ragedracer1977

This is my sole complaint with the STC situation. The more money you are going to sending GAMIs way in the future, via increased fuel burn, the more you pay up front. The STC for my aircraft is $1200. So, I'll pay 4 times the return to GAMI over my lifetime than a guy flying a C model mooney the same number of hours, and I get to pay 4 times as much upfront. Nonsense.

Why would the moss letter change an owner assist? An annual inspection is not maintenance. Go read part 43 appendix D and see if you can find any where maintenance occurs in an annual inspection. If you want to get pedantic, appendix D already prohibits owner assistance. The INSPECTOR has to wash the plane And remove all panels, etc. If you want to get REALLY pedantic, it’s not legal for a woman to be an IA. Each person performing an annual or 100-hour inspection shall, before that inspection, remove or open all necessary inspection plates, access doors, fairing, and cowling. He shall thoroughly clean the aircraft and aircraft engine

I literally just texted 201MKturbo the identical sentiment

Seems to me that wheel had been cracked/cracking for some time and should have been caught

I think you’d have to move it around. The constellation seems to be mostly north north east. At least that’s where it always wants me to point it. So I think you’d want to put in the window that gives the clearest NNE view depending which way you’re flying

I’m sure it would work. I know that face time works perfectly

This one actually seems stronger. It applies the force to mounting points in a different way and being tucked up into the “pocket” where the window is. It’s less attractive as a grab point for passengers

My passengers think the Starlink is the bees knees. My first hasty mount is pictured in the plane below. I made a second one that tucks it up better, but I haven’t taken it to the plane yet. I used thumb screws into floating clip nuts so nothing is permanent and it goes in and out without tools. I have been using a battery (usb-c pd pack) that delivers 100w at 20 volts. But then I discovered that you can run the dish off anything from 12-48 volts. There’s a cigarette lighter jack in the back so I think I’m just going to make an adapter cable to plug into that. 150mbps is pretty standard. A few weekends ago I flew with 5 people to San Diego (about 2 hrs in the air). All 6 of us were logged on. My kids were streaming YouTube, my wife was working, my sister in law even did a Facebook live video from the air. I honestly couldn’t tell the difference between it and my home internet.

I might have it somewhere. I’ll have to dig around the hangar. What issue are you having? It’s a pretty basic system

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

Yes

One with two turbocharged engines called a Cessna T310R National Union Fire/AIG is the company.

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?

A g500 is an MFD/PFD, not an autopilot

I’ve wondered about that. My 430W is tied into my G500 pretty heavily. Would the avidyne play nice?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

You’d be awfully surprised if you ever had to drill out rivets on your Mooney….

Same here. Insurance went down 10%, hull value went up 20%.