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Last night, I guess IOS updated to V 12.1.1, and today when I first logged in it said I should do it. There is a red (1) on the settings icon that also directs me to enable 2FA when pressed. Kind of annoying. I really don't think I want/need to do that.

The latest IOS update on iPad is asking me to enable two-factor authentication. I really don't want to do that because I fear that being without a WiFi connection, say at a remote airport, my IPad won't let me log on. It seems that a fingerprint should be enough!?! I consider the iPad to be flight critical hardware because paper maps/charts/plates just aren't in my flight bag anymore. Anybody have any information or experience that might assuage my fears- or tell me how to say no and fuhgeddaboudit to Apple? Thx. in advance.

The AHRS attitude indicator in the AV-20 sold by Aerovonics seems to be rock solid and battery backed. I've compared it against my gyro instrument and it always agrees pretty closely. The AV-20 is a clock with a bunch of cool lagniappe (look it up). Pretty awesome for what it costs.

Correction: The data cards are not CF cards. I found an old CF card and it is too wide to fit into the Jepp. data card adapter.

Don't know, I bought the 430W used. I didn't come with one.

So this gets to a question I asked earlier- the cards for the GNS430/530 are just CF cards in a special holder, correct? So your old Samsung tablet has a CF card slot or you plug an adapter into it? If that is the case then I can use the Jepp. Skybound adapter? Now do I really have to use a Garmin card for the Garmin nav. data or will the Jepp. card work? I'm guess then answer to this is no- I'll need to buy the Garmin card.

This thread has been very informative. I've come to some preliminary conclusions: (1) I need a subscription if I intend to use my IR to the fullest, and (2) just because I have a Jeppesen navdata card in my 430W now, I probably want to switch to Garmin, because I need both halves of CONUS and don't want to pay >$400 for it. I purchased the Jepp. skybound writer, when I really should have purchased the Garmin writer and a Garmin card nav. data card. Ugh. My inner CB is . I wish I would have started this thread earlier. Anybody have anything I need for sale? Trade?

Garmin seems to be good at playing CYA.

Nice www site. Very interesting that such a repair is still available. You just replied to a four year-old thread. You have resurrected a zombie!

WRT to keeping databases up to date with a subscription, it seems like unless a person has two nav. data cards, there will be a lot of trips to el aeropuerto to get the card, and many options to forget it at home. The spare cards are pretty darn expensive for what they are. They appear to be a standard compact flash (CF) pin layout in a special holder. I read something on POA that any CF card capable of 10 MB/s or faster data transfers work. 16GB capacity needed IIRC for the 430W nav. data. If anyone has a solution that makes sense, please send me a PM. Thx.

Howdy ya'll. Last year we put the Garmin GNS430W in our '67C. The seller updated the nav. data in January, 2018. I"m getting ready for my IFR check ride, and I know that I'll need to update the nav. data before then. I've never done it. It has one card that is labeled Garmin, which I assume is the terrain data. The other card is labeled Jeppesen, which I assume is the navdata. I think I'll stick with Jeppesen for now. The subscription for Jepp nav. data is $300/y, I think. Should I do that, or go for a one-time upgrade say once per year? Any thoughts or advice from MS? Thx. in advance.

@carusoam raises some great points. For instance, to avoid interference with the pilot's side yoke, we installed the DG in our plane with a 3-D printed wedge made of HDPE that allowed it to be mounted in a way to not interfere with the yoke motion. The clearance is about 3/16" from the bottom of the DG and the upward-most travel limit of the yoke. This was necessitated by the fact that we replaced the panel with one that is bent just like the original, with an approx. 8-degree bend, and we were forewarned by an older posting here on MS that this was an issue with using a bent panel. This place contains a tremendous amount of information, representing a storehouse of other people's knowledge and experience... if you can find it.

Since we're doing panel porn, I gotta show a shot of the recently redone panel of our bird. Last year we re-cut new panels for left- and right-hand sides of our 1967C. The EDM900 in portrait mode is a huge space saver, allowing you to get rid of all kinds of old analog stuff. The only thing behind the ipad is a few circuit breakers and a panel light dimmer knob.

The DME part of the 430 is definitely GPS based, not actual time-of-flight DME. So, you lose that. But, you do have marker beacons! Stopwatch too!

I'll bet a lot of us have the KX155 NAV/COM + GNS430W in VOR/OBS mode!

Cool outcome @G Miller . I'll hijack your thread with a corollary. With the engine off, I hear a buzzing noise from the certified pulse-width modulation (PWM) panel light dimmer over the speaker in my aircraft when it is active- but not when the lights are turned full up or full down. This noise is not loud enough to hear when the engine is running but I thought that was odd though. When I had the headliner down last weekend to see about the dome light switch, I discovered that the wire running to the overhead speaker is a shielded single conductor wire. They used the shield as a conductor to carry one of the speaker connections . Anyone else notice this? How hard to replace that wire? Seems like it would be hard.

I love the map @Dreamlifter. <whinge> When I read the NOTAMS and am confronted with a GPS outage notice I try to estimate where in the world they are talking about, my eyelids get droopy, and I start to imagine that it doesn't matter to my lil' ol' Mooney, then I give up. Why can't they produce a map? Maybe when they produce an announcement that they are going to disturb GPS reception- the FAA could _require_ them to produce a map? Maybe that map could then be put in the NOTAMS in the enroute navigation section of the briefing? </whinge> Compare your map against this gem: GPS 02/025 (KZDC A0032/19) ZDC NAV GPS (CSG4 GPS 19-01) (INCLUDING WAAS, GBAS, AND ADS-B) MAY NOT BE AVBL WI A 555NM RADIUS CENTERED AT 313339N0793740W (CHS173083) FL400-UNL, 509NM RADIUS AT FL250, 436NM RADIUS AT 10000FT, 388NM RADIUS AT 4000FT AGL, 338NM RADIUS AT 50FT AGL 1902101500-1902101900

Waggin' needles.

I really like this photo from the brochure posted by @MinneMooney. The thatched hut and Brahma cattle sure make it look south of the border. Looks like they were marketing to the cattle trader! My dad was one of those.

@Marauder those cost of ownership numbers are truly entertaining. I will say this: INSURANCE WAS EXPENSIVE back then. Fuel for 40c/gal? Ha! But those direct annual costs are killer. According to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ that $1382 annual cost from 1966 is about $10,000 today, which is about right. The hangar rent has gone up a bunch, and insurance has gotten considerably cheaper here in 2019.

Photos taken this weekend with the headliner down and dome light fixture removed. Given the shape of the end of the switch, it seems that perhaps somebody cut it off, then filed it to an irregular cone shape. It is definitely too short.

Followup- in my a/c the headliner is installed over the light fixture, so I had to take the headliner out to take a look. The switch is an integral part of the dome light fixture, which would make it a bear to replace. Can't tell why the shaft is too short, it just is. Maybe it just broke off, or someone hit their head on it and made is shorter. The fix will be to put another switch somewhere out of the way. Maybe a switch like the one that @Yetti shows above... A good, compact and robust SPST switch is called for. Anybody have any cool suggestions for fixes that exist and would be lightweight, compact, robust, and parsimonious?

I'll be in touch for shipping info once I get them off.

Sorry @TexMooney I didn't see that message. I got the new ones, honestly I only paid $15 for them on eBay. They are in pretty good condition shape. One of mine has a sprung clip and they need painted. I'll try and swap them out this weekend and ship them to you if you'll pay the shipping. Deal?

Wind noise. Our C is frightfully noisy when I lift the headfones in cruise. Can't wait to put them back on.