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Only used the Followmee android app.

I don't understand...explain it to me at your engine launch.

Does everybody have wildly variable GPS alititude values reported in Followmee. Just trying it out on my Android phone in my pocket riding around on my quadbike I am getting 400 metres variation in altitude, my hills just aren't that big!

In discussions on this forum, the value of the required fee increase to cover the ongoing paper magazine was given as $40, not $90. Surely the $90 price reflects the now much smaller circulation. Get it right when you draft the motion for the AGM.

This is the worry. I have a gravel road nearby but I don't suppose that is always an option. The crown is always a challenge on a formed road.

Mine is at Coolatai, started out just as you describe, was plenty good enough for most STOL planes, I did my training of it and it was described by Phil Martin from Superair as being in the top 3% he flies super off. So I tried to make it better Be very careful grading that you don't form gutter or banks that concentrate the flow of water and make the peddles wobble if you get out of line when you are landing. I graded mine myself and left a bank of dirt well off to the side of my cross strip which acted to gather and divert a significant amount of water straight down the middle, a second bank on the other side wouldn't let it off until I busted out about 200 m further down. A fair bit of consideration of letting water follow its natural flow is required. You don't need a crowned up road to land on, it may be more weatherproof but will take a lot more skill to stay up on top of, then give you a lively ride when you don't succeed. As far as grass variety goes, I haven't found anything that doesn't form tussock, is drought proof, frost proof and grows all year round, so just mow the native grass, which has proved it will grow there, and just mow it low to keep it smooth.

Doesn't leave a lot to be positives, does it?

Damn!

Not a problem on my Note 4, Apple is real bitch!

Would have had the road closed for the take-off, would have made corners a bit less hazardous. Always look at the Newell highway through the Pilliga Scrub and wonder if there would be a gap in the B-doubles the day you need one.

Keep following your dreams my friends!

I was joking Doug! The Journalist had a big chance for a free hit at getting it right with the Cessna tag and she missed it.

And they called it a Cessna?

Ross, thanks for sharing what you have.

Sounds like they should have more dung beetles, or not poison the ones they already have.

Are you going to turn her into a Bingo?

The initial cost is just something I accepted, didn't try to justify it, it is just much nicer to use on long touring flights. Well worth the W&B challenges.

I have one sitting on the shelf too, you will probably have it half worn out before I will need it. Where are we all going to get our variable prop endorsements done?

Yes I know, I know, just came home for a hot lunch after unpacking everything put away when the visitors invaded the factory for Easter. I will spend the cloudy afternoon with my feet up and my nose in the manual for the afternoon ready for a big hit on it this week. It has risen back to priority one, what did Derek Liston say "Life get's in the way" and business too for that matter. I am 90% finished and 50% to go!

Rick we talked about this on the phone this morning, he was already onto it. The bloke who did the Youtube video apparently wasn't onto it.

Mine is the same as yours Ross. It was pointed out to me to wear it on my person, not tuck it between the seats or whatever, so that if you land hard, and wander off before you have it all together, the PLB will still be with you when you come to your senses instead of being jammed up under the dash, out of sight, out of mind!

It would be just as applicable to a Solo man landing badly on rocks when his kayak went astray or a rock climber or hiker coming to grief off a cliff, just not able to get it together enough to put the aerial up. Edit: Of course Solo man would be on Red Bull these days.

Would be good to be more than a 1m fall onto a concrete hangar floor. Maybe more like airbag activation levels of shock, or something in between. Amounts of deceleration likely to incapacitate the user.

So that is not about to change until Electrophone and others get their act together and bring out an impact activated, shock tolerant beacon.

Commute?