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I just installed the Whelen LED baggage light and Don Muncy’s timer and it’s awesome. Push the momentary on switch and you get 20 mins of light. Thanks @Donmuncy for such a great idea !

We love the 275 EIS

Robinson derates their engines to improve altitude performance. They can still make the rated HP to 5000. It’s not for longevity. Lycoming recommends 75% power and less because you can lean it there. You can run it at a higher power setting but it goes pretty quickly to full rich which is pretty awful fuel specifics. 65% is pretty much the most efficient power setting for airplanes. It sells airplanes. https://www.timtuckershelicopterworld.com/post/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-robinson-s-derated-engines

Second this ! Both experts !

Primary engine monitor like a GI275 EIS

It is not gentler on the engine, in fact, I would say that it’s worse. You spent a longer period of time in your climb at a very rich mixture which trashes the oil and the piston ring lands, and put carbon everywhere else too. And then also the climb takes longer. It’s further down range and it also often runs warmer because airplanes climb because of excess horsepower so when you reduce horsepower certain amount it all comes at the expense of climb. There’s an acquaintance of ours who runs the air race classic in her 182 and she’s probably done a dozen of them. Now the engine is past TBO and she’s doing the race this year too. If all that full bore low altitude max power leaned to a hundred rich peak a lot of times is so bad for it, Imagine how long it would’ve lasted otherwise.

I’m not sure if any RTV is fuel resistant.

George’s has been closed for years now.

I’m really surprised that 20:1 gears were ever OK’d. The gear slams up and down and shock loads on everything are so high it’s going to break and wear out stuff.

Airflow performance sells a sniffle valve that you can thread into a 90° brass adapter

This lunatic fringe stuff has no business at Airventure. If you want to display something that’s one thing but if you’re going to operate it and give rides in it, the public deserves a higher standard of care here. Four people were killed in a single day at the airshow last year. Few more days like this, and there may not be an airshow at all because they didn’t do the right thing and police themselves.

I wonder what makes you think that the electroair is crude? I’ve installed plenty of both and I have an electro air on my plane, even though I think the performance is about the same, the electroair has a quite a bit larger coil and more voltage than the surefly. That said, I wouldn’t install two of any of these electronic devices. Once is lit, it’s lit.

We just removed the Dukes actuator with 40:1 gears from our airplane. We installed a Eaton actuator with the entire set up as well. But it’s for sale now.

Well, this is on a twin Comanche, which requires pulling all four seats and the seat rails and pulling up all the carpet and all of the floor plates to get to the wire bundle to pull the wire up to the cockpit and then going behind the panel and interfacing it into an already installed GTN750 and a GMA 345 and perhaps four hours of that was spent trying to figure out how to wire up the signal wire to the gear switch, as it turns out, they actually actually had some kind of drawing which was backwards, but it was at least somewhat informative enough to get us to figure out one of eight different ways to get a diode in series with the bulb to let the LHS know it was on the ground. Don’t forget you gotta find 12 V somewhere and pull it to a breaker and then take that to the unit as well. The owner of the company says since they are norsee, and there’s no STC that the documentation is minimal, you’re required to figure out yourself. I’m pretty stupid, but I’m also smart enough to know that you can’t wire a self grounded unit into the GMA 345 audio panel because it violates the fact that the grounds are supposed to be isolated. There is a high and a low on each audio input for a reason. I do find an interesting that the manufacturer did tell you that you have to have either a breaker somewhere that you can pull quickly or a switch on the panel somewhere to turn it off in case it goes crazy. But it goes to an unswitched audio input, but then you have a safety device that may or may not be on all the time depending on whether it freaks out or not. Anyway, you guys can do what you want, but we had one experience with this thing and it was pretty terrible.

Then they shouldn’t be giving rides or engaging activities that may cause risk to the general public. Maybe I’ve been married to a lawyer too long here, but you should not be holding your self out to the public if you do not have adequate insurance. It may be they are uninsurable for a reason, because their activities or their products are too damn dangerous for the general public. I’m pretty sure one thing, people like this make the insurance more expensive for the rest of us who do the right thing. The EAA has absolute control over their vendors, and I get that some guy selling insurance in a booth is pretty low risk, but somebody giving rides in a rotorcraft is high risk to begin with, and they should either be adequately insured or they should give rides somewhere off premises, but somehow I had to have $1 million liability insurance that names EAA specifically and has a waiver of subrogation just to participate in a closes course air race two counties away while a guy giving rides over a crowd of 10,000 people doesn’t have to have anything. That’s part of the reason why we’re not going to Oshkosh this year. But they paid their officers and Director handsomely. And I’m kind of tired of that shit too.

Thanks for setting the record straight. The EAA is supposedly a reputable organization, but they should ban the shit bag fly-by-night half as erector set airplane and aircraft companies who get people killed or will eventually. They don’t need the money that bad. I’m all for experiments and inventing new stuff and pushing the industry forward, but there are plenty of charlatans who are swimming naked and they bring people down with them. And they should exercise some due diligence with that. Perhaps they take some of my $300 I had to pay to join the air race that doesn’t even go to Oshkosh to pay some people to vet these attendees. Anybody giving rides or displaying Aircraft needs to have a bond posted for the full amount of damage that they could physically cause. I mean, I have $1 million policy on my plane for a reason. And if they can’t afford that then they shouldn’t be building airplanes or selling rides or selling kits or selling anything. My feeling is if you actually hire a real lawyer and name them in a lawsuit, the 80 grand for your plane is gonna come forth really quick. Because they gotta pay money to defend the lawsuit just like you gotta pay money to sue them, but they actually have to pay more because they’re pretty culpable if you look at it.

Require adequate liability insurance for everybody giving demo rides. Frankly, they should require for all attendees. Make it a condition on that card whenever you tie your plane down for camping. I talked to the plane owner after it happened, and the person giving the rides had the aircraft registered to some fake LLC in Delaware and he basically holed up in a hotel for a couple days with a fake name and then disappeared. And that’s not OK.

What happens more than likely wind gets underneath of one wing or the other or weather vanes and then snaps the tiedowns or the straps and then it flips the airplane over or sends it across the ramp. Otherwise why tie airplanes down at all, if they only become effective when the airplane lifts off of the ground.

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We installed one of those micro light LHS systems, but the install data for this thing is severely lacking. And when I called them about it, they said well since it was Narcy and it was supplemental that they don’t have to document it as well. I should’ve just returned the system. It took us 15 hours to integrate it into the audio panel and the GPS And actually were violating the audio panels install manual because we are connecting this unit to the audio panel, but it’s grounded internally so it introduces electrical noise into the audio system. That said, after we configured it works pretty well except for counts up when you overflare and balloons, slightly, and it’s rather annoying.

You can buy these little cable lubricator things that screw over the end of the cable where the core goes into the jacket. Then you stick a can of triflow on there and you pressurize the cable with that.

You might as well leave it untied. This tie straps things have a breaking strength often less than 300 pounds which that plane will make 300 pounds of lift in a 35 knot gust.

We found it interesting to do the air venture cup race, They require insurance with adequate limits and also they have to be named specifically with the waiver of subrogation which cost us an extra $260 this year. But to fly into Oshkosh or fly while giving rides there you’re not required to have insurance at all. I think the OP here probably has a valid lawsuit against EAA for failing to do their due regard to protect and visitors.

We bought a Delta Zulu headset for the Oshkosh show special and it also pops and turns off during the takeoff roll and it also does it sometimes during taxi with the window or the door open. It also has a lot more system electrical noise, it’s barely audible in the Zulu headset but it’s quite clear and present in the Delta Zulu. They made the cord completely non-functional because it used to be able to hang it from a circuit breaker on the panel or something and now it just kind of sits on the floor and gets ran over, anyway the performance if it’s good when it works, but I called today to ask them about the firmware update and they say it cures it but you know I’m surprised they shipped this product like this because they didn’t do enough real world testing. And if they had flown, any kind of Mooney or taxi in the airplane with the door open, they realize that the external microphone gets so blown up by wind buffeting that it overwhelms the circuitry and turns off the ANR.but we shouldn’t be finding this out about a $1200 headset after They ship a few thousand of them. Plus the connector requires the headset to be taken home to be charged up. We can’t Just take the battery pack home and charge that. And then, besides that it’s some kind of nonstandard connector that nobody’s ever ever heard of.

its really bad right now. Nobody has them and new is probably a year and 12 grand