groucho
Well Known Member
I just posted photos & a write up about my recent trip from Ft Worth to Salt Lake City.
http://www.thedukes.org/rv/20071106.html
Enjoy!
http://www.thedukes.org/rv/20071106.html
Enjoy!
It's a G4 EFIS/Lite. Love it. It doesn't have terrain pop-up warnings like a 496, but it color codes all the deadly stuff red. You can put the terrain on the map or the ADI (attitude indicator) page...or both.Hey Groucho,
Really impressed by the clarity of the terrain on the Blue Mountain display. Is that the G4 model or an earlier model?
Seems like both should work fine. I have an O-360-AIA with one mag & one EI...all else is stock...driving a Hartzell "old style" C/S prop. I typically leave it full rich until past 9000' MSL, then slowly lean watching the EGTs. I typically climb way rich (always cooler than cruise EGTs at whatever altitude I'm at), then just lean when I get there.Do either of these methods work for the really high altitudes or will climbing LOP to say 18k (IO360)mean the motor will run out of puff before it gets there?
Seems like both should work fine. I have an O-360-AIA with one mag & one EI...all else is stock...driving a Hartzell "old style" C/S prop. I typically leave it full rich until past 9000' MSL, then slowly lean watching the EGTs. I typically climb way rich (always cooler than cruise EGTs at whatever altitude I'm at), then just lean when I get there.
There are lots of trees in Texas! You just have to go several hundred miles east of El Paso to see them. I grew up on the coast south of Houston...so many trees you could barely see your neighbors' houses.Anyway, glad you enjoyed the mountains, as I sure do! And speaking of Texas, I was so surprised that the Houston area had so many tall trees. I always figured that all of Texas looked like El Paso...