A little extra effort and an added cable and you could make it adjustable in flight Cam. I'd highly recommend it.

A1Skinner wrote:A little extra effort and an added cable and you could make it adjustable in flight Cam. I'd highly recommend it.

I’ve thought a about that, about putting a 4” butterfly “throttle plate” in the top of the oil cooler plenum. The fun part will be finding room on the panel for another cable control.

I’ll give it another think for sure.

Here’s an older picture of the dash. Any spots you’d put a cable?

CamTom12 wrote:

A1Skinner wrote:A little extra effort and an added cable and you could make it adjustable in flight Cam. I'd highly recommend it.

I’ve thought a about that, about putting a 4” butterfly “throttle plate” in the top of the oil cooler plenum. The fun part will be finding room on the panel for another cable control.

I’ll give it another think for sure.

Here’s an older picture of the dash. Any spots you’d put a cable?

It wouldnt be used much, so could you put it just to the left of the Carb heat?

A1Skinner wrote:It wouldnt be used much, so could you put it just to the left of the Carb heat?

Maybe so, I'll check behind that area for structure!

That panel is far too organized and pretty! I'd put it between the radio and GPS...you can dremel plastic from the side of each instrument to make it fit. If that's too clean, just zip-tie it to the V-brace. That last idea came from the cats...

Hammer wrote:That panel is far too organized and pretty! I'd put it between the radio and GPS...you can dremel plastic from the side of each instrument to make it fit. If that's too clean, just zip-tie it to the V-brace. That last idea came from the cats...

Those cats... I’m not surprised.

I know it's a pain not having room for lots of stuff, but you sure can see out over the older, flat across the top, panel.

CamTom12 wrote:
Went buzzing around today for a 1.9. Nothing important: just got some fuel,

Last time I got fuel here I got stung on the ear by a wasp. Apparently they were building nests under the ladder rungs.

I must have just missed you!

I dropped in there early yesterday for fuel as well. Just after I took off I heard the local breakfast club chattering on their way to Clifton TN (M29) so I turned and joined them.

We should try again to get together sometime soon........

kg wrote:

CamTom12 wrote:
Went buzzing around today for a 1.9. Nothing important: just got some fuel,

Last time I got fuel here I got stung on the ear by a wasp. Apparently they were building nests under the ladder rungs.

I must have just missed you!

I dropped in there early yesterday for fuel as well. Just after I took off I heard the local breakfast club chattering on their way to Clifton TN (M29) so I turned and joined them.

We should try again to get together sometime soon........

Agreed! I’ll shoot you a note!

CamTom12 wrote:
Bars were too muddy and too populated over here.

Love the white pipe, Good sign.
Where in Bama ere ya ? All the time breaking loose on adventure , may come by to play on the river with ya if your of a mind to.

In Huntsville, swing on by!

Late in posting, but spent a really nice day (the only nice weather day in 2 weeks) with KG and his grandson last weekend. Originally we just planned to meet up in Tullahoma for lunch, but ended up also visiting a friend of mine on the airfield and then I followed him up to Murfreesboro before heading home. It was a beautiful day and I really enjoyed Keith and Harrison’s company.

Here’s some random pictures:





Point Mallard, spent a cool afternoon here with my family last fall.


The guy that owns this monster is renting my buddy’s auxiliary hangar. It’s unfortunately down for some sort of spar issue, I think.


Logged a 2.2 for the weekend. I’m excited for spring to dry out so I can get into what limited off-airport opportunities I have around here. It’s all too muddy right now. Also, I have my oil cooler too blocked right now. It seems to take a while to settle on a temp, but at a high power cruise I saw 215 deg F oil temps in ~40 deg F OATs. That’s pretty good considering I have ~95% of the air blocked. It took a long time to get up there, though. I think more and more that a cockpit-controlled solution is the way to go, so I’ll start thinking that through for the next round of mods. I don’t intend to change anything until I see how it performs this summer though.

Plus, these came in today...

CamTom12 wrote:Late in posting, but spent a really nice day (the only nice weather day in 2 weeks) with KG and his grandson last weekend. Originally we just planned to meet up in Tullahoma for lunch, but ended up also visiting a friend of mine on the airfield and then I followed him up to Murfreesboro before heading home. It was a beautiful day and I really enjoyed Keith and Harrison’s company.

Harrison and I had a great time too!

This is the only picture I took. Not big by Alaska standards, but we had the fattest tires in Tullahoma parked side by side!

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Plus, these came in today...
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Oh yea....Let the fun begin.

CamTom12 wrote:The guy that owns this monster is renting my buddy’s auxiliary hangar. It’s unfortunately down for some sort of spar issue, I think.

Looks like a Farichild 71.
Whats the powerplant?
There's one here on my airport (for sale BTW if anyone's interested),
it's got a Pratt 1340 and climbs like mad even at reduced power.
I think they originally had the 420hp 1340, I think this one's a 600hp off a T6.

hotrod180 wrote:

CamTom12 wrote:The guy that owns this monster is renting my buddy’s auxiliary hangar. It’s unfortunately down for some sort of spar issue, I think.

Looks like a Farichild 71.
Whats the powerplant?
There's one here on my airport (for sale BTW if anyone's interested),
it's got a Pratt 1340 and climbs like mad even at reduced power.
I think they originally had the 420hp 1340, I think this one's a 600hp off a T6.

I'm not sure on the powerplant - I tried to read the data plate and it was illegible. It was the only thing on that engine that didn't look pristine.

Looks like a Pratt 985 from here. Nice plane!

Actually looking closer I think it’s a 1340. They have 3 stud rocker covers, and 985’s have 4 stud. Those look like 3 stud.

Too the boy flying today. Finally got a chance to knock out his first flight. Went from intending to do it his first week but actually completed right before he finished his first year.

Awesome! Looks like he enjoyed it.

And he gave your tires a good inspection! ..... Checking to see if they are fat enough, no doubt.

CamTom12 wrote:

"Dad, these tires aren't fat enough. I like big ones. Send those 31's back and order some 35's. I'll take care of explaining it to Mom... I'll tell her it's a safety issue."