AndyRKett said:

I’m working on my ppl at the moment

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Good luck with your PPL. How far have you got?

I gave it up when the cost of the medical got too expensive for the amount I flew.

Do you still use the CRP-1 circular plastic slide rule for navigation? Or has that been overtaken by an electronic version now?
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I’m very early on, working my way through the wealth of books and waiting for the restrictions to be lifted to get back in the air. Basically I started my training at the beginning of this year which was followed by a barrage of hurricanes and then a massive pandemic. So air time has been very limited.

Yep we still use the slide rule and paper maps (I believe airlaw requires you to carry the paper map).

Eventually I’d like a plane, I think no matter what a share is the best place to start it seems and the club has a few shares in various planes up for sale starting at about £2k for a jodel

AndyRKett said:

Yep we still use the slide rule.

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Have you got your own one? I've still got mine if you want it for free.

AndyRKett said:

the club has a few shares in various planes up for sale starting at about £2k for a jodel

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Jodel? .... is check it for woodworm part of the pre flight?
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Davren said:

Have you got your own one? I've still got mine if you want it for free.

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I've got one but thank you for the very kind offer, they are quite expensive, i was fortunate enough to pick up a huge bundle of pooleys stuff from someone who had obviously given up, for about £100 on eBay, which came with knee board, all the books a highlands map the "computer" and other things like rulers and setsquares.

you could probably get £30 or more on eBay for it, its not like they update them.... ever!!

Davren said:

Jodel? .... is check it for woodworm part of the pre flight?
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Exactly thats why they are so cheap and so many people want to move on to other things.

I really have my heart set on a 177 Cardinal.... Just need to convince my wife, one way I am doing this is by pointing out that Paris is only an hour or so away rather than the 7 hrs it takes in the car. I'm also toying with the idea of building my own Vans.

10 years ago..!!

https://www.fiatforum.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=2689

Driving standards..

Theyve had their 10 weeks rest.. but not any better for it


I was cruising at 50 behind a truck.. counting down before a junction A34/M4 Chievely

Black BMW .. no indication.. in outside lane ..piles on brakes swings left.. just misding rear of lorry.. and onto sliproad.. lane 1

200metres out to lane 3.. no indication

Chopped and changed 3 more times..

Did actually indicate joining M4

Driving standards..

Theyve had their 10 weeks rest.. but not any better for it


I was cruising at 50 behind a truck.. counting down before a junction A34/M4 Chievely

Black BMW .. no indication.. in outside lane ..piles on brakes swings left.. just misding rear of lorry.. and onto sliproad.. lane 1

200metres out to lane 3.. no indication

Chopped and changed 3 more times..

Did actually indicate while (poorly) joining M4

Was eating an Ice cream on a stick..
It was raining..

varesecrazy said:

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Was eating an Ice cream on a stick..
It was raining..

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You? or him?:devil:

portland_bill said:

You? or him?:devil:

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Ok.. I'll admit it..

I was raining

I was looking for a Terry Wogan quote about driving but found this -

"Time flies like an arrow – but fruit flies like a banana."

I was on the M4 middle lane this morning and a woman came by using her rear view mirror to put on her makeup. I was so shocked that I dropped my mobile into the hot coffee I was holding between my knees.

To paraphrase the one I was looking for.

Coming back from my weekly shop and theres a god awful racket coming from the front drivers side wheel when turning left and sometimes going straight on which has appeared out of nowhere.

Last time this happened I assumed it was wheel bearing, and it turned out to be a stone had dropped in behind the disc backing plate..shall have to contact local garage and find out tomorrow.

Not using it for work thankfully but need it on the road in case something happens to little un on an evening at the weekend when OH is at work.

Shall see what hoop jumping if any is required to get it sorted, at least local independent is open now and I'm not commuting in it every day.

StevenRB45 said:

Coming back from my weekly shop and theres a god awful racket coming from the front drivers side wheel when turning left and sometimes going straight on which has appeared out of nowhere.

Last time this happened I assumed it was wheel bearing, and it turned out to be a stone had dropped in behind the disc backing plate..shall have to contact local garage and find out tomorrow.

Not using it for work thankfully but need it on the road in case something happens to little un on an evening at the weekend when OH is at work.

Shall see what hoop jumping if a

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Worth 2 mins reversing in an empty carpark..riding the brakes a little

Might just flick a stone out

When the Austin Metro was launched in 1980, we quickly got lots of complaints about screeching from the front wheels. Seems all had driven a local road that had just had the 'tar and grit' treatment. Stones caught between the disc shield and the disc.

Not long after, there was a redesign of the disc shield, and a recall modification to cut some slots in the originals to let the stones out.

Always worth removing a wheel and peering behind the shield.

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Last time this happened I assumed it was wheel bearing, and it turned out to be a stone had dropped in behind the disc backing plate..shall have to contact local garage and find out tomorrow.

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Sometimes just driving in reverse a short distance will eject a stone trapped between a disc a backing plate.
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It did a few slow laps of the street last night no joy, booked in for Friday given it cost 20 quid to sort last time and I'm working full time I don't have a problem with paying local garage to pull it to bits given they had to shut for covid e.t.c.

Other option is it is a wheelbearing this time (car has done 83k and none of them have been changed) and I'm not sorting that in the street.

Had a poke underneath last night CV boot is still intact etc so unlikely to the CV joint making the noise nothing obvious but I've only got a scissor jack and last time I used one of those the car fell off..despite being on flat tarmac, in gear with handbrake on and left me with a dirty great dent in the sill. Still have no bloody clue how it happened, suspect the front wheel on opposite side slid on some gravel. It was the Suzuki and reasonably light so got it back up but don't fancy lifting a Mazda.

After a pile of hassle with Multi ECU Scan (MES) not working on a PC, I eventually got it going to find the OBD port on my non starting car is not powering on.

Good news MES is working. Yay

Bad news still no clue why the car's ECU is getting no power - probably. Boo :yuck:

Well back in the game, I'd run something over and bent a backing plate into the disc.

Certainly wouldn't have been beyond my skills to jack it up and take a hammer to it but it's sorted for 30 quid and I didn't have to lie on my back in the rain so jobs a good un.

Our cat is a wimp, and currently afraid of the cat next door. So we've had to put a litter tray in the front porch and a cat flap through the inner door.
Cat was mid-empty when the post arrived. As post hit the floor behind her, cat exited the tray, and was through the flap, across the lounge and up the stairs faster than the speed of light.
Deposit in tray not covered, so very smelly. One escaped small deposit on the tray edge, and another on the floor. Not a pleasant clean-up operation.
Luckily it appears that all that was necessary had been released before the panic run. A careful inspection of the route revealed no further deposits, so all good really.
She's been wanting a lot of cuddling all day since.

She's supposed to be a ferocious wild animal!

Sounds to me that you made exactly the right call there. "Rescueing" cars which had fallen off their "silly" scissor jacks whilst someone was trying to change a wheel, whilst not an every day task, was certainly something not unknown when I worked in the trade. Luckily never came across an injured customer. However doing anything under, or even partially under, a vehicle supported on one of these "infernal devices" should be a strict no no!

My old Datsun 120Y estate, just like this one, even down to the colour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-x9FONxMg

came with a couple of wheel chocks in it's tool kit. Always thought that was a good idea which other manufacturers should adopt. Unfortunately the old girl fell apart with rust to a quite extreme degree and once it started it seemed to just rage through her to such an extent that i was welding patches into her almost monthly. In the end the front wings rotted so badly I decided to fit new ones but after I'd cut away the old ones I couldn't find any good metal to weld to and realized the inner wings and suspension turrets were about to collapse too! I kept the chocks though and they have lived in the boot of every car I've owned since. By the way, do you like the wheel trims? they were stainless steel and their edges were wickedly sharp. I suffered a number of quite nasty cuts from them - I thought they looked quite nice though? It also had one of the nicest wee 4 cylinder engines I've ever driven behind. Just a simple over head valve with pushrods, but oh so smooth. It ran like the proverbial Swiss Watch. It was the first car I owned which "suffered" from the, now common, practice of "exchange units". The windscreen wiper motor packed in and when I stripped it down the brushes were worn out. The com cleaned up quite nicely with sone glass paper (never use emery on a commutator - it's electrically conducting) and I popped down to the dealer to buy a set of brushes. Sorry sir, not available, exchange motor only listed! and in those days Jap spares were notoroius for being pricey - they sold the cars cheap but charged plenty for parts, although, to be fair, they were much more reliable than your average european offering. In the end I bought some brushes from an auto electrician and rubbed them down on some glass paper 'till they fitted. Now a days exchange units are the norm. Never thought I'd see that back in those days.