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Exactly. I am sometimes overly anal (or anxious?) but I’ve been known to wash my windscreen after a trip before putting on the cover if the airplane is to be left outside. I don’t want the cover rubbing in those bugs!

One thing to watch for, keep it as tight as possible when it’s on. Tight. It looks like good quality, but my bruces has zero wrinkles when on and doesn’t move in the wind at all. You don’t want it slowly rubbing.

I might also suggest pulling the pma7000, cleaning the connections as much as possible on both the unit and rack, then re-racking it.

If you solve it, let us know. My jpi930 fp has been fluctuating for years.

I might just (vfr) pull your pfd circuit breaker and see what you really have. The gi-275 is going to fall back to track vs heading which is just as good or better. You can also turn off your gps and replicate electrical failure. If the internal gps in the -275 is on you still get track. I’m not sure how another gmu improves this?

Additionally, a G5 has an internal gps as well. It can be set up iaw the STC with a small antenna under the glareshield (it also has an internal antenna that my hangar elves found works great). If it’s connected to the panel gps, that’s primary but it can use internal gps in a failure, so it doesn’t lose gps. Does the -275 also have internal gps?

This seems to match me too. I have an inexpensive hangar, but ~20k/year all in is in the hundred hours ballpark.

What HSI are you using? If not an electronic one, then you will have to set each course. Newer digital ones come with gpss and auto slewing.

Well thought out. It’s always important to train for being on the approach with weather at mins, socked in above, and close to your alternate fuel. I try to add in a crying baby or a pax with an ear block. You will feel the pressure of the real world even if it’s just knowing it will be right around mins. It will certainly feel different from approaches where you are clear above and just go through a 1000’ layer on final. It’s easy to do the 150kts yo the faf, slam on the brakes, start down, drop the gear at 500’, half flaps, roll halfway down the runway and taxi to the cafe feeling like chuck yeager, but in the real thing, you’ll want to be consistent and deliberate with whatever your chosen technique is because it will feel different and it’s easy to get behind when you’re doing something different every time.

Yep. I don’t think configuring at the faf is a good idea. I’ve seen people do what you describe and it works fine, but I don’t like adding things at the faf that aren’t necessary. Final configuration done and checked prior, airplane all trimmed and on speed prior. That’s how i do it.

Lasar shows the real ones in stock now. Fit right out of the package. https://lasar.com/interior-hardware/seat-roller-140004-000

Isn’t there a fuse on the battery minder wiring since it’s normally low current anyway? I thought my minder connection had a pretty low amp fuse but possibly im wrong?

Ahh, much better. Thanks!

I would contact jake bevan. They can do some repairs. Also, I think those have an internal fan? @Avionics Source might be the right user name?

Ha! Ill be first, but ill be different too… gear and approach flaps prior to the FAF. Ill use them to help reduce my speed to my fas speed, but my goal is to be trimmed, on speed, and basically just hands off into the FAF, then there’s just the 6 Ts to do as required. Pulling the power allows descent without retrimming if you were already on speed. I don’t like to add a configuration change at the GS intercept as well. Not only the configuration change, but confirming gear down, retrimming, and 6Ts at the FAF is a lot. We taught in the USAF to be configured, trimmed, etc 1-2 nm prior to the faf. In the Mooney i use closer to .5-1.5nm prior.

Just to be clear… Stall with the ball centered, power on or power off, maybe a little roll but controllable with coordinated inputs. Probably a bit more noticeable with power on, highly recommend doing ~60%. They are worth doing, as departure stalls kill. Stall without the ball centered gets much more interesting. Especially with a high power setting. You may quickly find yourself in a very steep bank, very nose low, feels like inverted. By the time you level the wings (and hopefully pulled power), you might be well above maneuvering speed, so pull carefully. Obviously we’re not going to try to spin or anything, but seeing it stall uncoordinated once or twice with an instructor might be worthwhile to convince us that coordination is really important!

http://www.csgnetwork.com/tasgpscalc.html

Couple things… The displayed GS is precise. The displayed TAS is only as good as your CAS, temp, altimeter setting, etc. is your G5 using CAS or IAS? How good is your displayed airspeed? You must do a good 3 way groundspeed test to and enter the GS values in a computer to know for sure. I find that my IAS is about 3kts fast. Now, why are you “always into a headwind”? Well first, it’s actually true that you’ll see more hw component than tw because you always have to turn into the wind to maintain your course (not to be confused with heading). So of the 360 degrees of possible wind angles, more than half result in a headwind. Second, if your IAS is a couple knots fast (as I suspect), you’ll find that the correctly displayed GS vs incorrect TAS will show that you have a HW even if you don’t.

I agree about the temp making a big difference, but i think it’s pretty similar in the summer. Of course it depends on exactly where you are, but summer temps aloft are relatively similar. The winter ones have much more delta. Maybe the turbo guys can get up high and take advantage of cooler temps even in summer? Just to pick an example, here’s Boise, Idaho vs Palm Coast, Florida:

I run this same profile as you in my very similar’68F model a lot, so I think ill get close, but your CG and weight will matter a lot! I commonly do a 4 hour xc with kids, wife, baggage, etc and we take off close to mgw. Over 4 hours, we burn ~36 gallons (220lbs) of fuel and the airplane is noticeably faster (maybe 3 knots). So let’s say I level off at mgw, LOP (for me, at 65%, that’s barely lop, maybe 5-10 degrees past peak). 8.6 ff seems a little low but will depend on temp too. Id see about 139 knots tas. By the end of the flight, I’d see 142. Rop, id see 4 knots faster. Same prop, lasar cowl, 201 windscreen, mid time engine, surefly mag (which did improve lop power). Id bet your E should beat me by ~3 kts just based on its lower mgw.

When did you send it to them originally?

Ahh, my post wasn’t clear, mine was the leads as well. Yeah, that doesn’t feel good after finding it. Scary.

This is related/unrelated, but one annual i had the left side of my engine, all the plugs only finger tight. Mechanic set them there and got distracted as he was going back with a wrench (I believe it doesn’t require much, but apparently a little tighter is important). Anyway, 2 or 3 flights later I started getting lots of radio noise/interference. It sent me down a lot of rabbit holes, but the engine was running great. One of the rabbit holes was to check the harness and we determined that the plugs (all 4 on the left) were barely attached to the harness. Yikes.

FF lets me put it on 3 devices. I have my charts on ipad, but also load them on my phone (and another) as a backup.

Dan, that’s almost my exact same planning trip! My kids are 8 (twins), getting big, and my parents live in Carson City Nevada (525nm). It sounds like an ovation would be perfect. Did you also find yours through a broker? thanks for your time, Drew