Microlighters

Greetings SA Brothers,
Our Daughter married a South African Robert Terblanche in Phalaborwa - hot - (And a fine lad he is).  We have a Grandson with SA,English and Irish blood in his veins and he is also a fine young lad and a good example of the union between SA,English and Irish.  Mum and Dad are retiring to Phalaborwa - hot - to be with our family so that must make us SA if only a little bit, ja??  
Now for something of a rather more serious nature.  I am unable to remove from my mind the dreadful accident that our brother Andre and others have suffered recently.  May you all recover soon from your trauma's and live a long prosperous life.  This morning, I received a pm from a Triker about a totally unrelated subject to this and he mentioned in his pm that the recent accidents especially one in particular, has resulted in him losing his nerve but he did add I have to say, that he will fly again.  To admit too losing one's nerve, even more so to a stranger, take's a strength of character that is courageous in it's own way.  This man of fibre, this 'Flyer' with 200 + hours will do what he said, he will fly again, but I would like to see him return to enjoy his most exhilarating pastime as I would - safer.
I have no experience yet of flying a Trike but will soon be taught how by Deon Kraidy at the leading Edge Flight School Hoespruit (Couldn't resits it - Sooooorrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee), however.  It seems to me that once you take off, the only real problem you have to worry about next is coming down again safely.  Training takes care of most incidences but it's the accidents that cause the pain and most of them are on the ground.  We all make mistakes, even the most experienced flyers, as has been recently and sadly highlighted.  What we need to do is find a way of minimising the damage when a mistake is made and the object we need to concentrate on is the PROP, the most dangerous part of the plane, apart from the pilot.
I am not a techno person and if I make an utter fool of myself on this topic then so be it.  If however, I can make something happen that will save lives or avoid destroying them, then I do not mind being made a fool of and you take the @iss because I will laugh with you.When I drive my car, I open the door, climb in and shut the door.  Put gear stick in neutral, hand brake on, depress the clutch and start engine.  Wait a few moments to warm up engine, depress clutch, select gear and drive away.  Why can't we do that with a TRIKE?????
Warm up the engine.  Seat the pax etc etc all without that murderous blade spinning ready to catch the unwary.  Runaway??  Shouldn't happen now but depress the clutch, disengage the prop from the drive instantly.  Going to have an unavoidable bad landing??  Depress the clutch on touching terra firma.  The prop is our nemesis.  There must be a way of controlling it.  Tell me you techno guy's, why is a disengaging clutch on an aircraft engine not possible to do?
Just a thought - Safety first
Alles van die beste   

Sorry Guy's,

All the paragraphs came together for some reason. Make it harder to read K@k

Avdv

Uncle Spud,

this idea already exists on the BMW motors Vliegvark is developing. There is a clutch mechanism that disengages at idle, resulting in the prop standing still. once you rev up, a centrifugal system engages the prop

good thinking, keep it up

By the way, one of the big issues with the 912 motors is the time it takes to warm up. The guy's get bored and thus start and idle their machines without a pilot in the seat. I installed an oil thermostat in my plane and she reaches takeoff temps withing 5 minutes, instead of up to 15

And once again thanx Morph,

My Trike will have an oil thermostat as well. More information from ml.co.za to print out and file.

I love this forum form the microlighters, it's just Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr88888888

Alles van die beste everyone

Uncle Mazambaan, You must come now, you waiting to long get here. Drop the house price. Your pounds will buy you castle in Hot.

Hello Grumpy (Though I am sure you are not)

What does 'mazambaan' mean and how do you pronounce it?

Already dropped the price by R210,000 my friend and spent another R37,500 on the bloody roof. Wow!!!! Just think of the Trike I could have bought for that. Brandy Cocktails at 3000ft and somewhere for the softness, yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss

Coming to South Africa is now an obsession that even Zuma and his intimidating attitude cannot diminish.

Avdb

Mazambaan is the zulu word for a potato, and if you are the minister of health in SA you believe that the African version cures AIDS.

And if we announce that there's an African Mazambaan in the UK, someoness gonna hunt down some of your body parts.

I do like your SA sence of humour, I find it really funny

Wart suggested to me on the post 'Coming to Africa' that I should divulge the origin of 'Uncle Spud Murphy' one day so the time I think is now on a separate post so that everyone can take the #iss without losing the topic

Still would like to know how to pronounce potato in Zulu.

I love you guys one and all

Avdb

Now, Now, boys,

Be nice to Uncle Murphy, he has a lot to learn, so lets wait a while before we pull the *iss out of him.

Kind regards,

Gunter Rostek

Ma - as in mud without the d ( you should be used to saying mud!!!!)
zum - like gum
bun - like chelsea bun
equals = mazambaan = potato

Dont worry mate, my wife is a whingeing pom straight out of mud island. You should have seen her face when I asked her to say Vereeniging

Hi Nkwazi,

I married a girl from Salisbury Rhodesia and when we moved to SA she asked after a week why all the houses were called
Bogards Water.

I was stumped so went out and had a look.

Most properties in the platteland dorpie had a sign saying
BOORGATWATER

For our english speaking friends that means Borehole water.

Kind regards,

Gunter Rostek.

Now we are off the Prop safety topic, I had a problem with roadsigns saying SLAG GAT this place name seemed to be everywhere but not on the map.
My favourite was Vennote. For a long time I figured there was a wealthy family called Vennote who owned just about everything....

Or the American girl at the pharmacists convention in SA: "The South African Pharmaceutical industry is so monopolised - who is this Mr Apteek anyway?"