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An AP332 hub takes 60mm blades, like Bolly, and are rated upto 40Hp per blade, from memory. I was keen on Sensenich blades but ended up with Whirlwind Razor blades, both of which have a 70mm boss, hence the upgrade, but also came with a small weight penalty.

 

 

It is how they all should be! Was the last Old Station fly-in also the FINAL one?

 

 

My Airmaster is rated at 60 Hp per blade in an AP430 hub, how many Hp is your small Lycoming?

 

 

They had it, they blew it, politics and empire building I suppose.

Egos and Empires, was a lethal combination for Natfly too. Probably always will be a risk in our sport.

 

 

I just had a look at the Chipper site. In the purchase page, they say Rotax 912 ULS - $11,900.Ok so the AUD is about 77 cents US, so that makes it $15,400ish.Where the hell does the other $10,000-odd come into it??

It must be the Flood factor! The market is small and we are flooded with choice.

 

 

I have used ANR headsets and have had no problem with cockpit noise except for one cross country during my training when I realised that I had not pressed the button to turn on the ANR for the first half hour. ANR is not nearly as effective as a passive headset when the electronics are not doing it's thing.

 

 

With kaz3g's enlightenment of the incident' date=' I can now see a current horticulturists report as arequirement for flight plans in and out of airports with grass strips. [img']https://www.recreationalflying.com/xf_step/upload/uploads/emoticons/064_contract.gif.4983837b32c01bdfc267e17723ebc423.gif[/img]

Be careful making suggestions in jest! It might be a slow week in the office for bright ideas.

 

 

Have any of the 200 buyers of the steel bungee ever weighed the new Viking bungee and compared the weight with the original Zenith bungee?If so, what are the weights?

Hank is just beginning his Savannah S now so it will be interesting to see which way he goes, he has been following this development very closely for years. I have not considered this upgrade for two reasons. Firstly I have an Airmaster constant speed prop which adds a fair bit of weight in front of the nose leg already. I have also spent weeks working at Aerokits over several years, I would be wealthy if I had a hundred dollars for every time Reg has said "if you keep adding weight, it will never get off the ground". If the bungee was a total disaster there wouldn't be thousands of aircraft around the world still using them. They are relatively cheap, light and durable, so perfectly suited to affordable ultra light aircraft.

 

 

Come in Hank!

 

 

Problem is a number of countries are mandating and going straight to full EV by 2050, petrol vehicles will be illegal in China then for example, so this will not likely come to fruition. Hybrid is a stop gap so I don't believe you will see anything more than basic 'normal' small engines powering gennies.Our smallish city will have 9000 public chargers fitted by 2020.

You will need a couple of nuclear power power stations as well then!

 

 

so it's true then, those propellor thingys really can hurt ya....wow...BP

Believe it!

 

 

 

Noticing the paint colour on the Tecnam stabilizer, I wonder if it was coming back from repairs. Hope his insurance company gives lifetime warranty on repairs.

 

 

ICP probably know best! I learnt to do it the other way from a bloke who had his reasons based on material thickness.

 

 

Had my first go at Alodine dipping today. Set up baths and rinse tanks. After de-burring I had a go at the rear fuselage frames. Pretty happy with the results, maybe a bit longer in the alodine.Had to rivet one frame together to feel like I had achieved something for all the effort.

Did you Alodine the rivets too?

 

Did you have a reason for riveting through the corner frames into the thin material of the wall frame? I would suggest putting the rivets through in the opposite direction, pulling against the holes in the heavier material always.

 

 

Depends how long your body is, I have fitted a 6'9" bloke in the Savannah who had exactly the same clearance that I have at 6'3", which is about 1cm less than you describe. All you can do is pull the booster cushion out from under the seat. Have a look at one of the newer one with adjustable seats. I am not sure if they have more or less head clearance.

 

 

The subject touches on what i consider to be THE most important step in learning to fly, I hunted around for not only the right instructors but just as inportantly the right training aircraft, having applied common sense of wanting to start "at the start" I ran up nearly 7000 road kilometres over 8 months traveling to and fro from my selected instructors because I also believe training that is not compacted is better learnt and that their is no better intro trainer than the J3 piper cub, that is my opinion and won,t change anytime soon, cheers Hargraves

I didn't want to spend two thirds of my training time driving, I am a busy man! I searched around for a training school using the model of aircraft that I wanted to learn in, who would train me on my own airstrip, so I could sleep in my own be and spend nearly no time driving to my lessons. I trained to pilot certificate, passenger and cross country in twelve days. Only one thing that I didn't take account of was how long I would take to get my plane built so I could stay current. I agree that a compacted course has limitations in the area of retention but I don't think that would have been any issue if I was ready to step out of the school plane and go on flying. As things are now I will need a fairly extensive refresher to get back up to speed.

 

 

Good info here!

It is the Savannah forum. What did you expect?

 

 

Eggselent grammer is always a clue as well "escellent condition"!

 

 

There's no proving period for a factory build.

"I can advise that this was apparently a "test flight" on a plane he had recently built." This from the original post suggests that this was not a factory build.

 

 

I guess this is why Australian rules don't allow us to carry a passenger during the 25 hour proving period.

 

 

I wonder, why wouldn't it be available for the S?

Because it mounts up to the lower fuselage longerons and that part of an S is just fresh air under a curved skin.

 

 

Sivannah is available with a cargo pod, ? how experimental, however.

There is a factory pod available for under the belly like a caravan, not sure if they do it for the S and XL models, but there were a few VG narrow body ones with them fitted and a few people built their own.

 

 

If it is home built you can register it VH experimental if that is your desire.

 

 

Is there any way that I can learn to fly in a Savannah.

There are quite a lot of factory built Savannah aircraft flying in Australia now although not all of those are online with flight schools, because they are so easy to build there are probably four or five times as many kit built ones though. A few forumites have learned to fly with Bill Greive of Aeroskill Flight Training (0488728899) in his Savannah XL. He is based at Beerwah north of Brisbane so should be able operate from an airport relatively convenient to you. He is very flexible, relocating his flight school to suit demand. I was able to learn on my own airstrip in Northern NSW and sleep in my own bed, freeing up my driving time for sleeping and studying when I trained with him.

 

 

Looks like an emergency response exercise?