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BOB HIDLEY on February 16, 2020 at 9:24 am #19742

Yes. Send me your email address and I’ll send pictures. It’s in the box that the new cowl was shipped to my mechanic.

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BOB HIDLEY on December 11, 2019 at 11:39 am #19585

Bob:

I’m planning on repainting my Turbo Arrow III and am really impressed with the paint scheme on your plane that I saw in Piper Flyer. Could you email a couple pictures and include the wing tips which don’t show in the magazine?

Bob Hidley
N3328M
rhidley@hotmail.com

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BOB HIDLEY on March 7, 2018 at 1:00 pm #18588

I own a Turbo Arrow III, same engine, cowling, etc. and have the same problem. It’s solved by installing the winterization kit when the ambient temperature is 50 degrees F or less. Take a look at 8.29 Winterization in your POH on page 8-15. I’m assuming it’s the same in the Turbo Arrow IV. The winterization plate is located on the right hand side of the firewall and is installed over part of the oil cooler.

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BOB HIDLEY on April 20, 2015 at 6:49 pm #17701

I gave you the idea earlier about heating the cabin to prevent corrosion. Just found this out: If you remove the hatch in the back of the baggage area to allow dry air to circulate through the entire fuselage and go out the tail then the aft portion of the fuselage will also stay dry and corrosion free.

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BOB HIDLEY on April 13, 2015 at 2:05 pm #17692

I sent my yokes to Advance Paint Tech in Cleveland (they advertise in Trade A Plane) to be powder coated. After reinstalling them in the plane the coating came off. Sent them back to be redone. Again the coating came off. Then we had a local powder coating shop do the work with excellent results. (Why didn’t we use the local guys from the beginning?) They said Advance Paint did not remove the old material. So now the yokes look better than new. However! While this was going on I had some avionics work completed. The local FSDO decided to look at the paper work for my avionics installation as part of their annual FAA Repair Station inspection and saw the logbook entry for the yoke powder coating. Turns out, according to our FSDO you can’t powder coat yokes even though they come from the factory that way. So big fine to the avionics shop and letter to my mechanic. We had a DEQ authorize yoke powder coating for my PA-28R 201T so after lots of FAA fun we’re legal.

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BOB HIDLEY on April 4, 2015 at 10:08 am #17681

Many of us here in Salem put a boat heater in the fuselage to keep it dry in the winter. It uses about 50 watts so electricity cost is not much. I bought mine at West Marine for $90.00. They call it an air dryer.

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BOB HIDLEY on April 4, 2015 at 10:01 am #17680

Scott:

Attached is a sample trip kit from FliteStar as if I planned to fly from Salem to Sacramento today. I use the small pages, cut them out and have them on a clipboard that fits in the side pocket next to the pilot’s seat. So inflight all I need is this and a pencil. I sometimes print the map to give to my passengers so they can follow along. There are options to print VFR or IFR charts, different size flight plans including booklets and all formats are customizable. You can make lists of all frequencies, airports etc. along your route.

I could talk about this for hours. Anyway, for example I’m planning a trip to IA, TN, MI, PA, CT and ME. I’ll do all the flight planning at home on my PC, put each days stuff in a large envelope including rental car and hotel info. When I get to the plane I’ll load everything into the Garmin 530 using the Garmin Migrator. I have an iPad on the yoke with a Ram mount. Using Foreflight I’ll file the flight plan in the plane about 10 minutes before departure. In the old days I brought along a laptop and portable printer and did each day’s planning from the hotel room. Now I have it all done before as I mentioned. I’ll check weather and NOTAMs using ForeFlight and the iPad. This works well with minimum time each day devoted to planning.

Bob

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BOB HIDLEY on April 3, 2015 at 9:28 pm #17679

Just checked. I can flight plan all the way to Anchorage and Mexico City so I guess my subscription is North America not just the Continental US.

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BOB HIDLEY on April 3, 2015 at 9:14 pm #17678

The $500 version is for all of North and South America including updates for one year. I have the IFR North America version which is the Continental US. My Pilot store sells it for $343 with one year of updates. It will work great without updates also. I’ve had it for about 20 years. Sometimes I bought a one time update per year, sometimes none for a couple years. Currently I’m updating it monthly. To me it’s worth the $343 price. Jeppesen also has free support to answer your questions.

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BOB HIDLEY on April 2, 2015 at 4:02 pm #17673

I’ve used Jeppesen FlightStar for many years and it’s great. Complete flight planning, weather, weight and balance. The entire package for any plane. With Garmin Migrator you can download up to 19 flight plans from your PC and upload to a Garmin 430W/530W and save all the button pushing.