N201MKTurbo

It looks like the radar has the antenna angle very low, it is seeing the ground. I have had the opportunity to operate one of the weather service radars. They are normally set on automatic, but sometime the operator will run it manually, or it could be down for maintenance and the tech forgot to take it offline. Either way the radar got into the national database when it shouldn't have.

I'll be there Monday and Tuesday. Last time I was there they wouldn't allow fire or beer in the airplane parking area. Have they changed the rules? I parked at FonDuLac one year, now that is the party airport, Everybody was drinking and grilling.

It usually just bends the push rod. Back in the 80s when Phillips XC came out there were a lot of stuck exhaust valves and a lot of bent pushrods. I had one that bent so bad it bent the tube and it was obvious without disassembling the engine. It has to be traumatic on the valve train.

If the cylinders are that low time I would just run it for a while. High time engines will stick from deposits on the valve stem, but yours should be pretty clean. I would wait for them to wear in. What oil are you using?

If I need to move the airplane the prop goes horizontal so I can use the tow bar. If it is snowing outside I make the prop vertical so the snow melt can run out and not freeze in the spinner. Other then that I don't care. The engine always stops with the prop at 2:00.

You can fix it with 3oz fiberglass cloth and black RTV. That is pretty much what it is made from.

On both my F and J the up trim limit is set by the vertical stabilizer hitting the dorsal faring. I usually set it so when the hand wheel is at the nose up stop the vertical stabilizer is about 1/8 inch from hitting the faring. This seems to get the takeoff setting just right. I realize some of the older models didn't have the faring.

Too bad it won't work on my IO-360 A3B6D

So what would electronic ignition give us? Easier starting - Yes! Longer spark plug life - Yes! Less misfires - Yes! Better mileage - maybe. More Power - probably not. Able to burn lower octane fuel - Yes, at reduced power. What would EFI give us? Automatic mixture control - I don't mind adjusting the mixture. The reason aviation has not adopted the electronic controls is, under critical analysis they don't have that much to offer. Aircraft engines are not operated the same as car engines. Most of their time is spent at constant RPM and throttle settings. In a car you are constantly changing these. Big difference!

When I said the cam, I implied the lifters. I've seen pitted and spalled lifters before, always on planes that don't fly often. It just don't think it happens much here in Arizona. The current dewpoint is 26F for a relative humidity if 8%. That will dehydrate almost anything.

90% of my flights are solo, so it doesn't matter. If I'm taking passengers I'll hit the pattern.

Nothing rusts in phoenix. You can sand a car down to bare metal and park it out side, a year later it will still be shiny. If you are really worried pay someone to pull all the cylinders so you can inspect the cam and lifters. I just put all my cylinders on last night, my cam looks fine.

I bought a one pound container of 1 um molybdenum disulfide powder on line about 10 years ago. it will make enough actuator grease to last me a life time.

I get my O2 filled at the gas plant. I watch them hook it to the same giant manifold that feeds the welding, medical and aviation oxygen bottles. (US Airweld) I talked to the shop foreman and he said the only difference with ABO is that he tests every bottle to make sure it complies with the standard. I asked if a bottle ever failed. He said "not in the 35 years I've worked here". Which means that they haven't produced a bottle of oxygen in 35 years that wouldn't pass for ABO.

The screen and drain should be inspected every annual. Maybe they missed it the last few years.

its possible, but high pressure hoses are expensive and not very flexible.

BTW, If you are flying at night in southern Arizona, do some "Crazy Ivan's" once in a while to see if anybody is tailing you. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crazy%20Ivan

This happened to me in 1990, just as described in the article. It doesn't seem like anything has changed in the last 23 years. I can't believe the government thought that chasing me with a Citation for 2 1/2 hours was a good use of tax dollars. Especially when they had all their facts completely wrong. I think that the aviation branch of the Customs Service is just trying to justify their existence. I have a friend who used to work as a Pilot for the Customs Service. He told me that they hardly ever discover a drug runner by trolling the sky with their Citations. He said that they find out about the drug runners with old fashion detective work and then intercept the ones they already knew were coming. This is an extremely expensive government program that produces very few results and harasses innocent pilots and passengers.

Yes, it is in the intake system after the servo. It will allow unmetered air into the intake manifold. It is a small leak, so it will only have a significant effect at idle.

The DPD is just the temperature dew point spread. The red areas have a large spread meaning it is very dry at the 700 MB level.

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Stuck sump drain. The fuel probably cleaned it out. The sump drain is a one way valve in the right angle fitting in the bottom of the air box in the bottom of the engine. It closes when the engine is running and should open when there is no longer negative pressure in the intake manifold, allowing the excess fuel to drain out.

The guy in the video did a good job recovering from the stall. I bet his passengers will never want to fly with him again.

Plugs don't care how high they are, but Mags do. You could have a weak mag that cannot fire the weak plug, but can fire the new plug with the proper gap. Every time I've had your symptoms, resetting the points and internal timing takes care of it.

Back in '90 I was returning from the Super Bowl in NOLA with a TV crew and we couldn't get out of the airport for 6 hours because my plane was parked behind about a hundred business jets. Anyway we got a late start, and were bucking a head wind. I flew from El Paso to Phoenix at low level at night through the mountains to get better winds. We landed at Sky Harbor (KPHX - the big one) to drop off a few of the passengers. As soon as I got out of the plane I was surrounded by about 10 guys with M16s. They were accusing me of crossing from Mexico and avoiding radar. They said that I was flying in southern Arizona without a flight plan (is that illegal?). I told them they were full of it, that I was talking to El Paso approach for 60 miles. They finally left me alone after i showed them a fuel receipt from Ft Stockton Texas with a time stamp on it.