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    Windshield

    rankamateur replied to Marty_d's topic in Zenith

    3mm is thicker than you need but I found 8' x 4' sheets were $250 ea when I had to buy 2 about four years ago for an art project.
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    Maybe the magazine will be on the website.
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    It gets a bit daunting about then. Been there for about six months. Just takes a couple of little set backs at this stage to really put you off. Even RAA pissing you off is enough to do it.
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    I count RAA in that group and if they weren't so self absorbed about being the biggest show in town, then the working together and speaking with one voice would be much more likely to occur and bring real benefit to members.
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    Tyre choices

    rankamateur replied to Lyndon's topic in Savannah

    That is the way they are meant to go anyway.
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    Or not renew their membership until they need it.
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    That is what you get from a monopoly licencing authority, a great shame there are so few of us.
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    I think we are all missing the point here, we can't see the dog for the stripes.
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    The point was they were not pilots at all, BUT because there was something they were interested in at Narromine on Easter weekend their poor old henpecked pilot husband could go to Natfly for Easter instead of taking the children to visit Aunt Maude. Would you like a hand down off your high horse?
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    Back in the good old days of Natfly (at Narromine) there were bus trips for the ladies to Searle's rose nursery and other attractions.
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    Being 19 rego that manoeuvre at 0:44 must have been some sort of stylised stall recovery since it certainly wasn't aerobatics.
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    In 1983?
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    Bet it's got a Rotax in it.
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    It had a 2010 ERSA on the seat when I landed there about 3 years ago so we assumed it had been given a bit of love sometime about then. It was quite a good strip as I remembered it just a bit up and down over its length. Might depend a bit on what you are used to!
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    http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/09/03/06/48/pilot-arrested-as-police-intercept-light-plane-allegedly-carrying-45kg-of-cannabis There is no privacy, is there?
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    http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/09/03/06/48/pilot-arrested-as-police-intercept-light-plane-allegedly-carrying-45kg-of-cannabis nice plane that, flying high, until he was grounded.
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    "Very heavy, wiill require a crane to lift it." Could make for awkward opening of the hangar door.
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    I agree that two a day was sub-optimal. It may even have led to the lesson you would rather forget. I slept for most of the afternoon that I cancelled flying and then had one ley day later in the peace but otherwise kept up the pace. I do think two or three lessons a week would be a much better high intensity training schedule.
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    That day when you just can't nail a landing, better to wake up another day and put well behind you. I trained in a solid block, two sessions a day for just under two weeks. When this happened I cancelled the afternoon session, and slept on it. The next day was all good.
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    Sometimes isn't it better to be able to forget?
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    Let me know what I can do to help.
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    Won't be so much drag at take off speed, cruise is where it will bite you harder.
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    Be aware that the reason that the performance of the Savannah VG is so similar to the Savannah XL/S is that the added lift/reduced drag of the streamlined cowl is approximately the same as the added drag of pushing the 5 inch broader fuselage through the air. Be careful you don't use all your extra power overcoming extra drag.
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    That is him. We built his first XL Savannah, and the replacement S one he had down there. It flies absolutely beautifully. I put in for it when he is finished with it but he said I had to stand in line behind his daughter.
  25. rankamateur
    Was Garry Dee from scone along in his White Savannah?
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