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- Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:57 pm
- Forum: Austro
- Topic: Austro engine reliability and safety
- Replies: 61
- Views: 45298
Re: Austro engine reliability and safety
The salesman who sold my DA40 to us was in a DA42 over Santa Barbara and lost an engine. He turned around and flew back to Long Beach. I think that's flying over six perfectly good airports along the way. But it is nice to be back home when you know the plane might be sitting for a while.
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:53 pm
- Forum: Travel & Destinations
- Topic: Northern route cross-country from western MA to San Juan Islands and back (multi-part)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3227
Re: Northern route cross-country from western MA to San Juan Islands and back (multi-part)
Dan, do you have a place to stay in the San Juans?
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 1:07 pm
- Forum: DA62 Forum
- Topic: New fuel pump requires Prist below +5C
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1392
Re: New fuel pump requires Prist below +5C
It is definitely not the same pumps as those that do the fuel transfer (one gallon per minute, if I recall correctly). The high pressure fuel pumps increase the fuel temperature by putting it under very high pressure. The engine only sips a little, and all the rest gets dumped back into the fuel tan...
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: Austro
- Topic: Austro engine reliability and safety
- Replies: 61
- Views: 45298
Re: Austro engine reliability and safety
I'm on BeechTalk, which is an excellent aviation community. A guy on there described losing one of the engines on his Baron. Even in cruise, I am uncertain of my chances of getting it right and making it down safely. I have never had the slightest doubt in the Twinstar. You can pick those planes up ...
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 3:22 pm
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: A DAN Adventure
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3247
Re: A DAN Adventure
What was the minor repair?
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 8:31 pm
- Forum: DA50 Forum
- Topic: DA50 crash
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7315
Re: DA50 crash
The report is directly FROM the pilot. It is his airstrip. "The plane seems great, but I'd need to try it out at my private grass strip to make sure it works in my usual use case." "Of course. We'll let you fly it in when we are in the area doing demo flights." "No, it doesn...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: New Nose Wheel Fin
- Replies: 147
- Views: 120793
Re: New Nose Wheel Fin
Is he 3d printing them? Has he open sourced the files?
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 11:56 pm
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: Magnetometer issue due to magnetised fuel filler cap bonding wire
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1317
Re: Magnetometer issue due to magnetised fuel filler cap bonding wire
The wire to the cap is a grounding wire? I thought it was so that I didn't lose the cap when I was filling it. (An RV pilot I know did that, losing his custom-etched filler cap over the LA basin somewhere, which his tail number on it.) What happens if you simple remove the wire for now? I am trying ...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 7:20 pm
- Forum: Public forum
- Topic: DA40 2023 starter engaged uncommanded during flight
- Replies: 29
- Views: 18429
Re: DA40 2023 starter engaged uncommanded during flight
Good job getting it on the ground. We will all be very interested to hear what they find caused the alarm.
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 7:19 pm
- Forum: Public forum
- Topic: DA40 2023 starter engaged uncommanded during flight
- Replies: 29
- Views: 18429
Re: DA40 2023 starter engaged uncommanded during flight
Yes, he is flying a DA40NG. The registration is there in his little member-info card.