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donv

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #270 on: March 10, 2018, 12:49:33 am »
Or maybe second best after N4622E...

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #271 on: March 18, 2018, 01:06:01 pm »
Tentatively picking her up on Wed. Wish me luck.
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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #272 on: March 18, 2018, 01:07:55 pm »
Good luck! I don't need to tell you this, but plan on staying for a few days!

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #273 on: March 18, 2018, 02:17:09 pm »
Adam,

This is a very exciting moment!

I hope it all goes smoothly.

Jeff

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #274 on: March 18, 2018, 02:51:19 pm »
YEAHHHHHHHHH

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #275 on: March 19, 2018, 06:24:17 pm »
Good luck! I don't need to tell you this, but plan on staying for a few days!

That's my worry, I have to either get her back that day, or leave her there again. I have work the day after. We all know how the old trick pick-your-plane-up-and-expect-it-to-be-squaw-free-and-ready goes in real life.... ::)

But hey, maybe I'll get lucky.  ;)
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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #276 on: March 20, 2018, 12:09:39 am »
There is a first time for everything!

Good luck! I don't need to tell you this, but plan on staying for a few days!

That's my worry, I have to either get her back that day, or leave her there again. I have work the day after. We all know how the old trick pick-your-plane-up-and-expect-it-to-be-squaw-free-and-ready goes in real life.... ::)

But hey, maybe I'll get lucky.  ;)

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #277 on: March 22, 2018, 11:47:06 am »
Anxiously Awaiting a flight photo and great adventures!

Hopefully all is going well Adam

Let us know

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #278 on: March 24, 2018, 01:11:38 pm »
Well, you can guess what happened.

Now they've found that the boots don't inflate anywhere... And I wasn't about to launch into heavy IMC (weather was terrible last week) first thing out of the gate. Especially not without de-icing. So went up and spent a whole day looking at two mechanics troubleshooting shit and left, $800 later in air travel, rental cars, hotels etc... Vacuum still not gaging. Pressurization leaks on emergency door and main door still. They say they'll fix that..

God I'm sick of it all. Just need her out of there.

Hope to be able to get her out of there next week.



« Last Edit: March 25, 2018, 09:07:06 am by Adam Frisch »
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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #279 on: March 24, 2018, 05:02:57 pm »
Well I gotta say looking at the middle photo enlarged... that your windshields look amazing.  Much better than I imagined having never tried to resurface one.

As for a "service center"...  sometimes they are not much better at reserecting the old and infirmed airframes.

So keep the faith... work a few more pictures and all good things will come to pass as they say 8)

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #280 on: March 24, 2018, 09:44:04 pm »
Thanks - yes they do! That's one of the things that came out really well.

I did go through all the electrical stuff after the winglet installation and that seems to work really well, too. So not all bad news. Speaking of electrical stuff, you might recall that for some reason all the Commanders I've owned have had the strobes wired to the nav light. Meaning, you either had to have both on or none, which was a huge pain at night when you wanted to turn off the strobes as a courtesy to others, but leave the nav lights on. Couldn't do that - had to taxi with strobes on and get hated on by everyone. In any case, Morris wired the strobes to the ice lights in a real nice way, so that was a good solution.

And the ice light leads me to...

I have an idea for a pretty easy STC mod. Probably never get around to it doing it, but here's the idea: Remove the ice light, and replace it with a split, two lens LED light. One lights up the leading edge just like the old ice light did, but the other source (below it in the same lamp), lights up the ground around the wingtip. That would be really useful when you land at unknown airfields at night. It was always really hard to see at the smaller airports with unlit taxiways - this would improve your situational awareness a lot. It would not require any modification to the actual opening on the cowl, just a new light.
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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #281 on: March 25, 2018, 08:14:22 am »
Good idea on the ice light...  not sure if it would even require an STC... but I prefer my old highway patrol light for dark unknown landing sites 8)

I actually have thought about seeing if it could be done but with HID of course 8)

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #282 on: March 25, 2018, 08:43:10 am »
That's the thing, the service centers prob don't have the knowledge either on these older birds. Not like they get a chance to work on them that much. I don't know where to take her.
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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #283 on: March 25, 2018, 11:36:58 am »
I like the ice light idea.

Aero Air works on a 680V regularly... I'm not saying they're the best, or even that they would be better than Morris. They do have more people (I'm guessing?) and an incentive to keep airplanes moving out of their shop so the next batch can move in. That could lead to it's own issues, but at least they are motivated to get airplanes out the door.

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #284 on: March 25, 2018, 04:28:44 pm »
Don - most likely will go to AeroAir myself. It's a little bit of a trek from SoCal, but prob best option. Bruce gave me a connection for a guy in Arizona that's ex-EAM, so that's also a good lead. Will see where it ends up to get the last bits fixed.

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