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    Eeenteresting. Thanks for that. I guess we'll see what happens.
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    Here's the tablet I use, fwiw: https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16834324028
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    It seems that Apple has essentially discontinued the Mini, with nothing new on the horizon. The Mini 4 came out several years ago, and it's pretty long in the tooth at this point. I've owned many Apple devices, so I won't bad mouth them too much. But it always drove me nuts that you have to buy a "cellular" model for a 40% markup if you want a GPS chip. (Most Android tablets include a GPS chip in their Wifi-only models.)
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    Yep, +1 for Avare as well. It doesn't have the features that the name-brand EFBs have, but for charts and plates, it's fantastic.
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    After spending eleventy zillion AMUs on Garmin products, I always wish they would just throw in a GP subscription.
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    Nope. Foreflight was teasing us Android fans for many years with "coming soon" announcements before quietly dropping the project. FF is iOS only. I use an 8" Huawei Mediapad M5 and have had zero problems. Garmin Pilot, WingX, and FltPlan Go all work great.
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    Since we've gone pretty far afield from the OT, I'll post this just for viewing pleasure. This is effectively the "Red Asphalt" clip for seaplane students... proof that you don't need to forget the gear to have a bad day on water
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    I think the 345 is newer than the 350. I say that only because I bought a 340 a couple years ago and between the time I ordered it and the time it was installed, they had come out with a new one. At the time, I hadn't wanted to spend the money on the 350, so the 340 was the available alternative from Garmin.
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    Sheesh. 3.5 person-years? Is that even possible?
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    For what it's worth, I continued using AV-1 for a decade after it was pulled from the market, and had great luck with it. Switched to Exxon Elite at 2000 hours, and finally overhauled at 2500 hours purely out of paranoia when the engine still had mid-70's compressions on all cylinders. This was in a normally aspirated Lycoming four-banger. I understand that most people having problems were running turbos, including Richard Collins from Flying magazine (who bought his ink by the barrel and had to tear down the engine in his C-210).
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    I find the flight manual coverage maddening: Wing Flaps ........... TAKE OFF POSITION FULL DOWN below 112 KIAS That's the approach checklist. And then under airspeed limitations, for Vfe it says: "Do not exceed this speed with flaps in full down position." Both kinda suggest that it's acceptable to have some flaps out above Vfe. So there's fodder for the perpetual debate. But there's no doubt that "no flaps above Vfe" is the conservative approach.
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    As a long-time Exxon Elite user, it was interesting to me that Ed Kollin was developing Elite as the next big thing in aviation oil before he left to make CamGuard. In my mind, Exxon Elite was always kind of a spiritual sibling to CamGuard. But I was always disappointed at the poor FBO availability of Elite. It was painful to find a quart if you needed one away from home. You can buy Aeroshell 15W50 anywhere.
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    On corrosion prevention, they said: "Phillips XC 20W50 finished well behind Elite and AeroShell, as well it should, for Phillips makes no claims for this oil’s rust-prevention qualities."
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    From 2005: "In our brutal salt-mist test, Exxon Elite and Aeroshell 15W50 were best at stopping rust." (AC had Exxon and Aeroshell tied for the top spot.)
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    Iirc, AC had Exxon Elite as their best oil for corrosion protection in their last review about five years ago, while Aeroshell 15w50 was their top rated in the previous review about ten years ago.
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    Sure, please post. I have no idea what the eyedropper application looks like.
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    One of the selling points of the TruTrak is an estimated 18-hour install for the whole system (vs 40+ for the GFC500). Granted that no one has yet installed either a TruTrak or a GFC500 in a Mooney, is the Trio in the 18-hour ballpark, or the 40-hour ballpark?
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    My 20-year-old paint is in great shape for the most part, but it has started to develop a handful of small chips right on rivet heads. I want to prevent these small chips from growing - what's the best way to do that? I'm afraid that regular old touch-up paint is mostly cosmetic, and won't add much integrity to the surrounding paint (but I'm happy to be told otherwise).
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    (That was the ASRS form the OP mentioned.)
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    I believe the GFC500 shouldn't need the GAD29b. My understanding from this thread was that the original STC required both inputs for the G5, which would not allow the input from the 345.
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    My avionics guy has assured that traffic and weather will display on the 430W with two G5s, a GTX345, and a GFC500. No idea about the S-Tec. Install won't be finished for at least a couple more weeks, but I'll confirm when I see it first-hand.
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    This sounds like a nice problem to have If an avionics shop had gift cards, 30k is probably about the right increment to do some real damage. But seriously, it depends entirely on what your plane needs. If you're totally honest with yourself, what have you deferred to tomorrow that really ought to have been done yesterday? Do that.
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    Well, it means that flying a coupled ILS approach requires GPS. Admittedly, this is reduced AP functionality, but you can still fly the approach. (I'm actually now really curious how one might simulate loss of GPS signal during a practice approach without compromising the equipment.)
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    FWIW, I have a Piper in the shop right now getting a GFC500 installed, and I didn't know about this limitation. I've read the flight manual supplement, but the above section didn't jump out at me. Given that there are increasingly few approaches using ground-based nav sources, and increasingly many approaches using satellite-based sources, it doesn't seem like a deal-killer, but they certainly could make the limitation more obvious.
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    You can say that again
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