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    Personal Responsibility used to be a thing, but that was a long long time ago
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    I dont know which one was driving but I see one is wearing flip flops and the other wedge/platform shoes...tbh I think the current state of affairs is more an age thing than what country they come from, not saying that doesnt play a part but it seems to me anyone in the 40ish or below age bracket simply has no clue how to behave in society. This what you get from adopting a culture of "its ok jimmy you're doing fine" told to the kid who just spat at his classmate and can't spell his own name at age 12, been going on a few decades now.
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    Yea apologies for mentioning non Australian procedures, I did say in my posts that I was talking about UK procedures but sorry that you remained confused
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    Yep, The roads or rather the car drivers are terrible these days I'm probably quite capable of killing myself without everyone else trying to do it for me, I find young Ladies particularly dangerous..they simply dont seem to care all safe in their shiny metal boxes. tbh the Instructors seem really poor quality these days too, I had one tell me you don't need to indicate if there is nobody in the vicnity...wtf?? how about the guy you didnt see and just pulled out in front of?..idiot
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    Oil Longevity

    Red replied to Red's topic in Engines and Props

    90C is a good operating temp for a Jab on an XAir, the engine is exposed and the sensor will be under reading actual temperature
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    Oil Longevity

    Red replied to Red's topic in Engines and Props

    A nice temperature then. Is this coming from the breather after the catch tank?, I guess if its very high humidity and there is no sign of the same high water contamination at the dipstick then its not too much or a worry and could be forming in the catch tank. Knowing how prone to bore corrosion the jabs are (unless its a gen 4) then Id want to get to the bottom of it. P.S. I've never had anything near that bad spat out by my Jab or any other air cooled engine
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    Oil Longevity

    Red replied to Red's topic in Engines and Props

    Gordon Bennett!!! what oil temperature do you run at? Or is this a joke?
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    Oil tank hatch

    Red replied to Red's topic in Skyranger

    Thanks Marty, thats's just the sort of thing ...big enough to get yer hand through Col. Another one to ponder, that would give excellent access for a looksie at most of the top half of the engine...hmm
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    Oil tank hatch

    Red replied to Red's topic in Skyranger

    I'm not sure the standard size hatch will work, as the cap to the oil tank is some way below the cowl top surface so may need to get hand through and I'm OK with fabricating my own. This the reason I ask if anyone has done it to a Skyranger. Blueadventures....my cowl is held by plan screws into those captive threaded clips 17 of them and they have worn the holes badly, I may fit camlocks in the winter but it'll need some remedial work on the cowl first
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    Oil tank hatch

    Red posted a topic in Skyranger

    Anyone cut a hatch in the Nynja cowl to allow checking the oil level?, I'm guessing it might have to be large enough to get your hand through as the tank filler cap is gonna be some way below
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    Oil Longevity

    Red replied to Red's topic in Engines and Props

    Cheers Onetrack, I'll have a read of that. These modern Oils are quite amazing but I don't think they're ever gonna smell as good as Castrol R💥
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    There are comments here that imply just that...that this the best way..period. Good point, but at a safe altitude I would still go directly overhead in some circumstances, 5 miles out is almost in the circuit at many fields...its always dependent on factors such as what traffic reports I've heard, knowledge of local procedures, visibility etc blah blah
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    I wonder was this actually a LiPo battery? I know from experience that LiPo cells (the flat cells with a metallized plastic film soft outer case are like little fecking incendiary bombs. I've banged a nail through a small 2ah LiPo cell and the resulting smoke and fire was alarming. (This was a carefully controlled scientific test of course don't try this at home kids)
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    It really depends, if your track is 90 degrees to an airfields Runway then flying directly overhead at an appropriate altitude is far safer than offsetting some miles away where the likelihood of encountering descending traffic becomes a factor. As Nev alluded to, constraining yourself to a single mantra that works for one set of circumstances is never optimal.
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    Have XV105 and XV107 in my Logbook, circuits and bumps at Brize Norton early eighties. wonderful aircraft and I think still amongst the fastest subsonic airliners flown.
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    The FRTOL is no longer a requirement for a PPL in Australia?
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    I was clearly saying they don't use it in the USA Skippy
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    Though not used much except whilst training in the circuit or when a situation demands (eg you just heard someone call joining downwind) then a call of crosswind can indicate someone who just made the first turn into the circuit after climbing out..room for confusion there
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    Mostly, but not necessarily using the same terminology as this thread illustrates. Also there are some glaring differences such as in the USA where a 45 degree join to one of the corners on a rectangle formed by the circuit (pattern) is a widely used standard and I believe Overhead joins are seldom used of even understood.
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    Wow!!!
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    No idea about the terms usage in OZ but its a common term in UK and refers to the opposite side of the runway to the active circuit (pattern), when doing an Overhead join the next call after "overhead" is "descending deadside" UK Version https://www.caa.co.uk/publication/download/13138 NZ Terminology https://www.asms.co.nz/2014/01/caa-releases-asms-report.html Perhaps I should leave this discussion as its plainly in the context of Australian procedures?
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    Ah thanks we call that an overhead join and its commonly used here in uncontrolled and controlled aerodromes
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    I guess it's a local terminology thing, to me (a simple pom) its as clear as mud so what does midfield crosswind mean that makes it different from just saying crosswind?..Im guessing it doesnt literally mean half way along the crosswind leg as that would be a daft place to enter the circuit Enlightenment required
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    What does midfield mean in this context?, what is the distinction from simply saying joining Crosswind?. taking literally it doesnt make a lot of sense to me. Pardon my ignorance I've never heard the the Term
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    Oil Longevity

    Red replied to Red's topic in Engines and Props

    3 years feels about right to me though with no empirical backing to that figure. Question was prompted by my recent change of aeroplane which came with a couple of 5 litre cans of oil that are likely around that age, I think I'll use a little if I need small top up in the near future and consign the remainder to various garden machinery interesting take on flushing oil, something i've never used and assume its only to be used on something left standing with sludge build up and I guess must contain solvants
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