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I bought the nylon spacers from Aircraft Spruce and heated them up as WilliamR suggested. It took my wife lending a hand and a couple cuss words, but we were able to get the spacers over the head on the buckle. All good now.

I came across this thread on G100UL today and thought I would pass along one conversation I had with a former colleague of mine who is a sealant expert. The chemistry is not my field, but what caught my attention is that, as mentioned previously in this thread, there remains uncertainty about the durability of existing elastomeric materials such as seals, gaskets and, especially, polysulfide fuel tank sealants, once in contact with the higher aromatic chemistry of the G100UL fuel. Until recently, I had focused on the engine performance and reliability and thought little about the fuel system impact outside the cylinders. That has changed - I'm keen to learn more about any long-term durability testing required or performed for the STC route and the FAA's broader fuel certification protocol. I figure my day is coming, but my 1985 M20J has yet to leak or weep fuel. Hoping we can get to unleaded fuel without accelerating other issues.

Guessing they weld everything together with an assembly fixture, so the labor might not be horrible. But I would have thought the pinhole thing would be mitigated with a requirement for a dye penetrant inspection on the welds.

May or may not be a destination stop, but there's a friendly FBO with good brisket burritos at Pecos (KPEQ). We stop there for gas sometimes going between L.A. and Dallas or Austin.

I upgraded my recognition lights to the Whelen LEDs. I don't need the old ones, but I couldn't bring myself to just toss them. Let me know if you are interested. They came out of a 14-Volt J Model.

Easier to get the Whelen LEDs, than a new plastic... but there are some material innovations with good potential for wingtip lenses, and light GA windows, too. Not selling here, just informing... https://www.ppgaerospace.com/Value/Innovation/Opticor-Advanced-Transparency-Material.aspx https://www.ppgaerospace.com/getdoc/7e8aa7d8-98a0-4681-9179-cbb064374c3d/PPG-Transparencies-with-Solaron-Blue-Protection™.aspx The challenge is getting through the list of priorities ahead of light GA, i.e., biz jet demand. OPTICOR is flying on a couple biz jet types, SOLARON is on one.

See OSUAV8TER’s post below. That’s more info than I got from my usual parts and supplies vendor.

I installed the 14-volt 01-0770303-10 LED recognition lights today. The quality out of the box looked great. The fit was fine, more secure with the square 210409-003 retainer ring. My RH light is missing the retainer. Before and after photos below. I haven't seen the new ones after dark yet. Hoping to get a little more forward night visibility out of the deal, but we'll see. Either way. I like these lights and had been wanting them for a long time. I'm glad Whelen finally came through.

Those early radios were hell to install, too….

I occasionally experience very minor pitch oscillation. I noticed it some on a cross-country trip last week while eastbound over the Mojave desert in the morning. I don't know if it was the autopilot of the environment, though it seemed to lessen when I turned northeast. I'm just out of annual and lubricated everything except the yoke control shaft. I have roll and pitch servos, no auto trim (luckily, this week...) or yaw damping. I did disconnect the autopilot and seemed to have less oscillation, so I don't think I was out of trim. (Incidentally, the up/down arrow manual trim indicators are tight enough that if I follow them, when I disconnect, I'm pretty well trimmed.) I guess the upshot is that I get enough oscillaiton to notice, but not enough to think about it too much.

Finally got back to messing around with this. (Would have pursued it sooner, but my avionics installer went out of business, so I've just been living with it.) I think I got the right ratio in the G3X set-up, but as you suggested, I think the ammeter wires are reversed. Does this (chart below) look like the ammeter wires are reversed on the shunt? If so, I gather from other posts that the CB panel has to come out to get access to the shunt.

I spoke with a Whelan rep at the NBAA business aviation show in Orlando this week. The rep confirmed what @OSUAV8TER said above, i.e., hope to ship "by the end of the year." (My order at Aircraft Spruce is now showing a 5 December 2022 expected ship date.) I asked the Whelan rep what their pacing items are. Like everyone else in aerospace these days, they have supply chain challenges. For aircraft lights, he indicated printed circuit boards (PCBs), diodes, resistors, and other electronic components were the challenge for them. One other thing I saw on the Whelan display was some technology that might lead to pulsed strobes. I like my LED strobes, but I was sorry to lose the double pulse of the traditional strobes. (It's solely a personal preference for me - probably goes back my childhood and looking up in the night sky and seeing those strobes and wondering where a plane was going.) There may be an argument to be made that the pulsed strobes offer a safety benefit, too. Anyway, the Whelan rep said the challenge for them is heat management - the pulsing action throws off a lot of heat.

Thanks for the write-up and the lessons learned. Good reminder on the documents and logbook currency. Nice to see the plane on hard dirt amidst the brush unscathed. Hope your co-pilot has a change of heart at some point, but it's understandable.

Bingo. That fixed it. It was the interface via the GTN 750 that threw me. - iPad paired to the G3X via the G3X Bluetooth/Connext interface. - iPad paired to the GTX 345 via the GTN 750 Connext interface. Everything (traffic, weather, AHRS, flight plan changes) is coming through to ForeFlight from the panel now. Feels like a win. Thanks for the help.

Saw this post form last year looking for a solution to a problem I have today. I have a G3X, GTX 345, and GTN 750. I'm running ForeFlight on an iPad, and I was receiving ADS-B traffic on the iPad via Bluetooth (no Flightstream card) with no problem until one day it just quit showing up. While Ownship displays and Flight plans transfer from the panel to ForeFlight, I get no traffic and no Traffic option on the ForeFlight drop-down menu appears in the plane now. My co-pilot is not happy. My iPad is paired with the G3X. I did mess around with the G3X Bluetooth and Connext menus today to no avail. I did not try anything on the GTN. I'll do some more homework and perhaps try Garmin and/or ForeFlight tech support. But if anyone has run into this, I'm happy to hear any tips.