Steve Dawson

What about working out a compromise with yourself. If costs are 3-5X commercial, split the flying between the 2 at a ratio that would help offset the higher fuel and added costs (not fixed) and keep flying when you can to off set those days where flying helps the psychy. It's still a depressed market and it would be both harder to sell your plane and you'll lose money at the lower cost that aircraft are seeling for now. Those two things alone may offset keeping your plane for a while.

I would highly recomend choosing the 750 over the 650, not only for size but they have much more utility in both visual referance of info but the resale value over the 650 will still be there if you sell it. Not to mention the geo referenced approach charts. I flew one for the first time last week and felt it added security to the approach.

The more I look at it I agree, it is a good buy. A good pre purchase is a definite. I've been looking for something like this myself for a while but want some icing protection first. If its for real I doubt it will last long.

Looks like a good buy. I have a J and when looking at a turbo plane with 2 more cylinders the cost of operating would be important. Depends on your mission also. Do you need to go high often?

Did you check to make sure that the down load sd card has the same reference number that the GTN has?

There is someone on Beechtalk that wants to buy a 530.

Complete Av8or portable GPS with yoke mount, download cable and 12V charger. Used 6 months. $150.00 plus shipping SOLD

And that was in June!

I've been going over the relocation and worth of some of the pieces in my panel. Do you think that with XM weather and soon ADS-B weather that a storm scope is a necesary instrument?

Very nice. Can you show some practical results in action?

Bennett and Mooneypilot, Have you considered the JPI 900 instead of the larger 930?

Just curious but can you just buy the sensors needed for the 900 if you kept the sensors only needed from the 830? The resale of the 830 may not be worthwhile but the overall cost of the 900 maybe less.

I'm doing the same as you and upgrading later in the spring to an 900 that I'll flush mount in the panel so I'm interested in what you get for your 830. Can your shop use any of your current sensors for the 930? Nice looking paint by the way.

My 201 is everything I'd had heard it would be and then some, and I've put more money in it than I should of for both creature comforts as well as modernization. If I were to move to another aircraft it would be towards more utilization to fit my needs. Iceing protection, a turbo and even though it's only myself 90% of the time maybe more room. I've spend a lot of money to get this plane to were I want it and it's flying great and is very dependable (fingers crossed). How can you complain about getting 160 knts @ 10+/- GPH and doing it with comfort and style.. If I were to pick my next plane it would probably be a 252, Bravo or a Beech F model. Of course thats considering a larger budget.

Running LOP for some practice IFR Procedures.

What are you replacing these with Norman?

Ask Parker. He had his 252 upgraded with the changes to make it a encore with the weight increase.

I tried the zulu's and preferred the Bose with bluetooth. In the year and a half haven't had any problems. They do hook up to the radio or iPod via the plugin cord and the Bluetooth/ phone has always worked.

Hi John, I'm just in the minst of redoing my interior shortly. How hard was covering the panels with the Eurostretch material considering your skill set? I was told by Airtex it was difficult.

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Have you taken a look at the Garmin 796? It has a form of 3D vision. It as well as most of the Garmin portables have both obstacle and terain avoidance visual and audio warnings. I have an Area 510 and it's very effective.

Chuck just to be fair to Sarasota, and as stated in my post, they quoted me the $9,500 but would take the DG and the 106A in trade. That lowered the price to the $9,500.00 Since then there has been an additional Aspen rebate. And this was with Sarasota (Kirk Fryer) in Venice. I would only recomend that shop.

Very nice Larry and well thought out. You'll like the GTN utility. Can you give us a Pirep on the 796 when it's placed in the airgizmo?

I converted to a plane power for a couple of reasons. First because the original altenator produced noise on my new GTN 750 and it needed work to fix it ($), Secondly I wanted something dependable, proven and that wouldn't breakdown at an unknown airport were it would delay my trip and the cost for repair from an unknown mechanic would drain my credit card.