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moe-rosspistons(at)hotmai
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 Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:40 am Post subject: fuel vent heat check |
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Dan,
Thanks for the advice! My fuel vent heaters spliced into the air speed indicator wires. Load shedding seems to be limited to pulling the circuit breaker or turning off the switch, except the stall warning horn, and it is hot wired.
Moe
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From: Dan Farmer (daniellfarmer(at)yahoo.com)
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:05 AM
To: commander-list-digest(at)matronics.com (commander-list-digest(at)matronics.com)
Subject: fuel vent heat check
This is so easy. Turn on the master switch, turn on the pitot/fuel vent heat switch now take about 2 minutes then put your lips on the vents like you were to suck a straw. Be sure to do this before you suck on the pitot tube. Otherwise your lips will be burned so bad you will never be able to feel the slight warmth from the vent. If you really do this you deserve what you get. In all seriousness, my vents are always quite warm to the touch in about 30 seconds after turning on the heat switch. I seriously doubt that airframes of this vintage and size have load shedding. In the 1960's I don't think Boeing or Douglas was using auto load shedding. I think it was called a flight engineer. CHECK ESSENTIAL!!!
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:53 am Post subject: fuel vent heat check |
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HI KIDS. I might suggest that all of yall with vent heaters contact John Towner. He has an "approved into known icing", (which the fuel vent heaters are not) STCd fuel vent protector that installs in just a few minutes, just in front of the vent and eliminates the need for the troublesome electric units. jb
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John Vormbaum
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:31 am Post subject: fuel vent heat check |
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Jim,
How was your Caribbean vacation? Give us the scoop! How's Jimmy doing?
/John
yourtcfg(at)aol.com wrote:
[quote] HI KIDS. I might suggest that all of yall with vent heaters contact
John Towner. He has an "approved into known icing", (which the fuel
vent heaters are not) STCd fuel vent protector that installs in just a
few minutes, just in front of the vent and eliminates the need for the
troublesome electric units. jb
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yourtcfg(at)aol.com
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:12 am Post subject: fuel vent heat check |
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IT WAS GREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!! I did the annual on Jimmy's Commander then borrowed it to fly Sue and I and two other couples to Culebra. Flamenco beach is the number two most beautiful beach in all the Caribbean and it really is. We had lunch in town at a little place called the Dingy Dock where you can literally eat you hamburger in paradise while you soak your feet in the Caribbean. There were half a dozen 4,to 5, long Tarpon fish under the dock. They are really impressive fish and show bright silver when the sun shines on them. I found a good size male iguana to chase into the water. We the shopped around town a bit and headed for the beach. There were a few "T" storms in the distance and had the water a bit disturbed. The normally calm beach had 4 to 5 foot breakers and we had a total blast!!! We spent two hours frolicking in the waves, body surfing and enjoying the wonderfully, warm water. There is an o ld abandoned WW 2 tank on the next beach over and we walked over to it. We then flew back to Isle Grande airport in air conditioned, Commander comfort and boarded the cruse ship the next day. A big thank you to TCFG member Sergio Molina for rounding up his jacks and a mule for the retract test. Sergio operates a straight 500 on a 135 certificate and is a really nice guy. While the ship was leaving the port of St Lucia, we were all standing on the deck and lo and behold, a 500B (short nose) entered the patter at the airport and landed!! way cool. Jimmy is doing great, We got a tour of his new home in Old San Juan, It is a truly amazing project. It will be two years of work when complete in the spring and worth every day. I am sure you will be able to see it in an architectural magazine someday. His wife and kids are well, although his wife was suffering from some back pain. On another note. Saw t he 007 movie last night and there is a brief scene of a Commander , only in the background. Also, My bride was watching "Wife Swap" a couple of days ago and there was several really good shots of Turbine, dash 10 in the story. They episode was filmed in FL. Sue and I are leaving a a couple of hours to fly triple 2 to Idaho for "T" day. Then back to work delivering a 560E from Morris shop to FL. jb
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John Vormbaum
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:34 am Post subject: fuel vent heat check |
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Wow Jim, sounds like you had a great time! I bet you feel refreshed
after that. Poor guy, having to get back to "the grind" of flying
Commanders hither and yon.....
yourtcfg(at)aol.com wrote:
[quote] IT WAS GREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!! I did the annual on Jimmy's Commander
then borrowed it to fly Sue and I and two other couples to Culebra.
Flamenco beach is the number two most beautiful beach in all the
Caribbean and it really is. We had lunch in town at a little place
called the Dingy Dock where you can literally eat you hamburger in
paradise while you soak your feet in the Caribbean. There were half a
dozen 4,to 5, long Tarpon fish under the dock. They are really
impressive fish and show bright silver when the sun shines on them. I
found a good size male iguana to chase into the water. We the shopped
around town a bit and headed for the beach. There were a few "T"
storms in the distance and had the water a bit disturbed. The
normally calm beach had 4 to 5 foot breakers and we had a total
blast!!! We spent two hours frolicking in the waves, body surfing and
enjoying the wonderfully, warm water. There is an o ld abandoned WW 2
tank on the next beach over and we walked over to it. We then flew
back to Isle Grande airport in air conditioned, Commander comfort and
boarded the cruse ship the next day. A big thank you to TCFG member
Sergio Molina for rounding up his jacks and a mule for the retract
test. Sergio operates a straight 500 on a 135 certificate and is a
really nice guy. While the ship was leaving the port of St Lucia, we
were all standing on the deck and lo and behold, a 500B (short nose)
entered the patter at the airport and landed!! way cool. Jimmy is
doing great, We got a tour of his new home in Old San Juan, It is a
truly amazing project. It will be two years of work when complete in
the spring and worth every day. I am sure you will be able to see it
in an architectural magazine someday. His wife and kids are well,
although his wife was suffering from some back pain. On another
note. Saw t he 007 movie last night and there is a brief scene of a
Commander , only in the background. Also, My bride was watching "Wife
Swap" a couple of days ago and there was several really good shots of
Turbine, dash 10 in the story. They episode was filmed in FL. Sue
and I are leaving a a couple of hours to fly triple 2 to Idaho for "T"
day. Then back to work delivering a 560E from Morris shop to FL. jb
How was your Caribbean vacation? Give us the scoop! How's Jimmy doing?
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