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  1. jetdriven
    If you really going to fly in the clouds you really want a back up electric attitude indicator and you want a vacuum gauge and preferably a low vacuum light as well. Because as you can tell, vacuum failures are insidious
  2. jetdriven
    I’m curious who did your pre-buy when you bought that plane
  3. jetdriven
    Actually, simple green for Aircraft destroys the paint. I know this because we used to wash with it regularly and soon after the paint began to chip and flake and peel off because it was basically dried out, looking at the situation carefully, it takes the plasticizers out of the paint and it basically destroys it. I should’ve gotten the message whenever I was washing the belly and the stuff ran down to my armpit and caused a infuriatingly painful red rash there.
  4. jetdriven
    The active ingredient in Gojo and goop is deodorized kerosene
  5. jetdriven
    PTI-2001 degreaser. It splits the grease and its safe for ariplanes. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/pti09-04184-8.php?clickkey=575135
  6. jetdriven
    Most of your approach controllers have the single sweep radar, its real time. As the radar dish rotates it sends it right to the scope. When they say the gap is 6 miles, wide, its exactly that. So you can rely on that information. Center has basically the same thing you see on Foreflight. Give it more margin. Stay visual around this stuff and bail out at once when you cant.
  7. jetdriven
    That is a good Midwest strategy, stay below the bases and avoid the rain shafts. Now we have storm scopes and ADSB radar, that helps you go between them better. Usually the wind is at your back when you’re approaching the line from the west, so You want to see if you have a left or right cross land and then pass on the downwind side of the gap a little bit to give your self some room
  8. jetdriven
    So it’s only 5kt faster but half the seats.
  9. jetdriven
    Yet there are several stories right here where that has happened to Mooney pilots.
  10. jetdriven
    The GPS antennas are here. The COM 1 is right before the dorsal fin.
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    Yes, it’s not a big deal, until you grab the wrong lever and put the gear up on the runway. I’m not saying it certainly happens but it sure happens a lot during touch and goes. There’s a reason why airlines have pretty universal acceptance that you don’t start moving switches until you’re clear of the runway. At beauty it’s division of attention during a critical phase of flight, and flying the airplane is more important than moving stuff.
  13. jetdriven
    The Alclad still looks shiny but it does have a very thin layer that you can’t see of corrosion that protects it. I’m not sure of the exact interaction but I would just follow the prekote directions which says to scrub into a lather with a scotchbrote, rinse, dry. then apply primer. Obviously you want to take sandpaper and feather the edge of any chipped paint around the area so that it blends well. Just go easy on the Alclad. It’s very thin.
  14. jetdriven
    No, you want to preserve as much of the Alclad as possible because the underlying 2024 is very reactive. There’s a certain shop in Arkansas that scuff sounds all the airplanes to get the paint to stick better but what they’re doing is removing the Alclad and after about five years filiform corrosion covers the entire airplane. So prekote is an environmentally friendly substance that passivates surface, so you basically use the scotch brite to knock the surface protective corrosion layer off of it and the prekote is a non-reactive layer then you put primer over that.
  15. jetdriven
    Prekote works just as well just scrub it on with a red scotch Brite, and then you rinse it off with water and then dry it and then you paint primer over that
  16. jetdriven
    I own a shop at Gaithersburg which is the next town over, give me a call 484-435 97 76
  17. jetdriven
    Listen to generators running all night. Dogs barking. 4 wheelers and motorized vehicles. Na. Give me the N40 and a cold Spotted Cow
  18. jetdriven
    Leave the camper take the F model.
  19. jetdriven
    Don’s been retired for a good bit but he can never sit still !
  20. jetdriven
    You going? Your plane’s daddy is going and I’m flying it
  21. jetdriven
    We do balance propellers here but I so far have not had an Eddy current prop, there is some guy who comes by and I could probably get his information but I haven’t had to use anybody
  22. jetdriven
    I see you did what I did. Beefed up the flange on the dorsal fin then countersunk it with flush rivets
  23. jetdriven
    You can modify a Home Depot caulking gun by sanding down the diameter of the disk that fits inside the tube, and then you tape the PR 1422 SEM kit cartridge to the caulk gun and then give it hell.
  24. jetdriven
    aeroshell 31 gallons are in stock at spruce. buy those
  25. jetdriven
    we just went through this with a J and bought a UMA, cause the factory gauge wasnt repairable. But its not TSO, but its not required. Yours is. Keystone instruments in Lock Haven has a 2.25" 10-50" MP gauge theyll sell you. i passed.
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