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It doesnt amtter what ops..here at Ycab there are access agreements for some schools to operate from their hangars and the commercial operators do so from land that is freehold on the edge of the actual airfield perimeter so are on different land even though they can access the airfield...just make sure you know all the dots thats all

Just be aware a lot of council leases do not allow commercial ops in the hangar..need to check it out

Mine is 6 inch at the farm hangar and it is 18m x 15m I have a huge 140hp SAME tractor it weighs about 8tonne in there and my Massey is about 5 tonne...no dramas at all plus heaps of other stuff its been up about5 years now and not one sign of cracking

why a 8 inch slab..your not putting 20 tonnes on it...most big slabs are 4 to 6 inch max

Most concrete floors are costed as a sq metre cost. There is a rough rule of thumb for it and that includes the reo and footings

Its called a Microstop But be carefull the std set of countersinks that comes with it is 100 or 110 deg...NOT 120 deg...you have to buy teh 120deg set separetly I had to get one for building my Rans S-21..Rodger who got his with mine when we bought them in found out the hard way about the wrong angle supplied bits. luckily for me as he had to put larger rivets in those spots

Its mercury inside so be carefull..it shouldnt be rattling thats for sure

About US$250 he says for that Lidar unit....I think it would all be better integrated as well but thats a lot larger job than most think. The software is major to get it all to work together at once. Its much easier to make single instruments but not practical for instal. But one or 2 special little ones dotted on the dash somewhere would be handy..like that Lidar one

Not sure if this link will work but check this out for experimental or RAA use. This one the Lidar head is only a small one but he has a Lidar head that will do 500ft https://www.facebook.com/j.cox.92372/videos/10221775648973824

Its not if you ever have a ground loop its WHEN you are going to have a ground loop they all say with TD aircraft 🙂

There is a mix and match of tyres people run here. I had 600.6 Condors on mine on all 3 the rebuild I am doing has turfglides all around...the mains will be fine but you do need a wider fork for the turfglides I am sure for the nosewheel

Glad you found the issue..that sounds like it will be the problem. It couldnt have been anything else

Yes they do well ln the installs I have seen do..the IS engines seem to issues with plugs etc from the couple at our airfield. They have had issues luckily on the ground where they dont start..turned out to be a lot of the internal plug connections from what I have been told

Check out my rebuild on here it may help you although I have done my own strengthening mods in the critical areas

I think you will find you have the noseleg fork on the wrong way..it needs to be spun 180 deg

V16 with the head and box..hope this link works https://www.facebook.com/mark.kyle.980/videos/10223583214233579/

Glen If I get any given to me I will send them down to you...your a glutton for punishment 🙂 Make the radio a box with a small 2/14 head as not a lot of dash space with some of these panels now or 2 ipads in the dash. The MGL V16 is pretty good its a semi DSP style radio it has the chassis you mount somewhere then just uses a CAN bus for the display head. it works pretty well I have been using one here on the test bench for a while it is going into my RANS S-21 with MGL EFIS full autopilot etc. The V16 comes up on the Efis display but I also got the Vega head so i can still have "knob" control.

Aaron...just remember your headset will be directly inline and pretty close the RF coming off the antenna. Internal antennas not only are difficult to do properly but can have a lot of RF interference into your electronics

The problen is you just cant get a lot of this inside many aircraft so you just try to get as much as you can inside. I have seen a few dipoles inside some Jab aircraft but these dont have very good radiation patterns it again depends on the orientation of the antenns. Its all a compromise in composite aircraft. All alu aircraft of course its simple.

1/4 wave in free space at 118 mhz is 635 mm so anything above that size will be ok...obviously the more you can get the better and yes you can run radials out from this to increas the size. Its all relative really on how you do it to fit your particular aircraft. The one thing to always remember is more is better. So make it as big as you can. Also remember too that the more one sided your counterpoise is this will also offset the radiation pattern that you are transmitting so try to keep it symetrical if you want roughly the same signal output in all directions. If you want to do some quick numbers the formula is 300 divided by the frequency in megaherts then divded by 4 ..this will give you the numbers in free space for a 1/4 wave but if you want to know the length in coax then you multiply by the velocity factor of the coax. usually you will do this in the centre of the frequency band or on a specific frequency if you want it "tuned" to a point

Mobile One makes a aviation antenna that has a 1/4 wave stub antenna underneath it. It works..often used on the tailboom of trikes. I use one up at my farm on a post. I have a proper base station ground plane antenna now that will go up there. When you put the hole through the fuselage you would be best served to get some 20 thou sheet and make it at least 600 square or round if you can and shape it roughly to the inside contour of the skin and either glue it there or attach it somehow. It depends a lot on the antenna but as I said the more metal area you can get it will work better

I have always hated the foil. Much prefer to use say 0.020 sheet as the antenna base can then bite into the alu without breaking through

Eprop are saying 4kg including the spinner

The earth plate should be connected to the frame of the aircraft even though its just tube as the more mass you can get attached to the earth the better On the lightspeed mine is turned all the way dow...not 1/4 turn on as I found the gain to be massive with the lightspeed. Then do the adjustment on the Xcom

Looks like a Brumby in SA had a scare in a paddock..something about a fuel pump issue. Well it looks like a new Brumby