Thanks, Duck.

What kind of oil is the right one for:

1. the valves on a rotax 582
2. the gearbox on a 582

I have damaged one blade on my brolga 4 blade, carbon fibre propellor on my trike. I think a stone was sucked into it and smashed a leading edge over 5 centimetres. What is the correct way to replace a blade? Do you need to swing it, balance it or do anything like that? Or is it enough to screw in t...

why can gyros fly in such strong conditions?

why is unleaded petrol unavailable for you?

just an ordinary night out in Oz. and a quiet one, by the sound of it.

from what I can gather, the older designed machines were prone to flip forward and this has been overcome by design improvements in modern machines. In addition, I understand that any gyro will plummet like a stone if you put it into negative G - in the same way as a trike will tumble if you do the ...

I was listening to an American podcast the other day, Ultraflight Radio it's called. A guy on it was talking about how he turns his engine off and rides the thermals for 2 or 3 hours. He is an instructor and maker of trikes and uses a very light machine. Down here, we tend to talk about not going up...

Yes, as part of training, and during my solo "under supervision" I landed many times in ploughed paddocks around Dalby, my training area, which is surrounded for miles by flat agricultural land. The whole point of a trike, for me at least, is the fearlessness with which one can contemplate landing a...

I think I won't feel confident with passengers for a while. And being up there in solitude is one of the best feelings, alone with clouds, air, horizons

never been too good at sums

Sorry, typo. 120 nm. two 45nm legs, two 25nm legs, land at two airstrips.

Just did my cross country: 12 nm, over four airstrips, landing at two on the way. Boy, are they hard to find from the air! And roads!!?? Guess what! Not all of them are on the chart! Yeah, I knew that, but not that there are so many. It's a great feeling to be alone on a trip. The Ipod is a great fl...

Where did Olivier get that cool helmet which he wore in South to South?

Good morning. Well, not so good a morning :oops: after the Wallabies loss last night. Anyway, we hold no grudges. Those last minute field goals are hell on my nerves. Here is a check list I have worked out using the Airborne manual (I fly an Airborne Outback trike), the Rotax 582 manual, and some co...