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You cut the main landing gear legs and rotate them 180 degrees around. The end of the leg will look like a pointy stick. I might have a photo somewhere.

This is not a criticism. That black crud under the wings is one reason why some people and clubs keeps their wheel spats on.

I'm not sure a wheel spat wouldn't have kept that mud for causing problems later rather than falling out. In black soil country it tends to fling off like little bullets. Especially if the runway has been dressed with blue metal.

Did anyone notice a change in flight characteristics with muddy under wings? On a WB drifter I would doubt it unless the contamination was severe.

Look like a great day and I think the campers at crab claw would have loved the parade

DVD marker pen. Colored china graph - red or blue or green works ok too. Comes off with an eraser in all case (so does permanent marker for the E6B)

...hence the big ol' E6B with its big numbers.

Also handy is putting the expected wind aloft onto the computer before launching. It makes diversions a lot easier

I'd say the most important thing to do when the technology tanks is "keep flying the aircraft".

I just forked out $$$ for Nov 2016 paper maps and I intend to turn them to scrap before they go out of date (again).

I'd bet it's pretty hard to do lost procedures without a paper map and a correctly trimmed aircraft. Being in sight of the ground would help a bit too *joke*.

CASA continues to recommend paper maps for backup.

Drawing a flight plan on the paper map(s) as part of the planning may help.

Seriously, the comments about having wind calculators on our phones is spot on.

Big shout out to Sporty's pilot shop E6B application for iPad.

Most university students carry a phone a tablet and a laptop so the redundancy is there already and it is expected.

Back in that other bastion of general aviation ('murica) the FAA and CAP respectively are considering recommendations in their survival pages for a fully charged mobile phone and a butane cigarette lighter or two. This is to replace the matches or flint and portable 121.5 Mhz beacon previously specified (waaaay back). Simply, phone coverage is just that good there, it is worth considering.

Yes I still practise my whizz wheel. I also know it is less accurate than the electronic version but still good enough for a bug smasher driver

I have the original manual for my jeppesen E6B slide graphic computer. The tutorials seem to be quite good

New brake pads or brake drums?

Elvis doll?

By the way ... My version of FG terrain has Camden YSCN in the wrong place. Check it out

If memory serves, the C150 model in FG is rubbish and not at all realistic in terms of slow speed flight. Specifically landing flare. I am off to try it out and be sure. Mostly I use the C172 model for procedures and navigation because it closely models what I fly in terms of TAS and Vs0/Vs1.

After that I don't care too much because I am _still_ practising paper chart navigation and cockpit resource management (e.g. where to put the paper)

The YLIL scenery from Orbx appears to be FSX only.

Slightly off topic but these interviews with Austin Meyer are worth a shout out:

FSBreak 22: Austin Meyer from X-Plane, and Real Environment Xtreme from FSBreak - The Flight Simulator Podcast

FSBreak 102: Austin Meyer talks X-Plane 10 - FSBreak Podcast - FSBreak - The Flight Simulator Podcast

Also, please vote "like" on useful posts to make them easier for others to find.

Sorry for the delay in replying. Pretty sure it doesn't exist for FG. Having said that I didn't think there was a drifter simulator, yet there is. Check some of these out:

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Community Scenery Design Workshop - OZx Forum

YMMB Moorabbin Airport - Orbx

AirDailyX: Lylidale updated

Enjoy.

Caveat: Many hours can be spent choosing, configuring and flying these sceneries. Time that might have been used eating/walking the dog/staying married/staying employed/sleeping. I am not responsible for the quality of anyone's real world life except my own.

Good advice on simming terrain files in here:

FSBreak Podcast - FSBreak - The Flight Simulator Podcast

I will post specifics later

Replacement wires = yacht rigging manufacturers. I agree that a serviceable wire may be adjusted by adding or removing twists.

I take this with me to air shows. Occasionally I show it to people who come to the front door asking for a donation

Some background info for oz

Pneumothorax

Have a late afternoon flight out to channel island when the weather dries out again? I really enjoyed MKT

its already in the news feed on this site but in case FLY_TORNADO missed it.... This is organized by the guy a poster in this forum heaped manure on for even daring to charge about $13K per seat for the charter flight

Australia's largest private trade delegation departs for Shanghai

This one is a weekly 747-8F.

It’s quite a sight in Queensland’s Darling Downs when a 747-8 Freighter turns up at a rural airport, and from next month it will happen weekly.

If you aren't going VH registered or IFR or into controlled airspace I doubt anyone will notice a non-TSO'd WAAS location source. Caveat. This is not advice and I am not responsible for others actions

Want. Definitely going to make the time to check this opportunity out next time I am in the area. There is a story JB Newbery had one of these and crashed it. If anyone knows more I would love to hear about it

Aside: Why do you want ADS-B out and what can't you do without it?

Any Technical Standard Order (e.g. TSO-C145 and later but not TSO-C129) compliant WAAS GPS that outputs ARINC-429 or serial RS-232 can be used.

That includes Garmin GTN or GNS 430W/530W and any NMEA 0183 compliant TSO-C145 GPS. The Skyview system needs an ARINC-429 to Dynon (D9 style) converter box but it allows two ARINC-429 devices to connect.

The statement about the Dynon SV-GPS-2020 ADSB out source not being guaranteed to work in Australia is correct based on Dynon's web based publications. Neither the SV-GPS-2020 or SV-GPS-250 (a cheaper version but still WAAS capable) are TSO'd. This means the yankee doodle IFR pilots can't use it either.

A mode S transponder with no ADSB out will give the plane driver access to Class G and Class D airspace below 10,000 feet (A100 e.g. not yet in a flight level).

These ADSB-Out transponders and the TSO'd GPS source get the plane driver access to everything else (A,B,C and E plus G and D above A100). If this is where you need to fly, say from a Class C airspace then the next time your VH registered VFR day only aircraft needs a replacement transponder it must be mode S (ADS-B capable) but it doesn't need a TSO'd GPS position source to be legal. "No source" would be ok too. I would presume without knowing that you could get away with a non-TSO'd portable WAAS GPS in a VFR aircraft below 250 knots because nobody would notice the difference. There is a loophole about not being able to regulate a device that is not attached permanently to the aircraft.

Aircraft operating under IFR will only gain access to applicable airspace and all aircraft ground movements at Brisbane, Sydney etc (they use surface movement guidance and control) with ADS-B transmitting. This is as of 4 February 2016.

Refer CASA CAO20.18 paragraph 9D.10 and onwards for more details. Note that TSO-C145 means "can do WAAS GPS" but WAAS does not mean "is TSO-C145 compliant". The difference is in the RAIM implementation but specifically the location output reliability. This is about the GPS source not the transponder which falls under a different set of TSO (oh oh) 's.

Seriously, why go down this path?

Thanks. Didn't come up in a search for me. Oh... Now I know why