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Agreed with your second point. I only do that if I am taking off right away. Normally when fuel is cheap at that airport. Other wise I top one side, then the other, than retop the first and then the other again. That is all. Not in my plane. If I only top the inboards then outboards, then wait 30 minutes, I can put more than 10 gallons in. I have found that filling outboard, then inboard gets me closer to full than inboards first.

Plexus here. A microfiber that is ONLY used for windows. And when dirty, is replaced with new. If dusty, I start with water and hand, Microfiber is getting cheap enough that I am not sure it is worth washing.

Hmm, good idea. I was thinking of upgrading my living room TV, and moving the current one into the bedroom. So this would be a idea of what to do with the old bedroom one.

I have them in my 252. I just wish the line between the tanks was larger. It is very hard to get them FULL. If you fill the inboards first, as you do so, fuel is flowing into the outboards. This continues after you stop and put the cap on. Then you fill the outboards, and the fuel is flowing back into the inboard. You fill to the top. They you repeat on the other side. And go back to the first side, and it takes several more gallons. If you wait longer, it takes more. When I calibrated my fuel dipsticks, I could hear air bubbling out of the inboards when I had already put more in the tanks than they are supposed to hold. Mine as supposed to be 52 per side. From running one side to engine stumbling, I was able to put 55 in that tank, doing it 2.5 gallons at a time and allowing 5 minutes between fuel additions.

I did not use a case on my iPhones from 3GS to SE. But I got an Xr and dropped it 3 times in 2 weeks. I got a case for it.

Plus one on looping the cord over a blade. I was taking to FBO owner and there was a guy who got mad when he started with the plugs in as the cord damaged the plugs (but did pull them out of the cowling), so he stopped doing it that way. Yeap, a while later he forgot them again, but the cord did not pull them out and he toasted the engine.

Flying in the teens means an unplanned stop is a good 30 minutes to get down to lower airports.

FYI, there is a shortage of PLexus due to some supply chain issues.

No IAT or CDT

Most audiograms only go to 16 KHz. The normal hearing range for humans is 20 Hz to 20 kHz. Some babies can hear slightly above 20 kHz. The hearing loss that causes most problems is in the 2kHz - 5kHz area, as that is the area of speech. That is also the range you tend to lose from airplanes, cars, and shooting.

Thanks for the input. I will have to ponder on this. But at first reading, I will probably stick with the Garmin EIS. My plan is a dock for the AERA 760 on the right side. That gives me a completely independent display (battery, GPS, AHARS) over there.

Agreed. Another thing to get help to you as quickly as possible.

There have always been good and bad in the service industry. This is why things like Angie's List, Yelp, etc had spring up. Even in the past, there was BBB for complaints and ratings. The only way to deal with this is to share the information in the community and name names of shops that do good work and those that don't.

Also, as I understand it, you can display your EIS info on an tablet running Garmin Pilot. I am rethinking my plan to do Garmin EIS. I currently have a JPI830 (upgraded from the 700) and may switch to a 900 instead of the Garmin.

The good ones start with a good audiogram and they specifically boost those that YOU need to have boosted.

George Braly of GAMI figured out a routine that allowed long legs without having to pee. It had to do with limiting liquids before take off. Salty snacks and small sips of water over time.

Looking the Hartzle experimental 3 blade composite for -360 call engine shows as $25,000 from Van's' MT is $18,000

WRONG. Shoulder harnesses restrain the upper body from moving forward and bouncing your head off the panel. Which will likely leave you unconscious and unable to get out of the airplane, which may be on fire. Head restraints restrict rearward movement of the head. Not as common in aircraft, but I just saw a video of a Cessna that clipped some wires on short final, flipped, and landed tail first. The head restraints would have limited the injuries in that case. FYI in most cases they are head RESTRAINTS not RESTS. Head rest are primarily for sleeping

What kind of price range? The Hartzell people at Mooney Max would not say or did not know.

121.5 ELTs get reported and do get found. We just had one go off in a Cub at our field a few weeks ago. But 406 is MUCH better. Back when 406 EPIRBs came out for boats a friend had one. They were taking the boat down to PR when they hit a storm and the boat dismasted. My friend broke his leg. Low overcast day, then turned on the EPIRB. 45 minutes later, a USCG C-130 dropped out of the overcast about 1/2 mile away and pointed right at them. They circuled and dropped a package and a rescue jumper. VERY impressive.

Remember, nothing is fool proof as fools are so ingenious.

I am similar. I fly in the 12,000 - 17,000 range if the trip is more than an hour or so. I am limited due to flying on Basic Med. Otherwise I would extend that range upwards. Altitude is free speed. The same IAS at 4,000 and 17000 adds about 40 knots TAS. I see about 175 KTAS at 17,000 on 10.1 GPH.

In the A-10 we had the piddle packs. Early ones had a sponge, later ones had the material that makes a gel. The commercial Travel John ones use the gelling material. Be careful using sport's drinks for hydration in non-sports use. They have a lot of sugar (energy for sports) and VERY high electrolyte levels. So high, that the body actually takes water from the body to dilute them before absorbing them, making you more dehydrated for a period of time. I did some training for the local SCCA region workers on heat stress because they dropped 9 workers in one season. Eight of the 9 went down within 45 minutes of drinking a sports drink. We got them off the sports drinks and did not drop anyone for the next 10 years (last I checked). For most times, for hydration, drink WATER. That is all you need. Especially in most flying where you are not sweating. IF you feel you need more, I personally use Sqwincher QuikStiks. I get them from Amazon. One packet to one bottle of water. No sugar, lower sodium, higher potassion, reasonable electrolyte levels. One or two per DAY is plenty. They come in a lot of flavors. Lemon-LIme is my favorite followed by Citrus Cooler.

The tweak is, if you aren't getting enough in the N or one of the D settings, use one of the F settings.

That may be more often than you think. How big is the bottle in your plane? Mine is 115 cf. A 200 cf gas cylinder is 9 inches by 51 inches. A 115 cf Kevlar cylinder is 9.1 inches by 31 inches. So a rough calc says you will end up with 1250 psi if the aircraft cylinder is empty. You next fill would be under 800 psi.