Scott Ashton

Just outside Hangar A!

The ironic part is that Jason Zilderbrand from VREF was on the AOPA podcast within the last two weeks. It seems like something suddenly changed. I don’t think they would have had him on if there was any acrimony in the corporate relationship at the time.

Welcome aboard. You’ll love this plane! I’ve got an 85 s/n 1533 based APF. Scott

It’s a Scott/Avox altitude compensating regulator - the altitude compensator can be very finicky and is expensive to replace if it’s bad. When was the last time the system was bench tested? Do you have a flow meter that you use with your cannula? That will tell you f you are getting enough flow….

BAS has one listed on Partsbase.

I bought 1533 from Jimmy a year and a half ago. Very similar spec but w an Aero Comfort new interior. Happy to share my experience with you if you want to chat. Cell is 860-866-6750. scott

PM my your RMA number and I'll throw some Aerox swag in the box when they ship back to you.... Scott

ADDS was the best!

This is a big reason why I bought this airplane. It’s what you expect for a high end aircraft. Don’t hesitate. You won’t be disappointed….

Just put a new cap and harness on order and we are starting over with new points and condenser and harness. Hopefully we will know more next week….the harness looks like original ‘85 vintage so if that’s not it we are out of ideas. After three sets of points failing after five hours each, we’re thinking an issue somewhere else in the system…

More trouble today - four hours after replacing the mag with another exchange unit the left mag points were failing again. Pre takeoff mag check was perfect, and flight test yesterday was perfect. By the time I got to altitude and set up cruise flight, I couldn’t get it run LOP and then tried the In flight mag check and the left side was super rough with a big RPM drop. Got back to base and did another mag check on the ground and it was super rough on the left mag and the tach was bouncing around - same symptoms as before. Third failure of points in 12 hours since replacing the original mag with 750 hours on it that worked fine. So the saga continues.

No it was under warranty....flew it today and yesterday - fired right up and ran great. Did the Savvy in flight mag checks and they looked good too. I pulled the data from the last flight and you could see where two cylidners went awry mid flight.. I'm hoping this is the last I have to think about this for a while now....

Not to belabor this, but we did pull the mag and returned it to Kelly - they found that the points on one side were bad and needed to be replaced after only 3 hours TIS. Ugh. Anyway, she's back flying now and running great and only 497 hours until I go full dual electronic!

Well done - there is nothing out there but trees and the CT River. That's the second emergency landing that track has hosted. What was the issue that caused the landing? Glad you are safe and that you found that track.

On one mag, one and two dropped off and three and four acted normal. Engine backfired a bit too. With that I’m leaning toward two bad plugs. They are getting pulled tomorrow so I guess I just have to wait and see. It actually gives me hope that they don’t have to pull the mag again.