I would not even know how to operate the washing machine! Actually ours is quite funny. It has settings for various types of stains… and being German it is quite explicit in the way it describes them 
Jude098 wrote:
Peter much more of this sexist talk and us girls are going to be asking for a girls section, lol.
I want to have a say in this matter too, @Jude098 
It is not sexist. It is reality. My wife won’t let me near the washing machine because she claims I ruin her clothes, although I lived on my own and washed my clothes for a few years before I met her and did not wear shrunken, faded or colour stained clothes
That post by Jude is over 3 years old
I will put this to David… sounds like a good idea!
Jude098 wrote:
Peter much more of this sexist talk and us girls are going to be asking for a girls section, lol.
+1.
Peter wrote:
You can also get total blind spots, if the VOR is “behind” the vertical stabiliser. This little adventure shows what can happen, or worse… You could equally get a blind spot on LOC if intercepting from just the wrong angle.
I’m installing a VOR/LOC/GS antenna on the top of the vertical stabilizer of my RV7A. It’s a RAMI AV-525 (the typical V antenna). Would you install with the points forward or backward to have best reception? Most metallic planes have it installed backward but Bonanzas have it forward apparently for better sensitivity. Probably the scientific study on this must date back to the 40’s, so I couldn’t find anything on the web so far, and the antenna manual doesn’t say.
Peter much more of this sexist talk and us girls are going to be asking for a girls section, lol.
Believe it or not, a laundry bought a hangar here at Shoreham!
I took it there, £15, but they washed it hot and it shrunk ~5%. A lesson for next time. Would have never happened to a girl But it was done within hours and came out spotless.
Hi Peter, Where do you get your cover cleaned Robert
Yeah, not a simple issue
I use a Bruce's Custom cover all the time (in the UK, mainly to stop passers-by casing the joint during the rare times it is outside the hangar where I am based) and abroad in hot climates to stop the cockpit getting really hot. But it must never touch the ground otherwise it picks up grit and scratches the windows. If it ever falls down on the ground I have it laundered.
Re condensation, by far the best solution is to keep a 0.5kg bag (or two) of silica gel in the cockpit, and change it weekly. The used bags can be baked at +120C overnight, originally cost only £5, and can be recycled many times. I get them from here; make sure you get cloth bags and not paper bags which cannot be baked. This keeps the cockpit totally fresh as new, after 11 years. I have measured a 10% drop in RH, which totally stops any condensation. I used to get condensation on the instruments, on a cold morning, before I started doing this.
Peter, it got bent by the use of the external covers which the group insist on using in the hangar - FULL external Cambrai covers when in the hangar! It has caused many, many discussions, arguments, disagreements, arguments about the group's rules, the group's voting mechanism etc. etc.
I've sent them all plenty of info about the risk of condensation when being hangared with full covers, I've sent them photos of condensation on the top side of the wings, underneath the wings, the paintwork is being scratched, we need a repaint in the next year or two due to the corrosion over the aircraft. There are a minority who insist that we use them (a) because we bought them (when we were outside) and therefore it would be "silly" not to use them (b) thats what we've always done (c) the damage caused by dust is far more damaging than the damage from corrosion (d) the motives behind a change to lightweight dust sheets are because we (the majority) can't be bothered etc. etc. etc. I won't go into a full rant but I'm getting there - again! I've spoken to Piper who don't recommend them, have a Sqn Ldr friend with a first in Aeronautical Engineering send a detailed explanation of the condensation issue etc. AARGHH!
