Slick Nick

Your oversimplification is incorrect. You can increase flow without decreasing filtration. To use round numbers, let’s say an engine gets all the air it needs with a 10cm x 10cm square filter. So 100 square centimetres satisfies the needs of the engine at full throttle, at all Rpm’s. Suppose the filter area provided was 12x12cm now. You can afford to run a finer filter media, filtering MORE dirt, while still giving the engine all of the air it can physically deal with. If the stock size filter is more than adequate for the needs of the engine, then there are improvements to be made in filtration without sacrificing the amount of air available to the engine.

Depends. They’re all different. You need to measure what length you need. The cowl on my MSE takes everything from -4’s to -7’s depending on location. Don’t waste money on a kit just buy what you need from spruce. I believe the stock ones are stainless but CAD plated will work too.

Finding the wing won’t be an issue, places like BAS will have a few. It’s finding a shop that you trust to do the work that will be the tricky part, and then you’ve got to consider things like do the tanks in the new wing need resealimg, etc before you have it bolted on.

I don’t see why the prop would have any effect on rotation speed. It’s the same wing, isn’t it? The wing only cares about how much air is flowing over it. The method of propulsion is irrelevant.

I remember your original issue with the CFI and the gear doors debacle. Glad you got rid of that guy and found someone more knowledgeable.

Steam gauge fan here also, still gets me where I need to go!

So you mean those fancy glass newfangled instruments can’t even display two speeds simultaneously? An old dual-scale ASI has done that for decades.

Those are supposed to be attached from the underside of the upper wing skin. They were installed incorrectly. Probably costing you some speed also.

Don’t be in such a rush to put your airplane in an undesired state just because of some request from ATC. They are there to assist you. Rushing to comply was a mistake. A simple “unable” goes a long way in giving the controller more time to work out a different solution.

Those look great in my opinion, and you should really be proud of the work you put in! Well done!

To your point, imagine if that happened right before you needed to execute a go-around on an instrument approach. Perhaps one with a relatively complex missed approach procedure, in the mountains. Could end up going sideways in a hurry.

Yes, the certified Garmin products do lock up, and it happens much more often than you think. Especially dangerous is when one of the “all in one” units craps out, you lose everything and the only way to recover it is a complete power down. In flight, if you’re in IMC, that’s a dangerous situation.

Until the fancy touch screen Garmin that controls absolutely everything freezes up in flight and you can't even do so much as change a radio frequency...

What is this wire even for? Some sort of radio altimeter?

Why not install it in the right wing? Much more room to work with.

When I originally saw this on Facebook the day after it happened, I replied to one of your comments there, but I’ll reiterate here: great job getting it down in one piece. I’ve spent many many hours over that neck of the woods and I know the terrain out there is less than friendly. You were fortunate to find that road where you did, not just for the hard surface to land on, but for the link to civilization. Landing safely is no good if you can’t avoid exposure. I understand the reluctance in wanting to fly it after that, I think once you have a good mechanic go over it with a fine tooth comb, it will be good to go as long as they’re sure that they’ve found the cause.

Yes. They just painted over top of the issue, albeit probably not intentionally. It was only noticeable once the paint (which had nothing to adhere to) started flaking off.

It depends what's causing the issue. If it's an air leak, what's to say it doesn't suddenly get worse on your 30 mile flight and cook the cylinder? If there's a way for you to "limp" it there at a reduced power setting that may be advantageous.

Shot you a reply @Old Chub with my contact information in it.

Why do you care so much? Just move along and read another thread.

Speak for yourself. For how badly that shop hacked up the guy’s panel, he’s earned the right to vent as much as he wants to.

The fact that they couldn’t even be bothered to pick up the phone and call you makes me wonder what else they may have taken liberties with.

Disagree with this. If the throttle was originally installed before the panel was mounted, then a new one can be installed the same way. It may cost an extra 6 hours to remove / remount the panel, but that is exactly why you call the customer and ask what they would rather do. "This doesn't fit, we can either pull the panel to install it, which will cost you 6 hours, or we can do it in 1 hour by cutting a notch in the panel. Which would you prefer?" I would be absolutely furious if I saw my panel hacked up like that, and my panel isn't anywhere near as nice I assure you. The fact that they couldn't even be bothered to pick up the phone is troublesome. I have no skin in the game, I've never used this shop nor will I, being in another country. But lots of these anecdotes read as though the shop has grown "too big for it's britches" and the quality of work seems to be suffering.

Bought this on a whim last fall from Alan Fox on eBay. Not much use to me in a Canadian aircraft, as our ADS-B requirements are different and require 1090 diversity, so I’ve decided to go in a different direction. Brand new in box, opened only to take photos. For those not familiar with the GDL-82, it allows you to add ADS-B out to any mode C transponder equipped aircraft. It installs between your transponder and existing antenna, which allows for a seamless installation. Keep your panel intact, and minimize downtime. Includes: GDL-82 Unit GA-35 WAAS antenna Wiring harness Certificate of conformance Original invoice I paid $1800 USD for this unit, my loss is your gain. Will sell to a MooneySpace member for $1600 plus shipping. UNIT SOLD

Are they an improvement over stock? What I mean to say is, are they a different material that would be more forgiving to cracking / impact? Do you ship to Canada?