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  1. varlajo
    Oh yeah, definitely. Those things are my backup solution to get below 10,000 in case the concentrator fails. Won't do me much good over the Rockies, but I hear all battery-operated devices get +2 resilience and +2 mana over mountainous terrain by default..
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    John Deakin, 1999: "When lead is needed, there is NO known practical (chemical) substitute, and none is likely to be found. The big petroleum companies have MAJOR reasons to find a fix (cost), and they and the FAA have been searching and experimenting very hard for nearly 10 years, at great expense. With no results. I've been to a lot of seminars where representatives from the petroleum companies stand up and expound for an hour, when they could have saved a lot of time by standing up and simply saying, "There has been no progress in this area," and sitting down again."
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    I have cut the tubing to remove most of the slack and added this splitter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09K45R3J5 Works great for me and the passenger, mostly at setting 4 or 5, sometimes switching to MAX when my workload increases. Not tested above 17,500 ft. I think being a concentrator it will most likely not work in flight levels where the initial oxygen levels are very low. The unit lives in the passenger's footwell. I decided against connecting the concentrator to ship power and use two large batteries instead. One battery is more than sufficient for a 4-5 hour flight.
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    Thanks, this is helpful! So MAPA and MSF are the same entity then?
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    Don't even know which one is the worst scenario )
  6. varlajo
    Nah, the printout was in the back seat of my plane when I picked it up from the broker.
  7. varlajo
    The curriculum looks pretty generic, tbh. What am I missing? Is this program in any way related to MAPA PPP? I have a beat up copy of MAPA PPP training manual, which is actually amazing.
  8. varlajo
    Thank you. Appreciate the truly gargantuan effort!
  9. varlajo
    Yeah, definitely true.
  10. varlajo
    Exactly. When you buy a Glock, you do not establish a relationship with Glock, but rather with the gun store and with your state's bureaucracy. Your sheriff might have something to say about it, but not the Austrians..
  11. varlajo
    What software version(s) are you guys running?
  12. varlajo
    Curiouser and curiouser..
  13. varlajo
    Great question. In this scenario, no business transaction occurs and no relationship is established between GAMI and RV owner.
  14. varlajo
    How do you combine Main and Electrical in one tab in your G3X? Mine has separate tabs for Main, Electrical, and Fuel, which irritates me to no end..
  15. varlajo
    Speed tape!!
  16. varlajo
    I don't have the requisite spine and testicular fortitude for such transition from operating a single knob to reliably covering three, which may all be at somewhat different position each time. Given that the mixture knob is the farthest from the original hand position, I think it's the one that is the easiest to miss or to accidentally slip off of. (I do not possess enough knowledge to comment on simultaneous operation of engine controls in a IO-550A).
  17. varlajo
    Nice plane, great price. Good luck!
  18. varlajo
    This is one of the very rare instances where I consciously break St. Busch / St. Deakin's commandments. The safety consideration of not having to move three levers in the correct order in a potentially high-stress situation of a go around due to a bounce, "baby on the runway", or something else wins, in my humble personal opinion, over the cylinder longevity consideration. As a matter of fact, in the end of descent the cylinders are comparatively cool anyways.
  19. varlajo
    What is your mixture position on landing? Full rich (per POH) or last cruise setting (per Deakin @ Co.)?
  20. varlajo
    Same. I routinely see 240..260 dF CHTs operating deep LOP in winter, and I am not particularly concerned about lead scavenging as I see zero evidence of deposits on spark plugs.
  21. varlajo
    I have been toying with this idea as well. Any opinions on whether a non-credit option, i.e. taking classes and graduating with a "vocational certificate" is of any use for potential FAA A&P certification?
  22. varlajo
    But the range will increase.
  23. varlajo
    Correct, the last cylinder to reach the desired LOP or ROP delta, which is not necessarily the last cylinder to peak.
  24. varlajo
    Totally agree, once you get to really know your engine. Took me a while to map fuel flow at various altitudes and to get used to some of my engine's quirks.
  25. varlajo
    I lean to the point where the lowest delta meets my requirements, e.g. for 50 LOP lean to -58..-61..-50..-57 or some such.
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