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  1. Jerry 5TJ
    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.
  2. Jerry 5TJ
    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.
  3. Jerry 5TJ
    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.
  4. Jerry 5TJ
    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)
  5. Jerry 5TJ
    SV displayed on the G500 I DO find useful. It’s SV on the little screen that’s less helpful.
  6. Jerry 5TJ
    Piper PA46 airframes and wings have life limits.
  7. 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.
  8. Jerry 5TJ
    I too elected to do without SV on my ESI500: Display is a bit small for effective SV cues.
  9. Jerry 5TJ
    You’ve narrowed the problem to the unit itself. Besides opening it up and modifying it to reduce EMI what’s left?
  10. 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?
  11. Jerry 5TJ
    A JetA -burning turbodiesel 300 hp 5 seat pressurized retractable with G1000 suite for under €500,000? Sounds good. We’ll see.
  12. 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.
  13. Jerry 5TJ
    Perhaps that’s it — The market for high performance Avgas powered aircraft peaked 15 years ago.
  14. Jerry 5TJ
    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
  15. Jerry 5TJ
    As backup for those pesky GPS outages —
  16. Jerry 5TJ
    I saved a spot for the GI 275 when I did a copilot side clean-up last year:
  17. Jerry 5TJ
    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.
  18. Jerry 5TJ
    KI 300 RIP.
  19. 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.
  20. Jerry 5TJ
    .....I just enter the NDB identifier into the GTN750 and it works fine.....
  21. 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
  22. Jerry 5TJ
    A magnetic sensor’s heading accuracy is degraded near the magnetic poles. From G500 Pilot’s Guide:
  23. Jerry 5TJ
    USB power ports do provide 5 volts DC. None are higher voltage. USB ports built to newer standards such as 3.0 will provide higher current than the early versions. No USB port will provide a lot of power — the maximum 1.5 amps output at 5 volts is (let me get my slide rule) only 7.5 watts.
  24. Jerry 5TJ
    Perhaps the market prices are driven up by replacement of failed, unrepairable 430s. It is much cheaper to slide in a working used unit than to rewire for a new model. If the Avionics shop gives you a choice — $6K to swap your dead 430 for a used replacement or $20K for a new installation GTN650 — it’s a way to get back aloft quickly.
  25. Jerry 5TJ
    ✔️ Buy the plane in the best condition, with the best maintenance history and best modern avionics you can find.
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