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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

A client of mine ordered a new door seal. Wouldn’t you know, a perfect ba1706m wirh the foam insert. currently I have the latest version of Ginbey’s door seal, it’s really good too.

This thread is useful to re-up. Thanks for posting it Craig!

its probably the trandsucer, and there is no dangerously high oil pressure. Its like dangerously high bank account, or fuel level.

For some reason, you can’t post photos here anymore, For some reason, you can’t post photos here anymore, but the LP but the owner of the Aircraft said he put his stratus battery in the backseat and it caught on fire and burst the entire airplane into flames, but like I said we can’t post photos anymore. I’m not sure why because this site is kind of useless without that ability.

We've got yet another Missile here now at GAI. And the prop cable jams when you pull it more than halfway back. Seems that mcFarlane can make a real prop governor cable but its expensive and its 2 months. Im frankly surprised the factroy cable is not a lined cable with a jacket.

but you want the EIS to be on all the time for start too because that’s your primary instrument for like oil, pressure and such.

I thought per the STC the display was supposed to be wired to the master.

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I don’t get wash wax all. I get washing it and I get waxing it. I just don’t get how they can be combined. I tried it once, and left a smearing of stuff all over the plane, and it set out overnight and when they dew hit it in the morning, it looks like a train wreck. It definitely does not leave an even coating of wax behind.

You would think that, but I think that the shops aren't really looking up, recurring AD's and they aren't tracking the old ones, and the owners don't want to pay for it anyway so they're happy to go along with it.

We are sitting these out for now. They are the old ECI cylinders, and as many AD’s as ECI had coupled with the reputation of continental for building cylinders, I think I’m agreeing with Scott here, some nice standard bore first run Lycoming Cylinders, are the best you can do right now

It may be a weak circuit breaker to one of the pilots here spent four days, tearing his airplane all apart just to find out that the gear actuator breaker was weak and would trip when raising the gear. I suppose you could put a load on it on jacks and resist the motion of it and see if that’s enough to make it trip.

But there must be a lot of unmotivated sellers out there because there are a lot of planes for sale for over a year on the Internet and haven’t moved. The Price hasn’t come down and buyers haven’t bought it for that so I would agree that for the most part asking prices are completely divorced from reality of actual value. The good airplanes that are priced right disappear. In fact, you might even say they wouldn’t even make it to the Internet because the people that know about the airplane locally would buy it. There’s a few planes around here that way.

Gosh after all these years, adjusting the gain fixes the problem. I mentioned on BT that someone adjusted the gains in the AFCS of the G5s and got blasted for how illegal that was. Even though that’s the purpose of gain in a circuit.