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tillmanr

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  1. The first thing you do in an accident is see that the doors are unlocked and if necessary for rescue that the windows are down. Then cut the battery.

    This saves a lot of smashing of glass and rescue equipment use caused by haphazard battery isolation which is mostly done by cutting the battery cables.

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  2. Premier Gladys is crowing about how strict the restrictions in NSW are however she has not been briefed on what Victoria had and importantly how early it was applied. The results speak for themselves. 

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  3. The travel distance from your house relates to suburban people. Rural residents are allowed to travel to the nearest town. 
    Victoria went through these restrictions and survived. NSW will too despite the wingers and nay sayers.

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  4. I think you are taking too many risks RF. During extensive ongoing development testing which Jabiru carried out a few years ago, a very very experienced  test pilot was not able to recover from stall on at least one occasion and needed to use the stall recovery chute. The aircraft was set up for testing including the ability to jettison the pilots door and use the personal parachute. What backup system are you using?

    Jabiru were doing the hard yards to make their airframes more than safe so don’t tinker with the proven numbers for your own good.

     

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  5. I recall a flyer who added a strip of aluminium angle about 12mm to the outside bottom edge of the doors to stiffen them. Amazingly it virtually cancelled any elevator control . The aeros on this supposedly simple aircraft should not be played with impulsively.

  6. I was in Orlando three years ago and spoke to a number of substantial aircraft operations and the word was to move North during the summer/ cyclone season. Drifting a little, I was driving  I40  about halfway East to West, in I think April and was surprised to hear on the TV that the cyclone season was late in arriving that year.

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