jetdriven

Yes and you need to name MAPA safety foundation on the policy iirc

That looks like great advice

OK. The stock airplane is 2.2 nautical miles per 1000, what's your number? There is no doubt it's better. I just don't think it's on the order of a third. I'm guessing 5%.

Yes, the short term transient effect of pulling the prop full aft then full forward is dramatic, but I'm saying the stabilized condition is a smaller difference than you might think. My guess would be about 5% I guess you wanna go to 10,000 feet and measure the distance and then do it again you could figure this out

The oil leaks out of the transfer bearing at the front of the crank, it's not open loop per se, but let's just say that the governor pressurizes oil into something that's pretty leaky.

The range ring will get bigger when you pull the prop control because you turn the rotational energy of the prop into thrust, after it stabilizes, I have no doubt you could glide a little further but it's not as much as it initially seems to be. I don't have any data here but if you add 5% because of less drag you're looking at another .11 miles per thousand. From 10,000 feet, perhaps another mile. A similar thing happens if you watch the fuel and time and destinations and then you move the prop from 2500 to 2400, initially it shows you save a gallon or two but then over the course of the next five minutes or so it settles out to where it takes another 4 minutes to get to the destination but the fuel remaining is only a tenth more of a gallon.

yep yep

RS232 to the navigator. Although they sold it as having two way flight plan transfer, it wont.

are you sure?

Hopefylully they don't sell the rights to Extant. They have the Integra R9 series stuff now. And a broken knob is a 29k flat rate screen repair.

I think prices are going to head down somewhat, but Vref is kind of laughable at least lately. We went to up our insured value on our plane to 160K, and the insurance lady said that it would only Vref for 108k.

Socialized losses, but privatized profits

That's what we get when we roll back some key parts of the Dodd-Frank law.

On the top side of the avionics shelf over against the right side forward cabin wall behind the instrument panel. Or, if you crawl underneath the copilot side and look out board of the heater box it's on top of that metal plate

In fact the latest service letter from Garmin says this much. Under some circumstances you could have an uncommanded or unwanted autopilot induced trim runaway, and pulling the trim circuit breaker does not stop it, you have to pull the auto pilot circuit breaker. All the electric trim circuit breaker does is disable the manual electric trim.

You guys are Measuring something to the nearest half of a percent that the manufacturer says add 5 to 10%

yikes that looks pretty scary. the panels are glued in and often break when removing. And there may be skin replacement here, and it going to get horrifyingly expensive quickly.

Either way. TKS planes get corrosion in wetted areas

I have noticed that TKS fluid corrodes the skin right behind the panel, I think the fluid runs down the Forward part of the wing and stops at the edge of the panel and puddles there but yes I've seen a lot of corrosion there compared to other parts of the air frame. My suggestion is to just rinse the Aircraft off with fresh water before putting it away. when we do the test for the TKS system in the hanger for an annual, the windshield washer fluid gets up on top of the cabin, but that stuff will sit there for three weeks and it won't move it evaporate. Anything that stays that long it's going to corrode. also, you guys better be checking that 1:3 manifold out 2/3 of the way on the wing, because the last plane we had that manifold was leaking and the fluid is running inside the wing and dripping out next to the main gear door but you don't want that stuff loose inside the plane. The manifold in the tail was leaking too, it would run down a Stringer and then corrode a steel bracket that held the down spring end loop

no. they are more balanced than new FC3's.

I have a 450 hour since new roller case that's been re-certified, and is ready to go.

The FC2 or FC3 desser retread is even better than the new tire and is like less than half the cost. Those with Airstop tubes you have a bulletproof combo.

My first question is why didn't they put it above the VSI so it's in your line of sight?

No corrrosion protection. It has the anti scuff additive TPP. Which actually causes corrosion.

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