FlyBoy1960

just go with nitrous and your problems are solved

Forgot to mention, the last I heard they were trying to sell the project about 4 or 5 years ago to some sort of "entrepreneur from PNG" who was going to sell dozens of them in PNG. He was lobbying the government to invest millions in the Terrier, the Sapphire (from memory) and a Chinese copy of the 172 as well as some helicopter from somewhere that eludes me. He did quite a bit of what you on pprune to try and get people to write to the group and say what a good idea it was so he can take it to the PNG government and show support for the project. As far as I know nothing ever happened and everything just disappeared 6 months after it was released with the fanfare

I heard a long time ago they were advertising themselves as LSA and got taken to the ringer by CASA because the Subaru engine doesn't meet the ASTM standards, and the aircraft is not built by a company that could ever comply with the LSA requirements (ASTM standards) for engineering or production (so I was told during and RA-Aus meet the people event). There was one at our airfield for many years and it was out of the sky for a long time getting converted from factory built registration (for which it never ever complied, but was registered by the RA-Aus by mistake) and then it went to the 19 category which is amateur built, non-factory built or certified. The Subaru engine was far from reliable and gave the owner so much trouble that he eventually sold everything for about 20 grand and gave up flying forever. The new owner that purchased it was from Perth and he got as far as Goondiwindi before the engine destroyed itself for about the 4th time and the last I heard it had been tied down there and abandoned with the new owner deciding the aircraft was not going to do what he wanted so he caught the bus to Brisbane and flew back to Perth and then took legal action against the owner. I was never told the outcome. The best thing to do in my opinion would be to contact the RA-Aus technical people and ask them about the aircraft, problems, reliability, how many were made, how many hours flown and from there you can make an informed and considered decision. It might take a week or 2 but they said that they had access to all of this information at the latest meet and greet.

Agree, EXCEPT all those drones are now hanging around at those altitudes.

Yeeeep, that would do me !

talk about thread drift !

All of this gets significantly worse, I was at the airfield yesterday talking to a couple of importers of aircraft, and because of Bristell falsifying documents and some of their aircraft being 60 kg more than what they claimed, all new aircraft regardless, of being factory built or amateur built, now require a weight and balance by a CASA appointed weight and balance control officer ! The factory weight and balance supplied by manufacturers is no longer acceptable one you do yourself on the new plane you just finished is no longer acceptable.. A weight and balance done on certified scales by your Lame, or anyone else from the RA-Aus is not acceptable. Cost is about $700 plus travel. Apparently there are not many CASA appointed weight and balance control officers in Australia. It's completely out of control ! Rather than punish the industry, punish the importer that caused the problems to start with. What do you have to say Mr Anderson ? Not so popular up our way !

Just love the fact the first thing he did was tear off the rego numbers !

That was a waste of a good classic car.

Did it hit something ?

WOW ! 👍

just as a comment and not as a criticism, I'm not really sure if I like the look of this aircraft ? it seems to be a little bit taken from here, and a little bit taken from their, and everything put together into this model. It is a very clean looking aircraft as it does not have wing struts and it has the efficiency of T tail so I would have expected the cruise speed to be better than the quoted 92 kn because it looks very clean in comparison to some other aircraft who can cruise faster. I am not sure I have ever seen this model in Australia at any of our fly-ins ? I have just been looking online for a bit more information and it seems that the manufacturers websites no longer exist so it may be another design that has ceased production

Rate of Climb: 5.3 m/s (1,040 ft/min) solo 3.81 m/s (13 ft/s) dual 3.81 m/s is calculated wrong in fpm/fps ?

Great video's

We had one passing through our airport and stopped for weather. Looked good from a distance but up close the paint was shiny but the rest was a little rough imo and that of others. Ended up full of water due leaks around doors, there were no drain holes in the fuselage. The pilot was flying the AC to a new home and he wouldn't or couldn't say too many nice things about it especially cruise speed.

I wonder if the drone is registered and the operators licenced ?

See post 2

Do you have a ground lead to your body when you are flying ? I would recommend around 1100 mm of braid attached to your thigh with a small screw for each flight

Wasn't the flying Dr all started by John Flynn ? Anyway, I saw the program and thought it was really good

Bugger

I was looking at one of these with a friend at the airfield not long ago but I don't know if the manufacturer is still in business because there have been no updates to their website since 2016 ? Reports were that they are a very nice machine to fly

Yes, i was always cold plus 2 as the final setting, you just leave it at that. You wont loose hearing people because its so sensitive.

thanks for the clarification, if it only happens when you receive does it happen at idle, that cruise and at full throttle or is it a different level of sound or is it the same in all three engine settings

Start by identifying where the noise is coming from. It is pretty simple; use the intercom on/off/isolate switch to turn the Intercom to the off position. If the noise instantly stops then it tells you that you need to raise the squelch level on the intercom which needs to be adjusted higher until the noise goes away. If the noise stays there exactly the same then you need to turn up the radio squelch until the noise cuts out. If you can't cut out the noise using the radio squelch whilst the intercom is turned off then you have to look for other problems. When I had the XCOM installed in my aircraft I had a similar problem and contacted the technical people. They told me to do exactly this but the only extra thing which they mentioned is that when the radio gets really warm the squelch will adjust by itself marginally because the tolerances inside change between cold and hot. Once I had the squelch worked out and realised there were two completely different sources of squelch and I adjusted it when it was hot it never needed adjusting again for the time that I had the aircraft. It was a great little unit and had a fantastic receiver sensitivity, I could hear things when I was flying on trips with other people that they couldn't hear. For example I could pick up the ATIS more than 100 miles away and they were struggling to get it with their Garmin and Microair at 30 miles. I was very happy with this XCOM radio

Sorry Ben, i cant remember. Kylie Communications on this site would know