Jabiru Twin redefining Ugly
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as i have said before, the last aircraft you want to fly over tiger country with is a Jabiru, If you have an engine failure over tiger country, the best aircraft to be in would be a jabiru.
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"ulltralight"...with respect, that's a load of rubbish. ( the last aircraft you want to fly over...bla bla bla )
I've accumulated over 500 trouble free hrs zig zaging ALL OVER this country, serious tiger country EVERYWHERE. Apart from GA, the only other aircrafts i bump into are......yea, you guessed it.......jabs.
Serviced right, treated right, they are damn great. Excellent cruisers, good room, comfy, well mannered, great endurance, after sales great, cheap to maintain.
Yes......a few had issues, but the other 99% no problems at all. The ones that did BTW, were in the main "trainers"....getting flogged hr after hr.
I've accumulated over 500 trouble free hrs zig zaging ALL OVER this country, serious tiger country EVERYWHERE. Apart from GA, the only other aircrafts i bump into are......yea, you guessed it.......jabs.
Serviced right, treated right, they are damn great. Excellent cruisers, good room, comfy, well mannered, great endurance, after sales great, cheap to maintain.
Yes......a few had issues, but the other 99% no problems at all. The ones that did BTW, were in the main "trainers"....getting flogged hr after hr.
Yes......a few had issues, but the other 99% no problems at all.
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I won't prolong this discussion ( easy too btw ) .....it was revealed in the "breakdown / analasys " of the engine faults .....that running out of fuel was deemed "an engine malfunction"........now get your head around that. ( no more fuel to burn.......engine defect )
There were other CRAZY reasons that were labelled engine faults, it beggers belief that casa got away with pure rubbish on this jabiru engine matter.
I'm not denying there were some serious design flaws, that factory were addressing ( through bolts, dropping valves, flywheel bolts, to name the 3 main probs ) These flaws have been addressed, and feed back is now good.
Repeating......my 500+ hrs in a jab, have been trouble free.
There were other CRAZY reasons that were labelled engine faults, it beggers belief that casa got away with pure rubbish on this jabiru engine matter.
I'm not denying there were some serious design flaws, that factory were addressing ( through bolts, dropping valves, flywheel bolts, to name the 3 main probs ) These flaws have been addressed, and feed back is now good.
Repeating......my 500+ hrs in a jab, have been trouble free.
Further on the twin, I wonder what the stall is like - just looking at it, I would think that once a rate of descent built up it would want to pitch up with all that surface area ahead of the wing, and maybe be a bit hard to get the nose back down? Could be totally wrong of course!
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Weight and balance pretty much the same as single 6 cylinder. Pretty hard to stuff up w&b and benign stall
In RSA they rin 750 kg MTOW, so pretty useful aircraft as a twin
How has Jabiru solved valve seizure and guide problems?
Who says other problems solved?
A whole lot of Jabiru problems for owners dont relate to engine failure but early overhaul or repairs found in maintenance.
Casa action was designed to make Jabiru wake up, only hurt existing owners, Jabiru now have regulator imposed restrictions on everyone (inc experimental) who doesnt implement their major upgrades or replacements
In RSA they rin 750 kg MTOW, so pretty useful aircraft as a twin
How has Jabiru solved valve seizure and guide problems?
Who says other problems solved?
A whole lot of Jabiru problems for owners dont relate to engine failure but early overhaul or repairs found in maintenance.
Casa action was designed to make Jabiru wake up, only hurt existing owners, Jabiru now have regulator imposed restrictions on everyone (inc experimental) who doesnt implement their major upgrades or replacements
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Never been a fan of the Jabi's no matter what design, gotta say though this thing looks like a Dorneir D28 ate a pallet of marshmallows and gave birth to the Fisher Price version of itself!! And agree with video comments, very rugged around the edges for so-called "test pilots"....of sorts! I dunno much about their engines in particular but to me they just sound like they want to quit, or maybe it's all the rattles and plastic gadgets trembling on the airframe. Definitely not the twin for this black duck!
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It looks like the little Cri Cri twin and all the early Jab engine problems makes it sounds like a Lycoming 360 it has most of these problems except they don't fix the design faults just blame the pilot for bad operation, so at least Jab are fixing them on their engines.
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I'm surprised how much aileron control movement was used during climb-out, with so little response from the aircraft.
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Jab engine reliabilty
No, the reliability of 3rd gen engines, and 2nd gen upgraded to 3rd gen specs, is very very good. These engines have accumulated a huge number of hours, enough to give very high statistical probabilities, and it is really looking better than Rotax.
There was a good article by Rick Frith and a second article by another author in the same online issue of RAA magazine, I think it was around May 2016 (dont hold me to that ) that sets it all out. Give that a read.
There was a good article by Rick Frith and a second article by another author in the same online issue of RAA magazine, I think it was around May 2016 (dont hold me to that ) that sets it all out. Give that a read.
You can hide anything with a splash of colour :-)
Not quite...
There's one in Sth Africa and Jamie has one he owns personally at Bundy.
There's one in Sth Africa and Jamie has one he owns personally at Bundy.
