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Maybe 23-xxxx is registered with the alternate registration authority....well one can still dream!

OK maybe my two years was overly optimistic. Wrong again, that is twice this month!

Has tripling the cost of display booths to exhibitor increased the amount of displays that you are paying to see. They are killing the goose that layed the golden egg last year. I give it two years to folding!

So technically it has never been completed! Buy a couple of bolts and you will have a newly completed aircraft. Happy days!

ABC Radio heard this report on the radio, some interesting impacts on our future landing options

Most of us are one side or the other, I have trouble being both.

Seems so hard to believe!

My Savannah S model rebuild Blog this one didn't look very pretty on the trailer on it's way to it's new home, BUT now starting to breathe again. Take a look at this thread Marco and welcome to the forum. You could message Mark about his experience.

I dropped both stages of flap climbing out on about my second solo flight. It stopped going up and started coming down, I pulled one stage back on and away I went. That was the closest it came to biting during my training. There was a cross wind landing that bumped the main spring sideways too, coming in on a engine failure drill that wasn't very pretty either but it didn't bite me then either, such is the nature of the beast.

That will cause rust on the rivet stem which may end up discolouring your paint.

What about dipping the rivets to coat under their heads too?

It looks better than chromate primer but it may not be as durable without a top coat.

Not the same I am afraid! Reg bought some look alike ones to supply with kits, including mine. They were completely useless. The real ones were "Rubbermaid" brand (Blue colour) in America and something like "Surecoat" out here (Red Colour). The knock off ones from ebay were so bad I never filled mine. I binned it in a clean up only months ago.

Telstra complaints is in Adelaide and most of the call centre staff speak English fluently. They are the last people you talk to in Telstra before you get all the money they have taken under false pretences refunded. Once that credit was all chewed up by monthly line rental I cut off the service and haven't had a direct marketing call ever since. Happy days.

Even more fun is get the call centre to give you the contact details for the ombudsman. You won't get it from the front line staff, but ask to talk to a supervisor and you will either get put on hold and cut off or if you spend an hour they will finally give you the contacts.

Two things Hank. All your deburring has to be done before putting on the Alodine. And to do large sheets Tom Cadet uses a frame knocked up out of 4x2 framing timber and lays a sheet of plastic in the frame on top of a bench to form a large shallow pond. Take care not to pierce the sheet with the corners of your sheets (2 people).

Everyone does. Just quicker on the beach. How would it go on the engine castings?, they always get dull quickly at the beach too.

How would those nice shiny rims go in the alodine?

To be perfectly fair I moved my mother out before I started building mine in her lounge room.

I counted five hundred of each size rivets in my savannah kit and weighed the balance. It was the only way to finally prove ICP were being tight with the rivets. turns out there were plenty of rivets for a standard build but the extra fuel tanks, baggage compartment extension, rudder extension and so on were putting strain on the supply, so every builder was coming up short. Depending on how many factory options added the problem just got worse. The distributor supplied the extras needed and all was good.

Has anybody been able to get FSX to install on a Windows 10 computer? Mine will not install the base disk, Acceleration pack always was fussy about installing. I am worried Microsoft's planned obsolescence program may have claimed another victim. Is there a work around to get this to install?

ICP do most of the bolts for Savannah kits just like you describe now, they haven't always been like that but got a lot easier to deal with once they were. There is still a portion of the hardware supplied in a random lucky dip bag, mostly around the engine installation, it is a bit of a nightmare for a first time builder. The bill of materials linked to the parts list would be a big improvement on what they do now. There is a parts list at the beginning of each build chapter but it is notoriously incomplete particularly where kit improvements are concerned.

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If you are coming all the way down here to pick it up I will try to venture over to say hello.

You will be having a nice drive in the country then...or is it in storage in Brisbane?