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I guess I was thinking first flight of the day, cold, plane sat for two weeks. It starts its fluctuating pretty quickly. Do You just mean that dry bubble in the line that’s always there?

I think as good a guess as any, although mine starts fluctuating within minutes of starting even on really cold days. I’d be surprised if it was hot enough to vaporize.

So I stand corrected, seems you can do it!

I started this, and thought I had mine fixed (unknown why though). It was only about 3 months before fluctuations started again. I’m currently ignoring it until one of us figures out a better fix.

Yeah, tabs (50 gallons) or around 40 is much more flexible. I don’t sweat it on my sealant…

I’m pretty sure you cannot display “adsb in” information from your portable on your ifd, only on your ipad. You need a certified/mounted adsb in to display on the ifd. If you look at the yellow box at the bottom of the slides @midlifeflyer linked, you’ll see that notification.

Nicely done.

Sooo, from the Unibomber back to oxygen… I’m 50yo (ugh), good shape (7 mile race in may), never smoked, live at 2000’, etc. However, my pulse ox dips to the mid 80s pretty easily flying around 9-11000 out west and I feel like crap after long flights at those altitudes. I have a D size O2 bottle and it works, however it’s bulky and tough to get filled easily. I bought an inogen g5 concentrator and tried it out crossing the cascades this weekend. 11,5000’ on the way home next to Mt Rainier, 96 pulse ox. Feel much better this afternoon too. Battery lasts several hours, but I can’t recharge (or run off dc power) in the airplane because it draws 10amps through the cigarette lighter adapter while I only have a 3amp breaker. I think I’d prefer an installed aircraft O2 bottle (and a good way to fill it), but this seems to work ok for those of us without that setup. Only bad thing today was some Cirrus driver asking center if he was going to have to get vectors around me since he had a 20kt overtake and we were going the same way.

I think I’m close with this though, right? Gns430w, gtx 345.

Well this discussion makes it all perfectly clear!

Mt Rainier with St Helens way in the back…

Trying out a new (and expensive) inogen G5 right now. At 8500’, I was 90 without it, ~96 with it on setting 4. The battery is good for a couple hours, but charging it isn’t necessarily easy as the dc adapter draws 10amps at 12v! My cig lighter is only 3amps. Tested the circuit breaker though, it works!

Or a lawyer to help us figure out a way to file some lawsuits against someone for our low pulse ox readings!

I wish they still had trade in for my gma340! I didn’t have the $$ a couple years ago, and now that I do, no more trades… gotta save up more!

Yeah he’s talking about two separate mags. I was just trying to say that the electroair one was the only one currently approved to replace “both” mags - the dual mag.

That’s a real nice setup. Id either do that or have 2 nav/coms. If the primary gps (650) fails, you want either a gps or nav (ils) remaining to get you down. and either way, you want two comm radios.

They do… it’s a rebranded SF.

I thought it was electroair that got theirs approved to replace a dual mag as long as it had a backup battery or second alternator. Maybe SF was working on it and maybe they can do it for experimental but I haven’t heard of an stc for a second one.

@ilovecornfields might chime in differently, but I can see being around or just below 80 and still sort of looking ok and sort of functioning but not great.

Ahhh, that makes sense!

I remember seeing that you did that. Still not sure mine would get up there. You must have been really light.

I think @Yettishould crank up all his avionics with the old battery and see how long it lasts. When things start dropping offline, he can shutdown, pop in his new battery and be on his way. We’d all learn from it!

I’m not saying you guys need 1/1 mx/flt hours on your Bravos, but I think (I don’t have this on me) the Mooney mm for 100hr/annual INSPECTION on my F is like 35ish hours. The Bravo has to be at least that or more. Add in ANY maintenance at annual, 3 oil changes, and mx during the year, you’ll be much higher than 20 hours… unless you don’t do it all or don’t count on the time you spend yourself?

Totally agree. I grew up flying at 14k in a ragged out cessna with my dad. We lived at 7,000’ and I thought nothing of it. Now if i fly above 10k for more than an hour or so, I feel it. I have a portable D cylinder and it is a magical difference on post flight feel (and O2 in flight). I’m going to get an inogen g5 and start using it all the time. It’s lighter and smaller than the bottle and never needs refills.

Both can use ~100% of their capacity, so 30ah vs 12ah in the case of your alternator failing. The LiPo can do that without hurting the battery, whereas it’s not great for our lead batteries to fully discharge all the time. Luckily, they remain fully charged and ready most of their life.