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  1. Fly Boomer
    I have read about this happening to both 550s and 520s. I would find a Continental expert and have them do a complete "fuel system setup". It's a complicated process, and there is no shortcut.
  2. Fly Boomer
    I have seen cracks laced up with safety wire. Series of holes drilled on each side of crack, and lace it up like your trainers.
  3. Fly Boomer
    C'mon, if they did that, anybody could read them.
  4. Fly Boomer
    Finally! A government that knows what we want.
  5. Fly Boomer
    I have read a large number of reviews saying it doesn't go up or down and/or the little rubber plug that's supposed to keep the hydraulic fluid contained blows out never to be seen again. What was your experience?
  6. Fly Boomer
    This is probably not the black/white answer you are looking for, but if you digest this article from Mike Busch, you will stop worrying: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2023/july/pilot/savvy-maintenance-unbelievable-compression
  7. Fly Boomer
    This has nothing to do with airplane tires, but your comment made me wonder how often prices double in 10 years. Graph shows on various dates since 1977 (x-axis), how many years had passed (y-axis) since CPI doubled. So, as of 8/1/81, prices had doubled in just under 9 years -- big time inflation. Since then, the time to double has steadily risen until COVID. From a longer-term perspective, we have enjoyed decades of declining inflation. https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2024/04/19/the-time-it-took-for-price-to-rise/
  8. Fly Boomer
    I love reading about this kind of troubleshooting -- way easier reading about it than actually having to do it.
  9. Fly Boomer
    Thanks! Nice addition.
  10. Fly Boomer
    Probably not your iPad. There is no telling how many hundreds of other customers are sharing the server we are running on. For that matter, we may get pushed from one server to another. Sometimes load balancing is semi-automatic, sometimes manual, sometimes non-existent. I suspect variability in response time is normal without an upgrade in our hosting contract.
  11. Fly Boomer
    Check this post https://mooneyspace.com/topic/46117-vent-latch-3d-print
  12. Fly Boomer
    Well, a dedicated line to the battery or batteries would be best, but I would have guessed that the wiring to the cigar lighter would be fairly robust. But, I have never paid attention to it before.
  13. Fly Boomer
    If AZ is the top priority, you will have to settle for inexperienced. If quality is the top priority, there are suggestions above.
  14. Fly Boomer
    Financially, no. But if you can devote most of your time to a 10-year project, and would enjoy the challenge, maybe. I guess the alternative is to pay someone a train-load of money to do it for you, and that might get it down to a 5-year project.
  15. Fly Boomer
    Is this how you plan to keep your battery topped off? It would certainly eliminate all the wiring that many install back to the avionics bay.
  16. Fly Boomer
    If you have flown with NVGs you may be able to shed some light (heh) on whether those things suppress strobes (or any super bright light). It occurs to me that the regional jet may have had strobes but, if the helo pilots were using NVGs, they may not have seen the strobes.
  17. Fly Boomer
    Great find!
  18. Fly Boomer
    Excellent idea -- I'm stealing this one.
  19. Fly Boomer
    That's what the "Pilot Isolate" button on the audio panel is for.
  20. Fly Boomer
    Maybe I'm slow. I have been using FF for years and, while I can do almost everything, there are some nuances that surprise me from time to time. But I'm with you on GP -- there is no way I'm going to learn all the intricacies of another UI.
  21. Fly Boomer
    To some extent, it's about numbers. For every quart of aviation oil, there are a million quarts of car oil.
  22. Fly Boomer
    Sounds like GP is pretty easy if you are accustomed to Big G avionics. You don't learn FF if you open it up the first time while you are flying.
  23. Fly Boomer
    Nobody can guarantee the safety of your data -- any data they have is, by definition, not safe.
  24. Fly Boomer
    Brain is pretty remarkable, but can lead you astray. Funny how one part of your brain is screaming "level your wings" but another part can override that instinct and do something more rational.
  25. Fly Boomer
    Not likely to turn out well.
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