How often do you fly, what environment are you in, and are you hangared?

I would upgrade to nickel if you are not hangared in a dry environment and/or fly often.  When I talked to Lycon, they said the ground cam would not be beneficial for my type of flying, not sure why again.  I priortized what I’d do below.

Upgrade to factory new cylinders $…[Read more]

What are your power settings?

You can buy STC’d inertial reel belts for up front then reweb your old front fixed shoulder belts and install those in the back.  Your mechanic should be able to sign those off with no problem.

First off, I did multiple upgrades at once so I can’t identify exactly what upgrade did what.  I went from a stock O-470-U to a O-470-50, with high compression pistons (DER approval), electronic ignition, and a 2 blade MT prop.  I also got a new tach and overhauled the MP gauge so readings may differ as well.  I also removed an INOP A/C system so…[Read more]

I’m not sure about the modern EI vs JPI engine monitors, but the older EI (UBG-16) is certainly more involved to install.  It has function module boxes all over and a separate mux to be able to record and download data.  The UBG is analog so even if you have digital data going into it, the data gets converted to analog to go into the UBG then r…[Read more]

Out of curiosity, why are you looking for such low TTAF?  Translated, that is like saying you are looking for an airplane flown less than 90 hours per year.  Airplanes that don’t fly regularly tend to have more issues and deferred issues than those flying often.  Perhaps you are trying to exclude trainers, but I’d explicitly state that if that is…[Read more]

Take a look at the engine overhaul manual (https://www.redskyventures.org/doc/cessna-maintenance-manuals/Continental_O-470_IO-470_mx_overhaul_11976.pdf) and operator’s manual (https://www.manualslib.com/products/Continental-Motors-O-470-U-9257114.html).

Page 9 of the pdf of the overhaul manual states that oil pressure limit at idle is 10 PSI,…[Read more]

Same comment as Scott, I bought my plane with the engine beyond TBO and flew it for 11 years before it was time to overhaul.  Unless you have the time and money now to burn and not later, fly it until it’s time.

Michael, it sounds like we both went through the same struggle with props and we got 1 of each between us.  Once I’m running, maybe between us we’ll be able to add some more insight into the differences in this configuration.  I thought my decision was a bit of a shot in the dark with weight and cost being the only real pieces of information.

My PPONK should be getting delivered tomorrow.  I’ve heard a lot of complaints about the CG that Michael mentioned so I went with the 2 blade MT prop (I also had a prop that wasn’t compatible).  Steve Knopp isn’t a fan of it, but I believe that is because he thinks they misrepresent their weight numbers more than performance or durability.  Lo…[Read more]

Just get something like a shop vac hose adapter with mounting holes and bolt it to a small thin wood plate and use steel spring clamps to hold that assembly into place on the front of the airbox.  No need to remove the carb or the airbox, just the lower cowl.  I made one cheap years ago and have it stashed in the hangar and have used in on n…[Read more]

You’ll get varying opinions, but I think they are mostly that – including mine.  There are very few who have actually flown both on the same engine for direct comparison and those who do are usually eager to justify the money they spent.

I’m upgrading my O-470-U to a PPONK O-470-50 and my current 2 blade McCauley isn’t compatible so I’m in the…[Read more]

My favorite section is Moab-Canyonlands-CO River-Lake Powell-Page-Marble Canyon-Grand Canyon-Lake Mead-Las Vegas (or vice versa heading east), I’ve flown that many times.  I’ve flown more west of the Rockies than east of them, but in my opinion, east of the Rockies is boring.  Not as much to see from the air unless you fly low.  Badlands might be…[Read more]

I added an IFD-540 and AXP-340 to my 182Q and I’m happy with them.

I tested out the IFD and GTN nearly side by side at the trade shows and liked the IFD much better.  I like the menu logic better, hybrid touch/buttons, multiple destinations/approaches, bluetooth keyboard.  That being said Garmin is closing the gap and has the resources improve t…[Read more]

Thanks John, I appreciate the feedback.

Well yes and no, this post will probably work, but I duplicated the bug when I tried to edit my post several times and the post was deleted. I think that trying to retype the post that was deleted is what caused the duplicate problem. I never had a problem with quoting, the problem was with a post that was deleted that included a quote.

Depending on what I’m trying to say, after I hit quote and I’m typing in the reply box, I’ll copy the quote tags so that I can parse out specific parts of a post I’m trying to talk about. Perhaps that makes it look like I used the block quote function, but I haven’t used any of the buttons in the reply banner in any of my posts here yet.

Yes, I’m using the quote link in the blue banner next to reply.

test test test test test test test

Hmm, seems to be intermittent.

Dan the issue with quoting was that it was telling me that I was creating a duplicate post after the original one disappeared and I tried to re-quote him as I previously had. That is why I made a new post and just said I had tried to quote him. The original post I made did the…[Read more]