N22RL is back -- with a new panel!

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Well, I finally got home long enough to pick up N22RL from Lancaster Avionics, which did a marvelous job installing all the new equipment and redoing the panel. Pictures are attached. The three guys are Todd and the crew at Lancaster Avionics who did the work.

I already knew what to expect from the GNS530, but the JPI EDM-930 is amazing! I now know that at 5500 MSL and 9C OAT, with 22.4" MP and 2690 RPM, I'm pulling 73% power and truing 133 KTAS on 10.4 gph with EGT's within 45F of each other and CHT's in the 385-400F range while the oil temp is 173F and the oil pressure 79 psi. Yee-hah -- an engineer's dream! It's also really nice to be listening to XM12 XCountry radio while cruising along without being entrapped in a web of wires around the cockpit.

Unfortunately, it looks like the weather's going to be lousy on Saturday or I'd try to find a fly-in lunch location for those interested in seeing all the e-magic. In addition, the next weekend I'll be working, and the weekend after that we're off to the Keys for some sunshine and warm air. Looks like late January before I'll have a weekend off to make a fly-in.
 

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That should sure make situational awareness easy! New engine monitor too. Sure would like to know how you like it.

Best,

Dave
 
WOW! And another question has been answered. For the life of me I couldn't figure where my striped blue pajamas disappeared. Did Her Majesty visit you while en route from Portland, Maine to Fort Lauderdale on November 29?

HR
 
Looks great, Cap, but can she hold a hdg? And to whom should I send the bill for treatment of my panel envy? And that has to be the narrowest wing walk I've ever seen, you sure that aint an exhaust streak?

Cheers
 
Interior rework is down on the list behind the PowerFlow exhaust, new prop (MT or Sensenich -- haven't decided), and the S-Tec 30 autopilot (ran out of cash on this go-round, but they plumbed the plane for it -- note the extra button holes on the yoke switch mount and the little square plug over the flight instruments), but ahead of paint. Figure sometime late in 2008 for all the stuff to be done.
 
Dave Siciliano said:
That should sure make situational awareness easy!
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What I was aware of on the way home was how much I was looking in instead of out. Gotta work on that.
New engine monitor too. Sure would like to know how you like it.
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So far, I love it. This is pretty much a state-of-the art box, including not just the EDM-800 engine analyzer functions (including fuel flow rate and total flowage), but also all engine and fuel instrumentation -- the old tach, fuel pressure, oil pressure, oil temp, ammeter, and fuel gauges are gone. It also includes digital OAT, so the big donkey thing sticking out of the windshield will very soon be replaced by a bolt, two washers, and some RTV.

BTW, I know the 530 pretty well, having done a lot of flying with 430's and 530's in client's planes the last eight months, but I really have to read the book on the EDM-930, which I don't know at all.
 
What is the radio first under the GPS (orange letters)?
 
Ron where are the Comm/Nav 2. Couldn't figure that out? The panel is looking sweeeet!
 
The radio below the 530 is the Comm 2 -- correctly identified as the Garmin SL40 comm only version of the SL30. Nav 2 is the only remaining piece of old avionics, a Narco Nav 122 self-contained VOR/LOC/GS unit located to the left of the GI-106 CDI driven by the 530 (due to a piece of structure behind the panel, the Narco is too long to fit in the right hand hole, so we sort of have the Nav 1 and Nav 2 backwards, but it was the only way to fit them without major redesign of the layout). Since the SL30 costs about $3500 more than the SL40, and it cost only $400 to fix up the Nav 122, I decided to forego the SL30 and spend the extra $3K elsewhere. The good news is that the SL30 and SL40 are rack-compatible, so it will be a small installation job to go to an SL30 in the future should the 122 ever die.
 
Very nice panel, Ron.

Why are ya squawking 0350? I don't know that I've ever been given a squawk code that starts with 0. That a DC thing?
 
Ron, that is great. You seemed to be satisfied with Lacaster Avionics' work. Would you recommend them?
 
Ron Levy said:
What I was aware of on the way home was how much I was looking in instead of out. Gotta work on that.
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I was going to comment that you'd better bring Fran along on all your flights to watch for traffic etc outside as your panel is going to draw your attention to it pretty strongly but I'm not surprised you discovered this issue on your own.

So far, I love it. This is pretty much a state-of-the art box, including not just the EDM-800 engine analyzer functions (including fuel flow rate and total flowage), but also all engine and fuel instrumentation -- the old tach, fuel pressure, oil pressure, oil temp, ammeter, and fuel gauges are gone.
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IMO the best part of all that is the ability to generate alarms on any exceedence.
 
Ron, great panel, that looks really nice!
 
SkyHog said:
Very nice panel, Ron.

Why are ya squawking 0350? I don't know that I've ever been given a squawk code that starts with 0. That a DC thing?
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Never heard of that. Most unusual squawk I ever got was 0001 for an IFR flight. Figured they were just starting over.
I had heard that at one time a code starting with zero was reserved for temporary services like VFR flight following, but (obviously) don't think that is true anymore.
 
Ron,

Very nice panel. I'm drooling on my keyboard as I type.

To get the % power figure is data loaded into the JPI that is engine specific so it knows where it is operating?
 
NC Pilot said:
Never heard of that. Most unusual squawk I ever got was 0001 for an IFR flight. Figured they were just starting over.
I had heard that at one time a code starting with zero was reserved for temporary services like VFR flight following, but (obviously) don't think that is true anymore.
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Most, not all the time, codes that start with zero are reserved for local TRACONs to assign. Sometimes you'll get one for longer distance flights. SAT issues codes starting with 04 if you're staying in their airspace.
 
i seem to remember codes starting with zero when going into class D airports with radar services. Maybe even when going into DSM class C.

and nice panel Ron!
 
Nice panel!

We have the "non-certified" Grand Rapids Tech. engine monitor in the RV along with E.I. fuel quantity/flow/press/etc. SO much information to digest. Gives us something to do on long trips. ha! You'll love having so much info at your fingertips.

-Chris
 
SkyHog said:
Why are ya squawking 0350? I don't know that I've ever been given a squawk code that starts with 0. That a DC thing?
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Leading 0's are no big thing, and that's the code Harrisburg Approach gave us for the GPS certification flight.
 
NC Pilot said:
To get the % power figure is data loaded into the JPI that is engine specific so it knows where it is operating?
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That's my understanding. In fact, the chip they burn for the specific aircraft (including all the engine limitations -- you may note the 1850-2250 yellow arc on the tach for my McCauley prop) was the delaying factor in getting the plane. Everything was ready except the final chip, and it got caught in STL during the big snow a couple of weeks ago, so I had to leave town by car for a 2-week PIC gig and wait until I got home this week to pick it up.
 
Ron Levy said:
That's my understanding. In fact, the chip they burn for the specific aircraft (including all the engine limitations -- you may note the 1850-2250 yellow arc on the tach for my McCauley prop) was the delaying factor in getting the plane. Everything was ready except the final chip, and it got caught in STL during the big snow a couple of weeks ago, so I had to leave town by car for a 2-week PIC gig and wait until I got home this week to pick it up.
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That's an improvement. I was more htna bit disappointed when I learned that the % power feature on my JPI EDM-800 gets calibrated with procedure that begins...."1) set 75% power as per your P.O.H. 2) See what the HP preading on the instrument says..."

If I wanted to interpolate for temperature and altitude I wouldn't have laid out the bucks in the first place.
 
Dart said:
When you do the interior try to leave the ashtray. THAT is way cool, sooo vintage.
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Mine only has one ashtray left. It's still filled with the dried out sachet that was there when I bought it. The passenger side ashtray was plated over with a door operation label that's wrong.

Is it OK to replace it with an ashlight?
http://www.pinnacleproducts.biz/
 
Nice looking panel. Takes a nice old bird and puts it in the 21st century. Drooool.
 
Ron Levy said:
Leading 0's are no big thing, and that's the code Harrisburg Approach gave us for the GPS certification flight.
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CHA's block of local codes start at 0200, so a code like 0206 isn't uncommon when staying in the local practice area.
 
Ron Levy said:
Where else would I put loose nuts and screws? There's probably a buck and a half worth of hardware in there!
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My 2 cents worth says "but 'em all back on whatever they fell off of!" :eek: :hairraise:
 
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. I can only come up with one......NICE!!!!!
Regards,
KD
 
SkyHog said:
Very nice panel, Ron.

Why are ya squawking 0350? I don't know that I've ever been given a squawk code that starts with 0. That a DC thing?
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To add to what others have said... MSN TRACON uses 04xx for local VFR flights and 03xx for local IFR. Local meaning they're not planning on handing you off to anyone else. So, I always know when I'm going somewhere VFR that if I'm told to "squawk 04xx" by Clearance Delivery that when I get 30 or so miles out I'll be hearing "radar service terminated, frequency change approved" whereas if I get something like 6532 I'll be getting a handoff to Chicago Center. (MKE TRACON does not accept VFR handoffs. ever. :mad: I think they hang out with Chicago Approach on weekends...)
 
SkyHog said:
Very nice panel, Ron.

Why are ya squawking 0350? I don't know that I've ever been given a squawk code that starts with 0. That a DC thing?
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I have gotten them before. Not all that rare. The ones that begin with an 8 are pretty rare though. Don't think I have ever gotten one of those ;)
 
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