McMooney

If my brittain had altitude hold, i wouldn't need a new AP at all, it follows pink and green lines like it's on rails

where is it located ?

My IR instructor suggested i not bother with the flaps, one less thng to do. Tried it, took off in the same distance and except for soft/short fields, i never bother anymore. trim, white block to white block, it's actually the same position for approach, not sure hwo that happened

My 1974 E hangar + annual + insurance + subscriptions ~= $12000 actual maintenance ~= 0 to $5k, she hasn't been horrible for maintenance don't include upgrades as i never know what i'll do and they are really optional, this year i'm about $15k in and will be adding another radio so $20k for this year but usually it's been about $5000ish. next couple years extended range tanks and paint so +$$$$$$$ good thing, after she gets some paint, excluding normal maintenance, she should be good to go for a very long time really surprises me, flying is the cheap part.

anyone have any specs on this part, be nice to start down the opp before i have a failure

interested, the combination of g5s, new radios and all led lighting have cratered birdy's electric needs, even with the miniscule draw of the surefly, without pitot heat, the earthx would last > 1.5 hours Just a guess but the earthx along with some other upgrades, i believe birdy could possibly gain something like 35lbs+ UL. wonder why we can't install 2, would still be half the weight

if specs are equal or greater, i'd go with it, sounds totally reasonable.

my flap extension speed is higher than the gear, so i try to lead with flaps. to be honest, my only hard rule is really no config changes between faf and breakout/map and gumpfs 3x after breakout. prob a bit overkill on the gumpfs.

Little Far but i can't stop recommending HorizonAviation @ KTYS

prior to entering approach WIRES - Weather, Instruments, Radios, airport Environment, Speeds between IAF and FAF flaps to approach, plane prepared, frequencies, etc... CatMissed - Category and timing if necc, brief missed approach FAF Gear down, follow glideslope or dive to target altitude, do nothing else until we land or go missed.

I say M20P

wax her and put something in baggage, slide your seat back during cruise, you'll go 3 to 5kts faster

it's right there in the picture 12.5 gph &)

Here she is 7500 ft, 23/2300, running really rich and a more rearward cg the g5's are in kts. It's usually not worth burning the extra gas, using 3 hour legs, i'd lland like 5 mins sooner also, i'm noticing, i NEVER get a tailwind i

1974 E WITH Top Prop, i get between 140 to 145ktas 8000@ 23in/2300rpm. if i hvae something to give me a more rear-ward cg, she'll approach 150 this is LOP something like 8.9 gph

I'll third this, i was almost immediately comfortable with the 355 coming from the 480 and Garmin Pilot.

getting the credit requires i sign up for another year of jepp, which from what's been posted, isn't horrible

so jepp just says navdata while garmin says : Including Garmin Navigation, Obstacles, SafeTaxi, and Terrain databases. is navdata all i need? yeah i can understand skipping safetaxi, you can actually see it on the unit but i already have a tablet i use . what about obstacle and terrain ?

long story short, due to failure i now have a gnc355 instead of a gns480. what's the diff betwen garmin and jeppessen maps/navdata ? are they the same? does it matter? so i have about half a year with jeppessen left from the 480, which if i signup for the 355 i get money refunded. Garmin seems to have more stuff, for a few bucks more, but do i really need safetaxi on the nav unit ? someone knowledgeable please fill me in. ELI5

man that's a REALLY hard choice, the expert or the experts, hmmm

who's the msc

so i just had my g5s and gnc355 put in, if you are going to pay for the hsi you might as well spend the extra to get the attitude indicator, Most of the work to install the g5 is in the magnetometer, gad 29b/d, canbus and gad13/temp. like seriously, your a&p could install the stand alone attitude indicator in a couple hours. as for the gi275, i chose to go g5 as i'll eventually upgrade to the g3x which was built for the g5 system

will you fly it ifr? if not kln90b + garmin pilot / ff + roll steering = win heck you can probably still fly it ifr only missing lpv approaches I love my bird, but, spending $$$$$ for her to sit in a hangar 99% of the time is really starting to make me feel bad. that being said i made a call just this morning to get more avionics quotes

yes, the 480 did holds, almost exactly like the 355 really. discountinuities ? you just needed to remove those from the flight plan or even ignore them it'd still cycle once you get within range of the leg spent some hangar time with the 355 today, learned how to set volume and change radio frequencies via the knobs, i'm all good now. its pretty simple

we installed the gnc355A model, which includes the ability to use 8.33khz channel spacing for the comm. Eventually, i'm going to take her over the pond so the new channel spacing is required. Now just need long range tanks, autopilot and new paint. as to other differences, i think the only things notable might be, visual approaches, Radius to Fix and some vcalc functionality, none of which i've ever had a use for. might try out visuals, eventually. i'm thinking the 480 was just well ahead of it's time