FlyBoy1960

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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

I watched the AGM online and I also went to the recent seminar at our airfield which was meet the new CEO etc. One thing that was implied over and over is that all of the grizzling from 95.10 People is a waste of time. For this end of tthe market absolutely nothing has changed and nothing ever will change. By these members screaming about how their rights are being dissolved and everything else is simply not true and a member flying grassroots aircraft 15 years ago or 20 years ago still has exactly the same opportunities and conditions as they have now. It seemed like this segment of aviation just wanted to be vocal and complain for no real reason. From what I heard both events, I do have confidence that they are looking after our interests as recreational aviators in a rapidly changing environment with pressures from CASA, Air Services, airspace changes and safety. From everything I saw I believe they are doing very good job on a reasonably limited budget. I don't understand what you mean by wanting more freedom. You can take off from a deserted bleach near Byron Bay and fly all the way over to the most westerly point of Australia without using your radio a single time if this is what you want to do. You do not need to get permission or comply with 1 million rules and regulations so I don't know what more freedoms you want. There is probably no other country in the world that you can do this without restrictions. Are you happy flying around now compared to say five years ago or compared to say 10 years ago ? For me respectfully, this is a stupid question. We always look back on the "good old days" with affections that mellow over time. Simplistically put, there is no real difference if you just want to have recreational fun and do so within some fairly generous rules which are in place to protect all aviators. Just like there are rules on the road there are rules in the air, enjoy what you can and stop complaining !

interesting aeroplane. It has a rate of climb of 19,000 ft/m but they claim it was underpowered ? it is really amazing they did all of this now more than 70 years ago!

no idea, I was just looking at the specs and there is no audio output. No mention of being able to run a speaker in the specifications which is something I would have expected if it was a feature. Perhaps they just copied and pasted from another advertisement for a different product, who knows ?

This is a knockoff radio made by Nigel Andrews who originally did the engineering for Microair and I think some original work for XCOM in the very early days on the design if my memory serves me correctly. From what I was told he spent a couple of years marketing the design around the globe trying to get a buyer and I believe it is now made in Turkey or Ukraine, I honestly can't remember. You will see it has identical display to the Microair (e.g. the exact same LCD), just a few of the buttons on the front display are slightly different as they have replaced the silver toggle switches which the original Microair had. It is a shame that it has no audio output for a glider speaker, looks like you have to wear a headset ?

if you couldn't see them then you must have been reading a different document to the one I was reading ? Examples were from memory, Declaring ASTM compliance before any spin testing was completed on that model of aircraft, and continuing to declare compliance for four years until spin testing was completed. This was acknowledged by the respondent as an oversight ? Declaring ASTM compliance for aircraft that did not meet payload requirements in the LSA category (e.g. they are too heavy) Affected four or five aircraft from memory Signing documents to declare compliance without validating that any of the compliance had been met on new models or new variants of those models which required revalidation before they could be sold as LSA compliant. it was interesting reading even though a lot of the things the same over and over again. To me it shows that self compliance may not be the answer to everything because manufacturers/distributors/agents can still make honest mistakes or make mistakes that are to the benefit of the manufacturer. Claiming just a couple of fatality's around the world is quickly shot down by quick Google search. It makes you think if they are lying about things like this what else are they lying about ? I won't comment further about this, it is really none of my business or interest, it is just that I found reading the document while waiting for my Covid shot was interesting and enlightening to see how this stuff works behind-the-scenes

The link in the AOPA article is pretty damming if you have the hour to read through it, Bristell and their agents have pulled some major shonkies along the way and CASA are just bringing them back in line. https://aopa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Submission-to-CASA-Edited-for-Distribution_Redacted.pdf I feel the AOPA article just cherry picked what it wanted from the CASA stuff to grind the axe with RA-Aus and CASA From this site i can see at least 15 fatalities in this plane alone tinyurl.com/yjxapmqe not the 3 stated by the manufacturer

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I thought they would be more dignified ways to drain out the oil ?

Yikes, the last landing had the undercarriage retract and the grinding sound is terrible great video however I really enjoyed it

From what I heard there are a lot of things that Paul did that one not in the interests of the Association. All this came out after he resigned some two years later. At least now the RA-Aus seems to be more accountable with less deals done under the table

I read something about Mahepa project with hydrogen fuel cells powering an electric / battery combo. They can cross the Atlantic for about $30 of hydrogen which is made by wind turbines in the early morning when they have lower output needed for houses, etc. You are right though Kyle, we will be long gone before we see it in a sport aircraft

Found the video

Just wondered what happened, anything of note or interest. I notice the email accountment had the time but didn't list the time zone, eg Sydney, Perth etc.