exM20K

I had a medium-workload approach mid day today, and I found the FF display very cluttered and unhelpful. Just too much on one screen, and it just didn’t add anything. I’ll watch the video to see if I’m doing something wrong. I suppose I could turn off range rings and glide ring, and i had RNAV 14 CTL 6 selected as the approach which further clutters the screen. I'll keep trying to improve this. The flight plan page on G1000 resents this info much better for me. -dan

This was operator error (me). When you choose your mins on the selected approach, the minimums and circling notes persist in the “timeline” view.

Circling minimums are presented when you select the approach. They don’t persist in the display after adding the approach.

I’m in as a Class A airplane, so maybe a future version would omit helicopter notes, too. I will verify all this in flight before reporting it to FF. -dan

Only the RNAV 14 at my Florida base is authorized at night. I loaded a night flight there with the RNAV 24 in the flight plan, and the notes section is silent on NA at night. I’ll try it for real this evening, but at first blush, there appear to be some issues still to be addressed.

Yeah, this for sure. if you have money burning a hole in you pocket, AmSafe is another option. The Sr22 that got pointed into the runway at Hollister, CA by an RV taking off from a taxiway showed deployed airbags in the post-crash photos, and I 'm pretty sure that was beneficial to the occupants. Blancolirio Youtube That was a hard hit. -dan

Projecting from the ground. Common usage, not an aviation term. -dan

This. I kept a Mooney and a DA42 in 40x50 with no drama. Another stretch had a Mooney, a DA40, and an HK36 motorglider in there. That was cheating, though, because the motorglider wings folded back to a very narrow, maneuverable package. I miss that aircraft. a little time with graphic paper and airplane outlines will prove it out. -dan

Your budget should get you into a 231 or 201. I owned a 231 for 12 years spanning the birth and first 5-7 years of kids. I put TKS on mine, and there are a few out there that come up for sale from time-to-time w/ TKS. It is non-FIKI on the 231. Nearly all of my flying is east of the Rockies, and I find the turbo to be very valuable. If your trip legs are long, it's nice to get up and over the fair weather cumulus and enjoy higher cruise speed, glide distance, and slightly less than half the time, tailwinds. Shorter legs (say:150NM), and I wouldn't bother w/ the turbo. Fltplan.com and Foreflight have pretty good performance engines for these planes, so you can see what the difference is on your high-percentage trips. I would opt for the built-in O2, and I believe most of the 231's are so-equipped. I simply don't like random stuff in the cockpit. It will cost more to fill than a portable, but that is not life-changing money, and there are DIY work-arounds. How many others had to google "PCS?" lol. -dan

You should find Dave P loitering somewhere around there. he's hard to miss. I'm swamped with work stuff but may pop up there on Saturday if WX not too wet. -dan

I’m using that term loosely. It’s not always cylinder six, it’s not always that period. But there’s really no mechanism that would have true cylinder head temperatures oscillating like that in isolation. Luse baffle seals would be much more of an erratic binary. Clogged injectors would show up in the EGT, leaky upper deck lines to an injector would likewise be visible in the EGT. The system has exhibited this behavior on different cylinders for hundreds and hundreds of hours and through at at least one top overhaul, so I’m willing to chalk it up to some sensor or display anomaly and consume my worry budget elsewhere. I do think that a lot of these Garmin/G 1000 sensors would benefit from having some form of snubber in line. -dan

Some electrical interference. I quit chasing it a long time ago.

The decreasing temps with altitude do help mitigate the lower mass of air. This is a pretty typical unrestricted climb for me to 16,000. I don't know what happens in the flight levels because I really don't fly there. -dan

Caravan’s there https://x.com/EAA/status/1946369287855161597

What capabilities does the flightstream add that you find the most valuable? -dan