit man is the deterrent. Most of the retired guys around here would be trying for the reward and the hit man would be overwhelmed. In any case, I have never met a real hit man and doubt their existence. What is the true deterrent then? I reckon its that the cops regard this area as their own territory and don't want anybodies assistance. Besides, I would have a special deal for the hit men who betrayed their employer. You would be richer and legal and free so only the stupid ones would not accept a deal.
  8. Bruce Tuncks
    While visiting the local cop-shop the other day ( to get a pass to go to Naracoorte ) I imagined that I was there to dob in my local illegal drug supplier and seeing what the reward would be if he was convicted... NOTHING ! Plenty of posters urging you to do the dobbing, but no incentives. If I had my way, there would be a $1000 reward for dobbing in a low-level supplier. The rewards would quickly grow as you climbed the ladder, so the guy you dobbed in would have the choice of dobbing in his supplier for $100,000 plus a new identity etc.
  9. Bruce Tuncks
    I agree about the cross-strip. If you look at Edenhope A/F on google earth, you will see there is a cross-strip but disused except for some guy who uses part of it for a road. If I ever need to land there with a strong cross-wind, I have the options of Naracoorte ( 50k) or Horsham (90k) OR landing on that stub-end of cross-strip ( 600m, but into a strong wind )
  10. Bruce Tuncks
    Turbs, that is EXACTLY the attitude which explains the drug problem. Yes, I am not effected by it unless you count the extra taxes I pay. So should I just ignore the whole thing? Many people do just that.
  11. Bruce Tuncks
    I think it possible that this is related to the fact that several unsuitable people ( eg with drug records or having close relatives with such ) were coming and going from airports without any controls at all. Aircraft cleaners, for example, could come and go without being searched . It was estimated that their activities provided a major route for drug importation. Personally, I refuse to have an ASIC card and avoid going to places where it is required. My main objection is the unnecessary requirement for frequent renewals.
  12. Bruce Tuncks
    I sure hope you are right Ian. I have myself retired to a quiet country town and I don't understand why people seem to prefer traffic jams and no parking to live in the city. My country town has an air-ambulance airfield and so far the medical services have been way better than in Adelaide... outpatients are seen right away instead of never, for example. ( the never is factually correct... twice I have waited for hours at an Adelaide emergency department, only to be told that I have slipped backwards due to higher priority cases arriving after me)
  13. Bruce Tuncks
    After her own kids leave home PMC's daughter could return home herself and fly her dad's plane for nothing.
  14. Bruce Tuncks
    On the subject of those working having too much to do...Was I the only one to be struck by the story about UK truck drivers in such short supply that petrol stations were running out? What about the millions of unemployed young adults over there? Why are they paid to sleep in all day when there is work to be done? Maybe the bleeding hearts have joined forces with the powers of darkness and you now need a PHD to drive a truck and the training has been outsourced to the Russian Mafia?
  15. Bruce Tuncks
    Flying suffers from the fact that cars and roads are so good these days. Around Alice Springs, in the 1950's there were frequent flights to nearby cattle stations and missions. Connellan Airways used to be a busy place, but even in the 50's, its main income used to be the mail subsidy, I bet that has long gone. Would you prefer to drive 50km rather than fly and have no transport when you got to town? So runways, like the one at Hermannsburg, are now disused. Once I was eying it for a glider outlanding, until I saw that it had shrubs growing up in it. The gliding club, which once nearly went full-time, is a shadow of its former self. So, just as the camels became obsolete, so have planes. I reckon the younger among us will live to see drones used as air ambulances. But in the meantime I intend to continue enjoying flying . Sometimes it is even the best way to go somewhere.
  16. Bruce Tuncks
    I am now of the opinion that if you have a header tank then there is no need for valves to the wing tanks. The header tank will be pressurised to about a metre of fuel head by being connected to the wing tank. There is no way that air could go from a wing tank through the header tank to the engine as long as there is fuel in the other wing tank. Please comment if I am wrong on this.
  17. Bruce Tuncks
    I once listened on the radio while this pommy pilot who was preparing a pass over the grand prix when it was in Adelaide was talking to the ATC guy. The ATC guy was offering to ground the rest of South Australia ( well just about ) so the pommy guy would not have a mid-air. The pommy guy kept saying how this was not necessary. It is my experience that controllers get very territorial over " their" airspace and like to keep people away. I certainly noticed this strongly at Woomera. They refused a gliding safari to come through ( a once in a hundred year thing ) just in case it was decided that later in the day somebody MIGHT do a radar calibration flight. With military airspace, it depends very much on the particular person in charge. Sometimes you actually get a reasonable bloke, sometimes the opposite. Has anything happened as a result of those Sydney guys who died , partly as a result of being refused the use of UNUSED airspace?
  18. Bruce Tuncks
    Hi Jackc, my "new" J230 came with a garmin aera 660, which I need to learn about more. Just what answers do you need? I just may be able to find an answer or two, but don't bet too much on it.
  19. Bruce Tuncks
    My SK jabiru was the first kit to come with an oil-cooler. It's absence earlier was the result of a simple mistake... the sender on the prototype engine was too short, and it reported the oil temp near the sump wall instead of the real oil temp. That's all a long time ago now.
  20. Bruce Tuncks
    I reckon 6ft 4" is a bit big for an SK Jabiru too, kgwilson. My new big one is a 230. Most aircraft designers are about Rod Stiff's size ... small is definitely better for a pilot. I have one guy corresponding about the Jabiru for sale, I must ask him how big he is.
  21. Bruce Tuncks
    The Rutan Solitaire glider was a big mistake. It couldn't slow down enough to thermal. The idea of a canard is that the small wing stalls first and so the main wing never does. I've flown in a dragonfly ( technically a tandem ) and while it had great performance, it was harder to land and take-off than an ordinary plane.
  22. Bruce Tuncks
    I too hired a Hoby Cat in Darwin. There was a hippy type guy on Mindel Beach who rented them out. Great fun. I fully understand the difficulties of a too complex plane on a too complex airfield. On flight simulator, I was taxying around Orly airport in a Citation and hopelessly out of my depth. The air-traffic controller guy was trying to tell me stuff but I was too busy avoiding the other planes to do what he said.
  23. Bruce Tuncks
    Gosh F10, what you say about cross-winds and flap is obviously correct. This is the first time I ever heard about it, so thanks.
  24. Bruce Tuncks
    Skippy, my new big Jabiru has an autopilot. Before flying with this, I would have agreed with you 100%. Now I agree with you 90%.
  25. Bruce Tuncks
    In gliders, they make you do a flight or two with the ASI covered. Most people fly the circuit about 5 knots faster than usual, I know I did. One day I test-flew a glider another guy had serviced. It was not a common thing for me to do, but the glider owner had not flown it before at all, and I reckoned that the test flight after maintenance should be separate from the conversion flight. Well the ASI was connected wrongly and didn't work at all, so the circuit was done 5 knots faster than standard. My sympathies go to those airline pilots who might have to cope with berserk computers too. I didn't like coping with a malfunctioning ASI.
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