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Yooper Rocketman

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  • Birthday 12/18/1955

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    KIMT, Iron Mountain, MI
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    Built my Lancair IVPT, First flight November 2016. Active pilot with Northwoods Airlifeline, flying mercy flights for 25 years. Built a custom log home, several solar collectors and restored a 1940's wind turbine. Also love 60's muscle cars.
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    N1017L
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    M20K & Lancair IVPT (N994PT)
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  1. Hello Yooper,

    Some of your posts have me believe that you have a lot of experience with TKS. I've been offered a nice MSE with TKS, which I plan to buy for all her other features and quality. When reading up on TKS, I came across two provocative statements:
    1) with TKS you loose about 7-9 knots top speed (or, with TKS, your gas burn goes up)
    2) without a slinger ( she has a hot prop) one cannot trust TKS but in the mildest cases anyway.

    Would you let me know what you think ?
    Thanks !!

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    2. j3gq

      j3gq

      Very much appreciate. Looking at the TKS wings I couldn't make sense of the speed loss claim. Concerning the hot prop I was less sure. So that's why I felt I needed an answer from sb who "knows". Thanks again.

    3. j3gq

      j3gq

      Hello Yopper,

      After looking again at the cav-system FAQ I have one more question. Apparently one needs to run / flush the TKS system once a month, summer and winter. In the past this was done. But now my work schedule is such that once a year I will be away from home and our airfield for about 2-3 months. The Mooney and its TKS will stay put. It wouldn’t be easy to have sb else run the system on the ground in order to comply with the flushing requirement when I am gone.
      Do you have any (bad) experience what happens when the system isn’t flushed according to the monthly schedule ?
       
      When I put the question to cav-systems they say, it has to be done, ... well, it doesn't have to be done, but there may be long-term consequences. They are careful and I understand this.
      Thanks again
    4. Yooper Rocketman

      Yooper Rocketman

      In every plane I've flown with TKS they've periodically sat for that length of time and I've never seen an issue.  

      Tom

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