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Same. This is awesome. Thank you Sabrina!

I really like using FlySto in combination with the Garmin EIS and automatic data logging to my iPad via Garmin Pilot. I have the data logs from every flight, and can upload any flight to FlySto directly from the iPad. The process is a little convoluted, but not hard, and only takes a few minutes. Having everything logged directly to the iPad avoids any need to pull SD cards out of the panel and fiddle with SD card adapters etc.

Wow, thank you for sharing. Glad to hear you’re okay and the airplane is fixable. I’ll leave the mechanical diagnosis to the experts, but from my perspective it sounds like you handled things very professionally both during and after the event. A dead stick landing on a narrow road after a complete engine failure is not something any of us wants to happen, but this is about as positive an outcome as we can hope for. This reminds me of the recent experience that @AME LLC had:

This feels like a perfect book for a print-on-demand service like KDP https://kdp.amazon.com/

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.