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Note to self: no climbing aileron rolls at 200 ft. It's amazing the number of young men who die doing silly things. The fatal Foxbat accident a few months ago had someone doing wingovers at 100 ft. I saw a pic of a Eurofox that hit so hard it left a depression in the ground and the rear of the fuselage concertinaed.

This issue is where the lies and politically correct spin impact on "objective" testing. If the frontal testing was done against a car/object with a standard mass, then the big cars would get better ratings and small cars would get worse ratings. As far as I know, people don't only have head ons with cars of the same weight. Lies. That this is not something declared, it amounts to lies.

Good points. With LSA's, I never thought past the steel bars that are at head height. They are not present in cars, which are are monocoque, and when there is a chassis, it is below one's feet. Internal roll cages are illegal, as far as I know. I wear a helmet. Fixed wing pilots not wearing helmets seems to me to be just a cultural thing. Helicopter and aerobatic pilots wear them. And if your aerobatic routine goes wrong, a helmet is the last this that will save you!

I thought the crash services were on the scene very quickly. There is a little black car with a white patch on the side racing to the scene. Not sure if concerned about the fire or about the pilot. There was a commentator, so that was a very public failure.

Good work mentioning the actual fatal rate, rather than saying that it is "safe".

It's not a video, its a link.

Scotch Magic Removable Adhesive Tape. Officeworks online. I don't think it is availble from the shops.

No, you are not the only one. We all need people to pull our hands out of the fire.

Kings In Grass Castles gives an Australian perspective on the Irish forced to leave. Amazing story. ≈ 10 years after Burke and Wills died, there were settlers in the area of the dig tree. I'm still *p-ssed* if the internet goes down.

No one is entitled to feel a particular way. I do not think that it is possible to give iron-clad guarantees about reporting because the line between making an innocent mistake in the context of diligent flying, and being reckless is not easy to define. As I have said before, there is a literature about this but I have no read it. Start with James Reason. My understanding is that a just culture and human factors actually *started* with aviation. They could not punish pilots who made mistakes, so they had to come up with a new approach.

Technically, people saying and doing things that you do not agree with does not mean that there is not a just, or "no-blame", culture. If you don't want to say more, then fair enough.

The way seem to be managing this is correct. If you leave stuff in the hands of lawyers, not much will happen. But you also need lawyers.

How long ago was that? What do you mean by hung out to dry? Can you make the story clearer about what happened? Did the copilot call out the wrong number?

I replaced the Carlisle golf cart tyres with 6.00 x 6 tyres. They fit fine and are about the same diameter. I got four-ply tyres. I was told that 6 ply tyres are too hard and are used on Cessna's. I think that the 6x6 tyres will provide actually *better* flotation that the golf cart tyres. Assuming that the side wall is flexible enough and the side wall is high enough, the size of the contact patch will depend on the pressure in the tyre. The wider golf cart tyres will have a wider contact patch. That will cause more rolling resistance that the long and narrow contact patch of the 6x6 tyres, not to mention greater risk of punctures. Also the lighter tyres look like aircraft tyres and should have slightly lower air resistance. Even at 10 PSI, the width of the tyre does not limit the size of the contact patch, and I would be worried about the tyre falling off at that pressure. I think I got my tyres from Sky Shop (Australia) . There are an article on this subject in 4x4 Australia about 10 years ago. For you 4x4 on sand, get *high profle* tyres, not wide ones. I could not find it when I searched online for it. IIRC they tested contact patches with boot polish on the tyre and lowered it onto pieces of paper and measured the contact patch.

Yeah, that could cause probs of its own, but.

Internet told me shelf life for Aeroshell Sport 4 is 5 years. Didn't know about the printing on the bottom of the bottle.

I have no personal expertise, but these pages have told of many horror stories of home built planes.

The ground crew could have refused to tow them. I'm not saying they should have.

"Number three. Continue downwind. ABC"

Google says birds have a gland near their "tail" that secretes oil that they rub all over themselves, and thereby waterproof themselves. And here I was expecting a nice answer about the molecular structure of feathers. ?

You own the question. The person who answers owns the answer.

First of all, there has not been a mad panic. There are no travel bans to countries with malaria because people know to take antimalarials and they can't reinfect others on their return home. Just because other people have worse health is no reason for people in rich countries to not preserve their health. Your post was beyond stupid.

The heater in The Mighty Foxbat uses air from the radiator (for water, not the oil) and thereby avoids the problem of CO from a faulty heater. The dot CO detector went off once, possibly because people were doing lots of stalls and the usual airflow from the exhaust got messed up.

Thinking what could have happened and how to stop it happening to us is a good process.