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  1. Jerry 5TJ
    A magnetic sensor’s heading accuracy is degraded near the magnetic poles. From G500 Pilot’s Guide:
  2. 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.
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    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.
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    ✔️ Buy the plane in the best condition, with the best maintenance history and best modern avionics you can find.
  5. Jerry 5TJ
    FAR 61.51 (d) does seem clearly to define “solo” as meaning no other person in the plane. I suppose the FAA wanted Commercial Pilot candidates to successfully fly a cross country. So, no bringing along a friend to help find the “direct to” button.
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    $250 when I replaced mine, 10 years ago.
  7. Jerry 5TJ
    Home from the Holidays Fine winter day ahead of the big storm to the west. Three miles visibility in haze at takeoff, several layers of broken clouds up to about 12,000 and some traces of ice here and there reminds me it’s not summer.
  8. Jerry 5TJ
    FAA PBN Overview See Table 7 for timeline.
  9. Jerry 5TJ
    CFI & CFI-I
  10. Jerry 5TJ
    This was a good one. It sold for $295.00. https://www.ebay.com/itm/R-C-ALLEN-Electric-AI-Attitude-Gyro-RCA26BK-6-28V/223762507841?pageci=5d632bbe-e551-4349-983b-f6667b478e52 But I would strongly suggest you get at the least a solid state replacement gyro. Perhaps something like this? https://www.ebay.com/itm/R-C-ALLEN-RCA2600-3-3-Digital-Electric-Attitude-Indicator/143478843440?hash=item2168016830:g:thkAAOSwC-5ds0XJ
  11. Jerry 5TJ
    The PT6A is easier to start than an IO-360. Apparently she didn’t read up on how to operate the brakes.
  12. Jerry 5TJ
    The sales prices of KI256 on eBay are pretty attractive. Many apparently good ones seem to go for $250-$400 now. At that price level you could buy one or two and carry on a few years. Please do get a backup AI of some sort, though.
  13. Jerry 5TJ
    I saw my plane show up on FlightAware with a track over the Gulf moving at over Mach 1. I doubt it was real.
  14. Jerry 5TJ
    The G5 now may be installed in FIKI airplanes. G5 in FIKI aircraft
  15. Jerry 5TJ
    I’d long suspected that. Thanks for the verification. When overstressed an M20 seems never to break a wing. Something else yields first.
  16. Jerry 5TJ
    Mooneyspace: “my stock C model cruises at 155 knots true.”
  17. Jerry 5TJ
    From a Peter Garrison magazine article: Reader: ”My wife doesn’t like to fly with me. What can I do?” Peter: ”That’s interesting: My first wife used to say that, too.”
  18. Jerry 5TJ
    Piper offers the Mirage and Matrix which are SE piston retracts. And they have two models of SE turboprop retracts.
  19. Jerry 5TJ
    Which color LEGO makes the best sealant?
  20. Jerry 5TJ
    Tipton is an easily-accessible GA airport just south of BWI and clear of the inner ring of the SFRA. Suggestion to file IFR is a good idea: That makes the flight like any other IFR operation to an airport located under Class B airspace. Don’t cancel until you are on the ground. Clearance delivery before departure via your cell phone is straightforward. The FAA training mainly covers VFR operations inside the SFRA, and the additional requirements of the “Maryland 3” airports. Little of that applies to an IFR flight into and out of Tipton
  21. Jerry 5TJ
    The early US airmail pilots would sometimes parachute out if unable to land due to weather. (Perhaps they called it the Cirrus option......)
  22. Jerry 5TJ
    As long as your GPS antenna is outside the Bravo, you should be good!
  23. Jerry 5TJ
    These departures are available in the ForeFlight airport information page under, ah, Departures. The listed departures can’t be overlaid on the map page nor sent to the panel as part of a route. The databases for the panel nav box don’t list all procedures, just the ones it is certified to fly, so when I get an unexpected (unexpected by me, that is) procedure I check ForeFlight first.
  24. Jerry 5TJ
    Ask again in 3 weeks.
  25. Jerry 5TJ
    To wit: after 1/1/2020 it wii be “remain clear” if we’re not equipped.
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