skeptic36

The vertical-card type I have yet to try in flight, but it does seem to lock-up when significantly nose-up or nose-down.

Sooooo given I have more than I need when the electrics are working, what do we think would be the most useful instrument for a trike if the electrics went out. I would more than likely still have ozrunways running on the iPad. First I thought , altimeter, at least I could report an accurate altitude, but no, the electrics are out so the radio isn't working either. ( I'm a thinker aren't I ) So what's next?

VSI ?Easier to read than the Dynon

Regards Bill

Thanks Daza, that's what I had in my pegasus, an excellent bit of kit. As you can see above, the compass is not really the problem, it is just that I thought it would be the best option to fill the ugly void. ( talk about first world problems:loopy: )

Regards Bill

Thanks Nev,

The below pic is the panel of my new trike, on the left, an iPad mini slots in and in the centre is a mgl extreme mini efis, both of these will have a compass. Problem is on the right there is an blank space for an instrument, any ideas what to put in there would be appreciated given a compass is out of the question.

http://i951.photobucket.com/albums/ad356/Skeptic36/4a629c5ebe0708a5cded6b6086aef163_zps955e473d.jpg

but it sounded like a tractor, in other words horrible.

Hi all,

Is there a panel mounted compass that will work if the panel is on an angle, (tilted back at the top)?

Thanks

Regards Bill

Welcome Duck,

Where do you find trike instructors in the Pilbara?

Regards Bill

Just a word of caution here - I recently sold my aircraft to a guy in the U.A.E. After his initial contact I thought " this has got to be a scam" , but I wanted to see how this guy was going to try to get money from me, so I played along. Long story short - his money is now in my account and the aircraft that used to be mine is in a container somewhere on the high seas as we speak.....

Regards Bill

That's the one

A little bird told me :

The 912is is going to be upgradable to have 105 HP and more torque than a ULS. It gets a new ECU, air box and readjustment to the clutch for the additional power.

Regards Bill

Only down side is they can be a bit top heavy and flat bottomed rather than tapered so need holding / supporting depending on your filler neck size, location and angle.

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Regards Bill

When the people do wake up to what we've lost it will be electoral dynamite!

It certainly is a mess. The NBN work seems to have come to a complete halt in my town whereas it was going ahead in leaps and bounds up until the election. Kaz

The previous government connected the first town in Tasmania in July 2010, by the election in September 2013 they had completed a massive 2%. Hmmm 2% in 3 years, at that rate the thing would have been complete in 150 years!

A Skyranger is what you need. The Nynja is not available with engine mount for a 582. I would personally go with a HKS 4 stroke rather than a Rotax 582. Almost the same power but much better fuel economy. If you are interested in either a Nynja or a Skyranger please give me a call. 0418 585 731 Greg. ( Australian Agent for Skyranger and Nynja)

You could always lift up your iPad mini and wheel one of these under it

The second question is just plain idiotic, because it doesn't take much research, or as I've recommended three or four times to spend an hour with a Public Liability lawyer like Slater and Gordon, Maurice Blackburne, Shine (Erin Brockovich), or many others to realise your assets and freedom are very much at risk when you are culpably negligent and it doesn't take much to find the definition of negligence either, but the answer is that I have no financial or management interests either in GA operations offering joy flights, or as I have been accused of previously, Public Liability Insurers. I have had direct and indeirect experience though with the heartache of people who didn't realise it could happen to them, and others who lost loved ones.As far as taking away anyone's opportunity to earn a dollar, the answer to that is also out there - there are no financial interests which justify injuring or killing someone.

 

Take deaths caused by inadequate brakes - Australian manufacturers argued against change and are now virtually all out of the business.

 

Take Nox and Particulate emissions both of which cause cancer and have killed thousands in Aust - the financial burden was no excuse - we probably pay around $20,000 per vehicle to reduce them by around 97%.

 

You don't seem to have any morals about ripping business off the people who ARE authorised to conduct commercial operations though.

I don't know why you consider it more likely somebody will die in the same aircraft with the same pic flying from the same facility if said flight is a joy flight rather than a trial instructional flight. If this is really the case why aren't you campaigning to shut down recreational instructing all together? Or maybe that is your ultimate goal?

I personally don't have any moral issues about who is getting the business because it sure isn't me. Also I don't believe there would be much business lost from the G.A world due to the price difference. And before you start on about the reasons for the price difference, I believe people can clearly see the difference between an open cockpit Gyro or a Trike, and a G.A aircraft, when standing next to it and should be able to make a decision about whether or not the price difference is worth the risk difference. Nobody has a gun held at their head saying get in there or else..........

Regards Bill

Nong, I once took a TIF with you. In it you walked me through many aspects of flying, you showed me the primary and secondary effects of controls. You let me take control. You even showed me how to find the wind direction from ripples on dams. It was great...I got a lot of joy out of the flight!

If that's the way you conduct all your TIFs then you have absolutely nothing to worry about!

Change the rule!

Turbo, just wondering do you have a financial interest in any G.A operations offering joy flights?

Regards Bill

How many times does it need to be rammed into you that it is not acceptable these days to kill people through sub standard aircraft, sub standard facilities and sub standard skill levels - take a look at the hard statistics.

So you are saying that flying schools are training people every day from their sub standard facilities in their substandard aircraft using their substandard skills? If so I think that is a joke. Surely people flying with qualified instructors in professionally maintained aircraft are safer than someone stupid enough to come flying with me for free with my 250 hrs inexperience in my aircraft maintained by me to my own self preservation standards. I'm sure your statistics would reflect that.

If what you guys say is correct and it is so easy to catch and prosecute successfully instructors for doing what they are doing ( even I've seen it and I don't get off the farm much) ,why isn't it happening?

I'll gladly join - I certainly think all media outlets and all journalists are unreliable (to say the least).

ORremove the licence/qualification from those who breach the law just because they don't agree with it.

Solution = change the rule so that people are not made criminals of for doing what they do every day under a different name quite legally.

If you have a mortgage payment due it would be hard to turn down a paid job on the basis of what's been described above, in my worthless opinion.

Regards Bill

Found it !

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Boeing-777-300/201055611644?hash=item2ecfd92afc

Yep, that steering lock happened to me, when I was a kid, I had the experts fit a new stereo in my LX Torana, they neglected to put the little plastic plugs back in the trim beside the accelerator so when I put the pedal to the metal the trim moved out over the accelerator pedal...... Got interesting for a moment

I like Clear Prop. It seems a familiar kind of name for some reason. Can't quite remember where I've heard it before though rgmwa

I spent some time flying around Zephyrhills recently. It's amazing how big skydiving is there, it's also amazing how fast they can go through a cycle of loading, getting them up there, then getting back down and loaded again, and they go all day.