GeeBee

When they are up for sale, they go fast, like in hours so you have to check often. Also, there is not a huge discount on used. A new one is usually just a few hundred more.

Update, it all went very good. Atlantic had the car out on the ramp on our arrival so my passenger was able to go straight to the car. They took great care of my airplane. I could not be happier.

Carlus used to be Bill Elliott's engine guru.

I think you misunderstand. Without the return through ground that a filament provides the annunciator panel is automatically dimmed and unreadable in daylight. No LED can provide that return by its very nature as a diode.

I think the problem with LED conversion comes when you add in the dimming feature of the annunciator panel which is tied to the nav lights. It would be easy to blame the Whelen Chroma LEDs but the Aero-Lites white nav LED also went down. So the problem is in the circuit design, not the lights themselves. I am sure it can be overcome, but seems to be a lot of hassle.

I had a burnt out nav bulb so I figured what the heck? I replaced both with some Whelen Chroma LED lamps. It seemed a no brainer. I don't like the OR6502 series for one reason. This line in the ICA: If any one LED fails, the unit must be repaired or replaced. Replace the entire unit for one dead LED? Really? How about a few extra so you can have one or two out? With the Chroma, I can simply replace the bulb unit. Knowing that I had to either put in a relay or leave in one incandescent bulb in the circuit to prevent daytime dimming of the annunciator panel, I left the right aft white nav light incandescent for the time being. The install went good, it all worked. Then I was preparing to leave KMTN the other night and none of my LED nav lights worked. No green, no red, no white on the left aft..Only the incandescent worked. I fortunately kept my incandescent bulbs, so I changed them on the ramp. Took about 45 minutes but I got them all done and everything was ops normal. I flew home to Georgia that night. Today I tried the LED's again. Tried them one at a time. I tried an improved ground. No help, so I am back to incandescent. Don't know if I will try the OR6502 because of the ICA limitation.

If the system has not been used in a while the panels have likely "dried out". You can try running the system a long time but the swifter and sure way is to purge the panels with a pressure pot at no more than 60 psi. You can build your own purge system and do it yourself , or you can go to a CAV service center and have them do it.

Even the big guns get off target. Ask the Navy.

Hey, I got a new Aerocomfort interior!

I'm not going to take a pee in my airplane! If I have to do that, I'm done with GA.

Personally to me the time to do the job is during a tank re-seal

I don't have a bladder big enough to support 102 gallons of range.

John Pallante

Change filler necks......or take your time filling an 89 to 100 by shaking the wing and burping the tank until it is at the level of the cap.

Decided on Atlantic. Called them and everything is set for my arrival.

I actually got to meet both Alan and Anthony and it was a real pleasure to attend with them. I had lunch with Alan and what an amazing aviation life he has experienced! Chuck, (Round Two) I have known for a couple years on his journey for his J model. He bailed me out on my annual this year "Ubering" me to Manning, SC. Finally got to meet Paul Kortopates too. A real gentleman and he had a great tale of flying in Cuba. It is always great to meet our community and put faces with names! I can report my instructor put me through some failure modes of the G1000 that I have never experienced in flight and some where a real eye opener. The redundancy of the system is amazing, but I must say the most crippling was the loss of the ADC.

I have a flat bet scanner with automatic doc feed I can scan them for you and send them back. PM me.

Have to take a family member to KRDU for medical treatment at Duke. Limited mobility. Which FBO do you consider the best? Atlantic Aviation or Signature. Price is not a consideration, service is everything.

Closer you are to equator; less fuel, more payload, less stress on the payload package.

Joe Cole is an excellent choice if you can get in. He is usually booked well in advance.

I just had an annual on my Ovation in December at Precision Air in Manning, SC not far from you. It is an Mooney Service Center and a Part 145 repair station. I was very pleased with the service and price. Freddie Hilton is the manager.

Yes, I do know. Several Beechtalk threads measuring RH. Here is one. "I went into my hangar a took a reading of the temperature and the relative humidity (RH) using my Hygrometer. I saw a room temp of 65.8f and 33.2 RH . I then placed the Hygrometer into the oil fill pipe. It read 65.8f and showed and RH of 55.2 … higher RH than in the room … which surprised me since I haven’t flown the airplane in several days. I then inserted the tube from the Black max into the breather tube and turned it on. I came back 50 min later for another reading at the oil fill pipe. It showed 65.8f and 20.2 RH. A nice drop in RH."

Apparently you have not been on SuperCub.org

Wipline floats now says to use Aeroshell 22 on their amphib floats. They take a lot of water.