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Franky

I had assumed this was accounted for as ozrunways only gives a relative altitude difference, referenced to your current level.

Bit if a trap if it isn't.

Mike

Kyle

A bit late in the reply but the stratux works a treat on both ozrunways and the iEfis.

If you use the stratux you have to have the premium ozrunways, but if you use the adsbpi version it works on the standard licence in Ozrunways.

Mike

If all comes down to the difference between 'must' and 'should' in casa wording. The 200mm minimum is a 'should' and therefore not a requirement, only a recommendation.

Or are you assuming either the pilot in command made a significant error causing engine failure or the student did. And then told the police they caused the engine failure?

They ran out of fuel and told the plod as such?

 

Or that the plod due to his immense experience chasing cars, catching criminals and saving little old ladies from holigan bike riders. Was able to determine some fault  in piloting or that he would have done better. 

 

Or maybe I didn't read where he was a aviation expert?

 

Irrespective of the actual cause of failure, which is yet to be determined- they did exactly what they trained and executed it perfectly.

 

Maybe plod expected them to repel the forces of gravity as well.

And I wouldn't be surprised at all if the occupants of the aircraft told the people on the ground what happened, they usually do!

Should have said " the flight instructor did a professional forced landing, ensuring the safety of the public and calmly landed safely in a paddock."

I would be surprised if it is a regulator as the battery should supply voltage even if that goes offline for some reason.

Could it be as simple as the connections in the Master switch or Avionics Switch, assuming it is standard Jabiru Wiring. The other option would be a faulty avionics or master Circuit breaker.

just thinking about it as I type I am leaning toward the circuit breaker as an option.

Mike

Jaba-who

I built it and certified as 760Kg from the start.

Mike

I have one registered at 760kg, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

Lithium batteries are well known for requiring a warm up before they crank at full capacity. The recommendation in vehicles is to run the headlights for a few minutes.

MARKDUN, do you have any more details regarding the blue smoke and molten copper, particularly what overheated and what melted.

Mike

One that i made using the ADSB pi link that was available on the Ozrunways site, although I used a Gen 3 Raspberry Pi and didn't have to buy the wifi portion.

I am not sure that the link exists anymore, at the time I saved it to my hard drive for later use, which I used when the time came to put it all together.

I am planning to change the card to a stratux version and introducing traffic into my MGL EFIS at some stage as well.

On mine the Oz traffic is light blue and the ADSB traffic (From Raspberry pi) is dark blue

Landed there a couple of years ago, just rang the resort and they sent someone out, even though we were only in a tent at the campground. There wasn't a charge.

Mike

skippydiesel

This is what I had envisaged for attachment to the cap when I was thinking about doing the same thing.

Mike

If you use using a bladder what about just a hose on the cap and use your foot to compress it the bladder and force fuel up the hose, then when it is light enough you can lift what is left.

Would take the same pressure either way.

Jaba,

Here is the link to Aircraft Spruce for the radio, they have increased in price since the move to the USA, I'm pretty sure they used to be $1095.

MGL V6 VHF AVIATION RADIO TRANSCEIVER from Aircraft Spruce

Mike

The V6 is still available from Aircraft Spruce and MGL USA, who I believe now manufacture it as they purchased the licence from South Africa.

Jaba

These may help.

Also have a look at the MGL V16, only two place intercom though. (Rainier did say that it could be wired for 4 places if you used identical headsets all round)

Mike

Dual v6.txt

Dual v6.txt

Dual V10 diagram 25-May 2010.pdf

Dual v6.txt

Dual v6.txt

Dual V10 diagram 25-May 2010.pdf

Dual v6.txt

Dual v6.txt

Dual V10 diagram 25-May 2010.pdf

Yenn

In a radius of 10 miles from where I grew up was, Nowhere else, Paradise and Hells gates.

Mike

Ben

Just out of interest where was the beach pic taken?

Mike

I thought the backpack may have been fuel, didn't really look like a parachute, but was definitely wearing an inflatable yoke.

spacesailor, when were last at Dalhousie and how hard was it to get permission to land. Everything I hear suggests it is quite difficult.

Flew over the top a couple of years ago and wasn't game to try our luck with a landing.

Tassie weather is definitely changeable, all the more reason to arrive overhead with more that 30 mins fuel. Quite a few strips an hour away from St Helens that wouldn't have been obscured by sea mist.

I am running Ozrunways on a Samsung S8.4, no problem with processing or freezes. Just a little disappointed at the development speed of the Android version, missing a lot of features of the IOS version.

I fly alot with a friend using a Mini iPad, if I wasn't so biased against Apple I would have bought one for the added capability with Ozrunways.

If I were to replace this tablet with another Android I would probably look at the Samsung S2 for its faster processor (Compared to the Tab A)

If you need to save some weight then the Ocean Signal PLB (PLB1) is a very small unit, a bit more fiddly to activate as well.

Doesn't have the battery life of a dedicated EPIRB but with GPS location being transferred on the first Satellite pass the inbuilt homing signal (121.5) isn't as important as it was.

Whatever you get I strongly recommend that it is GPS enabled, makes a big difference to rescue times.

Mike

Or is it the cost and preoccupation of building a plane that leads to a dearth of both.