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Strangely, I’ve done two flights now since I saw the metal in the filter, and on both run-ups the prop control has been hard to pull back. The prop seems to work fine, and the prop check at runup is normal - the only thing is that it’s harder than usual to pull it back. I’ve had zero problems with the prop. Oil pressure and temperature is normal. I just assumed that the control cable needed lube, but today I remembered you saying that your metal issue turned out to be a prop governor failing, and it got me thinking.

Air Power lists a brand new TSIO-550-G at $117k with a core exchange. Is the crazy overhaul price just because these things are unobtanium? https://www.airpowerinc.com/tsi0550g5bn

Gladstone Auto Trim https://www.gladstoneautotrim.com/

There’s an auto upholstery shop in Kansas City where the owner is an A&P and does high quality aircraft work. It’s not their main business, but definitely worth considering. We had a couple of seats rebuilt and reupholstered there a few years back and they looked great.

I’m not sure what’s happening here, but I’m not going to contribute further to this thread.

Wow, thanks. That’s productive

I’m pretty confused, really. The article clearly talks about enroute/airborne calls to FSS via RCO. Maybe that’s a term that I misunderstand? I’ve only ever seen the term “RCO” used to refer to a remote FSS frequency that’s available on the ground.

Huh, okay. The whole thread seemed to be about people calling FSS in the air. An RCO is just used to get FSS on the ground. If that’s all we’re talking about then I doubt anyone would even notice.

But we’re also talking about all airborne FSS frequencies, right? Not just the RCOs available on the ground?

Before airborne weather was a thing, I used to use Flight Watch regularly. They were a fantastic resource when bouncing around in the soup. But Flight Service has never been critical when airborne - I’ve only had a handful of times when ATC rejected a pop-up clearance and asked me to call FSS. I guess this just means they won’t have that choice

Thank you - you probably already mentioned that in the other thread, but I couldn’t find it. Honestly it’s hard to see how the word “overhaul” is worth $10k here. Sounds like the right decision to me.

@hammdo did your shop give you a quote for an overhaul versus an IRAN? Curious what the difference was in both time and money.

Yep, it’s an intriguing option - but I’d be interested to know what the same shop charges for an IRAN versus an overhaul. It sounds like the only real difference is mandatory replacement parts that would be deemed “serviceable” in an IRAN. If a shop said it’s $10k extra just for the liability associated with the word “overhaul” in the log, I think I’d go elsewhere.

Yes, a field overhaul aiui is done by anyone other than the manufacturer. So an overhaul at a big name shop is still a field overhaul.

Do we have current numbers on field overhauls? Seems like most of the numbers thrown around on here are about factory remans, which tbh have almost no appeal for me after reading Mike Busch’s writings on the subject.