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by Thomas
Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:07 pm
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: Starting without the boost pump
Replies: 13
Views: 3060

Re: Starting without the boost pump

Everything that can happen will happen once!! A few years ago my el. fuel pump quit on the way to the maintenance shop doing my annal. As I had to cross border btw Switzerland and Germany, customs hat to be cleared at an intermediate stop. When starting the engine, the pump failed. Starting the engi...
by Thomas
Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:26 pm
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: Flight time in the Aircraft log-Book
Replies: 24
Views: 11890

Re: Flight time in the Aircraft log-Book

Hi Arnaud, I confirm that Dave is right, also in the EASA environment, for your personal logbook it’s Block on/off and for the A/C it’s airborne time. Means time between the maintenance checks is airborne time. I use the IPad Jepp Flight Deck App and a garmin area 600 for the time recording. The VM1...
by Thomas
Sat Sep 01, 2018 4:52 pm
Forum: Hangar Talk
Topic: Intriguing Products ?
Replies: 5
Views: 2293

Re: Intriguing Products ?

Rich, me too. Hope many steam DA40 flyers are in line with us ... would be a dream to have this solution working as advertised.
by Thomas
Fri Aug 31, 2018 6:09 am
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: Contemplating long-term suitability of a DA40 for family of 4
Replies: 18
Views: 4778

Re: Contemplating long-term suitability of a DA40 for family of 4

TimS wrote:
gordsh wrote:OK guys stop it!! You have e looking at M350's on Controller!!
What is the phrase? Go big or go home.
The first who is updrading from Diamond to BBJ will get a free landing and handling at our Airport: :) Go big and go to...
by Thomas
Sun Aug 19, 2018 8:37 pm
Forum: Hangar Talk
Topic: What comes after a DA40?
Replies: 483
Views: 149402

Re: What comes after a DA40?

:) Cary, Hope you stay here with us in the DAN.... even as a Bonanza enthusiast. :)
by Thomas
Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:18 pm
Forum: DA62 Forum
Topic: Please advise on a da62 purchase.
Replies: 38
Views: 24725

Re: Please advise on a da62 purchase.

A friend is an engineer in one of those firms that does post-accident analysis. His boss pointed out that they have worked on NO accidents involved PC-12s, but a whole bunch of King Air accidents. He thinks that a single PT6 might actually be safer than a pair of them. If something goes wrong, you ...
by Thomas
Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:44 pm
Forum: Hangar Talk
Topic: PAX door fallen of inflight
Replies: 4
Views: 1947

PAX door fallen of inflight

It seems to happen also with the safety look installed
https://twitter.com/AirCrashMayday/stat ... 68/photo/1
by Thomas
Fri Apr 13, 2018 6:40 pm
Forum: Public forum
Topic: DA40NG
Replies: 172
Views: 45254

Re: DA40NG

CFI Dave, what is the sinkrate in "parachute mode" and what is the apprx GPS GND speed.
by Thomas
Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:23 pm
Forum: Hangar Talk
Topic: Horsepower debate (was DA40NG)
Replies: 30
Views: 7731

Re: Horsepower debate (was DA40NG)

Sandy`s vote is interesting, my question is … what is the role of the prop, performance means speed and T/O acceleration depending on the mass of air which the prop is moving. So more/less HP means different prop pitch at the same rpm.. If the governor regulates 2700 at T/O its 2700 with 180HP or 20...
by Thomas
Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:45 pm
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: What are your dreams?
Replies: 20
Views: 5117

Re: What are your dreams?

Colin , dream +2 for you, commercial to ferry the PC12s out to the world, every week a new plane .... out of my home airport, we would meet then regularly