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We are an authorized reseller and installer of Surefly, and we’ve probably done about 12 of them at this point. No failures. We had trouble with one that somebody had installed before we connected with the client, it was a very early version 28 V. It would randomly stumble or shut off after flying for a while and I called them up and Just leveled with them and said send me a new unit so I can get this guy out the door and they did, and that was two years ago. He is still going fine. We had another one where It would not work, it wouldn’t power up to time properly. As it turns out, the surefly grounds to the engine and they powder coat the whole case of it and on this B36TC airplane, we had to run a separate wire from the surefly to the case and then it worked fine. That took a while to understand what was happening, so I would probably sand some of the powder coat off under the magneto clamp so that you have a sure fire ground on an IO550. He previously had two slick magneto’s and the TSIO520UB would not run lean of peak at all. And he probably spent a few thousand dollars chasing down induction leaks and GAMI injector tuning and everything else you can imagine. But since we installed the Surefly, along with a set of fine wire plugs, he’s been blown away. So they don’t advertise a performance increase, but I think it’s there.

Mooney did change the design of later bravo airplanes, and I think earlier ones were modified, they put a heat shield between the turbo and the firewall, and they rerouted the brake line tubing away from the area directly behind the firewall. That famous crash was because the outlet of the turbo torched a hole in the firewall, and then melted some plastic tubing that had brake fluid That would empty from the reservoir and feed the fire. Pretty much worst case.

I've got a serviceable Dukes actuator here. It came out of my plane because I converted to the newer style. The Ovation-style retrofit interior and the side crank dont really go together.

That’s obvious,, COM 1 is always the one with the biggest screen

We have done perhaps 12 of them. there's not much downside, in fact, the Surefly really isn't much more expensive than a new slick magneto, for example. They claim you can just drop it in, but it's not that simple, you have to run a wire from the battery which means pulling the left side wall panels and then getting a wire through the firewall. You also need to figure out if you're gonna keep the impulse coupling magneto, I certainly would, and then you need to figure out if you can repurpose the left side harness to fire all of the top plugs while you put the surefly on the bottom with fine wires.

If you push on the knob with 20 pounds of force against the stop, it will go to 2680, and when you let go of it, it will come back to 2500. But it appears that this doesn’t work in the air. at sometimes the stop pin on the arm contacts the screw, and when you overdrive it like that, it actually flexes that pin and allows the governor to move another quarter of a degree. It just seems really hard to believe that a quarter degree rotation is 100 RPM roughly.

Anything is possible for sure.

It’s governing it to 2500 rpm. The arm hits the stop and the cable has cushion. It just doesn’t seem to work properly after takeoff

ill go look again. The Nall report has a lot of info.

actually i think the SE piston accident rate between part 91 and 135 is something like 30 times less

Standard thickness side windows are fine and the standard vent is fine too. If you want a vent on the copilots side in the door window, you could do that but most people just open the door so I think it's a limited use. The quarter inch windshield is worth doing, but you have to bevel or sand the edge enough and create a step so that it will fit in the channel. It's another 3-4 hours of labor. But I think the quarter inch windshield is a good idea for hitting birds at 200 miles an hour. Do yourself a favor and get the solar control UV gray.

YES. its annoying

VA doesn’t have much to do with turbulence, that’s the maximum speed you can input any single control input without damaging the airframe. The top of the green arc relates to turbulence. And the Mooney is very strongly built, so keep it out of the yellow in rough turbulent air. Don’t make any full control inputs above VA.

We called our insurance company and were covered because it is an FAA listed airport so we went there. It's fine.

the vent is supposed to bend forward behind that mast

turn on the avionics master and master swtch for 20 mins every 3 months.

the rear piece is 2.5" x 36, the front is 2", not as sure the length, 24" IIRC is a couple inches short.

I used citrustrip on one set and I used a benzyl alcohol-peroxide stripper. Both worked fine. then prekote and tons of distilled water. Bake them and then apply epoxy DTM or Strontium chromate primer on them. then urethane 2k of your choice. We used white. its been like new for eleven years now.

We put a Tempest filter on a Piper Arrow and it seems equivalent to a Donaldson, its synthetic paper media. They flow more air than a Brackett.

We are an authorized installation specialist of Surefly. No buyers remorse yet. Lots of fans.

we get 124J hoses from Aero hose shop in granite city IL. They are OC, no stated life limit. Some are 15 years old here, still in service.

Yankees start on the other side of that river, here in Alexandria, Robert E. Lee’s boyhood home is just down the street, and it’s no secret why all the war dead are buried in Lee’s (wife’s) front yard in Arlington. pretty good booze availability, but yeah special stuff you gotta get it somewhere else.

The Bluetooth comes from the 275 EIS display so you’re betting that the unit works, just the display goes bad, also the GEA24B must work as well. That’s a pretty narrow set of failures. Personally the only thing I need to keep going is an oil pressure gauge , the rest of it’s nice to have but not critical.

its 1900$. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/pnpages/05-04532.php?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA74G9BhAEEiwA8kNfpQOesqcyZNCgoXpGRkCqSreaEqVcP5P51f-fgDf_d3Lr8qfRYu75pxoCrPMQAvD_BwE

The upper cowling probably, but the lower cowl is a whole bunch of extra stuff such as the landing light wiring, the carburetor air boot, or the ram air door, which takes 15 or 20 minutes of it just to disconnect without it falling apart. the the oil cooler and the hoses that go to that. They’re fastened into the inside of the lower cowl also.