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    Look what I found.... broken wire at ring terminal...easy repair
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    I will check...thank you...by the way, how much was it?
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    This weekend....with master turned on, and no fuel in line my gage would read above 30 psi....I assume I have a bad sender unit....anyone else have this?
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    I don’t do much better than 400 hours for tires and brakes...practicing short field landing really takes a toll on both....and I will add that I only replaced the pads and not the rotors. Next brake job I’ll do both...and I do this under supervision and assistance of an AI.
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    Just for the record...I flew with the E5 for about 220 hours ....and only once ....did it do a reboot in flight....I was on an initial leg of an instrument approach. When it rebooted, it came up fully useful. recently had mine fully upgraded to the Promax with synthetic vision...an upgrade well worth the added expense.
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    Aspen Promax...over water synthetic vision
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    thank you all for orienting my pic....this is an amazing tool...I just need to take the time to learn everything about it so that it can be of the most benefit for me. Larry
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    A year ago I bought the Aspen E5 and it worked really well, but not unlike many of us, I wanted more....a year later I sent back my E5 and configuration module through West Air avionics and had it upgraded to the new Promax with synthetic vision ....I’ve only had one short flight with the synthetic vision but it looks really good and gives me a lot of info improving my situation awareness.
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    one time when I first got my plane, I went to practice touch-and-gos….winds were about 25 knots right down the runway....once I took off, I got to altitude and I turned crosswind....before I completed by 90 turn to crosswind, I was most of the way downwind of a 5,000 ft runway....I figured that at 1,000' agl, wind was likely 60 knots. I quickly landed and once was enough.
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    very simple...you do what you got to do to make it work! Great job thinking "out of the box"
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    I printed out my wiring diagram at a staples as a 2'x3' print, then I had it laminated....when I trace out wires, I mark the plastic with marksalot with colored dots at each bend and use a straight edge to make sure im not off course...with a little elbow grease you can erase the dots with a paper towel rubbing hard. I am a control system electrician by trade
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    according to my A&P, you can only send something like this to an FAA approved repair station....such as LASAR... you can't just send it to a shop. I do think LASAR carries the motor and I believe it is actually under $500...plus installation. When I looked at my actuator, the motor to me looks like an off the shelf windshield wiper motor!
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    You could email mike busch...he answered my questions
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    Just for what it’s worth...when I ordered a factory rebuilt engine from Lycomming, they delayed shipment to me because the needed a shipment of oil pans/ intake to arrive. That shocked me, as I would have thought they were near bulletproof and would never fail...
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    FYI...I renewed in October by sending them my check (which was cashed) and no new emails since...I have sent them emails..no reply
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    FYI....every time I park at an FBO I explain to them the perils of moving my plane. they are never happy as they are “professionals” and know better...
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    One other point...in some ways it’s an advantage for the factory to be closed...if original parts are available, my AI has insisted that they be used...when original parts are not available, my AI has allowed me to make or modify my own parts (as it makes sense). Factory parts cost about 4 to 5 times what they are worth.
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    Really great pictures...thank you
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    Watch out for a departure stall! You need to be really on your game
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    Please realize that the m20’s are really great three people airplanes...ForeFlight has a phenomenal weight and balance option that lets you do a “what if” calculation...it doesn’t take a lot of planning to be able to do three people without much thinking. Now for four people for an hour flight, you have to plan to have like only 25 gallons total in the plane...and if you happen to have 50 to bad...it takes more than you think to deplane 25 gallons to get weight where you need it.
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    When I learned how to fly my mooney virtually all landing were “power off” and if timing wasn’t just perfect, landing could be more abrupt. With a different instructor while ifr training, he suggested I do ”power on” landings. With just a little use of power all landings grease. The key is to cut power once you touch down or there is too much energy keeping the plane able to fly if bumped. It does add a little to your distance as you have a very slight landing float.
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    All I can say is that if I had it to do over again, I would have sent out my original attitude indicator and had it rebuilt and continue to use it for autopilot stability...even if you add a g5 or an aspen product...it just a costs way to much to interface with legacy analog autopilots. Within a year or two you will have lots of choices of new full function autopilots that more easily can be controlled by digital glass...just my 2 cents larry
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    What about tires and brakes, insurance, and engine fund?
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    I have both...the logic is the E5 is sold as not needing an Ai backup, but you are required to have a turn indicator...under an FAA letter that was issued they talk about suitable replacements for the turn indicator...the G5 fills that definition
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    On your list of expense evaluations that you don’t have on your list is the incremental cost of engine wear. With mine, I did the whole engine thing hoses, starter, alternator, prop rebuild, engine monitor, prop governor, lord mounts and labor and it was just about 50k. With the realistic projected life of 2,000 hours I assess $25 an hour of cost to my flying expense. With the 6 cylinders engine I imagine it’s more like 80k to do the whole thing.
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