There has been a spate of engine failures on Jab trainers at Rhino Park near Pretoria - attributed to high CHT and EGTs, causing failed valves. This was not one or 2, but rather a cluster of Jabs coming out of the sky in a short period as a result of the fan stopping, all in a couple of months, duri...

I posted on this topic on Avcom fairly recently which may be of interest - here.

Hi All, My flying buddy and I are looking for hanger space on the eastern side of Pta. Aeropark, close to Kittyhawk and Rhino allegedly have new hangars available - I think but don't quote me - about R 1,700 per month. I suspect you could get 2 or 3 trikes in one. Also home of Accolade Flight schoo...

Boet, as you probably have surmised having spoken to me on the phone. As a hard-core Rooinek, I don't read 'code' too well .....Regardless, well tasty Bushbaby though!

Absolutely great stuff George, I confess, when I grow up, I want an RV!

Yeah, I was going through the members list, and there are folk out there who joined in 2005 who have not submitted one post....... ? I can understand that maybe about 40 % of members would prefer to just sit back and read, but 80%? This is well within spec of on-line forums, I started a couple myse...

Sorry Gunter, If you're a 'coffee moffie', or a 'fairy', no offense intended, just a light jibe, relax....I have no beef (or chicken for that matter) either way.

emil wrote:we also do fairy flights...

Do you mean you ferry fairies - perhaps hairdressers or 'coffee moffies' OR, that you have fairies, as in the usual, all too common, everyday, bottom of the garden/ top of the Christmas tree variety, operating from Rhino?

my thinking is that it is far more dangerous on the road than in a aircraft. To prove me right or wrong I need some stats. The amount of microlight aircraft registered (trikes) in SA and amount of fatal accidents per year and compair that to amount of motorcycles registered in SA agains fatal accid...

Charming Griffin. Thanks for that view, I love you too.

I firmly believe in polariods for all applications. Id second that, big time. Also suggest one goes for the brown lenses, not the green ones, blue, black or seriously bling - silver. The light brown lenses give better colour balance and also improve contrast, quite drastically. You'll want to wear ...

Great post, but you don't do the decent thing and tell us where you are in clear! The only geographic hint in the post was 'La Mercy Flight Park', and being 'at the coast' which candidly means squat to me. Perhaps you're presuming readers of the post know stuff that some of us may not necessarily kn...

Interesting...

To resurrect this old chestnut and the controversy surrounding it. I see stats for the Jab Vs Rotax engines on the Sky Ranger - pretty close to the Cheetah. http://www.electrodynamics.biz/skyranger/performance.jpg It souds like a viable choice given the fact that the 2200 Jab sounds better, due to l...

Duck Rogers wrote: The software can do LOADS of stuff that Garmin can't do.

Can you be just a tad more specific; that is to say detail specific functionality, by way of bullet points, or in the mode of your choice, that this software can do, that Garmin's can't?