Recent content by 2nd505th

Has anyone used Starbrite or Alumabrite or is it best to use Alumiprep 33 and Alodine 1201 to clean inside the engine compartment to remove years of oxidation? I don't want to damage my Aluminum or anything else in the engine area.

Got this from Lycoming: The prices for the O-235-L2C engine from Lycoming, on exchange, are: Lycoming Factory Overhauled - $38,668 Lycoming Factory Rebuilt - $44,845 Lycoming Factory New - $66,561 Don't forget that only Air Power offers financing for all Lycoming Engines! *PLEASE NOTE: if the...

So I contacted UAvionix and they said with the external magnetometer there is no drift. Zero. (can anyone vouch?) Also asked them if pitot tube sharing causes any loss of airspeed information - they answered 'no'. Also they plan to have a lot of autopilot integration in the future, with...

I've heard a lot on the AV-30s without an external magnetometer as being not too good. But many say with a magnetometer it improves a lot. But does it get better than a standard vacuum DG? If not and it is not at least better then perhaps I should just get mine overhauled. It would be way...

Which is more accurate- The AV-30C with magnetometer or a refurbished vacuum DG? My current vac DG drifts 20 degrees in a turn. What kind of drift do the AV-30-Cs experience?

I have 2 shops that I'm considering - Hawk and Sureflight, both highly rated but they have opposite positions on the use of clearcoat so not sure which way to go. My car is 10 years old with CC and looks great. Sureflight says it helps with longevity. Hawk says it can decrease longevity and...

For me I've noticed that x-plane real-time-weather almost seems to contain better details than products like foreflight. I'm not saying I'd use xplane to plan a flight. But it often seems as accurate. They say they get their info from METARs. For example, although I can work at foreflight...

Looking for someone with wiring experience. Assumptions: 1) The Radio portion cannot connect up to an overhead 8 ohm speaker. 2) Pin 7 of port P3552 essentially goes to my headset via the Audio Control Panel (ACP)? 3) My ACP does not have a Audio LO input. So what do I do with pin 18 on port...

Nope - not even close. Not thru the clouds but between.

I talked to my wife about this and said I may just do a pop-up IFR anytime I need to land ant KFIN. Then I'll be right down final.

But in your example "report midfield" would mean fly to middle of RWY 9 would it not? In my case I was already in what you would call downwind except coming from the southwest.

Yes. I'm new to KFIN. They do say things a little different than what I'm used to.

There wasn't any cross midfield instructions, teardrop anything - positive on that. I was in a perfect position for a right base, 3 miles out 1100 feet. Heading to the airfield would be dumb. The controller agreed but also later said the head midfield meant getting behind the other aircraft...

At this point in my memory could have been either. What's the difference?

Don't know if on liveatc. But that's all there was to it.