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Based on that chart, which is similar to ones I have seen before, cell phones are probably limiting charges. Most people charge their phone every night, so 3 year life is more than 1000 cycles.

Some devices do. That is why they can get so many cycles. Phones get a 1000 cycles or more, which is not common if you charge to 100%.

Great, thanks.

I would think that you would want to have the shop do any wiring required when the install the basic system.

They have VOR receivers, but they don't use them at the same time as the GPS to determine position.

In the bad old days, when lead miners would get serious health effects, they would take them out of the mines, then walk around in a room with heat lamps to sweat out the lead, and once they got "better" they would go back to work in the mines. There is likely a level below which is it no longer excreted. But lead issues are primarily in developing children, not old people. ::D

Close. The hard part is fully fueling the tanks. If you fill the "mains" and then fill the "Aux" you will NOT have full tanks. Last time I filled all the way up, I filled each main, then put on the cap and filled the aux. Then went back and topped up the first aux, and then the second, and repeated. Then went to lunch. After lunch, I was able to get about 9 more gallons in the plane. I recently calibrated some dip sticks. 252 with Monroy. So 37.5 each main, 14.5 each aux, for a total of 104. When I got to a 25 gallons, I could see fuel in the Monroy, but not measure it. I was adding in 2.5 gallon increments. At 27.5, there was about 1/2 in the Monroy. The wing gauges read 30 gallons when there was 37.5 gallons added. At the point the mains were pretty much full, I had put in 42.5 gallons. I managed to put in 55.0 gallons and adding that last bit, it was pour, wait a bit for the level to drop and pour some more. I could still hear bubbling as the level went down. For each addition of 2.5 gallons, I waited at least 5 minutes before measuring.

The good news is, lead is excreted from the body over time.

I like shifting CG aft also. So getting rid of the rest of the round dials will help. And the CDI. Storm Scope display may help, but may not make that much difference with removing the processor and replacing with later version. Probably lighter.

Part number or link?

My home field was 2850 feet. I had no problem with operating there will maybe 10 landings in my 252. The runway is being lengthened to about 4900 feet.

I don't think @jetdriven did that. I am pretty sure they did it by accessing from cockpit

OK, I think I will bite the bullet and go with the WX500. I like having all the tools that I can to deal with potential hazards.

A guy I met at a track event had an E30 M3 (the first M3). His plate was REALM3. People kept asking him what game was Realm3. He was thinking of changing it. I told him the easier thing was to keep and tell those people, If you don't understand, you won't understand.

Better to die than to look bad philosophy

I use mine. I set it before start, during runup, and before shutdown. Mine holds fine, but for runup, I guard the pedals. After shutdown, I may release it, but with me in the seat in case it rolls.

Thanks

Yeap, if if they can't find it looking around, they Xray the plane. I lost a Cross pen in an AT-38B. I am positive the crew chief saw it and grabbed it, but aircraft ended up being xrayed.

Assuming you have the adjustable links. My plane came with 3 inch extensions, but fixed links (Encore conversion). I found one link from LASAR at about $300. The other was ordered from the factory through Maxwell and was over $600. If I had the time, I would have done an owner produced part, the materials would be about $75.

Easy solution to the speed brakes issue. Switch to Electric Speed Brakes. I said EASY, not CHEAP. It was a huge Easter egg to find that this had been done to my plane, but not mentioned in the ad or conversations about the plane.

LEDs are good for us, but could be a long term bad thing for the lighting companies. But still a lot of planes out there with old lights though. Should be one less as my LED nav/strobe/beacon/recog light should be installed by now.

OK, so it sounds like some form of Storm Scope should be retained. But keep the original one, with it's separate display or get a used WX-500 that will interface with the new displays planned (G3X and GTN-750)?

Not any more. This was a while ago.

No, the main start feeding before the auxs are empty. I don't have the numbers handy here (not at home), but will post later what amount of fuel there starts to be visible fuel in the Monroy section. On my 252, when the gauges read 27 gallons, I have about 34 gallons on that side. You can't really think of the Monroy tanks as Aux tanks, they are extended main tanks. But the outboard senders are at the end of the main tanks, so once the hit the top, they can't measure the extra fuel.

Bubbles in line from reservoir to master cylinder does not make mushy pedals. Until the bubble gets pushed to the master cylinder