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Yep, InReach uses Iridium and Apple uses Globalstar. Iridium is definitely the better network, but for doing the occasional text message while airborne, it’s better than nothing. Especially for zero dollars I’ll keep the InReach for emergencies though

This is cool, thanks. Sounds like we can use it after iOS 18 is released. I carry a Garmin InReach that works great, and I can text from my phone via Bluetooth - but it’s always inconvenient that it comes from a different number that no one recognizes.

There are J model Mooneys that have sold for well over 200 in the past few years, but 300 is really pushing it. I don’t think there’s anything here that’s more compelling than @Rmag’s 205, and I don’t think he sold his for anywhere close to 300.

Interesting. Nice research … definitely seems like there’s more here than an average tire kicker would want to unpack.

Ah. Then take my post above and replace “state” with “province”

Yeah .. but if you really want a turbonormalized J, the best way to get one is with the Rajay already installed. Anecdotally on MS, people who have these do seem to like them, and maintenance hasn’t been much of a problem.

Yep. You’ll want to check with your state tax authority or a tax professional in the state.

I noticed that it’s a turbonormalized J, which means a Rajay turbo. The Rajays are basically unobtanium, which might be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your point of view… but it’s relatively unique, in any case.

Sometimes an owner will post their plane for sale because they’ve been forced by circumstances…. but they really don’t want to sell. $300k might be the “if someone were crazy enough to offer me this for the plane, I’d sell it today” amount.

The ReaderPlates service actually handled all of that. I paid something like $9.99/month and they would package all of the NOS plates into a single “book” along with a table of contents that was easy to navigate. ReaderPlates no longer exists, and I’m not sure whether anyone has a similar product today. It was insanely helpful compared to the painstaking effort of filing paper approach plates manually on a 28-day cycle. When the iPad came out in 2010, ReaderPlates actually released an EFB for the iPad that had a lot more features, but the basic approach chart functionality was definitely worse on the iPad than the e-reader. And I totally agree that this would be a great backup today, given the long battery life and bulletproof readability of e-ink. It was amazing how well you could read an approach chart with ReaderPlates in direct sunlight. ETA: Found an old P&P article about the ReaderPlates product with some screenshots. You can see how fantastic the resolution and readability is. https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/pilotplates-and-reader-plates/

Never had it happen. I run Garmin Pilot, and the screen is normally switched off unless I’m actively looking at something, but I also keep it in my lap and out of direct sunlight.

Yep, I almost always file via FltPlan, and I use the desktop web app for some preflight planning. One of the nice features about ForeFlight that many other EFBs don’t have is the web app, but fltplan.com does just fine. And since it’s integrated with Garmin Pilot on the iPad, I often do preflight on the desktop via fltplan.com and then just activate the plan on Garmin Pilot.

Before there were iPads and Android tablets, I actually used an app for a few years called Reader Plates that was brilliant. It ran on a Sony e-reader (an e-ink display) and replaced several giant leather binders of paper charts. And since it was e-ink, I could use the charts in direct sunlight and the battery lasted for days. Reader Plates was better for approach plates than any general-purpose EFB.

I really wanted to like WingX, and I kept renewing my free CFI subscription for years, but I always struggled with the interface. I could never seem to find what I was looking for.

I do like Avare, but I ended up using FltPlan Go on Android - it had more features than Avare, and has a desktop web app that’s useful. FltPlan Go has a very dated interface that looks like it hasn’t been significantly updated in many years, but it’s functional. And it’s cross-compatible with Android and iOS. And it’s owned by Garmin, so it’s compatible with Garmin panel mount avionics etc. Anyway, I used FltPlan Go on Android and iOS until I switched to Garmin Pilot. FltPlan Go is a fantastic app for zero dollars.

When I jumped ship from Garmin Pilot on Android to Garmin Pilot on iPad, the software was three major releases behind. Blech.

If I remember correctly, the original ForeFlight Weather app was available on Android before iOS, and they supported Android for the life of the product. When ForeFlight introduced ForeFlight Mobile, there was a lot of discussion about the migration path from ForeFlight Weather to ForeFlight Mobile, and Android users in particular were concerned about the future. ForeFlight sent a lot of reassuring email announcements in the early years after the iPad was introduced, saying that they were hard at work on Android support for the Mobile product, and that ForeFlight Weather would become ForeFlight Mobile for Android at some point. But ForeFlight Weather stayed around only as an Android app until it was finally decommissioned sometime in the mid 2010s. As you said, I'm sure the market just wasn't there for multi-platform support. I started using Garmin Pilot explicitly because I preferred an Android tablet, and I thought GP was the best full-featured EFB out there for Android. But Garmin admitted to me more than once that trying to stay compatible with a huge number of different manufacturers, with different processors, screen resolutions and dimensions was a massive effort, and that the Android product would always lag the iOS product as a result. My last Android tablet before moving to an iPad was a Huawei MediaPad, and it was awesome.

The software limitations are real. If ForeFlight supported Android, you’d see a ton of flyers out there with an Android tablet. ForeFlight was saying for years that they were working on an Android release, and that Android support was “coming soon” .. but they quietly dropped the Android plan somewhere along the way, and the rest was history. I really wanted to be able to use Garmin Pilot on an Android tablet, but I got frustrated at the lack of feature parity, and I had a candid conversation with a Garmin support engineer who basically told me that they would never be releasing the latest features on Android - so I threw in the towel. Putting the GPS and the cellular chip together is annoying, but nothing new for Apple. Don’t get me started on expandable memory via SD card. Charging $200 for about $4 worth of flash memory should be an Apple trademark.

Also … I definitely use an iPad as an EFB, not as a primary reference for anything. The screen is normally turned off unless I’m actively looking at it for something. I never use it for navigation. I do love having telemetry via Garmin EIS to capture flight and engine data in Garmin Pilot. That alone is worth the price of admission for me.

I used a series of Android tablets and really preferred them to the iPad, but I ended up buying an iPad because the software options were better. I was running Garmin Pilot on Android, and it never had feature parity with the iPad version (often months or years behind). WingX I could never get my head around (despite the free version for CFIs) and Avare is awesome but limited. So now I’m using an iPad and holding my nose at the crummy hardware because the software is much better. Running latest Garmin Pilot and pretty happy with it.

I would really feel better with a mobile mechanic who can visit the plane. You can usually find a mechanic at a neighboring field who will drive out for a nominal fee. If you’re going to do this flight, which I would recommend against, keep a very careful eye on the CO detector, and consider one of these:

I wouldn’t fly the plane with 30-50ppm at cruise. I would consider it grounded until someone has fixed something.

Sensationalism Without Facts is more or less the tagline for the Daily Mail

I have my G5 to the right of the G3X on the top, and the analog indicator is directly below the G5 (between the G3X and the GTN).

This is the approach I took. I have Max's #1-4 for primary, and then I kept my original secondary KX-155 with an analog indicator.