sixtiesrelic

warm ups

The engine manual can't take the compactness of the cowling around it into consideration.

Go with the aircraft manual's time.

For example the Tripacer/Colt is fairly tightly cowled so the Cylinder Head Temp can be much hotter than the oil and you have uneven heat in the engine.

I'm a third generation pilot... my grandfather couldn't stand having two sons discussing a technical subject he knew nothing about, so took himself off to learn to fly up to his second solo when he reckoned he knew all about flying, but continued studying the latest aviation technology of the 1930s and 1940s. Seven of his descendants have learned to fly.

I started learning to fly in 1960 although the handle I use commenced in Boardriding forums seeing as I started that caper in the early sixties too.

Still ride but hurt afterwards.

Don't fly aeroplanes any more as I've seen the best of it and now it costs too much and I can't be bothered with the bulldust changes.

Flown the range of fixed wing from the Skycraft Scout (A pair of sails, a mast with a Victa lawnmower engine, pub chair, golf buggy wheels and lots of stainless cable holding it all together) to 737s.

Flew DC-3s in PNG for four years... fun. Currently messing around with another that's going to fly to, and be based in Perth soon.

Ansett for twenty years.

Trained Indonesians on 737 for a year... more fun. Very primitive, compared with Oz (not much on the ground worked. You could depend on only two VORs that the U.N. calibrated), so we were back to witchcraft rather than having the "green machine" telling us where we were.

Happy to hang around aerodromes and talk to other enthusiasts.