Walt Aronow of Exp Aircraft

GaryChatelain · #1 02-04-2012, 08:28 PM

Just wanted to compliment Walter Aronow on the excellent work he did on my RV8. He installed a new radio, moved some stuff around on my panel, and did some engine maintenance for me. I learned a lot just standing next to him. Walt is very capable, conscious, and very reasonable on his fees. I highly recommend him on any work that you might need.

Walt · #2 02-04-2012, 09:15 PM

Thanks Gary, but I'm still not signing you off on your A&P

And you need to post some pics of your plane, Gary definately has one of the nicer RV8's I've had the privilege to work on.

rvator51 · #3 02-05-2012, 06:29 AM

And I wanted to complement Walt on the fast job he did of recalibrating the freq on my Garmin GX320 transponder which was a little too high. The avionics shop here at Deer Valley Airport said the transponder frequencies couldnt be adjusted. I sent it to Walt and he recalibrated and yellow tagged it for me over last weekend and sent it back to me for $50. Thanks Walt!

wrongway john · #4 02-06-2012, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Walt

Thanks Gary, but I'm still not signing you off on your A&P

Ha! It was worth a try, anyway, Gary.

Walt, I may be getting with you soon too, I didn't know you did all of this. Picked up a 6, and having a bit of background noise on my radio. I also have one of the old Vision 1000 systems, and it's heck trying to get the fuel gauges to read right. It always reads low fuel, about 95% of the time with full tanks. Not sure if you can help here or not, or what I should do. If no one can work on it here, I'll be looking you up next month if it's a good time for you, and it's something you think you might want to mess with.

John

Walt · #5 02-07-2012, 05:35 AM

John,
Did you sell the 4 kit?

I'm gonna bet (99% probability) that you have resistive senders in the 6 and generally speaking, at about 3/4 tanks they reach their upper limit and will show full. They should start reading accurately once you get under about 15 gal.

The radio we'll just have to look/listen to and see what's going on.
Walt

wrongway john · #6 02-07-2012, 01:37 PM

Walt, the previous owner claims he had to change a battery out for it, and that?s when the problem started. He seems to think there is a loose wire somewhere, but I haven?t been able to find it, and I?m not sure that is the problem. I honestly haven?t a clue.

Yep, sold my 4, seems like everybody wanted the fuselage kit. I could have sold that kit a few times over. With the wing and tail kit, it took a bit longer, but managed to sell it not too long after. All were South TX builders who had built before. I?m confident they will finish it.

I've got somebody at my local airport that came highly recommended on these electronics. If he doesn't have the time for it, I hope to see you next month, if your schedule permits.

Omega232Devils · #7 02-07-2012, 02:40 PM

John,
Contact Reggie for your VM1000 issues. He is on VAF:

http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...er.php?u=13508

He has helped several guys on here.

The VM1000 does not take a reading from your fuel senders, but rather is just a fuel calculator that you input the fuel you added and it shows you what "should" be, vice what "actually is" in the tanks.

I use the Electronics International Fuel display connected to my resistance fuel senders to show where the floats are in the tanks. (Basically for fuel leak in flight) I use the VM1000 for fuel burn and remaining. The 1000 is very accurate to the 0.1 gallon on fill ups.

Walt is right regarding the resistance senders. I am able to acurrately record 16 gallons in the right tank and 14 gallons in the left. When I bought the plane in August the gauge and senders were worthless, but after recalibrating the senders, both have worked like a charm. Make sure when you calibrate the senders, you stop when the resistance value fails to increase. Otherwise you will get a large drop in fuel quantity when fuel drops to next lower resistance value. (Ask me how I know!)

Hope this helps.

Dan

wrongway john · #8 02-09-2012, 06:19 PM

THX Dan, all help is appreciated. He'll be another one I may have to seek help on. It's read crazy since I have had it, always saying low fuel warning, even though I take the necessary steps to program in the gallons after fill-up. Since it wasn't doing any good, I just gave up on it, and now estimate by time, making sure I have full tanks on take off, and having plenty of reserve.

Walt · #9 02-09-2012, 07:38 PM

And I agree with Dan, if the problem is with the VM1000 Reggie would be the man to talk with.

Omega232Devils · #10 02-09-2012, 08:40 PM

Have you replaced the battery in the DPU recently? If so you need to re-program the system for fuel quantity. When you top off tanks, make sure you put in greater quantity than max fuel capability. I.e.my tanks are 38 gallons, when i top off the tanks i put in 50 gallons. This resets the DPU to top off limits you programmed.

Dan