Mark89114

Where are you guys getting this squawk code info? Is this some additional FF premium feature?

Well mine just started reading on the high side by several hundred degrees....mayne we can combine the 2 and get an average? Sarcasm font. Going to replace with JPI most likely.

I sold my Cessna 152 to Mr. Dean about 2 years ago.....nothing bad to say about the transaction, he was fair and accommodating despite some technical hiccups and weather issues in me delivering the plane. I hope it wasn't my plane.

I live in Richmond as well.....feel free to contact me if you want to grab a beverage or something.

You really probably need a way to get home....always my biggest fear breaking down in some remote location

There was a reference on another article about an explosion or loud bang before the vibration started, which makes sense. Be curious to see what the fan blades look like.

I should have taken a picture.....The Moritz engine clusters are reasonably deep and hide a lot as well. I have an Ovation so don't know how common the plumbing and wiring is back there to a K. I assume the hose ties into some type of manifold but it is a mess of stuff underneath there and the yellow hose just disappears into a mass of wires.

Well spent several hours removing the interior panel, what a PITA.....traced the hose up into the bowels of the instrument panel where it's termination is hidden by lots of wires, cables, instruments, etc.. Any advice on how to to go about getting to to the end?

I hate when you guys post all of this nice interior stuff, and avionics and exterior paint.......Makes my 17 y.o. original stuff look dated.

Maybe a little slower than once per second, it wasn't very fast. But yes they did test the tach sensor and it was "spiking the voltage" and it was replaced. Didn't change anything. I did talk to the tech yesterday and the only thing left is the actual computer which they are unable to test. There is an accelerometer which he is guessing could be generating a noisy signal. Airplane is going in for annual next week, going to have a real hard look at all controls related to pitch before I go on to next step which is bench checking the computer. They didn't have a spare to swap out so didn't get that test option.

My Mooney Ovation with KI-256 and KFC225 autopilot has an issue where it hunts up and down a couple of degrees. It is really annoying. All other functions work, VS, ALT capture, etc. It was varying up about 4 degrees and down not as much, barely perceptible altitude change about 20 feet. I took it to a highly respected autopilot shop, recommended from here and was not impressed with results. They did some work on a pitch trim servo, tested the ADI, tested and blew out static system. They seemed highly confident in each fix, in order I listed but they finally tightened up a spring in the elevator control system and told me it was fixed. I don't believe it is. I fly the plane for long legs, hours at a time and the problem still exists, I think tightening the spring just dampened out the oscillations. More details: The trim doesn't seem to be running during porpoising Same porpoising when left in PIT mode only, not ALT I think it is also porpoising in VS mode but hard to tell I spent $3600 on them testing and replacing parts when the "final solution" was tightening a spring. I do have a call into their expert, but he hasn't called back yet. Is this level of fluctuation just the way it is? I find that hard to believe. I am just trying to educate myself so when I get a return call I can question intelligently. Any feedback appreciated

I would never support doing anything on purpose but if it was accidently hit by a tractor all would be OK.

Well I guess there is room if you are a small 11 y.o. boy with the appropriate flexing muscles that I suspect most of us old fat guys don't have anymore.... Yes he doesn't even sit up front with me anymore.....

Almost like they have the decimal moved on their spreadsheet somehow. That actually makes more sense than the nonsense they are trying to push.

Based on BK recent decisions why would anybody buy one of their products going forward? They obviously don't give a scheisse.

Yes it is a 2000, yellow tube identical. It felt oily on outside and inside identical to what is previously described. Don't know how hard to replace that tube....probably a PITA. I wonder how long a filter would last, aren't most of them designed for dry material. I would think an oil would clog it up. Going to make a call tuesday to Mr. Maxwell.

I just had this problem today.....mechanic didn't believe where oil was coming from....showed this discussion and he was suitably satisfied. We disassembled vacuum pump cleaned up oil and worked good as new.

Over on beechtalk (sorry everybody) the reason stated by someone there who seemed reasonably knowledgeable is that it more had to do with large pulses of energy (they had a fancy word for it, I assumed they meant lightning strikes) and the G5 wasn't tested but the L-3 ESI-500 was. I will try to find the reference. Still doesn't make sense that you can use as a primary with no redunancy. I don't know what pitot-static has to do with G5 attitude references except for it was built that way and their must be a reason garmin went with that logic.

The details are in the fine print....I was in the same boat and the FIKI was a big caveat, don't understand why. The other issue is the G5 is not certified as a backup to the Aspen or G500 which require a backup per their installation requirements. Again don't ask me why. As someone mentioned the progress on this electronic front is going pretty quickly for the aviation world anyway. I am sticking with my KI-256 and associated bits and pieces until the water is a little clearer and hopefully cheaper.

I have wondered about the tensile strength of straps....I use them but they have a load number on them and I bought the largest practical size I could, maybe about 1" wide? I honestly don't think the limit number was that high. Seems to me like a high power storm would leverage across the airplane and break them....kind of like the pictures we see. Buyer beware I guess.

I recently (2 years) bought my plane from a gentleman in Canada. You don't want to purchase the plane in Canada and transfer ownership. My understanding is when it is sold they are required to turn in paperwork (registration, airwortiness(maybe)) right away. Now you have an airplane with no proper paperwork. Then you would have to get it inspected by an FAA IA and then signed off by an FAA DER in Canada, which would only add to your costs. Those inspection costs and DER paperwork still need to be done, but now you have to figure out how to do them in Canada which will only add to your expense. We arranged for the owner to fly it to 'merica where I had a Mooney MSC do a prebuy. If I would have backed out, I was liable for transportation expenses in a general sense. There were some other tricky things which I have since forgotten. It was not a huge ordeal, but as someone mentioned if this is a $20K plane costs would be % higher versus a $200K plane. We did the escrow with some company in OK City to protect both of us. When/If you have the owner fly to America with the plane don't tell CBP it is being sold, just adds another layer of complication. You aren't lying as the airplane technically hasn't been sold, you are just inspecting it for the legal beagles among the group.

I flew out of Juneau in a cherokee 6 for a summer while I was still young (30) and was trying to pursue a flying career. So I have been to those airports Haines and Skagway. Haines is easy, nothing to worry about there. Skagway was a little more challenging, a lot of tailwind takeoff and landings. When departing RWY 02, we called it the "Rock 1 departure" as you would takeoff and turn toward the mountain, till you started getting nervous and made the left turn out southbound. Landing RWY 2 was never an issue but you had to make sure you didn't screw up the landing as go around would require you to fly up the mountain valley to gain altitude. Landing RWY 20 was also a little trickier as you had to be closer than most of our used to flying next to mountains. Would enter in a right downwind, there was a bowl off to the left and turn into that to make the base to final a little less aggressive. It was bumpy a lot. Rumor had it that the interior guys thought us Southeast AK guys were nuts and flying in dangerous conditions and us SE guys thought the interior guys were nuts. To each is own.

Well we shall see..... The technician I spoke with wasn't super up to speed so nothing really to report. Will see after I get my airplane fixed and maybe talk to somebody else.

Steve - I will be the first to admit I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer......but I see KI0256 (attitude indicator) and the HSI on there as well but I don't see the KFC225.....so I don't see how what was officially posted by BK eliminates any "heartache and confusion" if anything it adds to it. BK will allow outside service people to work on only certain parts of your system but not others and I don't know how many other parts like servos, etc are really making my AP go...Makes no sense and as was discussed I doubt if we we will be getting better pricing or better service, I expect the opposite which should be everybody's concern. I am going to derail the service and customer support topic a bit and wonder why they did this? Some Ivy League MBA who doesn't know crap about anything is my guess and the lack of decision logic isn't unique to BK, just look at corporate America. As has been discussed I don't think BK (separate from honeywell) as anything worth a crap, no new products, etc. They are stuck just selling support and trying to maintain some cash flow till they shut the whole thing down is my guess, see previous comments about MBA's. They probably have a huge bureaucracy who doesn't know what they are selling, doesn't know their costs and doesn't know the industry which is the reason they make D*** moves like this. Sinking ship. Best bet would be for some organization to pick up the BK assets, slim down and run a tight ship and make money. Maybe sell licensing rights to repair shops so these guys can continue to support the product and eliminate all of the overhead. Enough of my misinformed possibly wrong soap box.

I am going over to Autopilot Central in Tulsa tomorrow....will see if I can get any more feedback on what they believe or think this D*** move means to us BK AP owners. I will be more politically correct in person.