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  1. rankamateur
    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.
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    It is the Savannah forum. What did you expect?
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    Eggselent grammer is always a clue as well "escellent condition"!
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    "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.
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    I guess this is why Australian rules don't allow us to carry a passenger during the 25 hour proving period.
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    Because it mounts up to the lower fuselage longerons and that part of an S is just fresh air under a curved skin.
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    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.
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    If it is home built you can register it VH experimental if that is your desire.
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    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.
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    Looks like an emergency response exercise?
  11. rankamateur
    Did you fit the strips after the initial install to tighten everything up or during the initial install?
  12. rankamateur
    But they had Eugenics back then to tidy up the bottom end of the population.
  13. rankamateur
    Tom, Those bolts you referred to might also be called dowels.
  14. rankamateur
    The cowling is probably just fine but your prop extension may be too long.
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    Except the one that won Ron Hoey the trophy at Natfly for spinner/prop fit.
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    I have had no issue loading FSX on my windows 10 desktop computer. It is an off the shelf Acer gaming computer (i7 processor,1060 graphics) having gone to the trouble of building a crossfire double graphics card system, for no benefit, it should be noted that CPU is where FSX does most of it's fancy stuff.
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    I had this problem but found that it only strikes the frame when moved beyond it's intended operation throw so the problem went away once the control surfaces were connected.
  18. rankamateur
    So you haven't watched the news much for the last 5 or 10 years then. This wouldn't be even a slightly isolated example.
  19. rankamateur
    Angus Beef paid $10,000 for about three mentions on Burke's Backyard in prime time about twenty years ago. Does that give you any clues about how they could do it too. The content doesn't matter as long as the money is flowing. Remember John Laws, oh that's right he is still on, just no body listens to him any more!
  20. rankamateur
    I don't live far from Gurley and I hired a car trailer and picked my kit up in Brisbane. No huge cost involved. A bigger pain and cost will be getting an L4 out to inspect the finished product before it can be registered.
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    And stored in original packaging. A bit hard to organise after installation!
  22. rankamateur
    Sux to be the bloke climbing up the hill in that last shot! He thought he was nearly to the top too.
  23. rankamateur
    And also at slaughter works, avoiding the splash just doesn't happen there!
  24. rankamateur
    It is a nasty disease but no worse than leptospirosis, glandular fever or Ross river fever, but they all take a compounding toll on your liver. The eldest didn't need get vaccinated as I suggested before. she was the one who caught it when she was about 6 years old, had a huge temperature for about 3 days and slept a lot. when she later got tested pre-vaccination they told us she wouldn't get the vaccine because of her previous exposure.
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    Two of my girls have never been vaccinated and they have come and gone for over 20 years without incident. We only vaccinated the eldest, left the spares to their destiny.
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