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Good to hear you have found some work. Hopefully it turns out better than the last two. Will catch up again soon im sure ferret. Cheers, Jim.

Im Very Interested Bretto and all others, If you are considering buying contact me first. Im interested. Not sure about the engine. I believe you may have to purchase the Rotax with the package. If anyone is interested in just getting some wings I would be interested in that sooner rather than later. We could get a few together and share shipping. Cheers, Jim PH 0403 22 8986.

Free maybe I think they have several packages. Pay 80K and give them a certain time. Or if good enough pay nothing and give them longer times. If you are sure for the job and have a house bank will give you the bucks.

X-Air Hanuman X-Air Hanuman (not at all like the standard) Not many of these great little machines about in Australia yet. But they are comming. Quick to build. Nice 80knots cruise and good range. If your in Victoria and want to see one PM me. Jim

Not good at all Although we know very little here from what I have seen footage wise and read they were in tiger country shortly after take off. Leaves little options if you have a problem. Condolenses to the Naylors and best wishes to the pilot, hope for a speedy recovery.

Standard Tacho Brent nope not yet. im not using the standard tabs at the min. Both myself and AFS gave up on that concept. I will have a look at the 3400 info it's most llikely the fix/mod I have installed. can anyone recommend good Tacho 2 1/4 inch that will suit the jab 6? Jim'

Can program You can program limits but they should not restrict or cause the display to float. Basically the instrument is looking for a certain type of pulse. The jab motor produces different to the required pulse. Wire ect. are fine and been replaced. Im actually an L2 avionics. Just losing the battle and was hoping someone can worked out a fix. I could put a independant rpm sensor in but messy and not cheap. Any more info greatly appreciated. Jim.

Tried Both Thanks for the reply Geoff I have tried both. The company has released several mods but none seem to work. At present I have it off the alternator. But it really is unusable. I have tried earthing different locations. Replace a computer module, rewired. I'm become suspect that it has not been successfully done on this instrument with a jab motor. If anyone knows of it being successfully done please response. Jim

Hello fellow flyers and builders. I'm having troubles getting the TACHO to work on a AF2500 from advanced flight systems. Has anyone successfully done this? The readings I get are very erratic. Have asked company for assistance and been given several mods but none so far have worked. Curious if someone had successfully done it. Cheers, Jim Tatlock.

Ill be there!! It's my airfield. look for the blue Hanuman Xair near the club rooms. Introduce yourself. Cheers, Jim Tatlock

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To all you keen aviators I want to inform you that next Saturday and Sunday the 3/4 of May Lethbridge is hosting its flying. There will also be a vintage club on show (on the Saturday I think) and a few planes being shown including the fantastic Pioneers 200 and 300's and X-air Hanuman. Drop in for lunch. If you want to stay the night you are welcome to camp on the grounds in a hanger and there are ammenities, beer fridge and cooking facilities in the club rooms. Dont miss it. Oh and Lethbridge is in Victoria if you don't know. Ballarat side of Geelong (check the ERSA). Look forward to seeing you there. And I'll be the on showing off the Xair so come and say hello!!! Cheers, Jim Tatlock.

Help In a past occupation we used to say better to be tried by twelve than carried by six. I think it can be applied to this question. If you are unsure to a degree you do not know that you can fix it. Inform someone. then make further decisions. No one can critisize you for asking for help. However a lot of fatalities seem to stem from not wanting to ask or thinking they don't need help. Always err on side of caution. My oppinion. Jim

Height Hiya all. Fly you need a big milk crate!!!!

Tecnam great machine I started my training in a C152. Then crossed to another club into a Tec. What a buzz. Great little plane and good fun trainer. It's hard to go back to those 30 Year Old clunkers. Jim.

Offset Not sure Thanks Geoff I will be chatting to Michael very soon. The motor appears to be mounted to the right looking from the cockpit which you counter the rotation. I'll have to perused some build litriture asap. Im sure I can make some changes and get it neat but any clues appreciated. Jim

Hello fellow users. I have finally just purchased my first aircraft being a Xair Hanuman with a Jab 2.2. I have just returned from Qld to Vic in it and found it required some right rudder under cruise power to keep the plane balanced. I tried adjusting the trim tab but has no real effect. The plane only has 40 hours on it. Im thinking I might need to spacer our the motor on one side to counter the effect. Any advice on this matter greatly appreciated. Cheers, Jim Tatlock.

im confused Are you actually meant to look at those moving things on the dash. :-(

Well Done Congrats on the Solo. It gets easier from now on. Cheers, Jim.

If any members have non working radios or transponders that they want to sell send me a PM. Spriteah.

C o G Looking at the weights of Continentals and Jab 3300 the are very close. Put it into a aerobat and let the fun begin!!! Just something to keep in the back of my mind. Roll on tattslotto.

A decade ago or so I was in the back of a motor glider being flown to a local airport for some repair work on a noisy muffler. Control: You're unreadable, say again. Us: I've turned off the engine, is that better? Control: L..o..n..g pause Blue water Navy truism; There are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky. If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe. Navy carrier pilots to Air Force pilots: Flaring is like squatting to pee. When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash. Without ammunition the USAF would be just another expensive flying club. What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, the pilot dies. Never trade luck for skill. The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and " Oh ****!" Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers. Progress in airline flying; now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant. Airspeed, altitude or brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight. A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication. I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous. Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there! Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries. Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding it or doing anything about it. When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten. Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day. Advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II. When a prang (crash) seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slowly and gently as possible. The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. (Attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot) A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum. (Jon McBride, astronaut) If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. (Bob Hoover - renowned aerobatic and test pilot) If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it; ride the bastard down. (Ernest K. Gann, author & aviator) Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing. (sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location Kadena, Japan). You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. (Paul F. Crickmore - test pilot) Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you. There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime. (Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970). The three best things in life are a good landing, a good orgasm, and a good bowel movement. The night carrier landing is one of the few opportunities in life where you get to experience all three at thesame time. (Author unknown, but someone who's been there) "Now I know what a dog feels like watching TV." (A DC-9 captain trainee attempting to check out on the 'glass cockpit' of an A-320). If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to. Basic Flying Rules: 1. Try to stay in the middle of the air. 2. Do not go near the edges of it. 3. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there. You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal.

The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a PanAm 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747 (call sign "Speedbird 206") after landing: Speedbird 206: "Top of the morning Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of the active runway." Ground: "Guten morgen! You will taxi to your gate!" The big British Airways 747 pulled onto the main taxi way and slowed to a stop. Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?" Speedbird 206: "Stand by a moment ground, I'm looking up our gate location now." Ground (with some arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you never flown to Frankfurt before?!?" Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, I have, in 1944. In another type of Boeing. I didn't stop."

I've been pondering a question. With the anticipated changes to the weights allowable to ultralights in the near future does anything stop you from fitting a Jab or rotax motor in a C150,152 and registering it as an RAA aircraft?

What to shoot at. Redair, Lots of people think that you can just shoot an arm or a leg. Doesn't work that way with hand guns. Not easy to shoot acurately in the middle of an incident. Police are taught to shoot for the greatest bodily mass visible. This is normally the chest area. And if you try to shoot a leg and miss or it doesn't stop the threat then the police themselves may get injured or killed. Not worth the risk to police. In the past 10 years the various police forces in Australia have been forced to adopt principle such as do i need to go there? This means if criminals break into your house and take you hostage at gun point in general the police wont be comming. They will just call the house and wait down the street. A lot of this was caused by a minority loudly voicing their uninformed opinions about the use of deadly force by police. If a criminal kills a house full of innocent people the police will not be blamed. If a policeman kills a criminal they will be critisized by many. Good luck. Jim