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Sounds good! It would be really awesome to see your aircraft superimposed on the bottom portion of the chart georectified in position and altitude.

I’m somewhere real cold too (-8f this morning). Id plug in the tanis with a blanket the night before as others say. Id also use a space heater in the cabin. Small unit on low. If it has a thermostat, set it around 50-60 and just leave it plugged in as well. If not, turn it on when you go for coffee. The tanis, especially the bottom oil pan unit will heat the whole engine relatively well if left on a long time. Not so for a short duration. The ones with cylinder head heat might work better over a shorter time, but I’m not sure. I really think you’ll be fine with that and a blanket overnight. Personally, I like to see all my engine temps above 40 before starting, but that’s just my opinion. Usually I’m much warmer. FWIW, I just use the above method in my insulated hanger. I don’t have hangar heat.

Did you end up making these?

this one seems to have the best description of them…

Thanks. This thread was old enough that I figured you got yours from lasar. I found another thread with a pretty good description of the dimensions. I’m currently hoping someone comes along who’ll make them as the material, lathe and skills are all (not insurmountable) problems for me right now.

Oh that would be awesome if someone was making them. I bought some “seat recline selectors” from @Sabremech that are great. Seat rollers… youd think ours would be the same as cessna since the rails are apparently the same, but they look different to me.

Sorry to resurrect this, but can someone tell me where to get seat rollers (lasar is out) or a thread on how to explicitly make them… for a non “hands” person.

I think he said most of the 100lbs was in the backseat. If so, cg with 2 adults in the front and 100lbs in the back seat is still pretty far forward. Move the 100lbs to the luggage, it’ll feel much better.

You really will feel a difference by putting some weight in the baggage compartment and using a more middle cg load as well. Congrats on the new airplane!

Yeah it’s just their boilerplate tfr verbiage. They don’t tell you what approval authority atc has to go through to clear you through. Im guessing if you ask to fly through even with a squawk and under atc control, they’ll deny entry.

True, I guess I was just thinking it might change the approval authority atc would need to clear you through.

And then there’s our own ability to go right through there… the tfr would likely prevent that as well. Remember that we can get permission to cross R areas, and in some places it’s pretty easy. I’m not saying that GA airplanes are normally cleared through this one, but I have been cleared through some Nellis areas on the weekend when nobody used them.

Wouldn’t surprise me if that facility (Yucca mtn storage, old nuclear test area, etc) was DOE. They are doing something that needs a tfr and they did it to keep the Air Force out (who usually goes right through there).

What flap setting do you use for takeoff? start rolling with 5lb pull. The loading you mentioned will be in cg but pretty far forward. It is very noticeable. Load center or aft cg and it will be so much better.

Id even consider staying along highway 50 or I80/70 across nevada Utah and Colorado just because its really remote in parts and very cold at night, however I70 is not a great place to cross the front range. If you’re far from civilization and land out in a field or desert, you’ll be there a while.

Id definitely plan to be vmc as your likely to find icing in many of these winter clouds - not all, some are really dry, but I try not to check before someone else. It can definitely be done as your route keeps you far enough south that it’s actually pretty sunny and nice when there’s not a front coming through and they are predicted several day in advance. Winds aloft might be stronger than you find in the summer so be careful around the front range and you might be slow on the way home. I’d definitely call around and see who might have hangar space at least for helping you prepare to leave. If you can’t keep it in the whole stay, do the night before so you can preheat the engine and get all the frost off. Meadowlake and pueblo might be options too.

I’ve only got an io-360 and I’ve got reasonable heat down to -10c air temp. What kind of cool/hot mixing box does yours have? On the vintage models, that’s where people lose a lot of heat - valve not well adjusted to pump hot air. you found one leak at the wemac, likely there’s also cold air coming from the back too. Typically from the hole from baggage compartment into the tailcone. Open the battery compartment panel and look down and left. There’s a hole and a bundle of wires. Maybe some closed cell foam in the hole helps? You can also feel around the bottom of the door or baggage door in flight (backseat pax helps here) to see if your door seals leak.

I have the one with the metal connector, but was still having some issues, and (before I troubleshot it myself), an avionics shop thought the connection might have corroded pins. long story short, they removed both sides of the connector and spliced the wires directly. It works fine but will be harder to replace someday.

The master relay is the relay right next to the battery (in most applications). It’s connected directly to the battery and is a relay/solenoid switched on by the master switch to provide power to the rest of the system (in general, because im no EE). There’s a hot connection on the master relay for things like the clock or baggage light so they don’t require the master on. You can connect your sf either to the battery or the hot side of the master relay, but either way you need to run a wire back there. I have just had the fuse on mine for several years (F model) and it’s been fine. I don’t really think there’s a reason to shut off the power drain away from home because it’s so small, one of our EEs figured it was something measuring months to actually drain your battery. I haven’t had any issues.

Awesome! Easy fix! Had this happen once as well and it took me a lot of googling to finally figure it out.

Good option if you’re interested in major panel surgery with a different size unit and different rack. Yes its more capable. people can also use avidyne 440 slide in replacement or buy used 430s or gnc355 type units which are a little less expensive than the 650s although they require a new rack too. Repair of 430s is a great option if it’s available.

Yep, likelihood of needing the liability is low, so as long as you’re not the person who does need it, then it’s just wasted premiums…

It’s not just pax or taxiing into a bizjet. If you land off field in someone’s soybeans, they’ll want their $$. Soybeans are probably cheap though, right? What if you land in the Walmart parking lot and bend some cars, street lighting and god forbid hurt someone? The point is, there are many scenarios where you’re liable for damages and injuries that are hard to accept/anticipate. Some of them might be really expensive. Insurance is to cover things that would be a financial catastrophe for you. If you want to forgo hull insurance, that might be fine because you know the limits of your loss. Liability? Potential claims could be very much bigger than what you anticipate in your C-140 with no passengers…

I agree statistics and testing are a powerful tool, but I’m just finishing my masters in economics, and the last class I had on econometrics was disheartening. There are so many pitfalls, methods, tests, choices, and grey areas that it seems like two things happen… either the researcher can make the end result say what they like (to a certain extent) or someone with less experience will just muff a very complicated situation and draw the wrong conclusions. Omitted variable bias and selection bias are easy ones to understand and see how they screw up everything. In the end, I feel like it’s the experience and impartiality of the researchers as much as the data they have.

One other thing… Mooneys are very hard to get outside the weight and balance envelope, but 2 adults in the front seat with nothing behind them in the back or baggage is very noticeable. Trim will help a lot, but I can still feel the difference when loaded near the front of the envelope. Put something heavy in the back and it’ll feel different.