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My engine runs slightly rough at idle and full rich. I lean it way back when taxiing....almost to cut-off. At full power and full rich, my cylinders are getting a lot of fuel which helps keep them cool. If, during a run up, I needed to lean slightly because of a high DA to get a smooth...

I think their point about not being paid except for when they are flying is for the people who think that they are being paid $100+ per hour for “part time” work. Yes, 6 figures for flying 80 hours per month sounds like part time to the average Joe, but the hours on duty while not flying aren’t...

Oh! I have been doing it the hard way! TIL

Foreflight has a CDI feature along with synthetic vision (if you have the right equipment in your plane to feed it data). You would have to load each waypoint into the flight plan on the Approach, but the CDI will give you course guidance. Given an emergency situation, I would be comfortable...

From a practical standpoint, the way to go seems to be to replace the AI/DG with G5’s and leave the TC alone. You can ditch the vacuum system and your scan will be familiar. The exception is that if you have an autopilot that needs the vacuum AI, you can move it to the TC spot. Or, if you...

Yes, braking action is now Good, Medium, Poor, and Nil. You’ll also now see RCC codes. Instead of Mu readings, you’ll now get Runway Condition Codes by the airport operators from a scale of 5 to 1 for each 1/3 of the runway.

Buy an Arrow and leave the gear down?

Hoping you can update on this! I’m curious what the culprit was.

That’s.....not really how it works.

I am working this same issue with my G5 install and my IFD540...except my autopilot won’t follow a localizer either, but the GPS signal is fine. My avionics guy says that it is a programming issue sending the correct signal to the autopilot. The first call should be to Garmin, and then to...

By track, do you mean autopilot isn’t following the VOR radial inbound/outbound, or the G5 isn’t displaying the VOR on the HSI display?

My Arrow can’t do 140kt on 9gph ;)

Do you have an engine monitor? Sounds like maybe a bad spark plug.

Also at BUU, Spring City Aviation is a great choice. I have worked with both shops at BUU and whole heartedly endorse both.

My favorite part: “what speed do you rotate this thing?” “Oh, when it feels like it’s ready to fly”

How about something short like CRQ and spend the weekend in Oceanside, or up the coastline to SMO?

Make your own. If you have a word processing program (or excel would probably be even better) you can make one with as many pages as you want. Stick whatever imagery you want on it, and have it printed by Kinkos or Staples. You can scan the cover of the old one as a template for the cover for...

Does the plane have a digital engine monitor? If so, I’d go for a demo flight and see what the CHTs look like. It sounds like the previous owner was flying around at high power, peak EGT all the time or something.

I’ve never done it in real life. I am had cancellations relayed through other aircraft, but have never done it the other way around.

Yoke mount (RAM) and iPad mini in my Arrow. Nothing is in my way, I don’t notice it when I am flying by looking out the window, and I don’t have to mess with paper charts. IFR flying is way easy this way as I don’t have to flip through charts or approach plates. The iPad cost me 2 tanks of...