spectre6573

Sorry to leave you hanging. It has been in my Mooney since 2018.

I am downsizing my ifd540 to something smaller because of panel space and the fact I will have two Dynon hdx screens. Will come with tray, backplate, connectors, keyboard(unused), and ifd. Sold!

So this might be really late however I did this to myself and after looking at other friends Mooney's on the field determined what dumb dumb move I did during reinstall. I had the same issue when I put my gear doors back on and they are not over lapping doors and were trying to. I see from your video that the hinge hardware is outside the doors, and in all reality, the hinge is supposed to be covered by the NLG doors when closed. This means that you can not see the screws holding the hinge on because the door closes over them. From your video, it seams your doors are overlapping a lot and this is what mine did with no rigging change until I properly installed them like I mentioned.

That one is for the later mooneys 1970’s. The carb heat it not the same and won’t work with your airplane.

I’ll put my name in for a set.

I’m down at Glendale with a 75C

Out here in the southwest, I usually always see a 7-15knot headwind. With that, I usually see 17-18mpg from 10-12k and then from 12-14.5 I can see 20. Of course tailwinds are great and I have seen 22mpg

I do see that kinda fuel savings. I do a lot of cross country for work and have around 175 hours on my SF. I always run best economy when I fly above 9000 feet and see fuel burn at 7.8 at 9 and down to 6.9 at 14500. The fuel savings is very clear when I am able to pull my prop back to 2300-2400 rpms at the higher altitudes vs having to run it at 2500-2600 rpm due to the advanced timing.

Sounds good, just remember that the long timers at the airport might know more about the airplane and it’s history than you might know. Don’t hesitate to call or waste time because the retirees love to be part of anything airplane and many are there already day to day.

There are a few of us at KGEU that are Mooney guys. If you are serious and need help, we might be able to round up the troops to take a gander at the plane.

I work at kmcc and will Be there next week. If you want to come over and look, feel free let me know in PM.

For me, it came down to the fact it became a primary means of transportation to work. It’s not uncommon to put 25-30 hours on the old girl in a month. I wanted to remove any items from failing on me while in the worst situation and plane to keep the airplane for a very long time. So if you are planning on doing a lot of fly, think of it as your doing the upgrades for yourself and your own flying desires and not for resale. I thoroughly enjoy my flights and have all the resources for enroute planning. In regards to iPad’s, I live in the southwest and have had my iPads shut down many times from heat during flight. Sometimes taking 20-30 minutes to come back. In regards as using them as a big part of your situational awareness, I have found them unreliable for my needs and wanted to get away from the yoke mount. That brings up the next ticket. Not having an iPad on the yoke is such a better feeling. I have about 400 hours with an yoke mounted iPad in my Mooney and with my Dynon there is no need anymore.

I had the same issue with my IFD540 after a period of time. Prior to my HDX upgrade and removing my old Narco, I found that If I only had 1 device connected the the IFD and did not have any apps open on the iPad but either FF or IFD100, it stayed steady for a lot longer. After my HDX install, I got about 20 hours in march with their trig radio and the Narco removed, I did not notice any drop outs like before. I feel your pain, nothing like losing your GPS and ADSB source midflight and not being able to get it back. I did start carrying a Stratus back then but now am not nearly as worried about it with my new setup since I have 2 ADSB in's now.

This is for anybody that comes across a used system for a very good price that was removed nicely and is complete and wants to install it in their airplane. Not a change parts out as needed for repair.

Just if anybody is wondering. An stec stc transfer for a used system is $8000 as of today. You must buy the hardware kit and wiring kit from them for the install. Thats all.

Just Monday I popped up to 15500 for some weather. I saw 17-18 mp up there. I had my prop at 2600 rpm. I didn’t stay up there long because of the winds and up and down drafts.

Will this work with a C model?

I would like this.

Thank you for this.

I appreciate your point of view on this but this is rather shallow when it comes to individuals owners. Sure if you had the money to buy a 100K+ airplane to start off with great, but others didnt. For some that cant afford to do a "Master suite" install at one time or frankly, the newer items were not available or options in the past and then become available, will have these kind of issues. That includes just upgrading a GPS or a required adsb transponder, people are looking for the cheapest options just to keep flying or its all they can afford. Just because one vendor has all the bits to make it one system doesnt mean other vendors dont work together well. Having done all the installs on all my multi name avionics myself, they all talk and work well together with no issues and I sleep well at night. Also, I know exactly how its wired and am familiar with any expansion I would do in the future because following wiring diagrams and such is relatively straight forward. The question I asked was a curiosity question and of course its very apparent that going with one name would make things easier but not for the price that comes with the labor, sorry. The challenge is making the next choice so that the PC system can be removed and I can put a modern AP in when the time comes. So if that is Dynon, great!. But since many of us might not have the access to individuals with certain installs, it is nice to be able to ask "around" about what others have experienced or heard.

Gents, I am looking for glare-shield replacement. Mine has been repaired and gotten bigger over the years and I keep seeing these skinny glare-shields on the newer birds and am looking to possible fit one. Anybody gone down this path?

Thanks for the info.

Thank you both for clarifying

Exactly! Totally understand the legality of it. Was more of a fishing question because the g3x experimental does work with the ifd540 per Avidyne. But the hopes is that they will had the certified in the future. I will say I like the operation of my ifd540 much better than 750’s I have flown behind. That’s why I echo your statement about challenging the big G.

Totally understand that as well. From what I have heard as well is after support is bad from garmin and the dealers even if you did their install and had issues. Companies like aspen and Dynon are much better to work with.