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G5 vs GI275 Personally I find the GI so small that all the stuff it does just clutters it. Plus I really don’t need anything other than an HSI and ADI. I don’t care for any of the other stuff (that’s me). G5 is solid and clean.

As of Wednesday it worked with mine.

I like G5’s personally and find the 275’s small and cluttered. The answer to your three questions though is how much money do you have? You will get almost 100% back out of an overhauled vacuum DG. You might get 50% on a G5/Gi275. These questions are always three sided. Dollars versus capability versus resell. The fact you are a co-owner means a transaction is in your future. You will generally lose on that transaction, my advice would be spend as little as needed.

That’s why helicopter pilots got dez nuts.

I got something they can watch me tug on and it ain’t a seatbelt.

Flying since 1988 never seen an inspector let alone been ramp checked. I always wonder who all these folks getting ramp checked are.

Some recently manufactured Boeing and Airbus jets have components made from titanium that was sold using fake documentation verifying the material’s authenticity, according to a supplier for the plane makers, raising concerns about the structural integrity of those airliners. The falsified documents are being investigated by Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies fuselages for Boeing and wings for Airbus, as well as the Federal Aviation Administration. The investigation comes after a parts supplier found small holes in the material from corrosion. In a statement, the F.A.A. said it was investigating the scope of the problem and trying to determine the short- and long-term safety implications to planes that were made using the parts. It is unclear how many planes have parts made with the questionable material.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/politics/boeing-airbus-titanium-faa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Honest officer it must have rubbed off, honest!

I may have been unclear in rereading my posts. I think though we can agree RCO/GCO like DF steer, NDB’s, etc. needs to go, it’s time has past. While not the main topic as you shared FSS is under discussion but not as progressed. I haven’t talked to FSS in probably 10-15yrs and when I was it was only to get on record for checking TFR’s. Lockmart did a great job but imho it needs to follow Flight Watch into the dustbin of history. Enhancing ADSB with more datalinking would be great. We should be spending $$’s for things that benefit and drive aviation. Not a service that gets 300 calls a day, I shudder to think the cost per call (certainly more than 1 AMU per).

300 calls a day, the money could be better spent. Why don’t we bring DF steer back.

That would be productive.

What is unproductive? You are arguing about an article you haven’t read, about a service you have never used, nor understand. That to me is unproductive. There is no need for RCO/GCO in this day and age and there was barely a need for them 30yrs ago. If you want to debate the topic then read the article, educate yourself, and make a point. That would be productive.

More information is required. How many hours and what break instructions did you receive?

Your confusion and lack of understanding of how a RCO let alone a GCO works or what it is for explains why its loss is inconsequential and AOPA should be spending dollars to fight for things that matter. Nobody uses it today and the article makes it clear. “In the mid-1980s, Flight Service received 22,000 service requests per day across this network, while today they receive fewer than 300 per day.” Fewer than 300 and I bet 95% of those requests were in Alaska or the like.

Because those “people” didn’t actually read the article.

The proposal is to end RCO’s the article also talks about the future potential of FSS, read the article. RCO/GCO has nothing to do with FSS just expensive hardware that nobody uses today.

In 37yrs I want to say I have used a RCO maybe 5 times. I have never successfully got a GCO to work. Today with cellphones at minimum and in most cases a Bluetooth headset, no reason. Even in the day WXBrief and a pay phone with a void time worked better imho.

“In the mid-1980s, Flight Service received 22,000 service requests per day across this network, while today they receive fewer than 300 per day. In turn, from over 350 Flight Service stations with over 3,000 employees 40 years ago, there are now only two (2) facilities with fewer than 200 specialists.”

Having been a young person once myself, got to say they ain’t that bright.

I can understand as a rotor head why you would think these parts too cheap. Don’t worry it’s ok and the manufacturer is making enough to not kill GA.

Appreciate a link to the grey waffle pad you use, thanks.

You are a good person.

I think the Green Jeppesen card will work because mine says Jepp on it and I have used it with both subscription services over the past 15yrs so I got my monies worth out of it. I just don’t want to spend $270 to find out.

I don’t take it as disrespectful, I linked a source and you are using a very aggressive pad and removing paint. You do that a couple of times a year you won’t have paint left. Cutting which is what you did isn’t polishing. It is your airplane you do you, the fact you got paint on the pad indicates your clear coat is already gone if you have two stage.