RoundTwo

I was concerned about that as well and did a “scratch test” against the wind screen. The Starlink is softer than the windscreen.

Yeah, the J has the hump over the annunciation panel and makes a nice place to locate it in front of the pilot. The flat glare shield seems to have a little less space available.

First use of Global Priority today, flying to Long Island, Bahamas. Worked great. Was able to call FSS to cancel flight plan at altitude and passengers were able to rub it into friends and family that they were flying to the Bahamas. So far, no complaints, except not doing it sooner.

A quick visual inspection should address both of those concerns. However, a typical cigarette lighter is normally fused for 10 or 15 amps since their designed function is to heat a strip of metal to a cherry-red condition, a feature that takes significant wattage to accomplish.

I wish everything worked out as easily. Enjoy!

On Saturday I had no problem with flight following with Atlanta ATC heading to Americus. I needed to get a pop-up IFR to get down, but was forced to go missed and headed home. After canceling IFR, they let me keep the squawk for about 20 minutes when they cut me loose. I continually heard denials for FF requests. It’s a sucky situation but should improve drastically very soon now.

I can no longer get here on either phone or tablet unless I VPN. Right now I’m connecting through Mexico and it works fine. No bueno without VPN for me.

This Friday will be my first trip taking the Mini to the Bahamas, one of the main reasons I bought it. I’m currently on the Local Priority ($65) plan and will need to switch to the Global Priority ($250) plan to get the international usage over water. Luckily, upgrading is pro-rated, so I won’t have to pay the higher rate for the whole month. Details to follow.

Even with mine on the glareshield, it gives me the obstructed message at times, however, the speed is still more than needed. I always unplug and stow for landing, so it has been a problem on the ground.

The Local Priority plan is $65. A couple of months ago, that’s what was required to get over 100mph. It looks like that has changed.

It would be nice to be able to fly around without the cowl to ensure it isn’t hitting somewhere.

I’ve got about 50 hours on it since being installed, still buzzing.

According to the manual supplied with the prop, normal maintenance is to inject up to 30ml of grease, or until grease comes out of the vent hole. Based on the advice provided by Cody, the hub was SLOWLY filled with grease until the excess came out the vent holes.

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With my engine at #1 TDC, my prop is horizontal, not offset one way or the other.

J model index is different than normal being a 3 o’clock – 9 o’clock index and I can confirm mine is clocked properly.

The proper index is 3 o’clock – 9 o’clock, and this has been verified.

Cody says it’s most likely an grease imbalance since the prop cavity has never been greased after being flown. I’ve now pumped it full and will hope for a smoother next flight.

I bought the prop from Cody.

The two main differences I have noticed after installing the Hartzell Scimitar on my J is a vibration at cruise and, the prop now stops in a vertical orientation instead is 1/7 or 2/8 like it did with the McCauley. The vibration isn’t noticeable at takeoff power, put as soon as power is pulled back it shows up as RPM is dialed back to 2,400. This could just be a function of resonance frequencies lining up at cruise RPM. The prop is oriented at 3/9 with #1 at TDC and it was dynamically balanced, to within 0.1 IPS, after several hours of flying to let the grease migrate to where it wanted to go. I have read articles discussing the non-standard orientation of 3/9 used on the 201 with the McCauley while most other installations orient 1/7. Any thoughts? I’m thinking I may look for a cheap BT accelerometer to use to see if I can get a better read on magnitude and frequency, just for a better dataset than the butt-o-meter. New Lord engine mounts were installed in 2023. Am I missing anything? Any suggestions of things to look for before taking it in?

This image brought to you compliments of Starlink.

Don’t do it because it can’t be justified and will be just another piece of discarded kit in the hangar. It can’t be rationally justified to be an absolute necessity. On the other hand, anyone that ever flys with you will think it’s cool AF that they can take pictures and share them instantly and even make phone calls to rub it in to all of their FB friends that they’re flying in a Mooney.

Forget about embracing technology, first we need to get @cliffy to embrace electric gear and flaps.

If you had Starlink, you could have re-read the whole thread.

We’ve logged over 30 hours this month, thanks to our trip out to Washington, and right now I’m sitting at 30 GB used. Only one more trip planned for this billing cycle, so I’ll be abandoning some GB once again.