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10 hours ago, propfarmer said:

I saw the Fly In to Trundle on the 13th. With the recent rain I think I will be planting crop. Would love to get there if I wasn't busy.

Hello David, we flew over your place on Thursday @7500, the Nyngan Tottenham area was looking very dry so glad you got some rain. Think I saw you dry sowing NE of your house. 50mm for the weekend down here in God's country. How is your Thruster going, will have to catch up after sowing.

So, what are you going to build? 

Four Luscombe 8's very nice.

A tip for next time is to use labelled zip lock plastic bags at each stage of any disassembly. Much harder to loose things that way. 

I think there are two at Forbes NSW, used as tugs. 

1 hour ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

I just read a report about a "battery failure" that caused a twin to crash...  there is a real downside to using fuel injection setups which need electrical power to work. I well remember Rod Stiff rejecting the idea on reliability grounds, and this sure proves him  right.

If that was the DA-42 Diamond there is more to the story. The Pilot Operating Handbook has specific instructions in regards starting the aircraft with external power. Only one engine may be started with external power and the second engine is then started using internal battery once it has charged up some. That did not happen in the accident aircraft. 

The Rotax 912is, 915is engines have proven themselves. Once again pilots need to understand the systems and heed the warnings of  faults in the redundant systems.  

Looks like they had the door cracked open prior to touchdown, text book perfect.  

29 minutes ago, Blueadventures said:

Does an engine rebuild have to be performed by Rotax for their 582 two stroke engines fitted in owner builder 19 category aircraft or is it ok to use factory supplied and a suitably experienced person do the work?  I’ll read up tech manual for my friend and send an email to tech.

Reading the rotax manuals it is pretty clear, the engines cannot be operated over TBO hours or calendar. Rotax also say only rotax authorized service centres can overhaul the engines. This applies to 582 and the 9 series.  Rotax also say individual regulators can apply more stringent requirements.

5 hours ago, kgwilson said:

The price of a new 916is is $US49,500.00, thats $AU73,832.00 at todays conversion rate. I can't see too many being installed here. The buy price today (AUD or USD) is around $75,000.00, then there is freight & duties. Then it has to be installed. I reckon the final cost would be about $90,000.00, not that far short of a brand new base level Jabiru 230.

Kevins figures above were in response to my thoughts of a jabiru premium model using a Rotax 916.

The mid spec jabiru 230 is $164600 add $9000 for adsb transponder and $9500 for the autopilot = $183100. If we take off 20K for the gen4 and add 70k (I am sure they would get oem price) we have our premium jabiru 230 for $233100. Not a lot of money today for a very good aircraft with a very good engine. Only a 915 would be be required for our premium model as we are not chasing takeoff performance just cruise at altitude.

Sling and others are showing what can be done with these engines.

Would love to see this engine in a premium jabiru factory aircraft. At 60-80k over the standard 120hp model I think they would sell very well to buyers who are not going to consider the current product. A mini cirrus at a bargain price.

An interesting story and it may help the film launch. The pilot in me is a bit sceptical, is the trim on a light two seat sportstar really that powerful it would cause you to lose control at um the exact location your nephew is filming.

54 minutes ago, Flying_higher said:

The medical requirements do not change for Group G. They remain totally the same. RAA has said that on numerous occasions. 
 

For more myth busting see here. https://www.raa.asn.au/calendar-of-events/mtow/

If it was only upto RAA we would have had group G some time ago.

11 hours ago, turboplanner said:

After these marvellous insights into the legal system I don't see why CASA can't make the decision today, and just say, You're going up going up to us but you'll be using a LAME to maintain that aircraft, you'll all be on Basic Class 2 medical, and you guys can just keep going with the car medical, but there's to be no instructing from the ground.

That could be the case. We already know group G will require LAME maintenance. Only the medical remains a mystery.  

Thread pitch on those Jabiru head bolts 1.25mm? So 30° turn = 0.104mm of head recession . Doesn't sound like much unless it is happening every 25-50 hours.

2 hours ago, old man emu said:

Here's a question:

 

A person has a doctor (DAME or GP depending on the class of medical) complete a medical examination for a licence renewal and fill out the CASA form and the doctor says that the person is medically fit to pilot an aircraft and hands over the signed paperwork for the person to forward to CASA The person on the same day delivers the paperwork to CASA. 

 

How does that person exercise the privileges of their licence if CASA is slow in processing the renewal?  If subjected to a ramp check, could a pilot produce the signed medical examination report and tell the CASA inspector that the pilot doesn't have the response from Medical Branch because they haven't processed it yet?

My experience has always been the DAME submits the paper work, or nowadays, email to CASA. If the DAME has issued a medical it is available immediately to print and put in license book. If the DAME has submitted the medical for review then it will not be valid until review is completed. Not sure how GP basic med works. 

CASA schedule 5, the most common system of maintenance for light general aviation says something like, inspect the fuel lines, vents and drains of the fuel system. The drains do not have a life that I am aware of.

There is always the possibility of a fuel leak. Cap left off in the dark, leaking drain, cracked fuel line etc.

 Forced landing due to leaking fuel drain

In a twin such a problem would be isolated to one side, left fuel tanks feed left engine unless cross feed is selected.  

I see MDX is alive and well. They should not have reissued that registration.  

I don't see 760kg happening for RAAus unless or until RPL and PPL cssa license holders get the same medical standard as RAAus certificate pilots. Will be impossible to justify a double standard for a Cessna 150,152.

Flightradar24 shows the SkyEcho2 equipped Musketeer arrived at cootamundra at about 2304052110 utc or 7.10am local time.  Would you expect the runway to be closed according to the notam?  

I stopped watching the news and everything else on free TV about 7 years ago  never been happier.  

I viewed this notam this morning before flying to said location. The times for the closed runway did not seem to make sense, however I am easily confused by UTC.

So answer in local time, what times was the runway closed. Central NSW.

Was the media coverage of this accident,  including the factual video of the passengers experience, a help or a hindrance in RAAus campaign for a pilot in every home? 

The ATSB produced a very comprehensive report on this "accident"

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2019/aair/ao-2019-027

On 31/03/2023 at 9:37 PM, old man emu said:

 

 

Saw the student interviewed on TV. Young bloke with too much money. He'd already bought himself a plane before learning to fly. If he ever gets his licence I can see him joining the fatal statistics through showing off. That's the way he came across to me.

 

 

I bought myself a plane before I learned to fly . My bad.