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  1. Jerry 5TJ
    I spoke to the supervisor of the (local class D) control tower in early February. I asked about ADS-B Out compliance. He said they are seeing a few Mode A/C planes coming through daily. The controller advises the pilot “Your ADS-B appears inoperative.” For now, the FSDO has yet to start enforcing the 2020 requirements, he said.
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    A switching mode buck regulator would be more efficient. But our Mooney planes are of an older design era Yes, the dimmer circuit is resistive only. My guess: The fixed resistor takes some of the thermal load that otherwise would be dissipated solely in the potentiometer.
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    The remote audio panel and intercom controls displayed on GTN750 are much more intuitive than the panel mount’s buttons.
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    Cirrus says they spin tested both the SR20 and SR22. Cirrus Interview
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    I’ve been into Bartow for SnF twice in recent years. The folks at the FBO are very welcoming. Enterprise sets up a car rental desk at the FBO for the week.
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    The next big sales “feature” may be autoland. The Piper M600 is available with that now, the Cirrus jet soon will have the “magic” button. Others to follow. Sooner or later one of those planes will land and come to a stop on the runway with an incapacitated or dead pilot in the seat. I suspect higher-end Cirrus piston planes will be offered with that option soon. I think emergency autoland will further enable Cirrus to dominate the piston market.
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    Thanks, Scott for your perspective. I start flight planning with a look at the National Wx maps: Location of fronts, areas of L and H pressure. NEXRAD and the AWC convective and icing graphic forecasts are next. By this point I’ve sometimes already decided against a flight just based on that initial overview.
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    Those stripes are good for estimating distance regardless of runway width: The end marking stripes are 150’ long. The runway centerline paint stripes are 120’ long with 80’ gaps: The start of one centerline stripe is 200’ from the start of the next centerline stripe. (Disclaimer: I am only a CFI, not an expert in painting runways)
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    SV displayed on the G500 I DO find useful. It’s SV on the little screen that’s less helpful.
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    Piper PA46 airframes and wings have life limits.
  11. Jerry 5TJ
    Day One sounds very like the CFI spin training I did this month in a Citabria. Two flights, about 3 hours, steep turns, wing-overs, spins out of steep turns and level, falling leaf, a flattened spin due to deliberate wrong recovery. I found it lots of fun. I had to be reminded when scanning for traffic to look down, too -- our flight path in a spin was just about vertical.
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    I too elected to do without SV on my ESI500: Display is a bit small for effective SV cues.
  13. Jerry 5TJ
    You’ve narrowed the problem to the unit itself. Besides opening it up and modifying it to reduce EMI what’s left?
  14. Jerry 5TJ
    Does this radio interference happen when you run the D3 on its internal battery or only when you use the charger to the mini USB connector on the D3?
  15. Jerry 5TJ
    A JetA -burning turbodiesel 300 hp 5 seat pressurized retractable with G1000 suite for under €500,000? Sounds good. We’ll see.
  16. Jerry 5TJ
    You make a valid point -- 20 years ago there was no same-cost option between a used SE Turboprop or a new Piston as the former had a price twice that of the new plane. Now, for your $800K you can get a nice Turbine. Sure, it costs more to run than the new piston. It goes faster, higher, etc, too. So it is not just Cirrus in competition with the new Ultras -- a modest flock of used turboprops also competes for Joe Pilot's attention.
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    Perhaps that’s it — The market for high performance Avgas powered aircraft peaked 15 years ago.
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    First he tried to sell it but found no buyer for a 9,000 hour P210. Then he sold it to a parts salvage operation. Collins Scraps His P210
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    As backup for those pesky GPS outages —
  20. Jerry 5TJ
    I saved a spot for the GI 275 when I did a copilot side clean-up last year:
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    That was my expectation as well, until I set up my iPhone with ForeFlight to display an Attitude Indicator (using the AHRS in the FlightStream 210). The 2.5” wide display (iPhone X) has similar resolution to the GI 275 and it shows SV clearly.
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    KI 300 RIP.
  23. Jerry 5TJ
    All Mooney models have basically the same room in the front seats. As for Truckee — I operated my C (180 hp) out of there occasionally. Day VFR it was ok. The IMC departures require climb rates the C is unable to meet.
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    .....I just enter the NDB identifier into the GTN750 and it works fine.....
  25. Jerry 5TJ
    The issue is the magnetic sensor & not the gyro, spinning or solid state. If you want a backup AI that won’t be affected by magnetic issues you don’t need to keep the rotating mechanical gyro. As an example an RCA-2610-3 will work fine at all latitudes. And it won’t tumble. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/inpages/rca2610.php?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxcyOz4vy5gIVFKSzCh0lyQsIEAQYASABEgLG_fD_BwE
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