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Tx_Aggie

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  1. Mine are fairly warped/ rough, can you post a photo of what yours looks like now?
  2. One does sleep a little better when they don’t owe a dime to anyone!
  3. Agreed 1000%, get the right plane first. The hanger will fall into place afterwards. You might check too, the local airports in my neck of the woods won’t lease/rent out unless you have a plane to stick in there. “I’m planning on buying one” isn’t good enough and they’ve booted folks who just use hanger space as glorified junk storage.
  4. Funny how these things happen. My century 41 started to poop out this past year. With century going out of business and the outlook for parts for the next 10+ years only getting worse I decided also to take the hit and replace with Garmin gfc500. I considered the G3x path but just couldn’t get there with the budget. There’s a lot of “while you’re in there” paths you can take! Mines currently at Don Maxwell’s getting the hook up now. Looking forward to the new functionality.
  5. What you’re describing sounds normal to me if I don’t adjust the trim appropriately. It takes a few familiarity takeoffs but I set the trim indicator about one or two lines above “take off” for the takeoff and am usually adjusting it back down once airborne a few hundred feet. I think it’s just an airframe nuance. It also takes a lot of down trim to help with appropriate pressure for attitude control on approaches. Yes it’s different from the Cessna/pipers most of us came from but I’ll take those trade offs for the 25-40 knots faster in cruise speed on the same fuel flow any day! 1980 M20J
  6. Speed brakes help me to be a non-issue with controllers when I’m “in line” with the jet traffic on an approach. I obviously use them when slam dunked also. I don’t see them as a crutch but ‘part of the tool bag’ as others have stated. However if I deploy them on final approach I don’t retract them until after touchdown. I think they smooth out the landing really. folks in other planes are not flying airframes as smooth as ours so there’s really no equal/fair comparison in my opinion. Don’t be ashamed to use them.
  7. And now back to the OP topic. Couldn’t resist. M20J
  8. I second that. Crazy as it sounds, leave or replace the duct tape. It keeps the carbon monoxide out. You’ll be glad you did.
  9. Why go from Bravo to a J, usually it’s the other way around?
  10. How does it reduce the risk of co poisoning?
  11. https://www.ebay.com/itm/155964966987?hash=item24503c884b:g:fm4AAOSwStdleNtH relisted.
  12. I’m in a J and just shelled out a deposit on the dual G5’s and GFC500. Is it expensive? Yes, but I had to ask myself who will likely be around to service my autopilot in the next 5 years? Garmin or Century? I think it’s just the nature of this business unfortunately…. Having said that, an autopilot that has worked on 1980 technology for 40 years is pretty amazing.
  13. I’m going by the guy that posted the data. @bmcconnaha has several threads on the empirical data after his io-390 install. don’t be one of those folks who peddle a bunch of “likely”, “maybe” and “estimation” without facts. Btw our “200 hp” io-360s are actually 193 hp.
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