McMooney

man that's something of a scary ad. light top overhaul ? experimental? my understanding you can put an io-360-a1a on that airframe all you want, nothing experimental about it. maybe it's a guy just not wanting to put a lot of work into his posting

It really is that simple, if you have a nice working 340 there are numerous new panels designed to fit the same tray and basic wiring. you literally unscrew it, pull it out the panel, slide new one in place, tighten screw. the newer panels may have features the old panel didn't have and will require additional wiring work. i will say bluetooth and usb are nice, i love being able to call clearance or the wife from the plane, you can also record audio using the bluetooth. usb port is perfect for my efb. You can also sell the 340, may make the replacement hurt less. I went with a pma8000g, awesome panel.

from my experience in birdy, even with approach flaps, i'm down and stopped in less than 1500 feet. If the field is so short where it matters, i'm sure you'd use full flaps and every other resource

hmm, if it evaporates as cleanly as normal gas, i really could use my wings stripped

I tend to just use approach flaps for landings in general, seems easier to get the squeakers

My E will climb fully loaded near max gross weight out of a Sea level airport at approx 700 fpm with flaps fully extended. Not sure the DA but it was pretty hot. Unfortunately, I failed to follow the checklist and left the flaps down, gained real world experience

flying my birdy this weekend, i was going to have my ia see how to get my oil temps up to > 200. damn things were maybe 180 ish this weekend

I was going to get the electro aire switch panel, but now think i just want simple locking toggles. look so much better and take up far less space. I believe somewhere the FAA is pretty much ok, with standard up to spec electrical parts. as for the 337, i wouldn't think it necc but if my IA doesn't charge me a fortune, maybe i'll have him submit it just for recording purposes

sexy ride, i so want a g3x and gfc 500, my list is way to long

now that i think about it, I may be completely wrong but doesn't our alternate static work the same way ?

I don't quite understand why someone would let an open door distract them to the point of crashing, atleast in a mooney. you can't really open it, you aren't gonna fall out, it's just noisy. you should do as you've been taught, fly the plane worry about the door later. if the door flies off and gets stuck in the elevator, aoa will be the last of your worries it's actually happened to me, so i do get it.

just my opinion, but we cannot engineer out every mode of failure? Just ignore the aoa/disable as you did until you can sort the situation. well unless you want that aoa to cost 10x as much and 20x as much to install

question, back in my ol hot rodding days, we'd want the oil in the 200 - 220 is range, why is it different for aircraft ?

service life yes, but capabilities, not really. esp given how most ga use these products direct direct done heck even flying approaches and complext flight plans, they function substantially the same. to be honest, i'm experiencing buyers remorse right now, i replaced my gns480 with a gnc 355a, it's prettier but except for flight plan transfer from the ipad, does nothing the old unit couldn't do. actually the old unit had a few more features( ignoring vor ). also consider the units will only be ran for maybe a thousand hours over 10 years, you could probably get buy with used while watching the new stuff go obsolete

ebay, facebook, beechtalk, you need eyes. personally i'd expect 4500-5500$ that prices is FAR FAR FAR under what it would take to replace with anything close to modern. just looked at ebay and bennet, they seem to be listed openly between 5000 and 8000, i'd list somewhere around 5000$ see what happens like seriously i could by 3 used for the price of an avidyne or 5 used for the price of an installed 650, just nuts

please report on battery life

I do the same, the ram clamp is clamped all the way at the top next to the headliner, out of the way and allowing full gripability of the bar 8)

I"m really hoping to sand / co2 blast birdy, epoxy prime and paint, I don't want those chemicals anywhere near her.

this is absolutely true, birdy would fly 5kts faster when washed and waxed. paints so bad now, wa

Birdy is 2 to 3 kts faster with the cowl closure, i already had shiny new baffles so can only tell you she doesn't seem to get as hot. think she had the extra large version of the guppy mouth

looks like we're gonna need a backup for the backup

mount it to the center bar, above the compass, mine works great in that location.

wow this is gonna suck, garmin or private equity, i'd expect db prices to double

same for mine, not easy to open thte thing when you want, if it comes open after being properly latched, something probably took half the plane with it

I latch the thing and check when getting in the plane, never had an issue.