Recent content by TwinBeech

I never thought of it that way. Just know that when it is ISA+ a lot the TAS is a lot lower. In winter when it is closer to ISA it flies faster. Same with all the TurboProps and Jets I have flown. The other day in a King Air 350 at FL300 we left VA at ISA and TAS of 302 kts. In the Bahamas it...

If you are seripus about Navions you shpould join the Navion group on Yahoo. There are a lot of people there who can intelligently answer your questions. Try here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/navion_aircraft_mail/ Tony Russell

Just to jump in here, I have a 1946 North American built NAvion with a IO-550-B in it. I don't have the nose gear doors installed yet but I get 165KTAS at 7000' in the winter and 155KTAS at 7000' in the summer. That is burning 14 to 15 GPH. I run rich of peak and 2400 RPM. Cheers

I will pm him and see if he answers. He has had some really good electronic designs over the years. I have built his power supply using the LM338 module and used his ideas for the logic modules to design a sequence circuit for a Brokaw Bullet landing gear system. He does a monthly column and...

Has anyone built Jim's monitor from Kitplanes Nov issue? I have breadboarded it and it works when the batt voltage goes to 12VDC but when 14V is applied it has a slow repetitive beep. The V at pin 9 on stage C of the Op Amp shows the C slowly discharging and when it hits zero it pulses to 4V and...

This may have been answered, if so please disregard. I believe the KLN89B is pretty much the same as the KLN90B. You download a program from Honeywell called Database Loader. Then you buy the number of updates you want and save to your laptop. If you have the data port on your panel and the...