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Because the form is for major alterations. This project can’t be both, it’s either major or minor

I see this all the time. You’re calling it a minor alteration (I agree, fwiw) But you’re signing a form 337 which at the very top says “Major alterations”. So why not just skip the form 337 and make it a log entry.

That area has been searched quite good and nothing has been found yet. However it is a shallow lagoon That drops off into the abyss so it may be there but it may be very deep. Keep in mind this is 80 years ago

That’s not true. You can get an experimental for air show exhibition are for testing and modification for an STC but usually this requires you to return it back to a normal category of airworthiness after a period of time. You can’t just stick experimental on it and go on though

Your scheme designer should have the proper line drawing. Thats his job, to render the artwork on the proper aircraft. The drawings you are presented cant be rendered on a 231 without modifying them somewhat, that leaves interpretation up to the tape layout guy. If they use a paint mask, it wont fit the aircraft. Scheme Designers uses the right line drawings for the plane, and supplies 13 pages of measurements and details. Plane Schemer, their competitor, often use the wrong line drawings. You cant get there from here doing that because the artwork doesnt fit the aircraft. Especially when going from a short body to a mid, or long. I feel pretty strongly about this, because you paid a hundred grand for the plane and another 15K for the paint, to have the stripes in the wrong place because the drawings dont fit the plane. So the shop "interprets" the drawings. Its a more detailed process than "here's a magazine cover, make my plane look like that". But its basically that.

Again, you need to be using a 231 line drawing or the paint shop won’t be able to replicate the scheme without changing something. You may hate it and it’s too late it’s done.

Bonanza guys are finding out that it corrodes the steel wire that fastens the skin to the spar. . The wire snaps off then they have to change the spar because of corrosion.

I use a lot of stainless screws but I am very careful tightening them down. You snap off a stainless steel screw and it is pure hell to drill out.

Wow

If you tap the nuplate then it loses the locking function.

It’s too Generic. For the IO the advance curve is too aggressive. Yet other engines could use more. They could have DIP switches and three advance curves. 1 is the least and 3 is the most.

I havent personally used them, but they are reputed to be THE D2000/D3000 mag shop. @cnoe can tell you.

They should program it to the engine that it goes on. Not all engines have the same advance curve

Or easier, fly an hour on one side run the other empty, then switch back to the first. The running time on the second tank is your endurance, minus the one hour of start, taxi, takeoff, and climb of course.

Im gonna go read that BT thread. But 30 degrees of bank significantly reduces lift, pulling back only does so much. I'd imagine he has a lot of right aileron in as well, but it wasnt responding.

A 30+ degree bank at 50' doesnt help his situation

The factory schemes from 1-4 years ago were awful. Some young tuner car kid was calling the shots on that, and missed wildly. These arent Fast and Furious Honda Civic's. Time wont be kind to them. However, they got it right on the maroon and white airplane that N205J is modeled after. Ive talked to him about it, and we both had the same reaction. We were stopped in our tracks. Dark on top, parabola shaped white from behind the wing, the middle color wide in front of the wing, then narrow, then wide again. Holy crap. Since I had already finalized my scheme and paid the man, it was too late. the plane was at he paint shop. I did float the idea to my wife and 3rd airplane partner, and got shot down. Had I showed them N205J, they would have okayed a complete swap in schemes and pay Scheme Designers another 800$. However, Dan, owner of N205J, was a little further behind, but was able to do it. The newest plane at the Mooney trailer at OSH has a similar family style scheme. Wide in front, narrow in middle, then wide again. Bright teal blue metallic with some slash stripes through the black center strip. Another watershed scheme. fantastic. We talked to Craig @ Scheme Designers about it also. its gonna be a smash hit.

The problem is called bootstrapping.

Are those M20J drawings? Don’t you have a 231? They’re different lengths

Just keep in mind that metallic paint is nearly impossible to touch up. For stripes and things it’s cool but for an all over base coat, it’s troubling. The leading edges of the wings get wear, and touching up silver or blue metallic with a brush will look awful. Re-spraying the panel is the only option and that will also look different. At different sun angles the metallic looks different. So you have this metallic pearl white or silver plane with one wing skin that doesn’t match. We tried this with my friends Cardinal RG back in 1999. On cars you can cheat because you can blend the sliver over a large panel that’s curved. Then you re-clear the panel. Not really an option for a plane. Clear coat on those is it’s own problem.

This. I would almost strip and repaint my plane to get this. I’ve seen one in real life. It’s stunning.

When the overhauler gets it, they tear it down and overhaul it. Then you get the FF it delivers then. When they get it in for a fuel flow adjustment, they tear it down and overhaul it. it’s almost like these repair stations never saw an accessory that didn’t need an overhaul.

That settles it. Never take your plane to an FAA approved repair station. It’s not needed anyways, and the repair stations always add a bunch of unnecessary work by claiming their PMI won’t allow that. Our FAA man says that 2100hr prop is not airworthy past TBO. Plus, they have a lot of folks off the street working on your stuff. It’s not an A/P or someone under direct supervision, it’s often some unskilled worker who is authorized under the repair station license. Such as Kelly Aerospace.

It varies based upon the springs and diaphragms and stuff and your particular Bendix fuel injection servo. I think the result little bit of production tolerance in there. However for full Rich mixture has to be something like 10 to 20% above best power mixture fuel flow. So I think around 17 gallons an hour is right. Just the other day I took off here near Sea level of warm day it was about 16.8 gph. The Bendix RSA fuel servo fuel flow is not adjustable. Idle mixture is however but that’s it

By the way I think the car is newer than the plane