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  1. It feels like the MFD would be pretty small to try to see a chart overlay. Does this work well on the G500? Even the GTN isn’t quite enough real estate to do this effectively, though I think there is more room on the GTN than there is in the MFD on the G3X (i.e., half of the total screen real estate).
  2. I’m not 100% sure that I understand the question, but the G3X does allow you to use a sectional chart or an IFR enroute chart as the standard map display instead of the “Garmin” map. It’s just one tick over on the MFD page. I often switch between the two when I want to see the “real” chart.
  3. As @PT20J mentioned, the G3X supports either FliteCharts or Jepp charts (aka ChartView), but they’re on a separate MFD view. I haven’t seen an overlay view. I have seen the overlay view on the GTN, but haven’t really found a use for it. I’d rather have the chart on a dedicated screen and use the map view on the GTN. The MFD chart view on the G3X is georeferenced, and shows your aircraft icon in flight. But it’s not overlaid with the map view.
  4. My IO-360 has <1000 hours, and hopefully has many happy years left, but I would seriously consider a significant cost premium over a Lycoming engine for a DeltaHawk that is relatively future-proof and brings performance and economy gains.
  5. Swap completed this week, just a tiny little config module that goes in with the connector at the back of the G3X. Once I started the plane and my iPad connected to Bluetooth, it automatically recognized the G3X. Problem solved. (Still seems strange to me that Garmin has different config modules for wireless connectivity to iOS and non-iOS devices. But I’m not going to argue with success.)
  6. +1 to this No better time to do it - you won’t feel like you’re abandoning your Mooney
  7. I bought a pack of three D1 boards for about six bucks, but as suspected I don't have a source for the image. I'm not willing to pay $45 for a $2 board on principle, so I'm hoping that someone else has a solution.. Does anyone know if there's a community solution to drive a METARMap (i.e., the commercial product) with an open source script? I really don't want to do this from scratch, so if someone has the LEDs already mapped and can drive it from a Pi, I would 100% rather invest the $45 in a Pi and some elbow grease. Anyone know of a github project that covers this? (Unfortunately, when you search for "metarmap" in github, you get 22 results that all call themselves "metarmap" - but it looks like they're all custom DIY hardware, none of them are using the commercial map afaict.)
  8. Definitely. For the first break-in flight, I orbit the airport at 2500 AGL. Low enough to get good power, but high enough to glide to the runway from just about any point in the circuit.
  9. Yes, you want to avoid low power settings, extended idle and long or steep descents - but if you’re running at or near max power for an hour, my concern would be keeping the cylinders cool, not warm.
  10. What’s the concern about keeping CHT up? When I have done break in flights, the goal is to run continuously at high power, but you want to keep the CHTs down as much as you can. Lots of airflow and lots of mixture. I don’t think high CHT is your friend.
  11. Mine also reads about 5% higher than the POH in most cases. I'm not sure whether this is tunable, but I always treat the POH performance chart as the source of truth.
  12. Late J’s are 28 - mine is 28
  13. You can retrofit a K, M, R, S, or TN with FIKI https://www.cav-systems.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/TKS-Mooney-M20-FIKI-Specification-2019-2.pdf
  14. I still can't quite process the word "available" next to the word "hangar" .. are these doll hangars or something? If 1-30 are teeny tiny hangars, you should get the width measurements. Small T-Hangars can be a little bit uncomfortable with a 36' Mooney wingspan.
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