Recent content by Dmcfly50

Probably the greatest disservice any of us could do on this subject is to tell someone else how they should do it! So I will say do what works in your airplane but realize the dangers in any particular settings. In my airplane a turbo arrow 4 I am using a fair amount of trim on short final but...

Yes my JPI shows it. And how are you going about getting tit after you shut down. Anyway I guess all these years every manufacturer just made that up to **** everybody off. You are perfectly free to choose any method of shutdown you want on your engine but if you did it on mine or a club...

I think you might have meant IAS rather than TAS. An airplane could care less about TAS it is going to lift off, fly, and stall on IAS ( of course angle of attack plays a big part of the last one as well). If you rotate at 70 kts indicated at sea level you would rotate at 70 knots indicated at...

As far as long hot climbs yes they can certainly hurt your engine and that's more likely to be a kablooey incident as you are likely to burn and then inhale a valve head. Here being able to monitor simultaneously all six cylinders is critical. Never let that CHT get to 400 on any cylinder and...

If you were thinking it was going to go kablooey from shock cooling then you are wrong and that's not what happens. Quick cooling creates large temperature differences on the outsides as opposed to the insides. This causes premature wear on the cylinder walls and rings and can cause a too soon...

I broke these up into three parts because I wanted to answer the questions without opinion of whether you should buy a turbo anything... If you have plenty of experience in complex then the advantages of the turbocharger over its naturally aspirated cousin are significant and NOT just at oxygen...

One of the previous posters gave you some incorrect info on insurance. I had almost 200 hours in a regular aspirated arrow and around 350 hours in complex including Mooney's and Cardinal, and 172 RGs. The insurance company could care less about that. My insurance is through Aopa. They wanted to...

I am guessing most of those people that replied are not actual turbo arrow or turbo lance owners. I have had a turbo arrow with a Merlin waste gate mod for about 3 years and over 300 hours. The performance is not the same as a standard turbo arrow. That said on mine full power can be maintained...