NJMac

Working thru a trust formation now and my lawyer wants ours in its own LLC. I called a buddy about this, he used to fly a mooney, and has done extremely well (8 figure net worth). He keeps all his planes that he solely owns outright in his LLC and advised me to do so too. Something about a wreck killing someone only able to get to the LLC assets instead of the rest of my holdings. Maybe its true or not. I duno. I can't see the extra hassle as an annual hoop personally. Will be re-registering mine into the LLC once I have a free moment.

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I had one of those installed just over a year ago too. Not sure why it didn't work today. Need to dig further. Appreciate the memory jog. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Dropped my gear in down wind. Base. Final. Do a short final landing check and tug on the J bar. It wasn't locked in! Looked at the dash and my green light wasnt on either. Don't get complacent thinking you went thru the motions. Give it a tug every time. Glad I double checked it! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I'll take one when they're ready but dang. So done with these teasers. Call me when you're ready to put one in my plane. Thanks. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Hopefully I'll find out soon. Try to convince Andy to trade me my old seats for his A&P signature in my logbooks. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I think that's a good thing? This guy is sometimes put off by unnecessary regs. I can relate. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

The logs he said he would pull were just what he could get from the ifd440. And that got us no where. I really wasn't in the mood to play test pilot after 3 hrs IFR training today. But one day soon I need to purposely kick it over to battery backup ops and see how long the red box indicating battery mode stays up there on screen. For my life, I can't believe I missed that notification for 30 minutes or whatever it lasted before the screen went dark, if the notification is live while drawing on the battery. I DO agree that having a plan B is wise. I guess my DPE likes to do partial panel via the synthetic vision on foreflight on a localizer approach at the end of his checkrides, not as part of the ride but to help his examinees know what options they have. I'll be sure to become proficient since that's my plan B to the Aspen. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

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If it were me, I wouldn't put anything in the logs and swap the old ones in if I ever sell. But i can't speak for him... Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I can tell you tomorrow, dont know Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

This guys a&p wanted to push them into some FAA engineering thing. That's why the question came up. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Guess this may be a situation where being cheap doesnt pay Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Let's suppose you know a guy who bought J seats for his E. Would it be as simple as just switching them out or is there more to it like paperwork? Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I posted this over on the Mooney Facebook group and Dev asked me to share it here too. - 2nd flight on the new aspen E5. - MGY to POF filed IFR in a little over 3 hrs on Victor airways. Left 1935z Got gas and some cargo and headed back after no more than 30 mins on the ground. - coming back VFR, heading ~060, 7500 msl, unsure of OAT. - roughly 2 hrs into the return trip my avidyne displays an error bottom right of the screen. Arnic (spelling) failure. - Look over at the Aspen and its pitch black. 1-2 seconds and then it comes back on just as it does when it turns on. 8 seconds or so and its back online. No issues the rest of the flight. Worried this issue will repeat itself in real IMC. Avionics guy is in contact with Aspen and assures me they will resolve it. Edit - mid post i got a call from my installer who just talked with Mike from Aspen. Supposedly mine is the only one to have this failure, so far. The working theory is that around dusk I flipped on all 3 light, LED landing and original position/beacon. They're going to pull battery logs tomorrow and see if the diaplay went into battery mode at that point, ran out of battery, then came back alive with normal bus voltage? He seemed to think it was a logical explanation and with JPI and Aspen logs fealt sure he could confirm or bust their theory. Stratus 2s and foreflight was supposed to be a battery backup redundancy I never had to use. That we broke out in our 2nd trip with the new hardware. Dev was wanting this info here with all the max upgrades using this same hardware / processors I believe. I'll update as I know more. Should have another 20 hrs on the Moonship next 2 weeks so hopefully will flush this out completely. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I checked out his site now and it jogged my memory from when I first got this GPS. Maybe it's me or my generation at large (sorry, I'm a millennial) but I can't stand people selling these $xxx videos. Either he wants people to become safer so he'll put the content out there free or he's wanting paid, in which case I believe avidyne should be the one who pays / sponsors his content. It's 2019. Any MFG still supplying paper instructions for their interactive product has missed the boat. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Good stuff y'all. I see many hours of ifd simulator in my future. Appreciate this list. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Went to school at Miami. Have recently shot many practice approaches into it, all of them low only. Doesnt seem to be anything noteworthy other than how beautiful most female students there are.

Just found this video. Pretty slick. https://pilotsupport.avidyne.com/kb/article/316-connecting-avidyne-ifd-trainer-ifd100-on-ipads/ Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Skipping waypoints seems to be an issue for me. Looks like I just need to click on the waypoint in the flight plan listing? I almost never spent any time on the FMS, can tell that needs to change yesterday.

Love your feedback, thank you for helping with that list

My instructor has basically said his biggest holdup now to signing me off for my IFR checkride is my IFD 440 proficiency for manipulating the flightplan enroute. I watched this one twice And played along on the simulator. It definitely helped a ton. Any other good resources to learn the box better? Doing a mock checkride on Friday and would really like to earn his endorsement then. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Yep. Totally agree. I wish I could do alot of things over with my first round of mods. Doing the panel work myself would be on that list. I was his cash cow he milked. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

For the Aspen? Yes, I believe so Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Knowing that this was going on, I actually spoke for Alan's Lifesaver he has for sale here. The mechanic who did the Aspen installation said that that Lifesaver wouldn't fit behind my panel, said it's too deep for my E. If he's wrong, I would love to put it in. Do you know otherwise? Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk