danny_galaga

Sorry I thought it went without saying that you are replacing each pair of bushes with a block. I think there's 4 pairs of bushes in your photo? So 4 blocks. Instead of washers you would sandwich the 'outside' bushes with a strip of metal 250 X 50. It all adds up to just more of what you wanted (vibration absorption) in the same space. Did you say that mounting system was lasting 30 hours or something? With all that extra rubber sandwiched in there, maybe it could make it to the 100 hour mark...

Hence why I thought instead of those bushes, which obviously must have been thought to be at least nominally ok, you replace the bushes with a block. You would at least have more longitudinal rigidity without having to change anything else. I'm not sure people are picturing what I mean so I'll give an example. PLEASE these are just numbers for an example. Say you have a mount like yours. With 4x rubber bushes of dimensions 50mm diameter and 25mm thick. The distance between the bolts is 200mm. Instead of those bushes, you have a 'block' of rubber that is 250mm long, 50mm wide and 25mm deep. That seems to me that it would have more rigidity than the 50mm bushes. I'm not saying it's the solution, but you also haven't said anything I didn't already know. The blocks must surely be somewhat better than the bushes, which remember are considered ok else no one would fly with that setup. Again I don't know that it's the answer, but an improvement on something already being accepted, whilst not having to change anything else.

Not if you watched The Goodies 😄

Im no expert, but just a slightly left field idea- could it help if, instead of those 8 rubber bushes, you had 4 complete 'blocks' of rubber instead? Maybe with an extra bolt each side to increase to 6 bolts? Thereby not having to make any new brackets etc.

DIB DIB DIB DOB DOB DOB DIB DIB DIB! everyone knows SOS 😄

Oh, fantastic! I see too in your first post you reused part of the RAM mount. All those tubes are pretty much the same in the Bushcat so I think I'll do the same. Except the flap handle is somewhere there too. But ill have a look soon. Let us know if you have any dramas with reception etc but it actually looks like it should only be improved 🙂

I have no idea what that means but it sounds simpler. I guess 😄

I did ONE nav lesson in 1996. From memory the Warrior had a VOR thingy. Nothing I did seemed to involve any of that stuff. I figured it was all commercial stuff. Still haven't done my navs. Do I need to learn morse code? If so, my dream may still be over 😄

HIs museum in Blenheim NZ is fantastic. The dioramas are first class, maybe his movie guys built them? Two great ones is of NZ pilot Keith Caldwell jumping out of his plane just before it crashed, living to fly the next day! And another of Aussie diggers robbing the body of Manfred Von Richthoften after they shot him down. Because of them, Jackson has on display one of the actual crosses cut out of the plane, and his fur boots!

On this Morse code thing, one of the things that always scared me about even starting to learn how to fly when I was young was that apparently you had to learn it, and I thought that seemed impossible. I was pleasantly surprised when I did decide to learn to fly that you didn't have to know anything about Morse code anymore 😄

Agree there Onetrack. We could be talking about anything from a toilet to a computer to a road surface to an aircraft. Oh, that colour tag system is nice and simple though. That would cover a lot, just having to determine what 'servicing' means for different items etc. In a most general sense you can ask, flow chart style: Is it new (may or may not matter. If it's clothing it could be a pertinent question)? Y/N. If Y or N: is it ready for service? If N, is it serviceable? If N- can it be recycled/stripped of useful parts? Y- is it economically viable to repair? Y/N Etc. bit hard to demonstrate here, but Simple in a flow chart.

Yeah fact Hunter, that's what surprises me. When could you get your commercial licence? 150 hours or something? I think maybe if she had just pursued that instead to better herself, this may not have happened. Presumably a bit less rubber stamping for CPL. I know two guys who got CPL just to better their flying skills- no intention of flying for a living. To her credit, you see in one of her videos that she fires one of her instructors because he was basically just taking over all the time, meaning she wasn't really learning anything. Because she had so many videos up, Juan showed she seemed out of her depth with the Beechcraft. She was maybe overconfident. I've always been the reverse, big lack of confidence. Somewhere between the two of us is the ideal.

You may have shown it before, but what sort of heat shields have you got between the carby bowl and the exhaust? My plane hasn't flown yet, but I suspect my heat shields, which are just stainless steel will pretty much only work well while flying- it's directly absorbing heat from the exhaust and then moving air is taking that away from the shield. I have a feeling my carbs are going to to get quite toasty once landed and parked. If so I'll probably try and attach something to it to insulate better.

I didn't notice it mentioned here, so thought I'd post. When you look at this vid, and the follow up he did later, one of the big takeaways for me is that a series of instructors seem to have failed. I believe she had 400 hours flying, which is way more than me, but I feel I am more proficient. Tragic that her father died with her. Because she was doing it for YouTube, she had a number of cameras on board, so a good chance at least one will be recoverable (only the SD card needs to still function). That's going to be both informative and harrowing for the investigators.

By and large talk of baffles etc is academic on many Rotax installs since they seem to be doing fine 'naked'. I have however seen at least one set up with fibreglass shrouding similar to the tinware on the big boy air cooled engines. I could have sworn it was an Aeroprakt Foxbat but I'm not seeing that when looking on the line. Ibob, my engine has the same sensor locations. Initially I had wired the front sensor as that seemed easier to wire at the time. But it was suggested to me that will always show cooler and so it's better to hook up to the rear sensor. Now I'm thinking I may emulate bluesadventures set up and hook them both up to a switch 🙂

That's a neat idea! I have one spare switch on my instrument panel, maybe that's what it'll be for 😎 Of course it's designated differently right now 😁

You seem more upset than me about it. So you are saying there are a lot of young PEOPLE flying airliners these days. That's great.

What I mean is that if you have a VH registered aeronca champ it gets a full investigation in a crash via casa. If it was a 24 rego, nothing. Same plane.

It doesn't..I'm sure I'm actually on your side. But if one person is saying 30 seems a bit young to be a 787 captain, then what is the point of your post? No one was disparaging female pilots

Not that you would want to be in this situation, but how will that affect accident investigation if you change your aircraft from GA to Group G?

Why would you need to post a picture? I think most of us are on top of the concept of '30'

It's the age, not the sex that fact Hunter is questioning

And helicopter pilot.

Of course the boys and their ricers were all about the noise. I remember when blow off valves WEREN'T illegal, I saw an ad in a ricer magazine for a blow off valve proudly stating theirs was 25% louder than the competition 😄. At least they weren't hiding why bogans would install them!