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I just use seatbelts... pilot side on left side of yoke, passenger on right side. Wondering if there are any cons to doing that now?

Got my Maggie harness a few years ago. They were awesome, super responsive and helpful. No problems with it so far.

Following! Also planning on spending 2 weeks in the Miami area end of December. Hoping to get a tie-down. Was looking at North Perry (HWO) or Miami Homestead GA (X51). Any thoughts on Homestead vs North Perry? Thanks!

+1 Maggie, they are great

Probably asked many times but can't find on MS. Need to bleed brakes on my 76F, the reservoir is on firewall pilot side, the rectangular flask-looking one. Trying to find what is the appropriate fitting to attach to reservoir filler port to attach a drain line? Thanks!

Make sure they used the right data. A shop re-did WB for mine and gained a ridiculous amount of weight.. turns out they completely miss-read the TC data sheet and used many wrong numbers.

+1 For Air-mods. Just don't land on the centerline, that runway is a bit beat up..

After flying 8hrs one day, I noticed this on cyl #2 (see picture) while pushing the plane back into the hangar. My first thought was a plugged injector. However, during flight I didn't notice anything, and looking through the engine data I found zero evidence of that. Also, note that it is dripping, that to me suggests it likely did not happen in flight. The following day I visually inspected lines and pressure tested them (flooded cylinders) and saw nothing out of the ordinary. This seems to have been isolated to CYL #2. One hypothesis was cool fuel in line expanding with heat on ramp, but to my understanding lines empty out on shutdown. Taking plane down for annual this week. Would be helpful to have a better idea about what could have caused this to look into at annual. Any thoughts?

Overhauled mine with AWI in 2020 ($840) with a minor repair (I think that included shipping but not sure).

Wonder if anyone has a fix for this - Garmin has been of zero help. My phone connects to my audio panel (GMA 345) via bluetooth. It connects and all, but the music plays whenever it wants to: some days it works perfect; other days not at all even though connected. Those days I try reconnecting, rebooting phone, forgetting bluetooth and re-connecting and no-joy. Yes, volume is on, and all setting on gma are correct: i don't change configuration and sometimes it works, sometimes not. Was wondering if anyone came across this issue and has any solutions short of resetting the 345? PS: I erased all other bluetooth connections from my phone like the A20's in case that was messing it up and no-joy. PS2: Mostly concerned about this for my passengers, I don't use it when alone

Thanks Eric! Will bring this up. Though this did not seem to be a problem before, so wonder what started to cause this now. I'm afraid it might not be addressing the cause ultimately.

Thanks! Will look into that

Thanks Marauder! Manual extension worked smoothly. Voltage at motor up and down was fine, so unlikely a bad relay. Looking at the original electric schematics for my s/n the breaker there is 15A. But look at SB 189A, there the breaker is 25A in the schematics (thought the description never mentions changing the breaker). weird...!

Thanks for the suggestions! The LG doesn’t seem to be binding. Partially retracting the gear there looks like gear moves freely and all fittings are well lubed. discarded bad breaker: jpi shows amp draw of like 80 before it pops (its a 15A breaker). noticed that ITT actuator doesn’t have a fitting to grease like dukes does.. so wonder how to lube it correctly? from reading the forums looks like George closed earlier this year

Looks like my ITT landing gear actuator on my 76 F is on its way out. In flight, retracting gear the CB tripped. Luckily putting selector down and pushing in CB lowered and locked the gear. Plane was jacked and gear swings worked fine, though applying a little resistance on LG caused the CB to trip. My mechanic also said the noise it makes is unusual and lubrications looked ok. He suggests sending it out for overhaul. Problem is, are there any shops that do that? Called LASAR and they aren't doing it due to lack of parts. They suggested calling Pifer Aeromotors but cannot find their contact anywhere. Any suggestions are welcome!