mooniac58

Hey man, your competing with my auctions!!! Actually the only thing we have in common anymore is that Mooney airspeed indicator...I sold my Altimeter and VSI already. My almost new Garmin 102 and 106 CDIs were very popular though, one buyer jumped on the 102 "buy it now" price and there is a small bidding war going on with my 106A LOC/GS indicator. What suprised me more than anything was a local guy bought my 496 handheld for $1000.00! I think you can get the Aera's cheaper than that now.

Just thought I would point out that I am selling a bunch of Mooney parts and general instruments that were removed as part of my recent Aspen upgrade project. http://motors.shop.ebay.com/floydboy58/m.html?_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A4740&rt=nc&_ipg=100&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14.l1514 Thanks for looking! Craig

What browser you using? That is probably more relevant than the OS version. It sounds like an issue with the editor window not working right on the platform.

Some day I hope to get the time back in my life to work on many of the weirdness with the site. I did not build this site from the ground up as I do with all my other projects so a lot of the "borrowed" code is flaky at best. Sorry!

Try logging out and back in and then re-try the delete function.

My issue with the long range tanks is weight. I have me, my wife, two carseats with 20-30lb kids in them (and growing every year) plus at least 50-70lbs in baggage. Even if I had long range tanks I could not fill them unless flying solo. Sadly my J model is just a couple years off from being able to get the weight increase STC.

Most excellent. Thanks Mitch!

Did you say that last part with your pinky finger at the side of your lips and a hairless cat on your lap?

Can anyone elaborate on products you use for polishing the aluminum? My harzell top prop spinner is looking pretty dull these days...

That's funny, every time I look at it I think "that could have been a Ferrari 360 Modena" No just kidding, I have no regrets on the insanity of what I have done with my J...it is something I plan on hanging on to forever so I don't kid myself about resale values, etc.

That is true. I will keep the 430W on one of two pages, either the far left NAV page with CDI indications, distance & time to waypoint, etc. Or I will have it on the FPL page to show my full flight plan and time to each point. As in the attached image, I normally have it showing my flight plan. The course deviation on the HSI is accurate enough to know my autopilot is doing its job. The Aspen displays just your IAS, TAS, Ground Speed, Altitude, artificial horizon, Magnetic Heading, ground track (MFD only), Previous Waypoint, Next Waypoint, Waypoint after that, time to next waypoint, OAT, and Wind Direction & Wind Speed. It only has granular CDI indications for ILS loc/gs or WAAS approaches. Enroute you just have the HSI, which I think is fine for enroute course tracking...but as you said the 430W can always give you refined course deviation data. I am not sure the new 650 will improve this experience. Don't get me wrong though, I think I will likely buy one in a year or so - but it will be more based on my addication to techie gadgets and less becuase it will improve the functionality in the cockpit. But I hope I am wrong! ;-)

Yeah, as fantom is stating you will get GPSS as part of an Aspen PFD, so paying for GPSS now when you are confident you are going Aspen at some point might be a waste of money. Sadly I have GPSS built into my Stec-55X (not optional) that is not being used at all since the Aspen does its magic with the Stec in plain old HDG mode. On topic I am very interested in swapping my GNS430W with a GTN650 - but I am going to wait a while to let someone else find all the kinks and bugs that are inevitably in there. After a few software revs things should be smooth. Honestly though, with an Aspen PFD and two MFDs I really don't use the GPS for anything other than keying in my route and selecting COM/NAV freqs. For all moving map, traffic, Nexrad, HSI and everything else I am looking at the Aspens 99% of the time - the GPS basically becomes nothing more than an input device like a keyboard on a PC.

I have a BoomBeam from LoPresti. I am really happy with it. I also did not use the XeVision because of the 337. At the time I was based in Hawaiii and there is only one FSDO office (the next one is 2400nm away!!) and I did not want to deal with them - they are slow and a**holes for the most part ;-) But back on topic - the difference is huge. I can see the runway from a good 1/4 mile away now - compared to my stock light that was pretty much showing me the numbers from about 50 feet away!

I had just 70 hours total time when I bought my M20J in April of 2007. I have since put about 420 hours on her. What a marvelous aircraft!

I do find that 700 series kind of cool with hidden audio panel and transponder though, that would clean the panel up a little - if they could jab my Stec-55 controls and a second radio into one unit like that I might take the bait. I don't need all the XM and traffic - I have that on my Aspen PFD/MFDs in a much more useful enviornment. If you can enter and edit flight plans and tune radios quicker and easier on these new units then they could justify themselves.

I was just down at my shop looking over my plane and the owner told me that I could post this offer on the site for any interested Mooney owners. Basically Aspen is currently offering $1000 in rebates if you buy a PFD1000/MFD500 combo and Pat Horgan (owner of SAF Aero) said that he would give an additional $500 on these two units intsalled bringing the total discount to $1500. If you are interested just pop over to their site at http://www.santafeaero.com/ I can confirm that their quality of workmanship is top-notch and their shop is ultra-organized and professional. You can see pictures of the job they did for me below

I think the rebooting problem requires a unit replacement - but Aspen should be able to assist you I would bet.