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  1. I used this guy 6 years ago, don’t know if he’s still around. I felt like he did a very good job, there were no surprises. His communication was good, I got lots of pictures. Macy Maintenance Kevin Macy owner P.O. Box 250 Brownsville, CA 95919 530-774-5363
  2. One with two turbocharged engines called a Cessna T310R National Union Fire/AIG is the company.
  3. Good to know. You might know this, but I’m not sure so just want to run it by. The 430 feeds GPS and nav data to the G500 over arinc but it also has a gi106 indicator that is fed via a separate analog harness from the 430. The STC requires it be done this way. The 440 would still run that properly?
  4. I’ve wondered about that. My 430W is tied into my G500 pretty heavily. Would the avidyne play nice?
  5. Can someone explain what’s going on at the top of the cylinder? It looks like a big chunk corroded off above the intake valve and then it looks like a hole to the 7 o’clock of the exhaust valve. how did they replace the exhaust valve without pulling the cylinder?
  6. If he actually sold an STC to every airplane, I think he’d be a pretty wealthy guy. $2 a horsepower roughly, 150,000 piston engines or so, average 200hp - $60,000,000 ain’t bad. That said, I don’t know that’s his goal. I really think he just wanted to know if he could.
  7. UL94 is essentially just regular avgas without the tetraethyl lead and etheylene dibromide additives From what I understand, GAMI at this point, doesn’t have a way to produce fuel in enough quantity for that kind of thing. My gut says they are trying to shield themselves from liability. GAMI is not a company that could afford to defend a high $ suit. They’re small. Personally, I think Braly is a very smart guy. If he says it will work, it probably will. He’s not a spring chicken. I don’t think he’s put this much time and money in with the plans to be the next Elon Musk. I think he did it just to prove it could be done.
  8. Your concern for a threat that didn’t really exist led to you giving up on your primary duty - AVIATE. Really, that was your only duty. You didn’t have to communicate. You didn’t have to navigate. You never left the pattern. Your primary job is to fly the airplane. You don’t need radios to do that. Look outside. I’m sorry your plane was destroyed, I’m glad you weren’t injured. You reached in with both hands and grabbed a pile out of your luck bucket. Shove that into your “I learned about flying from this” bucket and use it.
  9. A little harder to read as it’s organized differently, but same story…. Aircraft skins are thin. The top of a 757 is .039, thinner than the Mooney!
  10. I’m fortunate enough to know 2 great A&Ps, one of which is an IA. The stories the IA could tell about crap we’ve found on my “professionally” maintained 310 are many. Turns out spending 20-30 grand on an annual every year doesn’t buy as much as you think.
  11. See any similarities between the skin thicknesses between Mooney and RV-14 fuselages? You may note, in a lot of cases, the RV is thicker. One place it isn’t? The “roof”. Because it has a canopy.
  12. True enough. I only have 1300 ish hours. No cpl. just IR and multi. I have about 80 hours in 172s, 20 hours in random singles, 700 or so in mooneys and almost 500 in my 310. my broker said he didn’t think I’d see much of a decrease getting my cpl, so I haven’t really bothered. I’m just surprised to see a decrease at all. My experience really didn’t change much.
  13. You’d be awfully surprised if you ever had to drill out rivets on your Mooney….
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