FlyBoy1960

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

or, white for Jabiru 😇

looking at the holes above the radio it appears to me that your aircraft was originally set up for a microair using a separate intercom system because you can see the holes there for something like a Sigtronics SPA-4S or something similar. I would pull everything out including that extra board which is not needed with the XCOM and just wire it up according to the diagram which I sent through. This is exactly what I did and it worked perfectly for years until I sold the aircraft and is probably still working fine today

Thank goodness for Glacier Backup XCOM-Radio-UHF-WD.pdf

I would get rid of everything that is there because it is unnecessary. When I built my old plane I had an XCOM with a VHF and UHF. There is an intercom switch which is on/off/isolate and then there is another switch which moves the microphone from VHF to UHF. This means you cannot transmit on UHF and VHF at the same time which is obvious but you can receive on both. The wiring harness was nothing at all like what you have got in there. I think the aircraft may have had another brand of radio but you certainly don't need anything like this with the XCOM. somewhere, I still have the diagrams, sorry this is all I can find now but I do know there is one for UHF connection. I will have a look later on for you. XCOM Harness How to Check Out.pdf

what amazes me is that people don't do stalls at a real throttle setting. Doing stalls at idle is a waste of time because the aircraft are normally behaving at their levels of best behaviour. When my original training was done stalls were always performed at about three quarters power setting and sometimes at full power setting because that is when you are normally going to get bit. When you are climbing out and trying to get over some trees ahead of you or something like that. Stalls at idle really don't simulate real-life stalls. I would like to see a video of stalls at let's say 5000 rpm or higher. I think then we can get a better idea of the aircraft's stall behaviour

sorry but I can only quote what they told me and many others at the meeting that nothing has changed with 95.10 since it was introduced. if there have been changes then you should contact the RA--Aus and ask why changes have been made to civil aviation order 95.10 and how they affect you. What they did say is that anything that ever gets changed is preceded by an NPRM by a certain period of time to allow for industry consultation and comments from those affected. Most of the time there are no comments so the changes just go through. They did say that for 95.10 pilots nothing had changed since 1997 so if it has chase them up