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  1. I was only commenting on the ability to change the font size. I had two Aspens in an Ovation that I owned and three in a Bravo, which I upgraded to MAX units in 2019. I always just used the markers on the AI for my turns (20 degrees roughly standard rate).
  2. On the of the improvements listed in the MAX improvements is "Font and Window Enlargement capability"
  3. E. I. came out with a better resolution screen and better refresh rate around 2018 I think. @oregon87 could tell you how much it is to upgrade to the newer display.
  4. @donkaye has had an MVP-50 longer than probably anyone else on Mooneyspace.
  5. Legally, your ship's gauge is the certified gauge even though it's older technology and an old instrument. Your JPI-EDM, if it's not a 900 or 930 is advisory only.
  6. My older brother had his left eye done a couple of weeks ago - great results. He’ll get the right one done in a couple weeks.
  7. While the pursuit of useful load is a worthy pursuit, I see people going nuts on some things. During an "upgrade", taking out a working stormscope or strike finder to save a few pounds makes no sense to me when they are so useful if you read up on how to use them.
  8. (Of course you have the riveted clamp - if you look through your logs it was mandatory that the older clamps had to be replaced somewhere around 20 years ago.) Mooney says you get two documented retorques on the riveted clamp. These retorques should be logged. The part of the AD that does apply is that if you haven't exceeded the number of retorques, rather than replacing it by time in service only, it can be inspected by an IA.
  9. There's a classified section to list items for sale if you are a supporter.
  10. That hose that runs from your oil fill tube back to your air/oil separator needs to be replaced (left arrow below). It was once a yellow material like the one you see next to it (right arrow), but the oil "sludge" that fills up that hose affects the pressure in your cylinders and "cokes" them up which causes the compressions to go low. The Tygon (yellow) hoses should really be inspected and cleaned (and I feel replaced) every 100 hours. It's very inexpensive. The black Gates brand hose that runs from the bottom of the air/oil separator down to the pilot's side tailpipe gets clogged also and needs to be replaced or cleaned every 100 hours (https://www.mooney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SBM20-312.pdf). If the Acclaim has been maintained by someone that knows Acclaims these items will have been done regularly.
  11. The TSIO-550-G and the TSIO-550-N use the same cylinders. https://www.airpowerinc.com/resources?id=4 On these cylinders there are two choices, Steel (https://www.airpowerinc.com/658815A3) and Nickel Carbide (https://www.airpowerinc.com/resources?id=4)
  12. The Same cylinder is used on the G engine as the N engine on the TSIO-550 on the Acclaim (TSIO-550-G1 and then after the heater modification it became a -G3) https://www.airpowerinc.com/658815A3
  13. Perhaps it was one of the Hofer's neighbors that bought it? It flew a lot last week at the home base where the Hofer's live, 14A. Or maybe that was a few minutes of transition training before moving it to it's new home base in FL? On Sunday it flew from 14A to St. Augustine. Not that it makes the situation any better, but it does make a lot more sense that a new-in-type pilot would have been more distracted by what happened and perhaps more likely for an overshoot on base to final. Either way very sad and condolences to the families of the pilot and passenger.
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