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Pinecone

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  1. Gee Bee Products is working on one
  2. Have you priced new engines lately?? The specs they quote is 8.3 GPH for 150 HP output on the 200 HP version (75% power). My 252 burns 10.1 GPH at around 140 HP. So it is almost 2 GPH less. A 6 hour flight would burn about 50 gallons versus 60 for the gas engine. So that saves 60 pounds in fuel. It would give my plane a 12.5 hour fuel duration. So nearly 2200 mile range in calm winds.
  3. I did an article for Mooney Flyer on doing this. I did a Universal Fuel Hawk and a Fuel Stik. The Fuel Stik is more precise with finer gradations and if you send them your numbers (X reading is Y gallons) they will develop a custom scale that reads out directly in gallons. They even did one for me that has two scales for the inboard and outboard with the Monroy tanks.
  4. Me also, I need to replace mine and in the process of doing interior refurb.
  5. Hmmm, maybe a guard around the push button to hang a ring with a Remove AFTER Flight streamer.
  6. I have to figure out a way to double check that the mags are off. I have flown airplanes with switches and push button for the mags. Most, the switches are visible from outside with some looking. Mainly Citabria/Decathalon. switches are in the wing root.
  7. You just have to do your research and decide to stretch and buy your last plane first. I started looking at Tigers, Mooneys and Commanders. Few Tigers and Commanders and most with original panels. Many without even a panel mounted GPS. So decided Mooney. Started researching and decided that a J would be good to start. But I knew I planned on traveling out west, so decided turbo. Once I was looking there, the 252 was the clear choice. So narrowed my search and found what I wanted. And in 20 months, I have not seen any other plane I would have picked over the one I got.
  8. Clear as mud. So, it should not be hard to repurpose some of the indicators, just how to get the legends and colors changed. Prop Heat and Pitot Heat would be nice.
  9. Unless you do it right the first time.
  10. Hm, thanks. It would be nice to move Speed Breaks to the ann panel. I would love to have the low fuel lights, but can't do that on Certified. Simple to do on Experimental.
  11. "The Mooney Summit X will be held in Tampa, FL Oct 4-5, 2024."
  12. The annunciator panel is staying. The fancy lights were $900. EACH. Nope. Not sure how they are laser engraving the logos. It may be as you said. I will ask next week. One big change is, I am going to a 7" G3X on the right. One is extra inputs to them as I was maxed out with just one panel. It is not that expensive, as it is just the display, no AHRS and other things. Not cheap, but not the price shown on the Garmin site for a 7" G3X. This will give someone in the right seat a full PFD/MFD, with mag heading and baro altitude. I do lose some redundancy that the AERA 760 provided. I will probably look into some mount setup for it.
  13. I agree. I like any and all sources of info. In the Beech world, the clubs like ABS did not go away due to Beech Talk. I tried to join MAPA spring of 2022 when I was looking to buy a plane. Never got any answers.
  14. It sounds like they are loose.
  15. The difference is we are saying APR is ARMED, not ACTIVE.
  16. $10K is a drop in the bucket of a full panel redo.
  17. Supposedly rebooting. I have emailed and called every so often for the past 2 years and nothing.
  18. I think I read that if APR is armed, it will not kick off the autopilot when manually switching, but if APR is not armed, you will have to re-engage the AP. Now have to find that in the manual.
  19. FOR SURE. Many years ago, I had a Fiat 850 Spider. A couple up the street recently picked up a 124 Spider to go with their MG Midget.
  20. Do it in accordance with the POH. You are not showing how fast you can get down, you are showing that you can do what the POH says to do. Below is the POH for my 252. It allows either gear up at 196 KIAS or gear down, flaps up at 165 KIAS. Both give similar descent rates, but the gear down is a steeper angle.
  21. 900 and 930 can be primary. Both have fuel quantity
  22. I don't give my logbooks to anyone. I have a PDF of them and give the A&P/IA the PDF copy. They provide a signed sticker for me to add to the log book and scan to add to the PDF There are a number of stories around of shops losing logbooks. Or owner dies and logs are locked up, sometimes for years. Or shop goes under. Or, there is a dispute with owner over what was authorized, done, or charges and the shop refuses to release the logs.
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