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  1. Pinecone
    "the R-7755 was water-cooled, and so each of the cylinder heads in a cylinder bank were in-line within a cooling jacket." Like I said, like a 4 cylinder in line but with a common crankshaft and crankcase for all of them. There was 4 cylinders in a single cooling jacket.
  2. Pinecone
    I forget, did you try the mask range settings? Did you call them?
  3. Pinecone
    I am getting a price for swapping my 345 for a 345R. My plan is to put the autopilot controller outside the stack like I have seen several installs. Especially since I found out you can use the autopilot knobs like the remote knob panel for the G500TXi. My annunciater panel is only a single row. But I think I may be able to delete it, with just a couple of warning lights along the top of the left side panel
  4. Pinecone
    I would get one of the Stratus/Sentry/etc solutions. GPS, plus ADSB In and other things also.
  5. Pinecone
    Not exactly, as if you read the info, the cylinders were in line and water cooled. So like a 4 cyl in line engine. But 9 of them around a common crankcase.
  6. Pinecone
    I found that lenders consider the value of installing avionics to be half the actual cost of doing so. While there is some annual depreciation, my feeling is that it is more on a generation of avionics thing. So a Garmin Xi is worth closer to the cost of the until than a 650 non-Xi, which is worth more than a 430W Also realize that a rough guide is that installation will cost about the same as the cost of the hardware. So a $13000 GPS will cost about $13000 to install.
  7. Pinecone
    There are other threads with info on how to deal with this issue.
  8. Pinecone
    Another thumbs up for the O2D2 unit.
  9. Pinecone
    OK, so it does not affect NAV and APR modes. Thanks
  10. Pinecone
    No, you don't get cell service without a sim card. But you will get GPS without a sim card, as that has no cell requirement. However, you will not get last minute updates with things like TFRs until you cell or use your phone as a wifi hotspot.
  11. Pinecone
    Nope. Phone is in airplane mode also. Cellular iPads have GPS receivers. Wifi only iPads do not.
  12. Pinecone
    Interesting. Basically 8 inline 4 cylinder water cooled engines that shared a crankshaft. Too bad it never got to fly in anything, unlike the R-4360
  13. Pinecone
    Do I turn GPSS Off when I switch the autopilot to APR mode?
  14. Pinecone
    Thanks
  15. Pinecone
    My iPad will show me location without wifi or cell service. I can track my flight on commercial airliners with the iPad in Airplane mode.
  16. Pinecone
    Hmmm. Now I have to go play with mine. I have a KAP-150 and Aspen 1000 Pro with GTN-650Xi. I have been flying in NAV and GPSS. But it seems if I have GPSS on, I should have the autopilot in HDG mode. How about for approaches?
  17. Pinecone
    Park in the wrong place and you might end up in a "situation."
  18. Pinecone
    My home field is 2850 x 75. The second runway is 2000 x 40. I have no problems with the longer runway with my 252. And I first landed there with less than 10 landings. I plan on grabbing an instructor one day to do some landings in the shorter runway. I learned to fly on the 2000x40 runway in a Grumman Tiger. No touch and goes. But, they are adding over 1000 feet to the long runway. Either the end of last week or the end of this week.
  19. Pinecone
    But be sitting down when you get the quote. I got a quote not to long ago for my 1986 252 seats. The front seats were around $4800. EACH. And the rear seat was $7200. Total for just the seats was pushing a total interior from Aero Comfort.
  20. Pinecone
    Also GA fleet is getting smaller. Not many being made, but still crashing them.
  21. Pinecone
    I had this happen on one flight. We did get fuel and the airplane was out overnight. But sumped fine. I wonder if there was some dissolved water and the temp (14,000) caused it to come out. It stopped after a short while and has not happened again
  22. Pinecone
    Pfft, 16 is just getting started. Try 56 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-4360_Wasp_Major
  23. Pinecone
    I have an FS510. Most times it works perfectly. I had one update that would not go. I called Garmin and we worked through it.
  24. Pinecone
    The night demo in the altitude chamber was eye opening, literally. They took us "up" to about 5,000, maybe 8,000. Dim lights. And we sat there for maybe 20 - 30 minutes. They handed out these cards about 18" square and told to leave them face down on our laps. After the waiting period, they told us to turn over the cards. There was like a pie chart with lots of "slices" in shades of gray. Then they had us put our masks one. ONE inhalation and the chart BRUST in color. It was so dramatic, every one of us recoiled back away from it, the colors were so vivid.
  25. Pinecone
    I am finalizing my plans for my panel. It looks like I am going with a 10" G3X and GFC-500. Keeping my G-5 for backup. Keeping my 650Xi for second radio and adding at 750Xi as primary. I may keep my GTX-345 or go remote with it. I decided to go PS Engineering on the audio panel. For the right side, I will have the mount for an AERA 760. I would like a 7" G3X screen, but stretching the budget already.
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