Forum: Messages
02-16-19, 08:59 AM
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Two more cents, maybe too late?
CARGO DOOR
I've had my '69 T337D for over 25 years (during which time I've not aged a day). I like having the cargo door in back, both to load and unload 'stuff,' and as alternative means of escape...
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Forum: Messages
02-16-19, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 5
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Ryan 9900BX vs ADS-B
Well, ...the 9900BX interrogates 1090 transponders around you, then tracks all the targets. It sees the superset of any and all 1090 transponder equipped aircraft, independently and directly. Its...
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Forum: Messages
02-12-19, 05:33 PM
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Forum: Messages
02-03-19, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 25,870
What a view
I went with vertical card compass mounted on glare shield.
Keeps everything nice and open,
It's the former helicopter owner/pilot in me.
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Forum: Messages
02-03-19, 01:59 PM
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Replies: 3
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Pre oilers
I considered pre-oilers years ago. What I found out was that about half the lubrication in an engine is from splash, which pre-oiler doesn't do.
The 'startup wear' is really only if the bearing...
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Forum: Messages
01-20-19, 01:14 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 25,870
One source for 0.25 windshield
It's been a million years since mine was done, but here is one source.
http://www.glapinc.com/Cessna/337/337a.htm
Here is a refence for what they originally used on C170s.
As I recall, the...
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Forum: Messages
01-20-19, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 25,870
Nice writeup by LP Aeroplastics
http://www.lpaero.com/images/cessna1.html
The Original Cessna Design: The center strap provides positive retention of the windshield at the top of the cabin. Positive retention in channel is...
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Forum: Parts For Sale
01-19-19, 02:57 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 69,126
How expensive?
What are the autopilot upgrade/replacement suggestions....?
I still have a Nav-O-Matic 400B. Amazing to realize that was the state of the art tech that went to the moon in 1969. I have just nursed...
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Forum: Messages
01-19-19, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 25,870
On the other hand
For perspective, I was a helicopter owner/pilot first. So transitioning to fixed wing for me was like learning to drive a submarine. All that stuff in the way out front. Cant see anything.
One of...
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Forum: Messages
09-09-18, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 49,152
Plan on many hours to install
Years ago I went with the McFarlane, and the bill was something like 11 hours labor from a very reliable shop I had used for years.
Another mechanic scoffed at that, and did them on someone elses...
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Forum: Messages
09-09-18, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 26,101
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Forum: Messages
08-30-18, 01:50 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 48,673
The funny part of basic arithmetic
As lead has been (hysterically) removed from everything ELSE,
the same total amount of lead in AVGAS
suddenly becomes statistically larger
as a part of what is left to worry about becomes...
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Forum: Messages
08-20-18, 02:01 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 48,673
Well...
I was at an aeronautics conference in the midwest some years back.
One fellow told how he 87 year old dad wanted to fly his tail dragger to the event, (we are talking open plains), but his medical...
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Forum: Messages
08-18-18, 02:53 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 48,673
Am I missing something?
All combustion engines suck in fuel and air, misting the fuel to get the right ratio, light it off with a spark then blow the expanded hot gasses out the exhaust.
Everything else is merely a...
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Forum: Messages
08-06-18, 04:27 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 165,694
I thought the P models gross went up to 5100...
I thought the P models gross went up to 5100 lbs?
My T337D has a RSTOL increased gross takeoff of 4,700 lbs
About 3k empty, so about 1700 lbs payload.
Minus 128 gals x 6lbs/gal = 768 fuel, plus...
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Forum: Messages
08-05-18, 12:04 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 165,694
To turbo or not to turbo, that is the question
I was a heli-chopter owner pilot first, and originally saw no valid reason to go over 1,000 ft. Nothing the see up there.
But when getting a 'thrasher years ago, original mission to/from...
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Forum: Messages
06-20-18, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 25,027
Just did this during annual
I wish I had the photos from the annual. Both front and rear were like torn window screens. . Replaced. I think they are to keep large moosh out of the hydraulics. Mine were both shot.
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Forum: Messages
05-29-18, 08:58 PM
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Replies: 2
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yes to blowing on fuel gauges
Yup. I discovered that one years ago after buying my 337 and having a fuel gauge smoke on me. They run hot. Amazing. Mine is a 1969, same tech that went to the moon. Scary.
After an annual a...
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Forum: Messages
05-20-18, 08:18 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 19,426
Brake performance question?
I have had the same 337 for over 25 years, and all that time the brakes barely hold past about 50 percent takeoff power. It starts creeping along, Normal?
I just had both brake cylinders and...
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Forum: Messages
04-09-18, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 22,666
Hangars
Am open.
The secret to Potomac Airfield (well, one of many),
is that we have grandfathered an approved zoning footprint
to build 40 additional T hangars,
plus two 100x200 other hangars,
(PLUS...
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Forum: Messages
04-09-18, 10:22 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 22,666
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Forum: Messages
04-01-18, 02:21 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 22,666
Where to base near DC
Well, I have had a Turbo T337D w RSTOL for 25 years, based at my very-own, privately-owned public-use airport just 30 mins drive from the White House.
See www.potomac-airfield.com
I would...
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Forum: Messages
04-01-18, 02:01 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 84,110
Image
While a diode, that is technically a high current rectifier. Allows each alternator to 'pull' current onto the power bus. Yes, if it is internally loose, then its shot. It could have been...
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Forum: Messages
10-14-17, 04:51 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 28,923
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Forum: Messages
10-14-17, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 46,261
Panel lights
You just have to realize these are flying dinosaurs. The voltage will drool up and down a bit, and so will your panel lights. If you have a digital voltage gauge somewhere you will see even cars do...
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