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I could have sworn I looked at the EI manual(s) and couldn't find any reference to setting the warning limits. Was this present on all their models? I think I was looking at a G2 or a G3 back then EDIT: :yikes: The more observant among you will notice that I have mixed up EI with Insight...

When I asked a similar question to an Aviation MX expert I was steered away from EI due to the fact that their engine monitors did not seem to have user selectable warning thresholds. It seemed like a good idea having those features, especially given the difference between CHT red line and the...

A nice chart to see would be the number of accidents PER FLIGHT HOUR FLOWN categorized by engine service life, but the data needed to make such a chart probably isn't available.

The key word here being "probably". If he's buzzing his house, he'll be doing full climb power on the climbout. If he's doing traffic pattern bashing all day long, he'll be doing full power takeoffs 12 times per hour. The TBO doesn't differentiate between a weekend flier doing 12 takeoffs an...

Haven't thought about it, it might be, in which case I chose the wrong two engines to compare :D There's a number of engines from the same series that have quite different TBOs, though. Another big difference is with the addition of turbo normalization. Adding a turbo seems to decrease the...

I thought most new design engine models start with a ridiculously conservative TBO hours for a few years, then have it progressively increased to almost double the value without ever changing anything with the actual design of the engine? This increase is most likely based on condition...

Two same model Cessna 172s that I've flown recently (both 172N from consecutive production years) exhibited quite different oil temperature behaviors. One would have the gauge start indicating a rise shortly after start and continue to gradually rise to within operating range so that it was...

A thought comes to mind with regards to the way the springs on Cessna landing gear affect it's travel as you put load on it. On the Piper, landing shock is absorbed by the vertical strut. On the Cessna, it is absorbed by the spring which comes out the fuselage at a 45° angle, so the main...

How does it make sense to use CAS for flight planning purposes? Doing 160 KCAS at 1000' you cover *roughly* 160 nautical miles in 1 hour of your flight. Doing 160 KCAS at 19000' you cover *roughly* 220 nautical miles in 1 hour of your flight. For flight planing purposes, every phase of flight...

I haven't went that far into the details to categorize them to that detail, but events such as bird strike or midair collision were not counted as loss of control. The way I saw it was, it was categorized as L.O.C when the sole cause of the incident was the pilots mismanagement of the controls...

Some time ago I took 6 years worth of NTSB reports on Cirrus aircraft and broke them down into categories (some overlapping) and observed the following: 70% of the accidents involved the pilot losing control of the aircraft 17% involved spatial disorientation (sometimes followed by loss of...

Bought the Halos about two months back but managed to only put in 10 hours on them so far - and I'm fairly pleased. I couldn't tell you whether they are quieter than a pair of Bose A20s (which implies they're quite close in performance). A couple of things to note though - you wanna have clean...

Were the alternator brushes changed?