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    There will be an extra 550mm cable..it's still less cable overall than the kits master solenoid idea. And WAY less than some aircraft where they've had to put the Battery rearwards for C of G purposes 🙂
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    A bit of an update. I had put a little motorcycle battery isolator in, but of course that's not easy to reach. Fine if I'm on the ground. But if I happened to need to use it in flight, I'd probably 'John Denver ' myself. So I picked up a panel mounted isolator from Whitworth marine. Much the same as the ones with the red plastic key, but these look tidier. Might as well have form AND function if it's available. Installed it where my USB outlet was, which I moved over. Looks tidy there and it's just about the shortest amount of extra cable at the location 🙂
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    The hour meter is built in to the tacho. The tacho is working fine, thus the earth is fine. Perfectly logical 🙂 On top of that, when the revs are above 1800, the hour meter switches to revs. It does this faultlessly. I have a reply from aviasport. I'll see where we go from there, but I just bought an $8 hour meter from eBay as recommended by a friend. He fits them to all motorbikes he's owned. The oldest hour meter is 6 years now and still fine.
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    What is RA? I take it that refers to the close call...
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    There is Enroute Flight Navigation, which is free but it may not have all the bells and whistles. Someone here put me on to it. I downloaded just to test out my skyecho. But if you don't want to give money to 'The Man' check it out. You have nothing to lose.
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    Would that be because they might bounce around a lot, causing wear and tear? Sounds like a pain, lock, taxi, get ground crew to unlock, line up.
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    Cool..I've been in one, but hadn't noticed the slats. I kinda assumed the tiger was the first for some reason. Just looked it up. I reckon it's VH-UMK . Until this discussion I had no idea it was all wood. I was already a bit nervous about wooden wings, let alone the whole thing 😄 Still, was a great experience. My partner was in the Tiger Moth. The same owner, Bill also has a Tiger Moth and a Leopard Moth, which apparently is exceedingly rare. I don't believe the Leopard Moth is flying though... https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/VH-UMK If you look closely in these pics, there seems to be something under the top wings leading edge. Now I know, I would say that's part of the automatic retract mechanism for the slats?
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    I agree, but it's easy to place a conditional order. If nothing is ever approved, you haven't paid for anything.
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    VDO
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    No, this one is digital. The tacho has an analog face (but no doubt converting a digital signal, same as my altimeter) and a little LCD readout at the bottom. When the engine is running it just shows the RPM in digital form as well as the analog face. But if the engine isn't running, it shows as an hour meter. If I'm stuck with this tacho (as in can't get it replaced under warranty) I will get a little standalone Hobbs or BDO hour meter.
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    Tacho is working, so earth is fine. I have a feeling there is some sort of fault internally, but thought I'd check here in case someone knew something I didn't about it's operation. I will contact the manufacturer, hopefully they come to the party. That's a problem with builds isn't it? By the time you get to test stuff, most of the stuff is out of warranty 😄
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    I SUSPECT sfGnome was joking...
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    Just imagine all the racket if a number of them start whizzing around.
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    I have this tacho in my plane. Rotax 912 specific. http://www.aviasport.com/Pagina_348.aspx I must have run it close to an hour by now on the ground. The hour meter is supposed to measure time when the engine is over 1800 rpm. Because I haven't fine tuned the throttle assemblies yet most of the time it's never below 1800 rpm. But it seems to have stopped at 00:22. (I just realised that's in minutes, not 1/10 hours) . The tacho seems to read rpm reliably. Anyone have one of these tachos? Am I having a brain fart and not doing something correctly? I didn't think there was anything to do 🤔
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    It's going to be liquid hydrogen, that means it'll be heavier than air.
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    The tiger has those pressure activated slats too. Dunno if the gypsy does
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    That was my thought too. Just the right circumstances that the fuel continued to flow while burning in the cabin. A giant kerosene lamp.
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    Just googled. Extreme heat due fire can release oxygen in ammonium nitrate, resulting in explosion, like in Beirut. I stand corrected on that front. Still as you've pointed out, this wasn't an explosion.
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    Doesn't it need a supersonic shock wave to knock the oxygen molecule lose though? Hence it's use as a plastic explosive? Potassium nitrate oxygen molecule is ready to strip off with just heat.
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    Dunno if ammonium nitrate would burn. Could be wrong. Potassium nitrate is used by farmers too, that will oxidise aluminium and steel nicely, turned the whole thing into one giant flare. Potassium nitrate, or potash is the oxidiser in black gunpowder and solid fuel rockets. Ammonium nitrate is used as a plastic explosive. Normally needs a shock wave to set it off. I believe American soldiers used to burn C4 as a camp fire fuel in Vietnam, it's that benign. That's just speculation. I'm not sure there's a reason to carry lots of that in a plane, I would have thought you would normally truck it
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    This guy flies a Yak 11, on a relatively low budget https://www.flyingmag.com/the-intricacies-of-getting-ready-for-reno/
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    Wake was cancelled for the public because the grounds would be too soggy for all the expected cars. Family only. I think there will be one later for friends. But I happened to be at the field working on my plane at the southern end of the field, so got to see the planes flying from the field. First a jet did several low passes! I think an L-39. Also a Tiger Moth, I think one of the Moths Dave flew regularly. A Cessna Bird dog, Boeing Steerman and Phil's red STOL.
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    I attended the funeral of Dave today. Some very moving eulogies from family and friends. Was wonderful to hear things about him he didn't feel the need to mention, like doing humanitarian work in Kurdistan in the 1990's, or teaching vocational skills in the prison system. He is missed by many people.
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    Apparently the sonar image can distort such that the wings look like that. They will be sending a camera down next so we should soon know.
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