DualRatedFlyer

@Kmac Congrats on your purchase! Looking at your pictures, I believe my airplane was sitting in the same exact spot when I went to pick her up ~6 months ago. Our trips also looks similar., except I went west of the mountain range. My father in law was supposed to fly with me, but with the hurricane bearing down on Texas I had to leave that night instead of waiting the next morning. I would have preferred to stop halfway through, but they were closing down the airspace at my home airport for the next 2 days for an airshow. Flying through the night on my first flight after doing an all day prebuy in the Texas heat was not enjoyable. Where are you based at in PA? Im out at LNS

sob.... facebook knows!! you've put this entire site in jeopardy now!

How did you find this?

Literally just watched this today. Awesome airplane!!

Just upgraded my 430W to a 440 about 3 weeks ago. The 540 is indeed much nicer in terms of screen realestate, however the smart thing to do is to buy the 440 and take advantage of using an ipad as a secondary screen thus saving big $$ on purchase and installation costs. Now I do all of my flight planning, freq swaps, etc from the ipad which has a much much larger screen -- and it displays both the comm and nav freqs together. I watched all "Baron Pilot"s" videos on youtube and followed along on the simulator. He has some great content and made it easy to jump right into the 440. I have exclusively used garmin products in the past (G1000, 430, 530, etc)- and that is what I have been familiar with. The luring curve for the IFD440 took about 2 weeks of on and off simulator use in my free time and now I have the layout memorized and it is very user friendly. Much easier and quicker to find what you are looking for on the 440 than in the 430 for new users. My favorite feature of the 440 thus far has been the knobs (crazy right?). Funny enough at the Mooney fly-in last week I was having a hard time adjusting freqs using the touchscreen because the turbulence was so bad. I reached up and grabbed a knob and simply twisted. I didnt have to worry about poking all kinds of buttons on the touchscreen while bumping up and down.

That did it. Thanks

@bradp I think your upload failed to stick (at least it looks that way on my mobile). Any chance you can upload again? Would be interested in having a read.

New Mooney owner here. Excited to come and meet the crowd.

A good rule of thumb is that if there are that many people watching --go land somewhere else

Out of curiosity, what's the best way for the owner of that Mooney to get the aircraft up off the ground and supported by it's own gear without causing additional damage. Have read a few stores of people using cranes and what not that resulted in a wrinkeled fuselage and more damage.

Do you need a handle? What if it was just a much wider cam piece? It has enough sides (4) so that you could grip it and turn by hand hand. In the future if the cam wore down you could flip it to the other side and continue to use it.

Wow @LANCECASPER great find!! I may reach out to him and see if it could be modified to fit at the base of the throttle quadrant instead of the top.

@Cruiser @LANCECASPER Wanted to say thanks to you guys for all your input and helpful information. I had my IFD440 installed last Friday and cant wait to take her up and try it out now that these crazy NE winds have subsided. Thanks again! p.s.- anyone found a good place to mount their keyboard?

Would love to have something like this on long flights. Would also make access to the manual trim wheel and speed brakes easy.

The crank handles and threaded rods are part of the new seats and are not kit parts that can be installed on the old seats, correct?

Thanks David -- let me know what a set of these cost and the potential lead time. Anyone else have off the shelf solutions?

Do you have drawings or plans for this? I may be able to see if the machinist at work could help make me a set.

Curious if anyone has replaced their seat cam reclining mechanism. I have had mine pop back into the reclined position a few times, and after removing my seat this week, the most upright position appears to be really chewed up and rounded. One side looks to be worse than the other, and I believe this is causing an uncomfortable lean to the right. I couldn't find any solid leads searching through the forum. Does anyone have a replacement part or fix that they recommend?

I have replayed the video like 5 times and swear he is pulling (clockwise) the first time to make it tighter. After the WD40 he pushes (counterclockwise) to loosen it.

@jetdriven Purchasing before demonstrated/released compatibility is a dangerous leap of faith. Hate to hear he took a loss -- I am sure thats money he could of spent on other upgrades.

@LANCECASPER -- Ouch, that seems really rude. I have limited knowledge on STCs and have come to this forum to ask honest questions to gain a better understanding. I was given conflicting information and hoped the experts on here could help take me through it and "show me the light" with their opinions and supporting documentation. After I was presented additional supporting information by you and others, I took several days to better educate myself about it before coming back to ask additional questions. Questions that I am trying to be thorough with to prevent myself from making a several thousand dollar mistake -- I have seen others make those types of mistakes a time or two on this website. Thank you for offering your help in the previous posts. I can tell you are very knowledgeable on the subject. I wasnt convinced that someone trying to offload a product could be trusted. I wasnt convinced that a random avionics shop could be trusted I wasnt convinced that a stranger online could be trusted I wasnt convinced that a installation manual was the governing authority I hoped by doing additional research I could better understand the complexity of the subject, learn a thing or two, and make a final choice with confidence that I had considered all the variables. I plan on taking cruisers last post and looking up his citations to better educate myself. Should I still not understand something, I may post another question or two on this thread. I would value any feedback you may have.

@Cruiser Thank you for the way you wrote this. Going through the steps like you have above really helps me wrap my mind around this. I appreciate you continuing to post on this thread.

Posting this here from the Avidyne community forum. The author is the VP of product development. The middle two paragraphs would appear to bring into question the legality of the 345/440 combination until an official STC is released. I see that 10.2 has been released, but I have not seen an STC that specifically calls out this combination. http://forums.avidyne.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1127&title=adsb-compatability The IFD family of boxes will output ADS-B compliant GPS position for various ADS-B Out transponders to use. Those transponders can use that GPS output just fine and be donating their position into the ADS-B network and look and feel like full-up ADS-B participants including being able to receive ADS-B data from other network participants (presuming a piece of equipment capable of receiving that ADS-B data is on the airplane).The "to be legal" part is where I would say he isn't completely correct. The FAA mandate (the "legal" thing here) requires an FAA recognition of compatible compliance by Dec 31, 2019. That typically is delivered via an STC vehicle (but it doesn't have to be). So, between now and Dec 31, 2019, you can basically do whatever you want and not be "illegal".That nuanced set of statements is important operationally. You are a full-up ADS-B participant with an IFD and an ADS-B Out transponder combo, now. You just need to make sure, presuming the FAA doesn't change their rules between now and then, that by Dec 31 2019, you have a combination of GPS position source (e.g. IFD540, IFD440, etc) and ADS-B Out transponder that is a FAA-recognized acceptable pair. As of Release 10.2, that will include:IFD4XX/5XX - AXP322IFD4XX/5XX - AXP340IFD4XX/5XX - GTX330ESIFD4XX/5XX - GTX345Avidyne is the one obtaining the STC that supports those combos. I would agree with Mike that other vendors are understandably reluctant to seek more STCs that include Avidyne navigators and/or transponders. They do this for reasons that make business sense to them.There are other combos that involve Avidyne supplied navigators like R9 and other combos that involve Garmin supplied navigators and Avidyne supplied transponders but I will leave those out of this IFD-centric post.An important note is that some installers inappropriately take a position that until there is a STC that shows the navigator-transponder combo is FAA recognized as 2020 mandate ADS-B Out compliant, then it is not a legal installation. They are wrong, plain and simple. But, sometimes, you are just pushing on a rope in spite of actual facts and so the mis-perceptions propagate.A lot of that will be moot as soon as the STCs are in place in the very near future.

You hit the nail on the head. Believe some users benefit from additional weather that is available on the XM via ADSB, and the music is a plus for those who like to stretch their aircraft's legs, but the pricing structure is a little rich for me.

Thinking about selling my GDL-69A as part of a system upgrade. The installer has given me a lowball trade-in value, so I thought I would check on MS first to see if anyone was interested in making me an offer. Thanks,