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Looks like they are still ground testing. They mention some challenges scaling up on the people side. Dark Aero Update

Did temps get more normal once you leveled off? Did you try richening the mixture? That's seriously hot. I would not fly that plane until the cause was understood.

I fly hang gliders. I've maxed out my ratings, so no real need to log time. Having said that, my GPS/Variometer logs all my flights and I download all those into an app that tracks all my HG hours etc. My instrument is made by Flytec and they have the app that takes all the tracklogs and turns...

My guess is that's a customs area. Red line - stay out unless you are clearing from an international destination. Not taught often, I had one at my learning airport, so was told to stay out by my CFI, not sure I would have learned that otherwise.

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You'll love Rough River.

Why does anyone go to burning man period?

I believe the cabin in a Dakota is the same as an Archer. All the rest is correct. Basically a Dakota is an Archer with a 6 cylinder engine.

I have a Piper Cherokee (Archer). I can fit a real roadbike in with no disassembly. Remove one rear seat and put it on top of the other, wheels off. Frame and wheels go in the cargo compartment and space where the seat was. Wheel bags and a chain cover keep the plane clean. Not sure about a...

Very sorry Edd, no words, but thinking of you and yours.

Dan, think I see where you're coming from and why it might not be relevant to my situation. My plane had AC, since removed. The belt is tensioned by an idler pulley, not by moving the alternator. So it never was unseated. The belt never moved in the flywheel, just the alternator pulley. I can...

I held the prop still and rotated the alternator pulley nut. The Piper instructions make is sound like its measuring the torque needed for that pulley to slip. Don't see how the engine could fire in that circumstance? It's an existing belt, so didn't need to seat.

So not sure which of the three things I did solved it, but I suspect belt tension was the answer. Flew today and volts were rock solid at 14.1, amps bumped a little, but +/- 1 vs. the swing of about 10+ before. Tension was too low to measure with a torque wrench. tightened it a bit to ~8ft/lbs...

So belt was definitely loose, barely took any torque to get it to slip. I had suspected it was getting looser from my pre-flight wiggle. Field wire seemed ok at alternator, but connection was pretty dirty. Cleaned it up, also cleaned the main 12v lead connection. To @Domenick 's point, the field...

Some good ideas here. Belt did seem a bit looser than normal. Bunch of connections I can check as well. The one other thing that came up from searching around was a bad master switch. A few things I can fiddle with before turning it over to the pro's. Thanks

What he was asking is if you swapped them back after the first switch.

Not the plug, the jack. The jack has metal tabs that make contact with the plug. Those tabs can be encouraged to make a bit tighter contact.

Where some of those #'s come from. - 300 feet below TPA, turn crosswind is pretty commonly taught for flying in the pattern. 700agl crosswind and 1000agl by downwind. - 400 feet is typical for IFR operations if no other traffic and field is IMC (so no traffic in the pattern) - Tower will nearly...

10 seconds was how long I videoed. It seemed to settle down after 20 min or so. It happened on the prior flight as well, which was the first time I noticed it. Had forgotten about it until it did it this time. Twice and I'm getting it fixed before flying again. No other symptoms, nothing in the...

Noticed a pretty erratic volts and amps reading in level flight with normal electrical load. Had a new Plane Power voltage regulator installed in 2020. Nothing noticeable other than reading on gauge. Plane is a 73 Piper Archer. Amps went from 9 - 21, Volts from 14.1 to 14.6 during a ~ 10 second...