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Thanks Gilles, with the help of Bruce Jeager in Wilmar I got my man, and glad I didn't, tempt fate today, another bad hail storm over Alberta yet again today.

I'm currently in Duluth and looking for an experenced Mooney pilot to fly my Mooney to Calgary Alberta, Due to bad weather it has taken me a little longer to get from Halifax Nova Scotia than I would have liked and I'm going to need to catch a commercial flight back. (M20k-231)

Tee lets see some pictures.

So the other day I made a comment about ADS-B (I'm in Canada as well) and prehaps XM would be a better choice. I actaully had my XM expire a couple of months ago due to a stolen credit card I had to cancel. Today I call XM Canada to get everthing up and running again as I'm planning a cross country, I talk to two reps at XM Canada who tell me the service is being changed and I cant have any service for some period of time, and they have no idea when it will be doable. I could not believe any company would be so stupid to stop offering a service (and stop taking your money, while they think about it). I left high and dry and out in the cold, but what I cant tell you it will be a cold day in hell before I purchase anything again from that lot. I plan to by a ADS-B receiver and just fly down to the US whenever I'm planning any kind of long trip, east to west.

Thanks thats what I was looking for, I think I will give it a try.

Off topic but has anyone removed the paint and polished there gas caps.

Interesting Clarence, has your friend been out west with it. I dont know anybody out here with an "in", if I thought I could get it all along the boarded I might being will to give it a try. I'm heading to Halifax in late July from Calgary.

I'm Cdn as well and thought about it as well, but I do have XM and will likely continue that for another year. I'm in Calgary and when going though the US I understand the ADSB receiption over Montana and central states is not so good. I will likely give it another year and review my decesion then. I do like the idea of havinmg some sort of AI backup, scared me a bit last year when I had my first vacuum failure (with no backup).

I purchased a Avidyne IFD540 and while it seems to be a great box, there is something to be said about buying a proven anything, as with any beta product it been a long road. They do have a good IPAD and I believe windows simulator, download it and give it a try.

I like the shot of the Commanche, not sure what it has to do with the story however . Yes a little off base, it's very similar to the last story they did 10 years ago on the 231/252.

The onboard voltage meter was reading 12.1 volts before I started to configure my gps, the engine is not running so the gps is running off one of the batteries, either the one I have attached to the external plug or the onboard battery. After 15 or 20 minutes the voltage meter onboard is reading 11.6-11.7. I assumed the plane was using the external battery, but the next time I use the airplane with no external battery connected the voltage meter read 11.7, so assume it was actually using the airplanes battery. I have a avionics master and a master and the master master has to be on to power the avionics master. That fires up everything, and the power draw is a little heavy, the only thing I can turn off is the second radio with pulling circuit breakers. I understand the updates for the avidyne hfs can take this long, I would not to use the onboard battery. I do have have a battery minder charger and a one year old canacord battery.

So the plug itself is just for starting the plane and even if the current is high enough, its just for starting the plane, it would never power the avionics (correct).

So I have some new avionics,(new stack) and I wanted to configure the GPS on the ground. I have the three pronge plug and used a car battery as a power source. Everything went find but the next time I went to fire up the airplane I was getting a voltage reading of, 11.7 volts. I'm thinking that my 20 minutes of GPS messing around was using the planes battery. Am I correct in thinking that this method should be using the external power source and not my ships battery when I plug it in.

Plane Plastics has them, they quoted me on on last year (along with a bunch of stuff), cant remember the price however. Canadain dollar then went to garabage so I didn't proceed.

This is a novice question, but when you are in the clag at 19000 feet are you not concerned about getting some ice?

March as well, shopped it around two years ago COPA was close. 1981 M20k, $125,000 Gold wings plan cost $1800 with 320 hour pilot.

Three hours under mine last Saturday with Aerocomestics, its been a couple of years, I think I will farm it out next time.

Put Tempest fine wire in my 231 two years back and they have been great.

Video http://www.theledger.com/article/20150420/NEWS/150429987

Avaition Consumer Gear of the year included the Aeroled Sunspot, but did say not alot of planes are approved for it at this point.

Just had my install of my Avidyne stack completed last week as well, hope to fly it this Thursday.

I believe this is the same engine that is on a cessna 340 (?) and lots of those planes fly that high.

Mine is inop as well, if you have an amp meter as well could you not just look at it for a draw and go with it?

Appreciate it, when I lost my vacuum pump last year in marginal weather it creaped me out, I want to setup somekind of backup system, thing Ipad with FF with SV.

It looks like my Turboplus, but I wouldn't bank on it as the other model, cant remember the name, may look the same. Ithink its a turboplus as it has the cooling rad facing the side were the cowling has been cut it, I didn't think the other model had the cowling mode.