THE MICROLAND THREAD..."Home of the Tailwinds"

[mulderpm]

Thanks, Stef & Dawid for the flight this morning Dodging the clouds was great fun

[Bundy]

Welcome back Mulder.

[Bateleur]

What an amazing flight to Delmas on Sunday! Thanks Paul and David. Cloud surfing all the way! Hoe het die fotos uit gekom David?

[mulderpm]

Welcome back Mulder.

Thanks Al. Needed the fix I had on Sunday. Broken cloud base was 6200 and height was 7100-7500, with wind about 10 knts straight down 03. Awesome flying

On landing I noticed another of my exhaust springs had snapped, I didn't have a single failure in 150 hrs. As a precaution, I replaced all the springs 40 hrs ago and now I am getting failures I should have kept the old ones Going to put some silicone rubber on them to dampen the vibration. The old ones had this on and maybe that is what makes the difference.

[Bugwar]

Removed most of the spiderwebs, inflated the tyres, dusted off the "Red Baron" and did a couple of laps around the airfield on Wednesday to check everything out before flying around the patch on Friday afternoon. I really hope to be around Microland much more this year

[Bundy]

Removed most of the spiderwebs, inflated the tyres, dusted off the "Red Baron" and did a couple of laps around the airfield on Wednesday to check everything out before flying around the patch on Friday afternoon. I really hope to be around Microland much more this year

I'll drink to that chom. Glad the Raptor (en jy!) got some airtime

[afterburn]

Ja dit was 'n GR8 vlug. Jammer Stef ek het 'n kamera met 'n beter Zoom lens nodig.

[afterburn]

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[mulderpm]

Ek sien jou GPS is missing en jou radio se battery is pap.... .....sien niks vout met jou zoooom nie

Dawid, ou tjom, nou dat daai Raptor operational is, gaan ons hopelik meer van jou in die lug sien.

Dankie vir die saam flieg.

Het vanogend Petit toe gevlieg....wow...skoon uit asem Fez, sorry couldn't join you this morning, had an aborted appointment with Jenya, but see you tomorrow morning...

[Bateleur]

Dankie Dawid, die fotos is great! Ek gaan nou begin met my Instrument rating op trikes sodat ek jou kan volg reg deur die wolke! He He. Die wolke maak my bang chom! Dit was 'n great vlug.

[Loco]

Hi Paul.... for your "Technologically disadvantaged" buddy here...I see your route has been downloaded by most of the guys? I do not have mapsource...please post the waypoints here in deg/min/sec?

I will program them into my gps on Sat morning quick...

Dankie.

Hi Alan, I have most of the Northern SA airfields waypoints (482) on my GPS III plus. Includes runway and frequency info. I will bring my laptop on Saturday then we can load them on your GPS if you want them. Your GPSIIIPilot has the Jeppesen database in it, so you should have all the airport, VOR, NDB info available. How accurate/current it is for RSA I wouldn't know. My III plus is for a car, so I have to add all the aviation stuff. You can download MapSource or BaseCamp for free at www8.garmin.com/support/mappingsw.jsp. vfrplanner is also great because it factors in METAR info. It also calculates your fuel burn, distance and TAS. It also exports to MapSource/BaseCamp format, so you can load the route on your GPS'r.

Waypoints- Loskop, S25 25 55.3 E29 23 27.7, Groblersdal airfield, S25 11 12.0 E29 24 22.6, 05-23, grass/tar, 900mx20, 122.4 MHz, call 5 miles out. Alternatives, Moosrivier, S25 02 32.9 E29 21 40.7, 02-20, dirt, 760mx10, 124.8 Mhz, Rooikraal, S25 15 02.5 E29 39 39.1, 13-31, dirt, 480mx10, 122.4 Mhz, Marble Hall, S24 59 15.2 E29 17 02.0, 04-22, tar, 1000mx10, 124.8 Mhz , Private AF S25 01 58.3 E29 13 06.5, 08-26, dirt, 850mx10, 124.8 Mhz. Destination Blue Max S25 01 57.3 E29 08 01.0,05-23, dirt, 430mx10, 124.8 Mhz. On the way back, Rust de Winter Dam, S25 13 54.3 E28 29 25.3. Closest airfield, S25 16 56.9 E28 37 43.2, 05-23, dirt, 1400mx20, 124.8 Mhz. JAG, S25 36 46.5 E28 32 23.7, 10-28, dirt, 1120x20, 124.4 (FAD128 - Pta FTA).

bloody thing came off mid-flight and took a chunk out of my prop

Jaco, glad its only the prop. Is it repairable? Baby trikes, streel en pamperlang, anders kry vir jou.

Hi I see you have "Rooikraal" as S25 15 02.5 E29 39 39.1, 13-31, dirt, 480mx10 but sorry perhaps I'm blind I can't find the runway eish!?

See pic can you please point it out?

Thanks!
Ant

[Loco]

Is this it? And why is it 122.4? (thought it would fall under 124.9)

[Bundy]

Hi Ant,

Not sure if it's related but some Google images are very old and therefore not current.... Even Tribal Croc's runway "does not exist" according to google earth ....having been there though I can vouch that it does.

Better safe than sorry though

[mulderpm]

Hi Anthony, I never intended for the info I used for the Elands trip, and put on this forum, to be used a a reference for all trips in the future. Maybe I should have given a print out to Alan I.s.o. putting it on the forum. The info was based on several books, maps and google earth. If it is incorrect I apologise. Buy the books, software and maps and draw up your own flight plan.

[mulderpm]

I will check my references today and let you know.

Paul