Folks
Still just working on cleaning up things on the do list, and also doing the Annual Condition Inspection. Although it is not due until June, I wanted to get it into a better part of the year, and I did not want to try to do it while in Alaska.
So......here are a few things that might help.
This is looking from the rear towards the aft side of the lower baggage and toward the right in the photo is my ELT antennae. This mount worked fine on the 121.5 ELT but I was getting a self test code that indicated it was not getting a good signal strength out. So, I added a ground plane. It is a chunk of .016 AL mounted at the base of the antenna. Boom!! Problem solved. Bottom line. Ya gotta have a ground plane for the newer 406 ELT units.
You could just make a star out of .016. My ELT instructions recommend each leg of the star be 1" wide and as long as the antenna itself. That won't fit so use more, and wider legs, and keep them shorter. Whatever works but you will need something.
My fuel sight gauges were not very helpful. The fuel was bouncing all over the place.
So I took a #5 rivet and drilled a .090 hole in it.
Put it in your squeezer and squeeze it until it expands enough to be a good tight press fit into the fuel sight gauge fitting. Thus putting a restriction in the line and damping out the sloshing in the gauge.
In the end of the fitting. I have not tested this yet.
Hey Mike S. - I appreciate your inputs, and every one else.
Other things I've been doing.
All the hydraulic lines I made seem to have worked fine. No leaks.
Made new water rudder retract cables. Javron has the tool to crimp on the ball fittings. Pretty slick.
fixed right fuel probe (it was touching the tank bottom, thus grounding out). Recalibrated it.
Defroster
Weight and Balance stuff. Reweighed the plane, it came to within 1 pound of expected weights. We tried to get weights and stuff with different folks in the plane but the scales did not handle that. I guess you need to reset them between each weighing. Oh well....we still have all the data we need.
Checked operation of flap handle.
Fixed muffler extension - not as long as Std Sutton - but not as short as it was
fixed a headset plug issue
fixed a place where the muffler was hitting the cowl. I guess the engine settled a little. No surprise there
relocated the EIS display and set it up as a back up to the GRT (very pleased with this)
redid the ground wires for the mags - thanks Buck
fixed the rear seat velcro
AND LOTS of other small junk.
Also had a couple of other life events to attend to so I have been super busy and have not posted much. Hope someone finds something useful in here.
See you soon and HAPPY EASTER!!!
Bill