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FloridaMan

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  1. https://justplanetint.com/collections/universal-plane-tint/products/slap-shade I bought one of these at sun n fun last year and I absolutely love it. It’s completely opaque and when the sun is “right there” it fits the bill where we otherwise throw a jacket up in the window, et cetera. The only caveat is that it’s cold, it doesn’t stick well until I warm it up in front of the vent.
  2. I was asked to call the tower at a local airport because I caused an airliner to go several miles out of his way while I flew under the bravo at just under 200kts without talking to anyone. I didn’t violate any regs, but they informed me of the inconvenience and I apologized. Even if legal, I don’t want to piss off anyone lest I do something wrong and then find the book thrown at me.
  3. Additional detail. I think the switch isn’t engaging to the full activated position. I’m not sure if there an interlock that blocks it, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
  4. Sometimes people can be dicks online. I don’t mean that toward him. I’ve just seen so many forums where valuable members leave voluntarily because they don’t want to put up with others’ shit. Or they get banned because of power dynamics.
  5. Also, with the avionics master on, I can hear a slight click, like a relay as I release the AP switch. I don’t hear it with the avionics master off, so I believe something is making a logical decision to disengage the autopilot (e.g. I believe the switch is probably okay as well).
  6. Just went out to test some more. Here’s a video, with sound.
  7. The flight director appears correct and the pitch seems to overshoot when it gets into that oscillation. I sortof assumed it was something the plane may have always had since the rocket conversion, like the increase in weight and forward CG needed a PID/hysteresis tuning on the autopilot pitch control. Turning off electric trim kills the AP, but previously I could turn it back on and it would try to hold altitude without using the trim. I did this once at FL240 in cold weather because it would dart around in pitch, presumably from ice in the static lines. I turned around and descended to under 4000ft to get under the IMC because I feared too much workload if I encountered icing or moderate turbulence. CWS is on the right side of my yoke, so CWS and MET simultaneously isn’t difficult. Any chance you know off the top of your head what bulbs that annunciator takes?
  8. I can say with 100% certainty, because my altitude hold behaves like a 737Max sometimes with increasing magnitude of oscillation leaving a turn or sometimes straight and level, and on one occasion leaving a booty call in Iowa, like an Asian lady in traffic, that the CWS allows the pitch trim to operate without killing the AP.
  9. I thought the purpose of CWS was to temporarily deviate from the AP without disconnecting. I don’t think I have a trim annunciator. I just looked up an image of the panel and I’ve never seen that red “trim” illuminate, even with testing. Maybe someone intentionally hid it.
  10. As speed increases, drag is squared. Less drag means less HP for speed.
  11. KFC200 will not engage. *Prior to this, when I would hold CWS and use the electric trim, it would disconnect the AP. This used to not happen and I would often manually hold CWS and trim the plane when needing to level off after an aggressive change in altitude or a steep turn. Before the AP failed to engage at all, CWS continued to work as expected, I just couldn’t use the electric trim without it disconnecting the AP. *Now as soon as I flip the switch it immediately disconnects with a beeeeep. *Moving either side of the yoke mounted split trim switch independently doesn’t move the trim, so neither side appears stuck. It appears that the left side of the split switch just needs to be moved up or down and the right section of the split switch controls the direction. Split switch appears to work correctly with neither side appearing stuck. *If I hold the red yoke mounted disconnect button I can engage the flight director while the button is held down. Attempting to engage the autopilot doesn’t work, but also doesn’t beeeeeeep. Pressing the red button with the FD enabled will disable the FD and all other FD connected annunciators. Red button appears to work correctly. Any thoughts? It behaves like I’m using the electric trim without pressing CWS, but CWS and the electric trim switch both appear to be working unless there’s a second channel or logic somewhere.
  12. Has an ar15.com logo on the tail. Awesome.
  13. If you're having issues. Get a Slickstart. The only time my M20F has had issues starting are when the left mag has failed or the wire connected to the SlickStart has fallen off. Supposedly the Surefly provides good starting as well, but I don't have one on my M20F.
  14. It got me thinking that perhaps the right solution would be to make a device that blocks the holes where you insert the tug, provides a new tube where a tug can be attached, and braces against that flat piece the stops hit and has a slotted path that limits range of motion. At the end of the slotted path, if the range is exceeded, the part where the tug is attached gets ejected.
  15. What oil are you running? Do you know where I can find this SB?
  16. How does that happen? There doesn't appear to be significant damage to the tubes. Did the stop fail to break before the truss?
  17. Looking for mechanical drawings for gear rigging tools. Does anyone have a source?
  18. Still haven’t ordered glass. Going with SC gray. Has anyone gotten the oversize vent windows?
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