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Did some more research, found the guy (over 80 at the time, but that played no part).

 

It was a Savannah, and the first flight after the slats had been removed and VGs fitted, and it was taking off heavily loaded on an uphill strip.

 

However, the main factory was a wind downdraft, so you can disregard this one when talkoing about routine stalls.

 

All correct, EXTREME down slope wind conditions.  And he had full flaps deployed, bad practice for take off in those conditions.....

What wing profile do they use KC?

 

It's a modified NACA 65018. Bottom surface flat instead of slightly under cambered.

Load your trailer up at maybe bulk price and become a dealer up this way.  Someone needs to do it.....

I hear that the winner of the recent STOL competition at Lismore was a Savannah!

Against all those tail draggers with huge special wheels.

Irony is that the prize was a fancy tailwheel, after he'd just demonstrated that he didn't need one!

How are dedicated CTAFs allocated??

The reason I ask is that in our SE Qld area for example, a very busy airfield like Gympie is sharing 126.7 while a very quiet airfield like Watts Bridge has it's own dedicated frequency. With all the training action at Gympie, sometimes the transmissions are almost constant, taking up much of the 126.7 air time. Do the managers of Gympie need to apply for a dedicated frequency and be assessed, or how is it done???

I wanted to follow the gas pipelines that carry gas to the export port at Gladstone.

Finally got perfect weather for the flight.

https://followingthegas.blogspot.com/2019/07/following-gas-to-export-httpswww.html

There's lots of discussion about new power plants lately.

There are several power plants of different types near here, so I went for a look.

https://flighttoviewpowerstations.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post.html

Surely the news and discussion of this disaster will be all the training any of us needs to not do the same.....

Don't start out too late for somewhere too distant......

Flight Planning 101.

I just stepped outside to see how dark it is at about 6:30pm.

Completely dark, no horizon, very slim moon giving no light.....

And must keep in mind when flight planning to allow a 'Reserve of Daylight flight time', same as a Reserve of Fuel flight time, not just plan on arriving at last light or even at sunset.....

Departing at1600 for a 150nm flight with sunset at 1728....???

Several useable alternates enroute.....

Judgement???

I wanted to have a look before they start digging....

Fight to the Adani Carmichael mine site.

Also, suggested thickness of the flange? Thanks again.

I used 2mm and that works well.

I don't know, probably any would do due to small loads involved. I chose Teflon due to its reputation for low friction.

No tendency to tilt showing after 1000+ hrs. The diameter of the flange for the thickness is plenty stability.

These are much improved aileron bushes that I made for my Savannah long ago.

1000+hrs now and no wear at all. Still snug fit and silky smooth action.

The larger bearing surface of 8mm diameter Teflon gives no wear on the aluminum.

The bushing is held tight against the support by the bolt, and the aileron bracket rotates on the bushing.

The nyloc nut is used because this isn't a rotating part, and the bushing must be held tight against the support.

Needs access to a lath, but someone should be producing such bushings.

No news, just wanted to get away from that "...lost foot..." post that comes every time I scan the forums list.....

The story is that they are only for use by the Flying Doctor, and then only when 'official traffic control' (police?) is in action.

I just received an invoice for $10 from Avdata for a landing fee at Chinchilla, Qld.

I had landed there for a quick pee beside the runway then away again in minutes.

We often joke about the $100 hamburger, but this is a $10 pee fee......

This weekend we tried to use that Brolga prop to replace a Bolly damaged at Cawarral on the way to Lakeside. But it turns out that it won't fit the S and XL Savannahs because they have that prop hub extension with bolt holes only 100mm spacing....  The Brolga is 80mm and fits the Rotax hub because it has bolt holes for both 80 and 100mm sizes.

In this instance we managed to borrow a new Bolly from Ray at Rods Bay. Many thanks for Ray's generosity and to Greg who arranged the contact. It's a great flying community we enjoy!

The way that I made opening windows on my Savannah is at https://www.stolspeed.com/opening-windows

<<with tail winds at 5000ft.>>

Please remember that 5000ft is an IFR altitude, and we MUST NOT fly it...... And it's the lowest IFR so it's popular with short haul IFR aircraft, because when they call control they are assured that "There is no known IFR traffic...", and then they fly it as if there is no traffic at all because they know there should be no VFR aircraft at that altitude. But I have many times heard recreational pilots say that they had found a good tailwind at 5000.....

I once had a ride in the righthand seat of an Aero Commander doing courier work from Horsham to Melbourne. He climbed to 5000 then got clearance from control and set the autopilot and proceeded to work on his courier paperwork, and never once scanned his flight path ahead. I watched him closely, and the only times he looked out the screen was to watch a thunderstorm off to the left. I sure wouldn't want to have been cruising along anywhere on that flightpath at 80kts with that 150kt machine boring blindly along.... 

No not good to cross there.

Continue from Warwick almost to Toowoomba then head down the range along the Gatton-Clifton road, then over flat open country to Kilcoy, then east along the Stanley River Valley and on to Caloundra.

Cunninghams Gap is some pretty scenic but wild terrain, then have to go around with Amberley control zone if active.

That D630D is only a Danger area, not a Restricted area, used for military flight training. So just keep eyes scanning as usual and hope for the best, not much you can do to avoid high speed jets, they have it figured. You still have your same air rules of see and avoid and yield right-of-way when required. No worries, we go thro there all the time and see nothing.

Yep easy. Have a look at your Ozrunways.