DonMuncy

Even more good help.

Thanks. I knew if I asked, someone would be able to point me in the right direction. Excellent advice John.

The ones on my plane were made by Rochester.

On my last flight, my electric trim quit working. It has its own switch on the panel and cycled that. No help. Has anyone had this happen or know of any common faults for that failure. The most obvious way to start (from my perspective) would be to check the motor to see if it is getting power. Any better ideas?

Call and talk to Carl, at Houston Tank Specialists.

What Mitch said. I had a 356B at one time.

That was what I was afraid of. Everybody but me uses the long a. All of you do say Avgas with a short a don't you? And I don't remember when or where I picked it up. It is probably not regional. I think it is just me. I will change my pronunciation, and quit sounding like a dork (at least in this case). Thanks much.

Last night a friend asked me why I pronounced aviation with a short "a" sound (like we use for Avgas) rather than the long "a" like the sound in eight. I had never thought about it, but admitted I pronounced it that way. I looked on several places on Google and each one said the correct sound was the long a. Have I just been wrong all these years and never knew it; do others use the short sound; or what? It pains me to use improper English, especially if I don't know I am doing it.

Unfortunately, Aaron took a job with another company and is no longer "in business" I real loss for us.

Your employer(s) is sure paranoid. I would be tempted to get some computer genius to help me un-disable one of them or something, just to know that I could foil their system.

The names or the vehicles?

A hangar elf bent a an aluminum strip about 3/4 wide and 1/8 or less thick, into the same shape as the cover and epoxied (JB Weld or some such) on to the cover on mine. The screws through the aluminum do not wallow out the holes like plastic does.

Be careful with the testing. It doesn't take much pressure to run the ASI to the max and beyond, damaging the instrument.

The intellect and vocabularies of MSers is amazing

I'm glad I live in Texas.

And be careful about the screws and washers. The electrics for the senders is a little strange.

It is easy to pull the interior panels on the sides just in front of the front seats. The inside senders are right there. If they are leaking you should be able to see the blue stain. If you decide to tighten them, don't overdo it. Could be on either side; equally likely.

Most of them are located just to the left of the co-pilot's left knee. You aren't expected to know everything to start.

If this is true Mark, GAMI should caution people about using it on GAMInjectors.

Has anyone here did the Ultra Leather thing themselves. Is it put on with contact cement? Does it stretch around the various curves well?

I was (still am) having trouble getting my JPI 700 to download flight data. I talked to the JPI folks and they suggested "resetting" the instrument back to its original settings, and if that didn't fix it, it would need to go back to them for repair. Their directions for the reset were insufficient for my competency level, and in my blundering around, I managed to screw up the JPI K factor, without knowing where it started. Does anyone know what the starting K factor should be. I realize it needs to be fine tuned to be highly accurate, but I need a place to start. I'm pretty sure the cruise fuel flow setting of 60 gph is not quite right.

Great job Jolie.

Just how did you discover that?

I applaud you. All of us should read all our manuals etc. carefully. And re-read them periodically, so as to keep these "one the fly" learning experiences at a minimum.

I guess this "vector departure" thing is just one of those you don't know about until you run into it like I did, or read about someone who did. Maybe everyone else reads their GTN users guide closer than I would if I had a GTN.