65eTurbo

Hello Mooniacs, I'll be heading to Fort Lauderdale for a few nights, staying between FLL and downtown. Where is a reasonable place to land/tie-down/gas? What are landing/parking fees like?

Flown my manual gear E for 20 years. I love the elegant simplicity of the manual gear and hydraulic flaps. It is the only retactable gear approved without a backup. Saves complexity and I think Weight. Replace the download block every few thousand hours and have it rigged by someone who knows what they are doing. Hard to accidentally retract on the ground as well, and really easy to confirm down and locked. Love the F. Nice and light and space and load for 4 people. I wouldn't reject a plane with electric gear but would prefer J bar.

I believe deep.cycle is a question of durability for multiple deep discharges which is not the design requirement for aircraft alternator failure, right? One hopes. If it starts reliably and runs the panel for an hour, I'll give it a shot. My IA has been installing variants of lightweight batteries in jets. Eyewatering costs. As for Lithium, the FAA won't field approve the available batteries because of crash worthiness issues and post impact fire. (We tried). I've seen them for race cars. Astonishingly light.

I think you can shoot an approach if the database update is after the update date for the approach plate.

I've had 4 guys 6 feet or more in comfortably. Range then is the issue. Nice to be able to remove the seat too.

It was ait was a 337 by the previous owner of LASAR. Back seat back is narrowed and moved rearward. Seat bottom winds up longer. Seat back is made removable and flip fold. Also front sear backs are doglegged to move Seat bottoms forward relative to the back to create toe room. I'll try to dig up pictures.

Yep, she flies best at aft CG. just don't spin her.

My IA suggested it and has the field approval lined up. We will mount it to the aft of the battery box. With more work, I could mount to the back of the avionics tray with the CG a foot further aft, if I wanted to maintain CG. It is STC for Cessna 195 and has rave reviews online and word of mouth. My E is a little unique in that it has the back seat relocated rearward. If I want to carry back seat passengers I wind up at the aft CG limit and bags have to be positioned in the back seat. For example, flying 2 kids to camp or Airventue with camping gear. This will let me put a bag behind the seat. For solo flying, I'm going to add an emergency bag tie down in the back corner of the hat rack. Right now it is back floor of the cabin. Will push the CG as far back as I can. I'll report back with results.

The old Gill died. Replacement is the same amperage but 12 lbs lighter. A mounting bracket can be bought with the battery. Anyone else do this?

Since my garmin Gx 60 Can no longer get database updates, I'm looking at installing a garmin 355. I wasn't even aware of different frequency spacing standards but it sounds like Europe has a narrower frequency spacing? Can anybody give me the downlow on us plans for 8.33? From the GX 355 dales data: 25 kHz frequency channel spacing or 8.33 kHz channel spacing

All true. In my case it is easy load aft of the CG envelope. Hard to load ahead of it. 20 pounds out of the tailcone would let me move a 30 pound bag to the back seat and carry an extra 3.2 gallons of fuel in my 90 gallon tanks.

I buy all that. Regarding. Charging, discharging, and thermal management, it is all handled by integrated battery management systems. The relevant question is not whether the battery has those characteristics, but whether the battery and managemenr module has those characteristics. This includes shortened life from accidental compete discharge of the system, or overvoltage of the system. That aside, the failure mode from mechanical damage can be quite spectacular. If we suppose the manufacturer has hardened the unit against wear and tear, then our incremental risk is an accident so severe that it punctures the battery, and I doubt I'd be surviving that anyway. New tech is always a risk. Everyone has their risk tolerance.

True. I hate to do it for that reason but the useful load is pretty nice and I'm already at the very back edge of the envelope. When I fly up to Oshkosh with my 2 boys, I put the gear in the back seat instead of the luggage area. I'm going to run the scenario but I think this will work out just fine. There is some stuff in my current pilot bag that will wind up tied down to the floor in the luggage area instead.