Hi Mike, I note in your comment for "spring tune up" that you are adding brighter cabin lights. I installed one of those round 4 LED Hella lights in my ...
John - We installed one of the Hella's in our baggage compartment and it is indeed too dim. I'll be watching Mike tosee which ones he installs. Our cabin...
John, I located and purchased the new Hella units, same exact size but brighter. Hella advertises that they are 3X brighter than the old ones. They're ...
Not that two struts is a verifiable trend, but now we have both Rick Argente and Greg Ratajski that have sent their struts back to Lancair and had them ...
Mike, FWIW, I've had my strut rebuilt twice. The first time was before my first flight because of shimmy during taxi tests. The second time was because it...
Guys, I need a little help. I recently did some work on my engine monitor. During my first engine start/runup, the Manifold Pressure was reporting around 13...
Drew, I think something around 10 is a good number, although I admit I haven't really paid attention. It should be relatively constant with elevation, but at...
Drew, I pulled up my JPI engine data files to and from North Las Vegas a year ago. After landing there and at startup and idle, around 1,000 RPM, I had ...
To everyone I just had my 530 up graded to have waas. My plan is to put the antenna on an L bracket on the bulkhead behind the baggage compartment. The only...
Ron: I have my 530 antenna installed in the same place, on a bracket behind the aft bulkhead. Reception is great. Question: What's the fee for installing the ...
Ron - Our EFIS GPS antenna is back there on a small shelf just under the top fuselage skin. We get 9 satellites inside the hangar. I would try to mount it up...
John; Just curious; what EFIS GPS do you have? (I am trying to gather my thoughts on my instrument based on the newer technology). Joaquin ... From: John...
Ron, I've gone round and round on "W" antennas. I was determined to keep mine just below the glare shield and that position worked great with my 430A. With...
Ron, Mounting the antenna where you were looking at is actually a very good place and since the new 530W (and new antenna) actually needs some built in cable...
I finally got around to hooking up my blue brake lines from the wheel up to the fuselage. They are about 2 inches too long. I tried moving them around but...
... with some whinning was reduced to 2.4K Joe ... cheaper but I waited to long. ... behind the aft bulkhead. Reception is great. Question: What's the fee for...
John - As I recall the fittings on the blue lines, they were swaged/crimped on. However, a good hose shop could probably cut them off and install new ones. If...
Note that the article refers to a 50 layer sheet of carbon fiber. I doubt the Lancair pressurized fuselages come even close to this number. For my ES-P, i'm...
Pete - You got it. Putting all of the ground planes inside and well before other fabrications, equipment, etc. begin to encroach on the available space is the...
I'm at a point in construction of my ES-P that I need to plan my external antennas so I can install my internal ground planes. However, I haven't finalized a...
Pete, I like the look of those channels but we have a problem with headroom. Does the new seat sit low enough that the extra inch isn't a problem for you? ......
I don't know yet. My plane doesn't have a top on it yet ;-) As for headroom, the brackets are 1" thick. The standard way of doing it raises the seat about...
I think the ideal location for one of the comm antennas is on top of the fuselage. This would be a comm/gps antenna. Now the up and down sides. Since the...
Pete - We have a plain, old fastbuild ES. Re your seat rails. Ron and I are both tall and needed sitting height. We used the old seats with Jim Griffin's...
Pete - Check here for some pictures of our seat rails. One more note: to allow for the aileron crossover push tube to clear the seats, we added a piece of...
