Will.iam

I have tsio-360mb and that picture is not what my engine looks like. Fyi

Picked up frost on the bottom of my wing one day when the humidity was high and my fuel had soaked to sub freezing temperatures being in the FL’s for about an hour. Since i didn’t have any on the top of the wing and it was thin enough to see the paint through i didn’t have a problem with it as i knew adding fuel would melt it back off. If the frost was on the top i would have taken steps to remove it.

Actually when i first put in cam guard my starter adapter started slipping could have been coincidence, but I think my adapter was already worn out and that just accelerated the problem. Since i put the overhauled starter adapter i have continued to use cam guard and the adapter has not slipped since the overhaul.

Dougosh did mine the first annual i had my plane and it’s awesome. The difference in wind noise and drafts between when it’s inflated and not is amazing. If you take a piece of paper and put it on the seam of the closed door in flight and it sticks you have a draft between the door and cabin. I generally dump the air pressure on short final so that i do not forget and open the door after landing with the seal still inflated. It always amazes the passenger just how much loader the wind noise is with the seal deflated.

But why are the diesels to replacement and not overhaul? Why can’t you still use the crankshaft case etc?

Yea all that torque pulses doesn’t play well with propellors of today. Like a hammer, the vibrations would yet be another potential problem that needs testing to verify.

That is jpi proprietary information.

Caravan is boots. You wait until 10 Kias drop then activate the boots which sheds the ice but you only usually get 5 kias back so a losing battle and only buys you time to get out of it when more than trace.

I don’t have a Bravo but if @Fritz1 is running 100df ROP on 30”/2300 and 18.5ff i find it hard to believe you are LOP running only 29”/2400 at 19.5 ff as your setting is more rich than Fritz1 and he is already 100df ROP. What measurement are you using to determine you are running LOP?

$3.78 at KRFI just south of KGGG where Maxwell is at.

When the IRAN is about the same price as the surefly and i will not have to pay for another 2000 hours for that side, it’s a killer deal. That and i have the pressurized mag that surefly doesn’t require so if I’m at altitude and the pressure fails or the mag i have the surefly to fall back on.

Interesting my 252 idles at 650 RPM and smoothly at 700rpm. I have a long down grade to my hanger so i am idling at 700 or less for at least a few minutes after landing and i have not had my turbo leak after shutdown. With continental recommending running the engine at 700 for a 50 RPM rise check and not mentioning anything about idling at or above 1000 rpm before shutdown to scavenge oil out of the turbo. Just a data point that idling at less than a 1000 rpm prior to shutdown doesn’t mean the turbo will leak.

That’s all great except the airport was/is paid for with federal money. Your examples are all city or state not federal. Toll roads are for the new roads they build. I have yet to see a toll applied to an already developed federally funded road. So not the same comparison. And at least with the toll roads i can choose to use that new part of the road or stay on the free federal road. For an airport to charge for their funded part of the airport fine. But for them to charge for use of the federal part of the airport is nothing short of stealing and should be prosecuted at a federal offense. Like vandalizing mail boxes is a federal offense.

Fake news.

Well they could use the people like me that are in the aviation field professionally and i used to use 100LL to wash parts with “gasp” no gloves on as a kid and young adult before this became a nono. Went to a holistic doctor that just knew i had lead in my body but when the lab results came back he was shocked i did not. Either the issue is overblown or my body seems to be able to remove what lead i do get into my system. My A&P routinely washes his hands with 100LL to this day. He is 78 been doing it all his life. He said if it has not killed him yet it’s not going to now.

I can just see it now, if the 100LL is more aggressive than G100UL but the G100UlL is striping paint before 100LL that must mean that the Lead in 100LL must be what protects the paint on the airplane! Who knew? -sarcasm switch off-

Hard to reinvent the wheel when the original was so damned round.

Well since the system tracks airplanes via adsb and photo, not to hard to have video of runways lights to tie together who damaged the lights and bill them for it.

If the airport is privately funded i could see that but charging for an airport that was paid for by tax payers dollars and then u want a fee because you setup a camera is theft and should be a felony since it involves federal resources. And if I’m flying a cross country flight and half a dozen airports start charging me fees when I didn’t land there I’m not going to pay.

I feel it’s a rip off scheme especially if i do not use their service. At KDTO for example there are 2 FBO and there used to be free transit parking in front of the tower. It’s a bone of contention when i want to pickup someone that comes to the airport and does not use their facility in anyway shape or form for them to come out and expect a fee from me. It’s the equivalent of going to a restaurant and self parking in the parking lot but i still have to pay a valet person?!?! No if i didn’t use their valet then I don’t pay. The FBO doesn’t own that tarmac the tax payers do and for a FBO company to come in and then claim that part as theirs to charge a fee is wrong. Now if they build a new complex and new concrete in front of their business and you park there sure. But it would be like me setting up a toll fee in front of my property on the road that goes in front of my house when the tax payers paid for the road already. It’s not mine to charge for nor is it the FBO’s to charge for either.

Of Course and that would have helped the most but what was a contributing factor was having leaking brakes, very bad feeling when you apply the brakes and do not get the deceleration you are expecting.

Just me and min fuel for a quickly lap around the pattern, i am airborne before the hill in our runway which starts at about a 1000ft from the beginning.

Well if you really wanted to slow down and keep the MP above 15” then you could just pull the fuel mixture to cutoff but that would be frowned upon by the faa and not good for shock cooling the motor. Everybody complains about how flying LOP loses speed and is not a fast as ROP, here it helps slow down and save gas. Also turning the lowest RPM you can in descent helps slow down and keeps the high speed from driving the propeller. Also keeps that combustion in the cylinder just that little bit longer to heat the cylinders but the less firings per minute results in more cooling of the cylinders than the little extra time the flame is in the chamber.

Also when jump starting and airplane usually means because the battery is dead. When you turn on the alternator it is now getting a workout because of the huge amp draw the battery is pulling to charge back up. This could potentially damage the alternator if it over heats or the alternator coupling to the engine especially if it’s old could break under the new high torque the alternator is pulling trying to charge the battery. In the world of airplanes where everything is so much more expensive, charging up the battery using a battery charger will be more kind to the battery and other components than a rapid charge by the alternator.