The Australian system is somewhat different. Minimum of 15 hours dual then 5 hours solo. The system works well as the student has far more hands on instruction. Only 5 hours experience after attaining your certification can you do a passenger carrying endorsement. Medical only required for passenger...

We are very close to civilization being 70 km North of the jungle of Sydney. I have the local agent posting me the Magneto coils , hopefully these will arrive on Monday. The flywheel he does not have any stock of so I am going to try the old one which has a little damage to the magnets. Hey Niren, c...

The fitting is the easy part. We have already stripped to find the problem. Around 3/4 hour work. The difficult part is trying to get the spares :!: Our local supplier down under gives delivery as maybe two weeks or maybe two months :twisted: These are the joys of living in a first world country :!:...

Think we may have located someone who can rebuild

Thanks Microwave,
The problem is with the internal coil. A piece of steel broke off the top of one of the coils, damaging the coil and also one magnet

Thanks for the input so far. Has anyone else some other suggestions?? The faulty rev counter is on another Rotax 582 :roll: The coils are the magneto ones with one magnet being slightly damaged on the flywheel. Flywheels are out of stock with agents giving delivery of maybe two weeks or two months!!...

Hi all back home. Well done on the memberlist! shows the value of the group! Has anyone had problems with one of their magnetos failing on a rotax 582? Did you attempt a rewind? What were the hours? Secondly, anybody know how to check out a rev counter? if you put say 6V DC across should it read so ...