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    Today I'll do some taxi trials before pulling out the tools. Normal taxi, to establish how quickly it gets hot. Ill do that near the hangar, once I know how quickly it gets hot, it saves me taxiing a long way. I suspect it won't take much. I have one of those thermometers you point at with. Between each test, cool the brakes down. Next, start up with park brakes off but brakes applied. Taxi. Then start up no brakes and no park brakes (by now the engine will start straight into an idle so it'll be safe as long as I'm ready to act). Taxi. Then start up from.passenger seat, using the brakes. Taxi. One of you mentioned it could be a master cylinder, these tests will definitely sniff that out, or whether it's the park brakes.
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    Two fingers? Luxury! The Bushcat has very heavy ailerons. Have to lead with rudder. I suspect if ever I needed to fly an Edwardian aircraft, I would need no further training 😄
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    Definitely the correct fluid. It's a mineral oil system. Just using what's recommended. My experience with hydraulic brakes in cars is that if you have air in the system, the reverse of what you are implying happens. Ask me how I know 😂
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    Some good thoughts there. I forgot to mention that since I'm on a grass field the only time I use the brakes is PARK on start and engine run ups, and to 'unkink' the tailwheel after pulling the plane backwards out of the hangar. And then of course a quick jab when taxiing to check the brakes are working. I'm
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    I figured the engine section is the best place to ask My plane has matco ph-8 disk brakes. The right one is getting much hotter than the left one. Have to add extra herbs after landing to taxi. And much harder to push back into the hangar. It looked a bit glazed, so I was hoping maybe it's suffering from a positive feedback loop whereby the more it overheats, the more glazed it becomes. The more glazed the hotter it gets. I took the caliper off, and de glazed with wet and dry and water. Also touched up the pads with wet and dry on a flat surface. The system is comically simple, and everything thing seems to moving. Pressing the brake pedal gently showed the piston moving. The caliper sliding thing slides. I'm at a loss! If I don't hear of any easier things to try by tomorrow, I'll swap left caliper for right (they are symmetrical) and see if the problem follows it.
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    It's kinda irrelevant how much runway the plane used since it clearly took off
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    Video in this article from airport CCTV. Definitely had plenty of go taking off, initially. Around the ten second mark it seems to have run out of steam for what ever reason https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-13/india-plane-crash-what-happened-video-flight-data/105414220
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    I actually have 3201 that I bought from a glider pilot in Germany when they went to 8.33 spacing. Lots of cheap radios out of Europe because of that. But then I got this free modern radio, so I went with that. But I'm just looking at the 6201 now I'm re-reading this, and it looks nice and straight forward. What I don't like about the MGL is that it has a gazillion settings and functions in there that i will never use. So Becker may be on my list again, along with Trig, which is highly regarded and also not loaded with useless functions ill never use, mainly because I won't remember which ten different things I have to do to get to the function 😄
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    Dreamliner I think?
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    Yes, I don't think it's actually needed. Unlike 3 phase car alternators, where from my very shaky memory, the warning light goes through the exciter diodes, which gets the rotor windings going until the alternator outputs energy. If the warning light blew in that case, your car alternator might not start charging. But the joys and wonders of electrical engineering - quite often there's enough residential magnetism in the rotor to get everything going regardless. Usually after a big rev. Anyway, that doesn't help the op 😄
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    Can you disconnect the capacitor? I don't think the capacitor should affect it, but you are thinking it and that would be the easiest way to know for sure. In any case, it would boil down to something going on with the regulator since it normally wouldn't do this.
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    In all seriousness though, this is a good outcome. I flew out of Heck Field when test flying a demo plane. Cane fields all around. Pretty safe for emergencies, but obviously it's not going to be tidy.
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    A couple of questions: Why were emergency crews 'stunned'? Was a lizard person flying it? Why are casa investigating?
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    I wonder if the tacho wire is running along the aerial coaxial cable or something and it's picking up energy? Seems more like the radio is fine, and the tacho needs investigating 🤔
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    Is yours working alright at the moment though? I was only going to replace mine because I thought it was dying. Even my mechanic was happy about the improvement when I replaced the starter battery.
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    No thanks 😄
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    Well, central anyway. I grew up in Darwin and I don't think I ever saw a scorpion. A BILLION cockroaches though. I don't miss those 😄
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    Well, my MGL seems to have come good! The only thing that has changed is that the starter battery was going downhill fast, so after the last flight (where it only just started, even after charging it for 30 minutes) I put a new one in. Could it be my radio is a bit sensitive to the extra, and constant current draw of my dicky battery? Thoughts Kyle? In any case, should I ever have to replace the radio, Trig is getting such a good rap I would be silly not to go in that direction. I'm thinking if I mount it under the seat, I could make the aerial coaxial cable about 1.5 metres shorter, which can't hurt 🙂
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    Trig TY91 is about $2800 in Australia. From memory, my MGL was about $1200 USD
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    If you are using a currently available model of radio, what is it, and are you happy with it? I have an MGL. It seems to have gone downhill fast. I have time off next two weeks so I can have a really good at the wiring, aerial etc. but the radio started off well, and the plane only has about 6 hours total flight time, so I feel it probably is the radio. When I told an avionics guy what brand, he asked how much I paid. When I told him it was free, he said that's about the right price 😄. My guy helping with the test flying and another guy at the hangar didn't think much of MGL either. The other guy actually threw his away 😲 They are very happy with Trig TY91, so that's on my radar. My only concern there is it's one of those 'head unit and base unit ' jobbies, which will make installation in my case a bit of a bother, depending on whether I can just join them.into one unit or not...
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    A full 30 minutes 😲 Here's a post of mine on a different forum. 2004. Notice the link in the first post? https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,20073.0.html#msg161529
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    Many of us have asked this. Not going to happen. You've got 15 minutes and then all your mistakes are locked in forever 😄
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    Well I haven't added an earth to mine. I guess it could be earthing through that foil covered fibreglass heat shield I guess 😊
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    Yeah, I figure since the Carmo is made for aircraft it's fully above ground electrically. The Ducati one obviously is for motorbikes which use the frame for negative ground.
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    My installation benefitted from being a clean install. Plenty of air movement around the device, but the air that's there isn't going to be very cool. That's the kit position and I didn't want to waste time doing something different. Anyway, my hope was that even it's a bit warm there, it's supposed to run cooler than the original anyway. So far the longest flight has been roughly 80 minutes
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