RoundTwo

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First off, congratulations on saving one more Mooney from the ravages of corrosion! I remember when it was for sale and thought about it quite a bit but just didn’t need the TKS, so I left it for someone who did. I hope you get many years of flying joy from it and you quickly forget about what you had to go through to get to where you are. As for the GI-275, I haven’t a clue but I’m sure you’ll get it figured out soon. Welcome back to the sky!!!

That is a boatload of data for sure. What tool are you using to look at it all?

The best way is to save up and go “big bang”. That’s the cheapest and easiest way to get an integrated panel. Otherwise, you’re just replacing like for like and not getting any benefit from truly integrated components. You’ll also spend a ton of extra money because all of the rework necessary at each iteration. My advice would be to fix what’s broken, fly the snot out of it to figure out where your pain points are while you religiously put $100/hour into an avionics upgrade account at your bank. Ask questions and think everything through until you have enough saved to write a check for the work and not feel it at all.

KJZP finished last year and they filled up the moment the work was announced. They’re done for 3-5 years. I’m #126 on the list at KVPC and I’m not holding my breath.

Maybe Joe can find an agreeable owner that would consent to a MS community assisted annual. We could make that happen in about 2 hours flat.

That could happen but anyone who had it done would then only be out the cost of the integration since it requires no real capital investment, and then you’d be back to where you started from. I think this is such a huge win, I’ve already sent out quote requests for upgrading G3X to EIS, pulling out the EDM 900 and reusing all the probes and other instrumentation, add in GEAR WARNING and STALL WARNING too. And as long as it’s in the shop, upgrade the 750 to an Xi. I’m just bummed I can’t get the G3X to control all of the mood lighting like you can do in your Sling Tsi. Let’s end this discrimination!

Speaking to Evan at Palmetto, he states he is running in Certified and NOT Experimental. This is becoming very interesting!

This definitely sounds like a gray area and maybe due to the obvious benefits provided by this “deviation” there is a willingness to allow it.

“I’m not sure why that is set that way sir. That’s the way it came out of the shop. Is that not allowed?”

Hang in there Sue. I have no specific grand suggestions for you except maybe try to finish up some of those projects that need to be done because when you do get it back, there’s no way anything will get done.

I think it’s a pretty nice piece of kit, to have that constant aural alarm. If more people knew this can be done on the certificated G3X, Garmin would be selling a whole lot more EIS setups. I only stumbled onto this because I’m looking at the LHS.

Just out of curiosity, do you know if the G1000 Ovations have these features enabled?

And a few more that would useful.

I’ve got many thoughts on why this one feature should be lobbied for by the insurance industry but in my specific situation, without EIS, it’s a moot point.

I’ve got a call into Palmetto to dig further into his information of it being a small deviation which isn’t a problem for his FAA inspector.

That is one of the driving factors. The 650/750 have been discontinued but who knows how long Garmin will source parts for them. The Xi units came out 3 years ago and probably have a 20 year lifespan, to approximately 2040. They’ll probably be the latest and greatest for another 7 years or so until the next versions are released. The unit I’m looking to replace is three years old with 230 flight hours since installed 12/2019, only one month before the Xi was released in January of 2020. I may just look to buy an Xi outright and sell the non-Xi myself.

The rotors are fixed, but the stators are variable and that changes the AOA on the downstream rotors.

Screws are too hard to grasp with pliers so the best approach is to weld a nut onto the head of the screw so the pliers grip better.

Tie me down and take my money!

Sounds good.

It looks like someone else picked up on this as well. I think having the CHECK GEAR alert coming from the G3X is a better option because it comes on much earlier in the approach than the LHS callout at 200’, just in time for a go-around. I like his response and will be digging into these other “non-essential safety enhancing features” that can be enabled on the G3X. Chuck

MooneySpace is an interesting animal. On one thread we can be discussing how difficult it is to land one of these mythical planes and how new pilots need to find an instructor with 1,000 hours of Mooney time to prevent dying (exaggeration noted) and then just below that, there is a two page thread on how pour oil into the engine.

At 14:15 in this video on the LHS system, the G3X displays CHECK GEAR accompanied by a consistent “woop woop” aural alert. LHS in a Mooney I did some Google searching and found a post on BT that said the CHECK GEAR alert is only for the Experimental unit. Can anyone confirm or deny whether the GEAR ALERT is available on the certificated model? Chuck

Yes. You can find it on their website.