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  1. rankamateur
    All over the TV they refered to the dangling bloke as the studeht who the instructor didn't hook on. I got the impression the instructor may have hung around too long while setting the student off solo, and ended up hanging on for dear life when the ground ran out.
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    Would it be more tedious that epoxy filling and sanding all the rivet heads as I have already done? I am thinking that would be a good start to getting a good wrapping result but I would still be a bit concerned about the weight difference between wrap and a conservative layer of paint.
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    Well Bob you have got me half motivated again.
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    I did a four and three quarter hour nav at the end of my training, came up from Evans Head to Glen Innes on the way home. It was the most enjoyable part of the whole project. Due to a misleading wind prediction in the weather report, our track took us much closer to Grafton than first planned but it made for a very scenic flight home.
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    Replacement!!! I used a Maricat for years with rusty stay wires, all went well until the day it didn't. they just snap when they go with no warning. We dismasted, rolled the sail around the boom, lashed the mast and boom to the trampoline and started paddling back to the beach. Or you could wear a parachute.
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    They sound a bit wet to me!
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    Commant 121 in the kit I got, I installed it on top, but put the unity gain UHF antenna under the fuselage, it still has plenty of ground clearance.
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    Xcom add a harness to a standard dash mount GME uhf set to interface with their airband set, I installed them myself, nothing challenging, just regular tools and farmer skillset.
  9. rankamateur
    Time they had an Australian agent! Do they have any on going subscription costs?
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    When the prop is hard to pull through and the cause is a bent crankshaft!
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    Good!
  12. rankamateur
    Was the Foxbat at Glen Innes?
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    Shouldn't the last version of firmware still be available to re-flash rather than just say D2 is in the market and D3 is soon to be released. The throw away tech mentality is out of control. I will replace my Samsung android phone after the 5G models are released, not before, but several crook firmware upgrades have tried to take it out ahead of schedule. Funny how their first response is always, "It is more than two years old, time you had a new one!".
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    Do the chips in modern electronics have a count down timer set to render the hardware useless after a pre-defined life span. Be good for business and dead simple to add into the firmware, and who would ever know.
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    Reg has had no plane since he sold her and is no longer the ICP distributor. If I was any sort of neighbour I would get on and finish my S so he could do a few hours before he forgets how to do it!
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    I didn't reinforce mine, remember if you make anything heavy enough it won't get off the ground. The engineers at ICP don't believe you need them. Reg designed his rudder extension after a conversation we had on the phone one night, about three days later I went over to start building and the parts were on the bench, but he did what seemed necessary, he is not an engineer. The only example is the old maroon Savannah demonstrator and it has a new home down at Dubbo, I don't know of any photos of the angle reinforcements.
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    Is that the same as Prepsol?
  18. rankamateur
    Dennis was very motivated!
  19. rankamateur
    Memories of Dennis's Savannah built in a third floor apartment in Sweden come to mind. Slinging it over the balcony will make this driveway look like a stroll in the park.
  20. rankamateur
    Chad Morgan?
  21. rankamateur
    Showing slat brackets but no slats.
  22. rankamateur
    The young do tend to aspire to fly further than they can while holding the joystick, so a passport is usually a higher priority than a pilots licence. Two of my three kids have been overseas twice already though neither my wife or I have ever held a passport. The world is a lot smaller for them so a plane that has 3 or 4 hours range doesn't get them there.
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    Has the hard disk actually died, or has it just ceased to boot up. If the later install it as a secondary disc in another computer and get into it. I have had success with Ccleaners cousin Recuvva getting back my wifes photos from a disk that scrambled it's file allocation system too.
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    Worried when I read the thread title, thought you had done the tricycle version of a ground loop! That could have been a bit hard on your nose leg.
  25. rankamateur
    On the video there was one motorist pulling out to overtake who could have changed the outcome.
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