Scott Ashton

I have a Bruces Cover and it has been very durable. There are two snaps at the front on either side above the gear doors, which holds the cover snug without having a strap tight across the gear doors. The other thing I got with the airplane is a tail cover for the empennage to keep birds, etc out of the tail mechanism and that helped a lot too. For better or worse, you can definitely tell where the cover was and was not because the paint is remarkably different. The cover did a great job protecting the cabin area even if it was a pain to install and remove... I see a lot of planes out on the ramp without a cabin cover and I just couldn't do that!

My right one went to the low side - reading maybe 5 gallons when there was 20. So it did come off the peg when power was supplied, so it was getting some power. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I got my outboard sender overhauled and it solved the problem…unfortunately we send the gage in for repair first, but regardless, it’s now fixed…. Scott

I’m going to resurrect the switch cover thread here…I’m looking for a fuel boost pump switch cover for an 85 201 if anyone has a spare…. thanks

Does anyone have an outboard fuel sender they aren't using? I'm chasing an intermittent fuel issue and now they think it's the outboard sender... Thanks Scott

I actually had to swap out my encoding altimeter for a different PN to use when I installed my KAS298 preselect…I have the old one in my office and can check the PN for you in the morning and let you know…what SN is your J? Mine is an 85 and I have 1533….

A 3HT cylinder is tested every three years with a 24 year life and a 3AA cylinder is five years with an unlimited life. Kevlar wrapped cylinders are a five year hydro interval with a 15 year life limit. Life limits are taken from the DOM, not the date of install…. Scott

Contact Paul Lange, pal@lopal.com; His firm specializes in aviation, transactions, enforcement, litigation, etc. www.lopal.com. I’ve been using him for decades for all of my aviation matters and transactions. Scott

Dry ice is haz mat and dangerous goods, and is higHly regulated for transport. I wouldn’t mess with it…. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-173/subpart-E/section-173.217?OR=OfficeMobile

re: going up the breather tube, when I went to depart on Friday for MooneySummit, with I pulled on the tube to remove it, it separated inside the tube at one of the joints. Not far enough where I couldn’t get it with a pair of needle nose, but enough to end that practice and putting it into the oil fill tube from now on!

I have the same one - on the IO360 it’s quite a ways up the tube and you have to give the supply tube a good shove to get up past the ice hole. I have the tube marked so I know how far to put it - I did that when I changed the oil. Buy a few jugs of dessicant in order to swap it out when it’s turns pink, so you can bake the used stuff at your leisure. baking the dessicant is a pain. I probably should have gone for the Drybot instead. Those guys were in the booth next to me at Oshkosh for the last two or three years and it’s a nice product.

The bleed valve is handy because there is a lot of pressure behind the nut and it will be very hard to loosen with 2000 psi behind it. You can crack the nut and bleed it out that way, its just that the bleed valve makes it a little more "elegant". Definitely do a two-cylinder cascade. Since you can only fill to equilibrium, it makes your cylinder utilization go much further. The regulator is handy because it will keep you from overfilling - but not necessary if you are careful. Make sure you have the supply cylinders either chained to the wall or secured in a rack. Fill slowly - about 200psi per minute. It should take you about 10 minutes to fill a cylinder if you are doing it at the right pace. Otherwise you will heat the cylinder you are filling up. At OSH we fill about 20-30 cylinders with two ABO supply tanks and usually have some left over, so it should last you a while... If you have any trepidation, have a mechanic or someone on the field who has done it before show you the setup. If you decide to get a transfill setup give me a call and we'll get you a discount code. Scott

I’ve done 6.5 hrs a few times (in a sling and in a 182 several times) I was hoping to get naples-Cleveland non stop - or at least have the option to…but a stop is fine… Florida is a very long state and naples is way down there so I lose two hours just getting to state line…

Just curious what M20J drivers are flight planning for the max IFR range in the real world with standard tanks.... 750NM +/-? Scott

I'll be there all week in Hangar A....Flying commercial on Sunday out of PGD (ugh!) but if anyone is headed to SWFL maybe Saturday and wants a CFII copilot, there might be a free oxygen system as part of the deal for the ride home!