American Bonanza Society

NOVEMBER 2019 • VOLUME NINETEEN • NUMBER 11

AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY

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NOVEMBER 2019 • VOLUME NINETEEN • NUMBER 11 2 President’s Comments: Get Out and Fly AMERICAN By Phil Jossi BONANZA SOCIETY AMERICAN 6 Operations By J. Whitney Hickman, Thomas P. Turner, and Lauren Bayless BONANZA 30 ABS Air Safety Foundation: To Protect Lives and Preserve the Beechcraft Fleet SOCIETY The Official Publication for Bonanza, Debonair, Baron & Travel Air Operators and Enthusiasts November 2019 • Volume 19 • Number 11

ABS Executive Director OWNERSHIP/MAINTENANCE J. Whitney Hickman

ABS-ASF Executive Director & Editor 14 Beechcraft of the Month: Thomas P. Turner My Next Ride Associate Editor George Brown 1979 V35B N35KA (D-10231) Managing Editor By Tim Hacker, Bartlett, Tennessee Jillian LaCross Technical Review Committee 20 Aging Beech Tom Rosen, Stuart Spindel, Bob Butt, and the ABS Technical Advisors Aircraft Presentation Falcon Insurance Agency Inc. Graphic Design Michael McCatty 22 Baron and Travel Air: Printer Village Press, Traverse City, Michigan Baron Reduction in Load Factor Full Page By Thomas P. Turner American Bonanza Society magazine (ISSN 1538-9960) is published monthly by the American Bonanza Society (ABS), 3595 N Webb Rd Ste 28 Sam James Volunteerism Award 200, Wichita, KS 67226-8192. The price of a full color yearly subscription is included in the annual dues of Society members. Periodicals postage paid at 33 Lost Communications Alway IFC Wichita, Kansas, and at additional mailing offices. By Geary Keilman No part of this publication may be reprinted Alway IFC or duplicated without the written permission of the Executive Director. 42 Tech Talk: Preparing Magnesium Alway IFC The Society and Publisher cannot accept responsibility for the correctness or accuracy Control Surfaces of the matters printed herein or for any opinions Alway expressed. Opinions of the Editor or contributors By Bob Ripley do not necessarily represent the position of IFC the Society. Articles or other materials by and 58 Dynon Three-Display Installation about organizations other than ABS are printed in the American Bonanza Society magazine By Dale Smith as a courtesy and member service. Except as expressly stated, their appearance in this www.falconinsurance.com magazine does not constitute an endorsement 72 Replacing the Appareo by ABS of the products, services or events of such organization. Publisher reserves the right Stratus Battery to reject any material submitted for publication. By Geary Keilman DEPARTMENTS Annual Membership Dues: 34 Member News • Domestic (US/Canada/Mexico) – $75 (US) FLYING • Two Year Domestic (US/Canada/Mexico) – $130 (US) 36 Welcome New Members • International – $115 (US) • International (online magazine only) – $75 (US) 43 BPPP: Never Say Never 38 BPPP Instructor Camp • Two Year International (online magazine only) – $130 (US) • Additional Family Members – $35 each By Gary Schank 44 GA News • Life membership – $1400 45 Your Beechcraft on the Cover Contact ABS Headquarters for details. 46 Dark Panel Postmaster: Send address changes to By Parvez Dara 63 ABS Aviators American Bonanza Society magazine, 3595 N. Webb Road Suite 200, 63 Life Membership Wichita, KS 67226-8192. 48 Command Pilot: 63 Surly Bonds © Copyright 2019. Things I Won’t Do: Ice Send Articles/Letters To: American Bonanza 64 Tech Tips Society Magazine Publication Office, 3595 N. Webb By Thomas P. Turner Road Suite 200, Wichita, KS 67226-8192, Tel: 70 Forum 316-945-1700, Fax: 316-945-1710, E-mail: 50 Using ForeFlight Logbook [email protected], Website: http://www.bonanza. 73 Classified Ads org. Please note: Copy & photos submitted for By Henry Fiorentini publication become the property of the Society 78 ABS Board and shall not be returned. Articles submitted 79 Event Calendar with pictures receive publication preference. 62 Icing Map in ForeFlight By Henry Fiorentini 80 Display Advertising Index The American Bonanza Society serves Beechcraft enthusiasts by sharing valuable safety, technical, and educational resources, and by promoting interaction Falcon Insurance Agency • P.O. Box 291388, Kerrville, TX 78029 • www.falconinsurance.com • Phone: 1-800-259-4227 among and advocacy on behalf of its members. AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 1 www.bonanza.org

President’s Comments

AMERICAN BONANZA Get Out SOCIETY and Fly

ABS exists to promote aviation safety and flying enjoyment through education and information-sharing among owners and By Phil Jossi operators of Bonanzas, Barons, Debonairs and Travel Airs throughout the world.

www.bonanza.org all flying can be some of the best. I hope you are taking advantage of the 3595 N Webb Rd Ste 200, more moderate temperatures, clear skies, and smooth flying conditions. Wichita, KS 67226-8192 Tel: 316-945-1700 • Fax 316-945-1710 If you have avoided the summer heat and turbulence, then it is time to fire e-mail: [email protected] up your trusty Beechcraft and take to the skies. Office Hours: F Monday thru Friday; 8:30 am – 5:00 pm (Central Time) Speaking of taking to the skies, if your To Wichita… travel plans have not brought you to the My late summer flights included a trip ABS Executive Director desert Southwest, I highly recommend in my Bonanza to Wichita for the weekend J. Whitney Hickman, [email protected] it. A trip from the Phoenix-Tucson area ABS Beechcraft Instructor Crosstalk (BIC) ABS-ASF Executive Director up through Sedona, Grand Canyon, and session. As anticipated, the weather Thomas P. Turner, [email protected] Page, Arizona, then into southern and moved out just ahead of my arrival into Technical Questions central Utah is nothing short of amazing. KICT. The BIC sessions are at no cost to [email protected] or 316-945-1700 For pilots in the desert Southwest, our ABS members to ensure the highest level absolute best flying season is now as of Beechcraft instruction no matter where BPPP Questions [email protected] or 316-945-1700 you are reading this magazine. The trip you go for initial and recurrent training. planning from the East and Midwest is not They provide an excellent discussion of Membership and Events very daunting into the Phoenix area from Beech-specific topics for the purpose [email protected] Albuquerque, New Mexico, using V190. of increasing the knowledge level of ABS Pilot Shop VMC is the rule rather than the exception. non-BPPP flight instructors regarding www.bonanza.org or 1-800-SPORTYS The red rocks at Sedona, incredible our aircraft. Among the 15 attendees, Grand Canyon sights, Lake Powell and the there was over 143,000 hours of flight Membership Services Colorado River, along with the Monument experience around the table. Subjects • Monthly ABS Magazine rocks of Utah, are unbelievable from covered included takeoff briefings, Angle • Technical Advice and Parts Sourcing the air. A few photos are included for of Attack considerations, instructor • Beechcraft Specific Pilot Training your enjoyment. I am always happy to professionalism, engine management, • Special Members-Only Website Content visit about it. My contact information is emergency procedures, reaction times, • Aircraft Inspection Program on page 78. and much more. • Beechcraft Maintenance Guides, Red rocks of Sedona DVDs, Merchandise and Apparel • ABS Fly-Ins & Events • Aircraft Prepurchase Assistance • Mechanic & Flight Instructor Training • Regional Societies • Aircraft Insurance Program • Professionally Staffed Headquarters

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You can help ABS build the Beech members and their families. Remember Howard Johnson and his wife, Nancy. instructor pool by encouraging your our mission: to protect lives and What I really wanted was a ride in local CFI to attend. This is not a BPPP preserve the Beechcraft fleet. Check “Hojo’s” pristine V35B. The ride was function necessarily, but we trust that the events schedule on the website and in awesome, up over Whidbey Island to the instructors who attend will see the the magazine for all ABS upcoming events San Juan Island with a stop, lunch, and benefit and many in the past have chosen including the BICs for 2020. visit to Roche and Friday Harbor. I have to join the BPPP program. So ABS/ASF’s always heard about the islands but was …to the Northwest… investment in the BIC also serves to grow never able to see them from the air. the next generation of BPPP instructors Following the BIC we took a trip to The U.S. Army was not very supportive and increase the BPPP instructor pool Seattle to visit the area, graciously hosted of tourism when I was in basic training of around the country to take care of ABS by ABS Treasurer and Past President Ft. Lewis, Washington, in the late 1960s.

CallHere’s your chance for to serve theNominations members of the American Bonanza Society. The ABS Board of Directors has three (3) openings to begin service in late summer 2020:

All three (3) nominations for the 2020 class of new ABS Board of Directors will be At-Large positions. Directors participate in two to three live Board meetings annually, and Board conference calls usually held every other month. Direct expenses are reimbursed following ABS Board policy. ABS Directors also serve as the Board of Directors of the ABS Air Safety Foundation. From the ABS Bylaws: ABS Directors serve a three-year term and may serve two terms consecutively. Each director shall be a member of the Society in continuing good standing. That director shall have in force (A) a current FAA Medical Certificate or foreign country equivalent, or, if not having one, be involved in the appeals process to have a denied certificate reinstated, or (B) be in compliance with all medical requirements in the BasicMed regulations implemented by the FAA. A candidate for the 2020 class of directorship may reside in any geographical location. For full details see the ABS bylaws, posted in Corporate Information in in the ABS Member’s Forum. To nominate a member or yourself for a directorship, or if you have questions, contact the ABS Nominating Committee Chairman Greg Stratz at [email protected] or 920 -539 - 6111.

Deadline for nominations is November 30, 2019.

Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 3 www.bonanza.org There was only one area of the world they wanted me in. Being part of the ABS family and regional societies allow these rendezvous to happen with wonderful Beech-minded friends. If you are not very active in social activities with your fellow ABS members, now is the time. …and Back to Wichita Then I was back to Wichita for the up-close-and-personal BPPP Instructor Camp that was held the second week of September. Once again, the Beech- specific training that Executive Director Approaching Wichita Tom Turner has put together for CFIs who want to become accredited BPPP The target of this program, again, is your to the table is phenomenal. It’s just waiting instructors (both ground and flight) local experienced CFI who may instruct in for you to access it. Consider our website’s is second to none. This is a practical Beech aircraft but who does not have the type-specific educational materials, POHs, event, both flying the maneuvers from minimum Beech experience required for webinars, service clinics, maintenance the left seat and then teaching them traditional BPPP instructor accreditation. academies (training a new generation of from the right…all in an environment of The program allows these experienced mechanics and ABS Technical Advisors), tremendous Beech knowledge and safety instructors to take advantage of the flight training, and hangar videos…just to of operations. Two BPPP Instructor Camps depth of knowledge, experience, and name a few of the many benefits of ABS Genesys Aerosystems are planned in 2020. Camp attendance Beech-specific information ABS makes membership. is limited to two instructors for their available. This is an alternative method These educational programs are maximum benefit of a three-day course. of becoming a BPPP instructor and does primarily funded by your tax-deductible Full Page come with a cost, and it is well worth the donations, sponsorships, a few nominal money. The knowledge transfer is very fees, and ABS Air Safety Foundation effective. As previously stated, our goal distributions. By the time this article full color Ad is to grow the BPPP instructor pool to goes to print you will have received our 3 maximize your scheduling opportunities first annual Giving Campaign materials 47 and minimize your travel necessary for for 2019. Please consider a year-end, tax- 27 The Ease the flight portion of BPPP. deductible contribution to the ABS Air ABS is a member-driven organization Safety Foundation to continue and expand 26 and it is the sole intent of the board these programs. If you have not reviewed www..com Collective and our incredible ABS team, our planned giving Heading270 program, Tom Turner, Whit Hickman, Lauren Bayless, please take a look at it under the Air Safety Dara Quastad, and Coy Cross to continue Foundation tab on the home page of sixth Pg. to deliver knowledge, training, and our website. information about Beech airplanes to Fly often, fly safe. Safety is an Full color accomplish our mission. The value brought attitude! Howard Johnson and his V35B •°

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he ABS Board of Directors has tthreehree openings to begin service in July 2020. This may be the opportunity you’ve been JP Instruments Twaiting for: to serve, guide, and represent others who share your passion for flying and owning Beechcraft. In addition to our common interest in aviation Full pg. and the Beechcraft brand, there are several areas in the organization that need your expertise: full color financial including long-term investments, 17 membership, marketing, professional services, IT services, human resources, and much more. 3 Two recent changes to the ABS bylaws make 11 it easier to choose you, the best candidates for our Board of Directors. All three 2020 openings 10 are of the newly expanded At-Large category, made possible by the recent membership vote to www.jpinstruments.com change the ABS bylaws. You can apply to serve regardless of where you live. Another recent vote means you can serve on the board with any valid FAA-recognized medical, including BasicMed in addition to the traditional FAA medical classes. The ABS Board consists of nine (9) members elected from and by the membership of the Society. Six (6) directors shall be residents of any of the United States (one (1) of those directors may instead be a resident of a foreign country). Three (3) directors shall be residents of Areas East, Central and West with one (1) director from each area as shown in the primary mailing address in the ABS membership database for no less than one year before being nominated. A change of residence after being nominated to the Board from one area to another shall not affect his/her term of directorship.

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Directors participate in one or two live Board meetings annually, continuing good standing. For full details see the ABS bylaws, and Board conference calls that are usually held every other posted at www.bonanza.org. month. Direct expenses are reimbursed following ABS Board To nominate a member or yourself for an ABS directorship, or if policy. ABS directors also serve as the Board of Directors of the you have questions, contact ABS Nominating Committee Chairman ABS Air Safety Foundation. Directors are encouraged to personally Greg Stratz at [email protected] or 920-539-6111. contribute in the annual fundraising drive. Deadline for nominations is November 30, 2019. Five reasons to consider serving • as a Board member: ° 1. You have the expertise in your profession to help the organization in the areas that need your service. It allows you to invest your expertise in the ABS community.

2. You have a passion for serving and volunteering for a community that shares the same interests.

3. You can apply and develop your leadership expertise in new ways.

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Operations ASF By Thomas P. Turner Fly, Learn, Invest

Adventure Flights Invest in Your Beechcraft

uch of what I write – and we teach at ABS The ABS Air Safety Foundation has delivered a record number of products, services, and training events in 2019, introduced the – is about safe operation and maintenance wildly popular ABSWeb and BPPP Instructor Camp, and is poised of your airplane, and rightly so. But the true to do even more in 2020 and beyond. To do all this we need your objective is to use your well-honed skills and help. Please read the letter from ABS Past President Howard Garmin International M Johnson and the ABS/ASF Annual Campaign notice on page your well-maintained and equipped Beechcraft for business 30 of this issue. Whether this year will be your first donation to Full pg. and especially for fun. In the January 2019 issue I challenged the ABS Air Safety Foundation or you’re a regular donor, please consider a year-end, tax-deductible contribution to protect lives ABS members to plan a grand adventure in your Bonanza, and preserve the Beechcraft fleet. It’s an investment in your full color Debonair, Baron, or Travel Air. Now that the year draws to a safety and that of your passengers; it’s an investment in your 9 Beechcraft. Thank you. close, let us know about the great flying adventure you enjoyed 16 Instructor Camp graduates Eric Bradley and Bryan Kutcher in 2019. Send your article and photos to [email protected] and •° 3 we’ll feature your Beechcraft adventure in coming issues of 9 ABS Magazine. I look forward to reading your story.

ABSWeb www..com The next ABSWeb webinar, “Engine Talk,” will be presented on Wednesday, December 11, at 7 p.m. U.S. Central time (0100Z December 12). This and all of the extremely popular ABSWeb webinars are permanently archived under TRAINING at www.bonanza.org and are viewed by thousands of members during and after the event. ABSWeb is so popular we’ll begin delivering one every month beginning in 2020. Beginning in January, ABSWeb will move to the second Tuesday of each month at the same 7 p.m. Central time. We’ll be sending reminders through the ABS Hangar Flyer email broadcasts, Facebook, and other communications for the events. For a potential ABSWeb sponsor, we can run a short video detailing your product or service before the broadcast, display your logo and mention you midway through the webinar, and again display your logo and give our thanks for your support at the end of the program. Contact Lauren Bayless at [email protected] or 316-945-1700 for details and rates. Or contact me at [email protected].

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Operations Member Services

By Lauren Bayless, ABS Director of Member Services BPPP LIVE in Sacramento!

t the end of September, we held our last LIVE Beechcraft Pilot Proficiency Program (BPPP) for 2019 out in Sacramento, California. We had almost 90 ABS members in attendance for our full day of seminars, with 40 different aircraft flying into McClellan Field (KMCC) A (Figures 1 through 4) for the event. Throughout the day participants had the opportunity to learn from our engaging speakers, meet other Beech owners in the area, and network with the nine different regional BPPP instructors who were also in attendance.

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12 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org Before lunch, Tom Turner presented Tom Rosen with his Sam James 65 Volunteerism Award (page 28) and Beaver Avi- we also celebrated Senior Technical 49 Advisor Bob Ripley’s birthday (Figure 5). ation 61 Thank you to speakers Bruce Williams, Tom Engleman, Tom Rosen, 58 and Bob Ripley for putting together sixth pg full excellent presentations. This event would www.beaverairservices.com not have been successful without each of color them. Thank you also to the ABS members who came, asked questions, and engaged with one another throughout the day. We have three standalone BPPP Live events on the calendar for next year: The Best Planes at the Best Prices • January 18, 2020, in Daytona, Florida Carolina Aircraft has the largest selectionCarolina of “Prime Condition” • March 14, 2020, in Reading, Pennsylvania 53 Bonanzas and Barons. • October 24, 2020, in San Diego, SalesAircraft • Brokerage • Appraisal 65 California Pre-buy Inspections • Acquisition 70 You can also catch our seminars at Sun Bonanza/Baron Training ’n Fun and EAA. Find more information Carolinasixth Aircraft, pg. Inc. 63 about these and other events visit our Piedmont Triad International Airport www.carolinaaircraft.com website at www.bonanza.org/events. We 1060full PTI Drive • Greensboro,color NC 27409 (GSO) look forward to seeing you at an ABS event 336-665-0300 George “The Bonanza Man” near you next year! •° FAX: 336-256-9993 http://www.carolinaaircraft.com

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Beechcraft of the Month

My Next Ride 1979 V35B N35KA (D-10231) At Port Clinton

By Tim Hacker, Bartlett, Tennessee

am writing this on Father’s Day 2019, thinking about my Dad, Joe, whose identity was synonymous with aviation. We seemed to always have an airplane in the family, from a 1948 Stinson Voyager to a Bonanza V35. Fond memories of breaking the surly bonds of earth in whatever we could find to fly always put a big grin on my face. So, it was no surprise that after 23 years of owning a Piper Turbo ILance II, I decided to “trade down” to a Beechcraft V35B. That notion speaks profoundly about my lack of knowledge of the Beechcraft type, but I like to learn new things.

The thing I was most sure of was my dad’s complete satisfaction with Bonanza ownership. The thought of finally being able to own and fly one made me feel even closer to him. Right up until his passing in 2016, we would make our way outside Tim at Millington

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Navigating around the weather

to look up when hearing a piston engine overhead to see who could first identify the aircraft model. I enjoyed the stories At Port Clinton he recounted, although he often repeated himself in his old age. By the time of his 87th birthday, he would have to then go in and take a nap. Our family expanded and contracted over the time we owned the Piper. Thoughts of changing models and brands offered feelings of trepidation and some melancholy. The mission had changed Weather at Millington from transporting a growing family and friends to just me and sometimes my wife, Tammie. The V-tail Bonanza seemed ideal for that new mission profile. All the information I received from Beechcraft owners and the Tulsair/Beechcraft maintenance crew, where I had been based with the Lance since 1997, was very positive. Of course, we all know there are no inexpensive airplanes; however, the value was inarguable and tempered by my experience with the Piper.

Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 15 www.bonanza.org Joe and the Bonanza, 1974 package. Although the engine was mid-time and compressions a bit low, I launched out of Memphis to Florida to satisfy my curiosity. The folks at Gardner Aviation Sales were very attentive to my requests and the owner was motivated to sell. With the pre-purchase inspection done, negotiations made to my satisfaction, insurance-required transition training flights performed, and a check written, I was on my way home non-stop to Millington, Tennessee, (near Memphis) in a brand-new-to- me V-tail. I made it home, to Tammie’s relief. Jerry Borchin, my Bonanza checkout instructor, chuckled when he called me later that day to see if I had survived, because he surely knew many things about flying that I didn’t know and needed to learn. After selling my Lance in April 2018, my interests turned to The next few months were spent flying with my friend Heaven’s Landing the acquisition of my next ride. My search filtered down to three and instructor Sam Robinson, making short trips and getting aircraft, then down to one that happened to be in Spruce Creek, comfortable with the Bonanza and the Garmin G500 display. Florida. It had the Colemill Foxstar conversion with an IO-550 October came and Tammie and I wanted to visit our daughter Full pg. engine, a four-bladed propeller, and an impressive avionics Laura, who happens to have two young future pilots living with full color Upgrade your Bonanza with Tinted Thermal Pane a MT Composite Propeller 49 • Faster Cruise • Improved Climb • 26 Pounds Lighter • Super Looks!! Window Inserts 49 Flight Resource G&D Aero Prod- www. HeavensLanding.com LLC ucts Inc. quarter pg. quarter pg. Tired offull Noise, color Heat and Glare? full color Enhance the beauty of your aircraft63 and help solve the three 15 most common problems associated with aircraft windows; Noise, Heat and Glare. 16 55 Thermal pane tinted window inserts are installed on the inside of your existing windows42 creating an airspace between 35 the two windows. Call today for prices. The benefits will match the beautiful look! The Thermal Pane Window Inserts40 are FAA/PMA approved, • Improved Engine Cooling 35• Shorter Landings U.S. Patent #4,877,658 • Turbo Normalized www.flight-resource.com Engines Approved • Turbine SMOOTH Operation • Tough Nickel-Cobalt Leading Edge • Unlimited Blade & Hub Life • Reduced Takeoff Distance www.gdaero.com Products, Inc. www.Flight-Resource.com 23220 Miners Road, Gavlin Hills World’s Largest Volume MT Propeller Distributor Perris, CA 92570 www.gdaero.com * The pilot and copilot windows are thermal pane and provide Give us a call: 866-717-1117 951-443-1224 a 70% light transparency as required by the F.A.A. Bonanza Propellers in Stock and Ready To Ship mt-propeller

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18 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org her in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. I had quite a bit of experience flying in and out Aviation of Canada in the Lance so that was no big 80 deal. The main problem was Tammie’s 11 requirement to get out and stretch her Design legs and use the FBO facilities at least 72 every two-and-a-half hours. My excitement about having D’Shannon tip tanks and the sixth pg. 54 possibilities of fast, long-range legs were www.aviationdesign.com deferred to my wisdom about her comfort full color and companionship. So we stopped en route at Dayton, Ohio, finally arriving at Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, about six hours after our departure from Millington. Getting into Canada with a CANPASS membership is a no brainer; it’s the re- entry into the United Sates that will kick your butt. Just remember to make special arrangements with your arrival customs office if you plan to cross the border on a weekend or holiday. We had planned to return on Monday. Our eApis manifest and flight plan was filed, but weather clipping along eastward out of Alberta in late October gave me a sense of urgency. On Sunday morning an hour of phoning every port of entry Aircraft Specialties Ser- I could think of in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan only gave me clarity that we were stuck in Canada for the duration vices of the storm. Finally, a phone call to the half pg. CBP office in Port Clinton, Ohio’s Erie-Ottawa International Airport connected me with the encouragement full color I needed to “come on down” to the U.S. 57 Port Clinton is less than an hour from 27 Kitchener, and the Bonanza would get us there just in time for lunch at the neat 63 little Tin Goose Diner (named for the 49 Ford Trimotor “Tin Goose” airplanes that served Port Clinton and the Lake Erie www.aircraft-specialties.com islands well into the 1980s). We were so giddy at our serendipitous experience that I chose to extend the leg rule imposed by Tammie to three-and-a-half hours and still landed with more than two hours of fuel reserve in Millington. I’m still hearing about it from my quintessential steel magnolia better half, but there will be more stories to tell of experiences endearing us to the Bonanza. After all, I am writing this having owned the Bonanza for only a year.

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ABS Air Safety Foundation Presents: “Another great BPPP experience! I’ve flown BPPP on the east coast with Buz Witherington and now on the west coast with Rick Utermoehlen, Aging Beech and I can assure you that standardization exists in the program. Rick displayed a high degree of professionalism and knowledge and Aircraft Presentation it became apparent early on that his number one priority is to help make he ABS Air Safety Foundation introduces a new, in-depth look at aging Beechcraft issues and how to address and us safer and more knowledgeable pilots. Learning in a relaxed cockpit prevent them. Nearly three hours of video, presented in three parts, are available free to ABS members in the environment in my airplane made this year’s BPPP as rewarding and ABS Online Learning Center. Click on the “blue box” to access the Center, then open All Courses, click on Free Videos, as much fun as ever. I highly encourage all ABS members to and select “Aging Airplanes” parts 1, 2, and 3. T take advantage of this valuable program.” Few people have the depth of personal experience finding and some of what he’s learned in the ABS tent at Oshkosh. But there’s addressing the effects of fatigue and corrosion in the interior of never enough time to go into the level of detail he has to offer. To Anthony Crescimanno Beech airplanes than Dennis Wolter. At Air Mod, Dennis and his provide Dennis the time he needs to deliver his full presentation, Baron Owner team expose the entire fuselage structure in the process of full and for the ABS Air Safety Foundation to video his program to interior replacements. This allows Dennis to personally inspect make it available to members around the world through the ABS areas not normally seen even during annual inspections. As a result, website, we held a special ABS Air Safety Foundation Aging Aircraft Presentation in June 2019 at Batavia, Ohio, the home of Air Mod and event host Sporty’s Pilot Shop. The result: We’ve captured much of Dennis Wolter’s accumulated wisdom and experience so you and your mechanic can learn from him. If you have questions please contact the American Bonanza Society at 316-945-1700 or [email protected]. •°

Senior BPPP instructor Rick Utermoehlen (left) and Tony Crescimanno with Tony’s Pressurized Baron.

he has amassed a wealth of knowledge about “aging aircraft” issues in Beech Bonanzas, Nowhere except ABS will you course at www.bonanza.org instruction with the outstanding Debonairs, Barons, and find over 80 highly experienced when it’s convenient for you, or instructors of BPPP – near your Travel Airs – where to look, what to look for, Beechcraft specialist flight instructors complete BPPP ground school in home or favorite fly-out, on and how to fix it – and like Rick Utermoehlen, ready the ABS Tent at Oshkosh or other your schedule, for only $435. he is enthusiastic about sharing what he has to be your aviation personal ABS and Regional Society events See the BPPP instructor list under learned to help preserve trainer. Take the free Beechcraft through the year. Then, schedule TRAINING/FIND AN INSTRUCTOR the Beechcraft fleet. Pilot Proficiency Program online your personalized Beechcraft at www.bonanza.org. For several years Dennis has presented BPPP: For over 30 years, the best in Beechcraft flight training.

20 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org www.bonanza.org “Another great BPPP experience! I’ve flown BPPP on the east coast with Buz Witherington and now on the west coast with Rick Utermoehlen, and I can assure you that standardization exists in the program. Rick displayed a high degree of professionalism and knowledge and it became apparent early on that his number one priority is to help make us safer and more knowledgeable pilots. Learning in a relaxed cockpit environment in my airplane made this year’s BPPP as rewarding and as much fun as ever. I highly encourage all ABS members to take advantage of this valuable program.”

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Senior BPPP instructor Rick Utermoehlen (left) and Tony Crescimanno with Tony’s Pressurized Baron.

Nowhere except ABS will you course at www.bonanza.org instruction with the outstanding find over 80 highly experienced when it’s convenient for you, or instructors of BPPP – near your Beechcraft specialist flight instructors complete BPPP ground school in home or favorite fly-out, on like Rick Utermoehlen, ready the ABS Tent at Oshkosh or other your schedule, for only $435. to be your aviation personal ABS and Regional Society events See the BPPP instructor list under trainer. Take the free Beechcraft through the year. Then, schedule TRAINING/FIND AN INSTRUCTOR Pilot Proficiency Program online your personalized Beechcraft at www.bonanza.org.

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Baron and Travel Air Baron and Travel Air focuses on the unique systems, piloting tech niques, maintenance and ownership consider ations for the Beechcraft twins. We encour age ABS members to submit your articles about flying, owning and maintaining Beechcraft Barons and Travel Airs to [email protected]. Baron Reduction in Load Factor By Thomas P. Turner

n late September, like everyone else who is on Textron Aviation’s mailing list for updates to the Baron Pilot’s Operating Handbook/Airplane Flight Manual, I received a POH/AIM Log of Temporary Changes sheet (figure 1). The difference is I received eight of them, for eight different versions of the Baron. All but the 95-55, A95-55, 56TC, A56TC, 58TC, and 58P Ihandbooks have revisions for reasons I’ll explain. First, to eliminate some confusion: The change addressed in each of these Log of Temporary Changes sheets is not temporary; the change is permanent. What’s “temporary” is the insertion into the POH/AIM. Since the change affects the Limitations section of the handbook and therefore must be reviewed and approved by the FAA, Textron Aviation used the “temporary update” expediency to get the word out to airplane owners quickly. A permanent revision to the POH/AIM will eventually be issued after FAA approval, I was Figure 1: One of the Log of Temporary told by Textron Aviation. Changes sheets Next, the change will almost certainly do nothing to affect the way you fly your Baron. The change is interesting not so much for All other Baron models and serial numbers are not affected the new requirement but for what was replaced, and the reason and do not have a POH/AIM temporary change. for the change is downright fascinating (at least I think so). Let’s The interesting thing about this is not so much that most Barons look at the change and what (very little) it means for most owners, now revert to Normal Category, it’s that many were (and some and then I’ll take you back more than five years to reveal why this still are) Utility Category airplanes and, even more interesting, change came out. some were originally certificated in a hybrid category halfway between Normal and Utility. The Change What This The change reflected in the Log of Temporary Changes POH/ Change Means AIM insert is described as a Reduction of Positive Maneuvering Load Factor. Specifically, the Limitations section of the POH/AIM This revision really won’t impact the way you fly your is amended to reduce the original flaps up maximum G load in Baron. How many times have you taken it to more than four Gs, most Barons. Here’s a table of changes for the affected airplanes: anyway? The only possible change I can imagine is a reduction

Maximum Flaps Up Load Factor Model* Serial Number Original New Notes No change. POH/AIM revision required but exempts these airplanes from 95-B55 TC-371, TC-502 thru TC-1525 except TC-1417 4.4G 4.4G change. Utility category Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category. Includes gross weight increase 95-B55 TC-1417, TC-1526 thru TC-1607 4.4G 3.8G kit 55-4014 95-B55 TC-1608 thru TC-2002 4.4G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category 95-B55 TC-2003 and after 4.4G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category 95-C55, D55, E55 TC-350, TE-1 thru TE-896 4.2G 4.2G No change. POH/AIM revision required but exempts these airplanes. Special certification between Normal and Utility category E55 TE-897 thru TE-942 except TE-938 4.2G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category E55 TE-938, TE-942 thru TE-1083 4.2G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category E55 TE-1084 thru TE-1201 except TE-1197 4.2G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category 58 TH-773 thru TH-1395 except TH-1389 4.2G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category *Includes all “A” suffix reduced maximum gross weight models 22 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org

in VA, the design maneuvering speed. VA is dependent on airplane weight and maximum load factor, so it follows there should be a reduction in V A to account for the lower maximum load. However, Textron Aviation has not published such a change and tells me none is expected.

The Fascinating Part Okay, that explains the change, which airplanes it affects, and the negligible impact the change has on the way you’ll fly your Baron. How and why this came about, however, harkens back to a series of meetings I had with then-Hawker Beechcraft Corporation in 2012. I reported this to the Board of Directors and our Technical Advisors at the Figure 2: The Baron forward carry-thru structure showing the area of concern, including side view, from the Baron 55/58 Maintenance Manual spar web inspection information. time – Bob Ripley also traveled to Wichita for at least one of these briefings. Since nothing ever came of it (until now), and one solution was a fleet-wide maximum gross weight reduction (which did not and will not happen), we did not publicize this to the ABS membership because there was nothing firm on which to report and we did not want to raise a panic. For full background on the reason for this unusual change, however, read on. In the next section is my contemporaneous documen tation from 2012. It’s important to note that while at the time I reported this to the Board as a “potentially major Baron airworthiness issue” and Hawker Beechcraft had proposed some possible mitigations that have not come to pass, the only result is the paperwork change reflected Figure 3: Detail of the lower wing attach area, side view, including the new inner U-channel in the Log of Temporary Changes. included in 1973 and later Barons. Area of concern is around the row of rivets on the new, I shared this look into the history inner U-channel. of this issue just so you could see why this change came about…and On May 11th I was asked by Dan assembly line with Dan made the issue Model* Serial Number Original New Notes to see the sort of thing the ABS Air Weaver, Hawker Beechcraft’s director of very clear. No change. POH/AIM revision required but exempts these airplanes from 95-B55 TC-371, TC-502 thru TC-1525 except TC-1417 4.4G 4.4G change. Utility category Safety Foundation deals with behind propeller airplane product support, to In 1973 Beech increased the maximum Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category. Includes gross weight increase the scenes for you. come to the Beech factory for a detailed weight of Barons. Part of the design 95-B55 TC-1417, TC-1526 thru TC-1607 4.4G 3.8G kit 55-4014 briefing on what may become a major change to bear the stress of the additional 95-B55 TC-1608 thru TC-2002 4.4G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category Potential Major Baron airworthiness issue for Barons produced flight loads was the addition of an inner 95-B55 TC-2003 and after 4.4G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category Airworthiness Issue since 1973. My understanding of what he U-channel in the lower carry-thru spar 95-C55, D55, E55 TC-350, TE-1 thru TE-896 4.2G 4.2G No change. POH/AIM revision required but exempts these airplanes. Special certification between Normal and Utility category Thomas P. Turner related by telephone earlier in the day cap (figures 2 and 3). E55 TE-897 thru TE-942 except TE-938 4.2G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category Executive Director, ABS Air (which I sent as a preliminary report The area in question is not visible E55 TE-938, TE-942 thru TE-1083 4.2G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category Safety Foundation to the ABS Technical Committee) was under normal inspection conditions. It is E55 TE-1084 thru TE-1201 except TE-1197 4.2G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category May 14, 2012 incorrect, but an hour on the Baron beneath a portion of the carry-thru spar 58 TH-773 thru TH-1395 except TH-1389 4.2G 3.8G Moves airplane from Utility to Normal category

Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 23 www.bonanza.org In most cases production workers could not fit the bucking bar in this spar web slot and align it with the rivets. It was a common but undocumented practice to grind the slot so it is larger, permitting the bucking bar to be inserted so the rivets to be bucked. The size of the slot grew from 3⁄8” to ½” or even ¾” tall in some cases. Dan is “confident that 98% of the Barons” have undocumented, widened spar channel slots but has “no idea” about the workmanship or stress risers that result. Sometimes the production workers used great skill to grind the corners of the slot so they are smooth and, although there is no engineering confirmation, they probably avoided stress risers, according to Dan. Frequently, however, the slot is irregular and fairly squared off, and there are gouges in the edge of the slot from the bucking bar. There is concern (and engineering Figure 4: The structure in question is beneath the area identified by calculation) that airplanes with slots in this condition are not the red arrow. capable of sustaining ultimate load at the approved maximum at the center of the fuselage, forward and beneath where the gross weight. landing gear transmission (gearbox) mounts (figure 4). With this Dan showed me pictures of a very irregular and gouged channel modification Beech added a 10” x 3⁄8” slot in the upper channel of slot. He declined my request for a copy of one of the pictures to the spar web so production workers could buck the row of nine better illustrate this discussion. The row of rivets was lower than rivets that hold the new inner U-channel in place. The corners designed (not centered in the slot). of the slot are rounded to avoid stress risers that could lead to Issues and Concerns cracking of the upper channel, which is an integral part of the load-bearing spar cap. Dan listed these issues and concerns: The issue arose because there are “variations in production” ● A widened slot represents at least a 2% reduction in strength that make it common that the “row of rivets is not always correct.” of the structure. A sample of the spar web stressed on a test

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● “98%” of all Barons built since 1973 likely have some grinding DBM of this U-channel slot, based on field inspections and aircraft salvage yard searches. Quarter Page ● Some grinding extends downward into the bend, or flange, of the spar web, making the channel irreparable. one color Ad ● The channel and slot are not in an area that is inspected during 33 annual inspections. It can be inspected with a borescope inserted into the carry-thru through a wing attach fitting December through the end of 44May: West Palm Beach (LNA) cutout. Hawker Beechcraft will be adding this inspection June through November: St. Louis62 (1H0) to the Baron 100-hour/Annual Inspection checklist in the Over 4,000 Installations in 37 Years! Maintenance Manual. 2 Year Guarantee • Use46 Only FAA PMA Parts www.dbmods.com Mitigations 1. Inspection a. Beech feels the slot can be inspected in 10-15 minutes while Call Today! (314) 406-1389 the airplane is opened up for annual inspection. Inspection Schedule dates see www.dbmods.com is a visual check using a borescope inserted through one of email: [email protected] the lower wing bolt cutout access panels. 15339 Batesville Ct. • Chesterfield, MO 63017 C.R.S. SH2R161L b. This inspection will be included in a revision to the 100-hour/ Annual Inspection checklist. Quality c. Beech is “optimistic” FAA will permit continued operation following a 100-hour inspection cycle with no change in Beechcraft Maintenance maximum gross weight if no cracks are found, even if the Gemco Aviation is a 3-time slot has been ground or gouged. GemcoFAA Diamond Award MaintenanceAviation Facility – 2. Terminating action options We Can Keep You Flying! a. Proposed strap kit We MaintainServices The Entire Beechcraft Inc. Line! i. Beech proposed a horizontal strap be installed across Staggerwings • Bonanzas • Barons • King Air the slot to carry flight loads away from the corners and edges of the slot. quarter pg. 1. This requires drilling a new, 10-inch long slot in the upper channel, above the lower slot, to gain access. full color 2. Requires drilling out two rivets on either side of the slot and riveting in the spar strap 8 3. An alternative method first proposed during our meeting 37 is to cut a large access panel through the spar web on the 60 forward side of the carry-thru, and reaching through with the dental drill and mirror to clean out rivets to install 35 the strap, then riveting the access panel back into the forward spar web. Michael Stanko www.gemcoaviation.comCEO Gemco Aviation Services ii. HBC’s concerns: 1. There is no direct visual access to the area. Existing rivets GEMCO AVIATION SERVICES must be drilled out and new rivets installed using a mirror. Youngstown Elser Metro Airport (4G4), 10800 Sharrott Rd., North Lima, OH 44452 330-549-0337 2. The area is not big enough to permit use of normal aircraft www.gemcoaviation.com tooling. Strap installers must use a precision dental drill

Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 25 www.bonanza.org with a 90-degree bend, inside a ¼” gap between the 1. Will probably find several Baron fuselages in salvage spar channels. yards to test methods. 3. There is a “big potential” for damage to the channel or 2. Will require removal of several systems (landing gear and the spar cap. If the drill makes contact with the spar cap, flap components, etc.), wing de-mate, and removal of a “the cap is toast.” portion of the fuselage belly skin, followed by complete removal of the carry-thru. 4. HBC has done several test installations of the strap. The 3. Estimated at 40 hours labor to replace the channel not job takes a full day in the factory after the installer has including the items in (2) above and installation/rebuild “done a lot and gotten good at it.” afterward, but HBC has made no tests as yet to confirm 5. HBC does not see strap installation as something that can that estimate. be done in the field (may require a return to the factory or iii. An alternative proposed but not yet tested is to remove the an Authorized Service Center with trained technicians). wings, drill out the entire line of rivets on the aft carry-thru, 6. The strap will not work if the slot has been ground out removing the wing bathtub fittings, lift out the channel “too big.” HBC has not yet determined the allowable above the area in question, and then replace the upper tolerances. If the slot is too big, a technician will have to channel from above. figure out a way to take precise dimensions and contact Dan tells me HBC’s Continuing Operational Safety engineers HBC engineering to have HBC design a custom repair are “confident” the FAA will permit continuing 100-hour inspection or replacement of the upper channel. of the slot even for those airplanes in which the slot is ground irregularly or gouged, as long as there is no fatigue cracking. HBC b. Replacing the upper channel has a Service Bulletin written and internally approved detailing i. Removing the improperly ground upper channel and the issue and the inspection but is not yet ready to release the replacing it with a new, undamaged upper channel bulletin, because they do not have an approved repair and are is considered the terminating action more likely to not certain the FAA will permit continued operation without a be approved. terminating action. There is some hope that the FAA’s new SARA ii. HBC has not tried this on an existing airplane yet. risk management model, which uses fleet operational data and BONANZA TIP TANK KITS

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26 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org worked to ABS’s advantage in the spar web load to Normal Category levels, again so the web investigation nearly a decade ago, final decision, will also permit continued structure as-is can support the load without which prove the carry-thru structure is operation on inspections in this situation. requiring a reduction in airplane weight. capable of standing up to design load But that will require a significant amount The issue faded away through two factors even with a cracked carry-thru spar of fleet data, which requires the inspection, Beech bankruptcies, two changes in web, that convinced them and the FAA that so HBC is moving slowly and deliberately. Beechcraft ownership, and numerous this Baron issue can be resolved with the Dan told me that although this is clearly changes in engineering staff both at Beech paperwork exercise of reducing affected damage created during the manufacturing and the FAA office overseeing the design. Barons to Normal Category certification process that given the current state of HBC Coming back to October 2019, and no other required actions. he is not certain whether there are funds to Textron Aviation’s Continuing Operational And that’s why most Baron owners got address repairs or even creation of a repair Safety engineers tell me it was the results a yellow POH/AIM change notice from kit. Dan will continue to keep us advised of the ABS Air Safety Foundation’s spar Textron Aviation. as this develops. (end of 2012 report) • The Beechcraft Baron and Bonanza specialist° SouthernOver 30 years of providing quality maintenance t the time Hawker Beechcraft, Bob Ripley, and I brainstormed 78 ideas for addressing the issue Aero Ser- A 57 without difficult repetitive inspections and costly, factory-approved-only 68 modifications. One idea (from Beech) vices was to reduce the maximum gross weight 68 Engine & Airframe upgrades Locatedwww.soaero.com at Cedar Ridge of the airplanes so that the structure can Pre-Purchasesixth 100 Hour &pg. Annual inspections Airport (GA62), 25 miles handle the existing design load without South of Atlanta [email protected] • soaero.com modification. Another idea we all batted 770-229-2563 • 73 Cedar Ridge Airport Road, Griffi n, GA 30223 around was to lower the maximum design one color

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Bob Butt (sixth from right) has been reviewing ABS Magazine since 2013. Bob’s wife MJ organized a fly-in com- munity lunch at his home in Bourland, Texas, on September 3 at which he was presented his award along with recognition from the community for his participation in “missing man” formation flying tributes. Sam James Volunteerism Award

he ABS Sam James Volunteerism Award is the highest award bestowed by the American Bonanza Society. The award T is named for its first recipient, the late Stu Spindel received his award at the ABS Annual Meeting at Sam James, who was recognized by the Society for Oshkosh. Stu began service as a technical reviewer in 2007. his many years of running the Beechcraft Pilot

George Brown began as an ABS technical reviewer 2015. His Sam Proficiency Program entirely as a volunteer. We are proud James award was presented at his home airport of Georgetown, Texas, to present this award to four outstanding ABS volunteers on September 3. who together make up the volunteer ABS Magazine Technical Edit Review Team (TERT): Stuart Spindel, Tom Rosen, Bob Butt, and George Brown. Each TERT member has extensive experience flying, maintaining, and owning Beech airplanes, and uses that expertise to help make ABS Magazine the leading Beechcraft owners’ technically vetted resource.

Please join us in thanking Stu, Tom, Bob, and George for their generous volunteerism to the members of ABS. Congratulations to each on earning the ABS Sam James Volunteerism Award.

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Tom Rosen joined the TERT team in 2009. Tom was presented his award George Brown’s wife Kathryn, his daughter Monique, and son Rock held a reunion during the BPPP LIVE at Sacramento, around the presentation event. California, September 21.

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s past president I’ve had numerous opportunities to express my passion for ABS and the Air Safety Foundation. The benefits they provide Beechcraft owners, pilots, mechanics, and flight instructors are unparalleled. Advocacy work on issues like control cable corrosion and the Maciel Ruddervator Prizes assure us that we and future generations will A continue our love affair with these incredible aircraft. That is why Nancy and I have made it a routine to HEADING270 is your program, and your recognition, for include the ABS Air Safety Foundation in our annual including the not-for-profit ABS Air Safety Foundation in your legacy giving. We hope you’ll join us again this year in the giving, through your estate planning, tax-free IRA distribution gifts, ASF campaign to protect lives and preserve the and other methods of supporting the safety training and education; Beechcraft fleet. pilot, instructor, and mechanic training; aircraft technical support; While your contributions are tax-deductible, here are a couple of ideas that might give you even more benefit: If you have stock or mutual funds that have appreciated in value, consider giving some of that instead of cash. You get a tax deduction for the full market value, and no one (not even ASF) pays any capital gains tax. If you love the stock or fund, give some anyway and use the cash you would have given to the Foundation to buy more of the same holding. You get the charitable deduction, and you now own the same amount of your favorite stock or fund with no embedded capital gain. and industry advocacy programs that have so enhanced your If you are over age 70½ and are required to take minimum Beechcraft ownership experience. distributions (RMD) from your IRA, consider making your gift to There are many ways to include the work of the ABS Air ASF directly from your IRA. The gift applies toward your RMD. Safety Foundation in your planned giving. Memorial gifts and You won’t get a tax deduction, but even better you don’t report tributes honor a friend or loved one who has benefitted from that amount as income. That benefits you even if you don’t itemize the ABS Air Safety Foundation. Endowed gifts provide both deductions. And keeping your taxable income lower can help an immediate and a long-term result. As little as one sentence with thresholds that affect social security taxability, Medicare in your will or living trust designates your gift to the ABS Air premiums, and tax brackets in general. Safety Foundation. Benefit from the tax savings that result from If either of these is of interest, feel free to contact ABS/ supporting the ABS Air Safety Foundation without giving up ASF Executive Director Tom Turner or me and we can help simplify the assets you’d like your family to receive some day through the process for you. Our contact information is in the magazine, a charitable lead trust. If you have appreciated assets, a Tom’s in the masthead near the front and mine on the Board of charitable remainder trust can help you defer capital gains Directors list near the back. tax while providing life income to you or others from assets you give in trust. Not everyone wants to commit to making a gift in HEADING270 their will or estate. Some prefer the simplicity and flexibility of a Many of you have already included the beneficiary designation. Learn about all these options using Air Safety Foundation in your estate plans the PLANNED GIVING link under the AIR SAFETY FOUNDATION in the form of a bequest in your will, or through a beneficiary tab at www.bonanza.org. designation on an investment or retirement account. You’ve We can’t thank you enough for your commitment to the future benefited from ABS membership and the programs, products and of ABS and air safety. If you haven’t made us aware of your gift, services of the ABS Air Safety Foundation. Now you’re helping the please consider doing so as we would like to recognize you in our next generation of Beech owners enjoy the same benefits with your Heading270 Legacy Society and thank you appropriately. Please be legacy gift, to protect lives and preserve the Beechcraft fleet. assured we will keep your legacy giving anonymous if you prefer.

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Your ABS dues, along with magazine advertising and our affiliated aircraft insurance program, covers the Society’s operating costs. But all the education, technical content, and programs of the ABS Air Safety Foundation are 100 percent funded by member donations, sponsorships, and the return on investments from those sources. The ABS Technical Advisors, BPPP online and flight training, ABS Service Clinics, mechanic training and support, flight instructor training and accreditation, and industry/regulatory advocacy to keep your Beechcraft flying and to keep you flying BPPP Instructor Camp and ABS it safely, is paid for by you – in the form of your tax-deductible Flight Instructor Academy donations to the not-for-profit ABS Air Safety Foundation. Most of what ABS Air Safety Foundation adds to the value of Show your commitment to keeping your your ABS membership is free to members. The few items for which Beechcraft flying safely with a donation the Foundation charges a fee are priced at break-even cost. using the DONATE link on the AIR SAFETY FOUNDATION tab at www.bonanza.org. If you prefer, send a check to “ABS/ASF” at ABS headquarters (3595 N. Webb Road Suite 200, Wichita, KS 67226) or call the ABS staff at 316-945-1700 with a credit card number. We’ll send written acknowledgement of your gift for your tax purposes. Help us continue to enhance your Beechcraft ownership experience by investing some of what you would pay in taxes instead into these programs to protect lives and preserve the Beechcraft fleet. Thank you. •° BPPP LIVE

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ost of us have probably experienced lost communications of one sort or another. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen as often as in days of yore. It still happens, though, and it usually happens at the most inconvenient of occasions. It’s Mdifficult to prepare for the unexpected. But there are a few things that can come in handy if the need arises. I’ve had a few lost com issues handheld to the number two com of my own making, such as antenna, which greatly improves the having the communications radio range and clarity. I had an occasion volume turned down or having the once to have to use it and was mighty headphone jack plug come loose glad I had it. The photo shows the aux because I didn’t push it in all the jack box and coax antenna adapter. way. There are many other ways to I keep non-chargeable AA lithium goof up the com system, but usually batteries in my handheld as they are a quick scan will reveal the issue. reputed not to leak and have very long Most of us use a push-to-talk shelf lives. I check the handheld’s button on the yoke. A friend recently operation periodically to make sure experienced a failure of the yoke- it still works and refamiliarize myself mounted button just as Approach with its operation. handed him over to the tower. He Stuck mics can be an issue. Newer kept his cool, squawked 7,600 and monitored the tower frequency radios have an indicator that shows when the radio is transmitting. (this was VFR). Amazingly, the tower simply cleared him to land. Some will shut off transmitting after a certain period. I once had an Later he chided himself for not thinking of using the push-to-talk “economy” portable push-to-talk button stick closed in my Cessna button on the copilot’s yoke. This is something to keep in one’s 140. Unfortunately, my radio didn’t have these advanced features. bag of tricks, and it might be wise to check the copilot’s switch Fortunately, it didn’t cause any real inconvenience to anyone. I did, from time to time to make sure it still works. however, replace it immediately with a quality David Clark unit. A I keep a handheld microphone in the glove box of both my ships pilot with the stuck mic can’t hear anything on the frequency so just in case. I must remind myself to check whether they, too, are this should be a clue to check the mic! Also, once the wires in my in good operating order (no cookie crumbs and dust bunnies). microphone chord shorted together. I caught this on the ground Might as well check the cabin speaker occasionally should your with the transmit indicator in the radio. We were fortunate to have $1,000 headset take a powder. another mic available that got us home. The audio panel can be a weak link as it is a nexus for all Many of the newer high-end headsets are available with communications. The audio panel in my Bonanza has individual Bluetooth connectivity. I’m sure many ABS members have used amplifiers for the phones and speaker, with each powered through this feature to obtain an ATC clearance using a smartphone. This its own circuit breaker. This has the advantage of letting me feature may also come in handy during a lost com episode. I keep continue to hear the radios if one or the other amp gets fried. the phone number of the tower at our local field in my iPhone Audio panels from other manufacturers may have similar features just in case. We had a local pilot do just that when his electrical such as an “Emergency” mode to bypass inoperative components. system went south. The idea was a good one, except when the Reviewing the unit’s operating manual and knowing what to do phone at the tower picked up it was an answering machine! Still, and what is still available in failure modes is of benefit should it’s an option. Reviewing AIM 4-2-13 “Communications with Tower the need arise. when Aircraft Transmitter or Receiver or Both are Inoperative” There are several reasons to carry a handheld radio in the might be a good idea, too (FAA.gov). flight bag and lost com is reason number one. It takes time to I don’t fly in the clouds anymore so remembering IFR lost com dig the handheld out of the bag, hook your headset up to the stuff isn’t an issue for me any longer. But ABS members who indulge plug adapters, turn it on, and insert the frequency, all the while in such daring-do may like to review the procedure periodically. flying the airplane. Transmit range is iffy with the rubber ducky Call me old-fashioned, but I keep a list of the light gun signals antenna but the reception is usually adequate within a few miles. on the back side of my Bonanza’s checklist just in case. I’ll bet I installed a small auxiliary jack box that allows me to hook my the tower controller has a list on the light gun, too!

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Member News Mike Friel Receives Awards

BPPP instructor Mike Friel writes:

Farmingdale FSDO Manager Erik Anderson presents Mike with the FAA ommander Erik Podszus of the Master Pilot Award U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary asked if I would address his Flotilla during its scheduled September meeting. I thought it would be a great opportunity to have Ctwo ABS members, Dr. Inderpal Chhabra and Dave Tobachnik, who together received the 2017 ABS Airmanship Award for their extraordinary team response in December 2016 when the propeller of their A36 Bonanza separated over Long Island Sound, meet the Coast Guard Auxiliary members who coordinated their rescue.

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Welcome New Members ABS extends a warm welcome to the following new members who joined in September 2019:

Richard Baughn, Jonesboro, AR David Tsang, Hollister, CA David Fussell, Tulsa, OK Joseph Fox, Osceola Mills, PA Fabien Turpaud, Singapore, SG Jonathan Maas, Tempe, AZ Eric Scotten, Indianapolis, IN Shawn Cole, Mattaponi, VA Dana Peterson, Eldersburg, MD Reggie Thurlow, Lady Lake, FL Tom Del Conte, Dublin, CA Donald Powell, Madison, MS Ryan Johanningsmeier, Vincennes, IN Aaron Gear, Artesia, NM Lisa Santino, Olympia, WA Lance Lauer, Monticello, MN Robert Gillmann, Lexington, SC Jeff Stone, Clinton, MO Florin Popa, Hampton, ON Brad Hescock, Memphis, TN Roger Bell, Lymington, UK Kendal Simpson, Port Orange, FL Tom Massey, Montgomery, TX Jeff Bursik, Longmont, CO Bob VanZee, Hudsonville, MI Sam McCaskill, Austin, TX Dan Fairon, Gig Harbor, WA Tal Keinan, New York, NY Jim Walker, Fuquay-Virina, NC Larry Lancaster, Austin, TX Cullen Smith, Framingham, MA Jerry Morton, Dade City, FL Daniel Mosier, Tucson, AZ Colin Drake, Mendocino, CA Howard Smith, Concord, MA Steve Snell, Scotts Valley, CA Brian White, Souderton, PA Robert Tubens, Benton City, WA Brad Barlow, Thousand Oaks, CA Ian Gober, Cocoa, FL Bailey Billen, Bartlett, TN Dan Bell, Peoria, AZ Larry Hawkins, Parker, CO Gary Fallivene, Kinnelon, NJ Bradley Byrd, St. Johns, FL Craig Roah, Long Beach, CA Larry Mead, Powell, OH Daniel Frankel, Madison, OH Bryan Shields, Benton, AR Blake Wisdom, Vinita, OK Keith Koenig, Discovery Bay, CA Carlton Williams, Coloma, MI Donald Hart, Jacksonville, FL Glenn Raby, Palm Harbor, FL Randy Williams, Edgewater, MD Warren Holland, Corpus Christi, TX Eric Roper, Boulder City, NV Doug Kimball, Bedford, IN Michael Saltzman, New York City, NY Reid Benes, Denver, CO Eduardo Letti, Ponte Vedra, FL John Dalman, Keller, TX Jaeho Lee, Prescott Valley, AZ Michael Noyes, Fort Mill, SC AMERICANDevin Degroote, Port Severn, ON Erik Kaufmann, Nashville, TN Jonathan Chiansi, Salina, KS Gary Guidi, Chicago, IL Will MacHugh, Burien, WA Mark Fritzinger, Goldsboro, NC Michael Hill, Fairview Park, OH Steve Tappan, Salado, TX Matt Stevens, Boise, ID Frank Jannelli, Fort Myers, FL Sid Sawyer, Canyon, TX Bryan Brannon, Conway, AR Barry Partlo, Clayton, NC Michael Wagner, Flint, MI Chris Florez, Sierra Vista, AZ Dan Dunbar, Durham, NC Fred Hughes, Jericho, QLD Corey Hancock, Haughton, LA David Humphrey, Orchard Park, NY Jon Jackson, Arlington, VA John Pittman, Gainesville, GA Craig Burger, Los Angeles, CA Brian LaFreda, Hammonton, NJ Joseph Rambosek, Delaware,BONANZA OH Chad Burns, Lubbock, TX Marilyn Malia, Bunnlevel, NC Blake Brindle, Calhoun, GA Mel Crews, Garland, TX Karl Walter, Fayetteville, GA James Houchen, Clinton, MO Nick Duncan, Laguna Beach, CA Tom Stivers, Hays, KS William Wagner, Camarillo, CA Nofal Kahook, Davie, FL Robb Eidemiller, Paso Robles, CA Jeff Furay, Heath, OH Debbie Lawrence, Dayton, NV Jeff Hill, Seattle, WA Merl Ledford, Visalia, CA Robert Matthias, Gainesville, FL Michael Newby, Pingree Grove, IL Robert Baldock, Tuscola, TX Emmie Smith, Sacramento, CA Stefano Parisse, London, UK Darryl Crawford, Lusby, MDSOCIETYDavid Turlington, Jeffersonville, IN Ronald Schlitt, St. George Island, FL Orlin Faulhaber, North Platte, NE

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See Your OCTOBER 2019 • VOLUME NINETEEN • NUMBER 10 Beechcraft AMERICAN on the Cover of BONANZA ABS Magazine! SOCIETY

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elcome two new BPPP instructors who completed the ABS BPPP Instructor Camp, September 10-12 in Wichita. The Instructor Camp includes a day of classroom instruction and two days of flying N504SJ, the ABS Air WSafety Foundation’s A36, to learn techniques for presenting the BPPP flight training syllabus. John Zazworksi is a retired USAF colonel and current is a John Zazworksi C-17 simulator instructor in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He lives in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and flies an F33A. He is also active in a Frederick, Maryland-based flying club that includes a Beech Debonair in which he teaches.

Phil Jossi

Phil Jossi is in aircraft finance and is currently president of the ABS Board of Directors. He lives in Chandler, Arizona, and flies a turbonormalized A36. Phil is also an active flight instructor. BPPP Instructor Camp is an alternate method of earning BPPP instructor accreditation for highly experienced instructor pilots who do not yet have the Beechcraft teaching experience required for traditional BPPP instructor accreditation. The camp includes a full day of classroom instruction and two days in the ABS/ASF A36. The first day of flight includes one “camper” flying about two hours in the left seat experiencing the BPPP flight syllabus as a student while the other camper observes from the rear, and then the campers swap seats for a second flight session so each receives the BPPP Initial experience. On Murmer Aircraft the second day each camper flies from the right seat acting as instructor presenting BPPP syllabus items to a simulated student (ABS’ Tom Turner) and completing the BPPP Instructor Services standardization flight, while the other observes from the rear. During his/her right-seat time the camper also learns techniques quarter pg for instruction in single-control airplanes. To apply to attend the BPPP Instructor Camp you must: one color Ad 1. Hold a valid and current Flight Instructor certificate 51 including Flight Instructor – Instrument rating; 63 2. Hold a current FAA medical certificate or international 51 equivalent; 3. Complete the online ABS Flight Instructor Academy program, 55 free to ABS members in the ABS Online Learning Center at www.murmerair.com www.bonanza.org. 4. Send an aviation instructional resume to ABS Air Safety Foundation showing you have provided at least: a. 500 hours of flight instruction, including b. 50 hours in Complex airplanes,

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Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 41 www.bonanza.org Tech Talk Preparing Magnesium Control Surfaces By Bob Ripley ere is a safe and effective process to follow for stripping, preparing, 9. Apply non-etching epoxy primer. Make and painting magnesium control surfaces. In most cases, it is better to sure to use a non-etching epoxy primer. have a paint shop complete the procedure since you have to buy the Did I mention non-etching epoxy H primer? Good. Polyfiber has a brand, chemicals for the treatment before the top coat of paint is applied. However, if you are and so do most of the rest. performing the job locally here’s what you can do. 10. Apply top color coat. You can use Supplies use a hair dryer or heat lamp. You must whatever paint you want over the non-etching epoxy primer including ● Paint remover of your choice: There get rid of all the moisture from the pores acrylic enamel (lighter weight for are some preferred types that are less in the surface, or the magnesium will older ruddervators), Imron, or other caustic for magnesium. Check the label. corrode beneath the new paint. polyurethanes. Remember many of 5. Inspect the skin thoroughly for pitting ● Magnesium metal prep: Aero Touchups the painters at aircraft paint shops and pin holes. has a product called Magcoat. It’s started out by painting automobiles about $90 a gallon and available at 6. Apply conversion coat. Beech/Raytheon and think the more paint the better. www.aerotouchups.com/at1120.html. provides a Mil-spec Mil-C-3171, AMS This is not the case for ruddervators 2475 conversion coat process for or other control surfaces. When you Action magnesium called DOW 7 and DOW 19. 1. Remove the control surface. select a paint shop for your airplanes, If you Google the term “conversion coat” are you talking to a salesman or to 2. Strip and smooth the surface. With you will find a PDF file to download. the person who is going to paint magnesium you want to strip it all the This involved process is not required your airplane? Go and talk with way to bare metal. Be careful to not for existing control surfaces, but Beech the person who is going to paint touch magnesium with your bare and its subcontractors used it on the the airplane. hands. Wear gloves! bare metal magnesium parts originally, 11. Remember that all ruddervators must 3. Clean the surface with soap and water utilizing dipping tanks. be painted with the trailing edge up so and, if needed, a Scotch-Brite pad (the 7. Dry the surface. they will balance correctly. gray fine grit if possible). 8. Wipe down the entire control surface 12. Check the control surface balance 4. Dry the surface. The best results come with MEK (of course it’s bad for you, so according to Beech specifications and from drying it in an oven. You can also are Krispy Kreme donuts). adjust as necessary. 13. Install the control surface onto the airplane. Tornado Al- 14. Check the control and trim cable tension and rigging; adjust as necessary. 55 ley Turbo 15. Complete the required logbook 73 endorsement. Inc. 28 There is more information on corrosion prevention for magnesium 52 control surfaces in Appendix A of the sixth pg. www.taturbo.com ABS Flight Controls, Flaps and Trim System Inspection, Repair and Rigging Guide, a free download under MAINTENANCE at www. full color bonanza.org.

42 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY •° November 2019 www.bonanza.org BPPP Never Say Never By Gary Schank

or the third year in a row, I participated in an “Airline Pilots Roundtable” seminar for the Ninety-Nines at Camarillo, California (KCMA). I flew up to the seminar from Orange County (KSNA) in my Bonanza A36. As I approached KCMA I placed the landing gear lever in the down position. Only the yellow “In Transit” light appeared. I cycled the gear switch Fand got three green lights. No problem. I landed and headed to the seminar. The seminar discussion primarily focused on handling it was not a stressful event. After enough cranking, three green emergencies. Several of us joked about having had a discussion lights appeared. As BPPP teaches, I cranked a little more until the before a flight that we never had a particular emergency, only handle would not turn any more to ensure the gear was fully down. to end up in the very situation on the next flight. Even a pilot in I was only halfway home, flying slow, but so what? The welcome the audience had the same scenario. It was uncanny. One of the sight of three green lights adorned the panel. On final approach, questions was, “Have you had emergencies in a general aviation Tower offered to observe the gear on a fly-by. I took them up on airplane?” I responded, “Never.” I have had 17, yes 17, emergencies their offer. Tower indicated that the gear appeared to be down, in my airline carrier, but never in my private flying. Never. so I circled and landed without incident. Time to head home. During climbout on the night IFR flight, Just minutes before the flight, I commented that I had never I noticed that the Bonanza was not climbing as usual and the had an emergency in a general aviation airplane. I’ll never say airspeed was lower than normal. I looked over, and sure enough, “never” again, but I will always say that I am glad for my BPPP a yellow “In Transit” light. Ah, hah! Obviously, the gear was not training. up. Further investigation revealed that the landing gear circuit breaker was popped open. A point that I made during our seminar •° was that there are two types of emergencies: those that require Often a popped landing gear circuit breaker and gear that immediate action, and those that are not time critical. As an stops in mid-transit is a symptom of mechanical resistance on example, I brought up the idea that a landing gear problem is the gear transmission as a result of bent gear pushrods or rod not a time-critical emergency…so long as you have sufficient ends. Repeats of the in-transit breaker pop almost certainly fuel. I decided to wait until I was comfortably cruising before confirms a mechanical resistance cause. ABS advises against addressing the issue. “cycling” the gear switch if the breaker pops in mid-travel – Above all else, fly the airplane. At 5,000 feet, I was cruising sometimes the pushrod or rod end will hold together if you in and out of IMC. As with the usual airline procedure, I was continue the extension manually, but will bend or break if willing to try one, and only one, circuit breaker reset to get the moved from this position of resistance in the opposite direction. gear down. No joy! I pulled the gear motor circuit breaker and That would leave you with partially extended landing gear prepared to do a manual gear extension. and no way to get it either down or fully up for landing. If your Prior to becoming a Bonanza owner, I never had any flight time landing gear stops in transit and the gear motor circuit breaker in a Bonanza. When I found out about the BPPP training program, pops BPPP suggests: I was immediately drawn to it because BPPP training is just like 1. Do not cycle the landing gear switch airline training. First, you learn the systems of the airplane; next you learn the standardized procedures; then you get checked 2. Confirm the circuit breaker has popped out in the airplane. One of the BPPP training procedures in the 3. Complete the Manual Landing Gear extension procedure airplane is a hands-on manual gear extension exercise. You learn 4. After landing, have the landing gear system checked by a that the Bonanza manual gear crank is close to the floor between Beech-knowledgeable mechanic, with special emphasis the front seats. In order to reach the crank, the right front seat on the condition of pushrods and rod ends must be fully forward and the pilot seat fully back. You learn that it will take approximately 50 turns of the crank, and that the best As Gary wrote, as long as you have adequate fuel this practice is to crank about 10 turns at a time, then stop to remain is not an immediate emergency, but instead an abnormal focused on flying the airplane. procedure that may be addressed unhurriedly and using How glad I was that I had already practiced this awkward checklists. – Thomas P. Turner procedure during my BPPP training! I knew just what to do, so

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extron Aviation announces its long-awaited ADS-B E-3834, E-3836 thru E-3839, E-3841, E-3843 thru E-3848, E-3850 thru E-3854, E-3856, E-3858, E-3860 thru E-3862, E-3864 thru Where to go for information and Out kits for pre-NXi but WAAS-capable G1000s in E-3865, A36 E-3547. all the varied issues about Bonan- G36 Bonanzas and G58 Barons. MEL-34-01 provides the G1000 system software upgrade to zas? The oblivious answer is the T Version 0857.10 in these G58 Barons: Airplanes that have factory installed WAAS, G58 TH-2228, American Bonanza Society. ABS is SEL-34-10 provides the G1000 system software upgrade to TH-2230, TH-2233 thru TH-2439, TH-2441 thru TH-2457, TH-2459 the best owners group I have been Version 0858.10 in these G36 Bonanzas: thru TH-2475. The following airplanes that upgraded to WAAS associated with. Pilot training, Airplanes that have factory installed WAAS, G36 E-3818, E-3826, with SB 34-3925 are eligible to install this service document: Your Life Membership Benefi ts ABS! E-3835, E-3840, E-3842, E-3849, E-3855, E-3857, E-3859, E-3863, service clinics and online publica- G58 TH-2125 thru TH-2227, TH-2229, TH-2231, TH-2232. E-3866 thru E-4101 The following airplanes that upgraded to WAAS • Supporting aging aircra Contact your avionics shop or Textron Aviation tions are outstanding. I have taken with SB 34-3926 are eligible to install this service document: • (www.txtav.com) for details and to order the kit. advantage of all of them. ABS is Delivering Beechcra Pilot Pro ciency Program seminars and G36 E-3630, E-3636 thru E-3817, E-3819 thru E-3825, E-3827 thru online courses my fi rst “go to” resource for fl ying • Working with outside agencies to solve safety of  ight concerns that questions. 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Why a Life Member? impact the longevity and value of our  eet A way to give a little something • Maintain world class sta of Beechcra technical experts to research back to a community of fl ying and o er de nitive answers to your questions enthusiasts and support general • Teaching and o ering assistance to mechanics who maintain aviation for future pilots and own- Bonanzas, Debonairs, Travel Air and Barons ers. 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like to fly in calm, stable air. I don’t mind the occasional discontinuous burp in the atmosphere because that is the way of nature and cloud dynamics. On an 850 nm flight from Lakeland, Florida, to my home in New Jersey, imagine my surprise to I hit a few bumps along the way. These bumps were not of the atmospheric kind. The air was I felt a momentary disbelief and a tingle in my spine coursed stable with a 37-knot direct crosswind causing my G36’s wind its way up to my cranium. I turned to pull the POH from the correction angle to be at least 12 degrees to the west of course. seatback and the autopilot sounded its disconnect alarm. That I was between layers at 9,000 feet, with a solid undercast that spine-tingle turned into a full-blown electrical lightening of dipped all the way down to 400 feet above the ground and a fear, and perhaps panic was nearby. ragged overcast above. Crossing into the Carolinas, I started The engine was still running smoothly. The wings were creating fuel transfer from the tips into the mains. For 40 or so minutes their required lift against weight and drag, and the altimeter was the tips emptied as the fuel volume in the mains grew. I could not winding down. That was a source of comfort to quell some barely see the digital Osborne fuel gauge in the clouded of my advancing fear. Only three flight instruments remained ambient light. I turned the panel light on and discovered there functional and they were all on the far-right side of the G36 were two or more gallons remaining in each of the tips. I shut Bonanza’s panel. The Stratus had cut off earlier due to battery off the fuel transfer from both. Suddenly the G1000 PFD and discharge and was hooked up on the rear window, and I had no MFD screens went dark. And, I mean dark! chance of stretching to fiddle with it given the circumstances. My mini-iPad4 was showing frown lines without the Stratus input. Hence, it was no help. Should I declare an emergency? I thought. Yes! But I had no option of flying an approach at this juncture. Low IFR everywhere the eye could see; the XM weather had divulged that information prior. An ASR [controller-directed radar approach] was an option and might help bring me down safely, but that would require a boatload of calm and reasoned Factory Direct thinking that was slowly straying away. Flying along to visual conditions was a good alternative since I could hear the ATC chatter, and there was enough fuel to go hundreds of miles more. Models Just to confirm there was bidirectional communication, in the calmest of voice I could muster I asked ATC for my ground speed to correlate it with indicated airspeed. The answer matched full color my prior readings, indicating no change in the winds aloft. 11 Communication was good! The screens were dark, yet the PFD- 51 controlled communications radios were functional. The autopilot 31 disconnect was disturbing, still. I was unable to open the POH while hand-flying with the three distant instruments: airspeed, 31 attitude, and altimeter. That alone was a difficult chore at best, FactoryDirectmodels.com plus the incipient neck cramp that was yet to come. What to do? To declare, or delay? As the seconds ticked by, my adrenaline abated a bit. A plan emerged. First, I chose to retrace the steps before the blackout. The last thing I remembered was shutting off the tip tank fuel transfer pumps. So I turned them back on. Its tiny green/blue lights showed that the electrons had reached the pumps and fuel transfer was back on. The next step, I mistakenly thought, was

46 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org the autopilot disconnect. So I pressed the autopilot disconnect out the POH, my hand brushed the trim switch or the autopilot button to make sure that remained off, since I had no way of disconnect button on the yoke. looking at the command bars and knowing what mode might Since the comm frequencies remained unchanged and be set. Still nothing. I looked at the circuit breakers below the workable in actual and in simulation, the event was a non-event. panel and on the left side. All were in place. Time seemed to But it was a great learning experience. dilate, and each second became a minute, as it so happens in The fix: I called J.L. Osborne and ordered a potentiometer for emergencies. the backlighting of the digital fuel gauge and a disconnect from “Approach,” I croaked on the comm. By instinct, or by design the panel light switch. of retracing my steps, I turned off the panel light I had last turned The moral of the story: In case of electronic discontinuity, on. Both the PFD and the MFD came back on alive as if nothing retrace your steps and undo what you most recently had done. had happened. “Who was that?” Approach asked. All I had to do was turn off the Panel Light switch and full PFD/ I reconfigured the autopilot as my agitated state came back to MFD visibility would return. But such is the nature of humans its natural calm and gained back the 200 feet lost in the process. when the adrenaline is frisking the brain and nerve cells. Amazingly, I was still on the Victor 1 airway. I called Approach One more thing. Every action from preflight through shutdown and requested a direct-to a fix to avoid the airway bends and must be done deliberately and with visual verification. Never was granted the request. do things in an autonomous mode, where you act without seeing because it is the same action you have taken hundreds hat caused this hair-raising event tortured my mind or thousands of times before – a form of confirmation bias. Each for the rest of the flight. But I dared not recreate the action must be verified, just as we validate “Three Greens” for Wevent in flight; I would perform the entire process gear down on final. while safely on the ground to see if the indications would repeat. It turns out, based on the ambient light at the time, turning the • Parvez Dara, MD, is a Master° CFI and Gold Seal instructor, and panel light on dimmed the screens. And, the dimmer was set to recently earned accreditation as a BPPP instructor through the BPPP Low! My ground-based simulation evoked a similar occurrence, Instructor Camp. but in complete safety in the hangar. The lingering question: Why did the autopilot disconnect? Perhaps when I turned to pull

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Personal minimums limit the utility of an airplane, and some pilots interpret them as an admission that they’re not as good as other pilots who accept conditions and situations they choose to avoid. I prefer to simply think about things I vow not to do…and then work to avoid doing them. This month: airframe ice.

e all want maximum utility from our airplanes. We don’t want to have to limit our flight to VFR-only operation in the wintertime. Although recent years have brought us tremendous advances in icing forecasts, there is still no Stormscope or StrikeFinder equivalent for airborne ice detection. You don’t know you’re in it until you are, and you can’t predict how heavy the ice will be until it accumulates.

W ● According to the FAA Advisory Circular (AC) 91-74B, “Pilot Guide: Figure icing delays or cancellations into your trip planning. If Flight in Icing Conditions,” a “thin ice accretion on critical surfaces, you pre-plan for flexibility you’ll be less likely to be pressured developing in a matter of minutes, can sometimes have dramatic into making a bad decision. effects on stall speeds, stability, and control. Wind tunnel testing Why might airframe ice form when the outside air temperature indicates that if such accretions are particularly rough, they can is as high as +5°C? Ice will form when the surface of an object is have more adverse effects than larger accretions that are relatively below freezing and encounters liquid moisture. If the wing and smooth.” That, and the fact that ice is very unpredictable and varies fuselage is cold-soaked from flight in below-freezing air, it may still rapidly, is the hazard of flight in clouds and visible moisture when cause ice to collect when descending into clouds or moisture that the temperature is near or below freezing. is slightly above freezing. Also, the temperature frequently drops So how can we get maximum utility from an airplane in cold- several degrees when you enter a cloud. If you’re in clear air with weather conditions? ● Fly VFR and remain clear of all clouds and precipitation. Icing Potential The two best products for flight planning are the Current ● If you elect to fly IFR, avoid IMC flight in freezing temperatures Icing Product (CIP) and Forecast Icing Potential (FIP). Both (from about +5°C to -15°C in stratus clouds, and as cold as are available at www.aviationweather.gov/icing. These -40°C in cumulus). products supplement any AIRMETs and SIGMETs for ● Ask for block altitudes or request a VFR on Top clearance to areas of ice, and PIREPs (pilot reports) of actual conditions remain in ice-free air, but only if you can climb and descend encountered in flight, whether positive or negative for ice. to those altitudes without entering clouds in the ice-likely The CIP provides a graphical view of the current icing temperature range. environment. The CIP is updated hourly and provides reports of actual, current icing conditions including severity ● Remember that even if your airplane has the power to climb graphics and icing probability graphics. All graphics through ice, eventually you may have to come back down into it. display icing severity in five levels consistent with those ● Take icing PIREPs seriously. If you have an encounter, then file used in other weather reports: negative (none), trace, light, icing PIREPs yourself, so the system works for the next pilot. moderate, and heavy. These severity levels depicted are not specific to a type of aircraft or flight condition. The ● Even in “known ice” airplanes, treat the first wisps of ice FAA says “they are only intended to depict general icing accumulation the same way you’d react if you unexpectedly conditions for supplementing flight planning and situational heard the stall warning horn – do something now to eliminate awareness.” the problem. Climb, descend, or turn to ice-free air. The FIP is a forecast of icing potential. It examines ● Any mention of “SLD,” or supercooled liquid droplets, means prediction models to calculate the potential for in-flight enough liquid moisture is suspended in the atmosphere to aircraft icing conditions. This icing potential demonstrates invalidate even “known icing” certification. SLD potential the confidence that a location will contain supercooled you cannot fly around, or under at temperatures well above liquid water that is likely to form ice on an aircraft. In freezing, is a no-go item. addition to predicting areas of possible trace, light,

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Sky Addict Avia- tion moderate and heavy ice accumulation, it also includes Quarter pg. hatching when SLD is a threat. You can select the overall severity model, with or without SLD, areas of less than 25 percent chance of ice (bearing full color in mind that even one percent chance is still a prediction of ice), and less than 50 percent chance – with each option 20 having separate charts in 2,000-foot increments above sea level. 33 Both the CIP and FIP combine other weather products, including the Skew-T diagrams frequently cited in online 27 discussions of ice prediction, in a format that includes much more information and graphically depicts the results in an easily readable image. Some commercial services package the CIP/FIP data in other usable ways, for example, ForeFlight Mobile’s depiction as described by Henry Fiorentini in his article on page 62.

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www.bonanza.org Using ForeFlight Logbook By Henry Fiorentini

nyone who knows me knows what a big fan I am of ForeFlight . It seems that every time I turn A around thinking “You know it would be nice if they…,” they usually have it already. To understand the beauty of the ForeFlight Logbook, you the More/Track Logs page as shown in must first understand its Track Logs function, which is the figure 4. It is a chronological list of your “breadcrumb trail” of your flight automatically recorded as you flights, with summary stats (airports, dates, Figure 1 fly. This data is the basis for a Logbook entry, which can then times) for each individual flight as shown automatically feed into the ForeFlight Logbook. in figure 5. Looking at this figure, we see all the information that one would expect from a breadcrumb trail history, notably a graphic map of your actual flight (it was a very busy pattern when I landed at KJWN, as you can tell from the trail). “Breadcrumbs” in ForeFlight also refers to the green trace on your real time track on the Map page while in flight; this becomes the Track Log after your flight is complete. Track Logs are always saved at the end of the flight, Figure 2 and you can turn on the in-flight breadcrumbs option in Settings. First, the Track Logs section Notable is that most of the information you As shown in figure 1, you can opt to record each flight simply need for a Logbook by pressing the [REC] button on your ForeFlight option bar. entry is documented To make it even easier, you can tell ForeFlight to automatically as part of the Track record each flight without asking by selecting such from the logs. In Figure 5 the Settings page as shown in figure 2. Note that you will not even “2” in the red circle see the “Record Track Log” button on the Maps menu unless in the Logbook row Figure 3 you enable it, as also shown in figure 2. indicates there are two To set the default value from which the Logbook will get Track Logs that have not yet been processed as Logbook entries. its value (I use Track Log), go to More > Logbook > Settings In the next section I show how you can view these Track Logs > Draft Entry Creation, as shown in figure 3. The result is a from the Logbook section and either accept or discard each list of Track Log files that you can view after each flight, from as a Logbook entry. Figure 4 Also note that ForeFlight is tracking total time as well as flight time, for those who log every minute from the moment the plane rolls forward, as opposed to those who only log actual time airborne.

Now, the Logbook section Now that you know the raw data ForeFlight has accumulated,

50 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org go up a few rows on the left pane of Figure 5 to look at the Logbook entry. (Yes, it would be nice if they put the Track Logs and Logbook menu options next to each other, but what are you gonna do?) When you tap on “Logbook” you get the information shown in the right panel of figure 6, which is divided into four main sections: a. Pending Track Logs (“Drafts Requests”), which are Track Logs that you have not yet either accepted or rejected as Logbook entries. b. Entries are both a summary of Logbook entry hours (as displayed), but also a drilldown for all the actual Logbook entries in that time period. c. Currency Summary for the usual “use it or lose it” currency (night landings, IFR, etc.). In this case I have seven days (shown in red) before my night currency expires (as of September 28). Sure beats having to manually track those things on a paper logbook. d. Menu, which is mostly a holding container for Reports, Aircraft, People, Qualifications, Instructor Tools, and Settings. Note that if you want to make a Logbook entry without starting from a suggested Track Log, just tap the “+” sign in the top right and you will get a “right pane” of fill-in-the-blank choices. It’s as though it’s using the Track Log, but without any suggested Figure 5 values filled in.

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32 Figure 7 shows the screen when I select one of the drafts and requests, in this case the top entry option, of my flight from www.hartwigfuelcell.com KPWK to KRFD. As noted at the top of the right pane, “You can modify this draft. Draft entries are not included in Logbook VAC – Veterans Airlift Command total or currency until you approve them.” Not shown is a list of the many Logbook entry options like tach start/stop time, total time, PIC time, cross-country time, distance, daytime takeoffs/ PSA Full Page landings, nighttime takeoffs/landings, instrument, etc. With full color Ad 72 72 72 72 Avstar Aircraft of Washington www.veteransairlift.org Half Page one color Ad 23 46 31 33

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Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 53 www.bonanza.org just a tap of a button you can post the suggested flight time into your Logbook. The ForeFlight Logbook also includes a section for “Tags” near the bottom of the right pane. I think this is a misnomer for endorsements like Flight Review, IPC, etc., so you can track each of these as part of your Logbook, too. You can also add your own custom fields (More > Logbook Select Airparts > (Menu) Settings > Configure Fields > Custom Fields from figure 6). For example, I like to note what state each airport is quarter pg. in, because when I come that way in the future and ask myself, “What was that nice FBO I stopped at a few years ago when we passed through Tennessee?” I can scan my Logbook entries by full color state (individual airport identifiers being useless for this purpose). 37 It would be nice if ForeFlight included the state automatically, 62 but apparently, they don’t stop what they’re doing every time I make a suggestion. 16 Before leaving the “edit while still in pre-approval mode” topic, 38 there is one more really cool option, which is the Flight Photos www.selectairparts.com section depicted in figure 8. Want to record a nice B & B, or FBO, or any image as part of a particular flight? You can with the Foreflight Logbook. I recorded two “I gotta come back to this restaurant” images – the front of the building as a memory jogger and a copy of the menu (my wife has dietary restrictions, so this shows what she could order when she comes with me). It’s stored as a full, raw, original picture and you can zoom in to see the same detail as you would any iPhone/iPad image, even if the reproduction does not look that clear in this article. Just click the “Add Photo” button and you can select any images in your iPad photos library. You can add photos long after the Logbook entry is created. Just click on “Approve,” and all this information (including General Aviation the Track Log) now becomes a Logbook entry. It also remains in the Track Logs section, whether you approve or delete it as a Logbook entry. Modifications As an accepted Log- book entry, the right quarter pg. pane looks nearly identical to figure 7, with a few additions. full color First, figure 9 shows Figure 8 the page you get if you tap on the Track Log image, or the expand 11 icon highlighted in figure 7. You can show any two of the 45 four metrics of Altitude, Speed, Pitch, or Bank in graph form. 19 You can also use the “Send To” button in the upper right to send this Track Log as an email (which can then be opened 25 by the recipient in ForeFlight), or to Google Earth as a KML file (KML is Google Earth’s format, much like how PDF is a universal format of passing documents around. KML stands for “keyhole www.gami.com markup language” as “keyhole” was Google’s original working name for what is now Google Earth). You can also send this KML to apps like Cloud Ahoy, which offer much more detailed metrics than Google Earth or ForeFlight.

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altitude (AGL) in high resolution. The Corporate Angel Network editor in Google Earth does not allow sufficient detail for individual flight Full Page segments like takeoff. A final note is from the ForeFlight website: You can export your Logbook full color Ad data as an Excel spreadsheet file (CSV, 55 “Comma separated values”) if you want 29 63 Butler Avi- to manipulate, filter, or sort this data with 11 almost unlimited flexibility. 77 onics Inc. 73 With such incredible ease-of-use, it 58 is almost impossible not to document www.fundanangel.org 38 every flight, nearly perfectly. ForeFlight sixth pg full automatically makes a Track Log for you www.butleravionics.com on every flight, and then offers to post this color data over to your Logbook. It can’t get any easier than that. When it comes time to renew your aviation insurance and they ask about all the hours you’ve flown in various time periods, of which type (high performance, retractable gear, etc.), the Reports section drops these totals to your Smooth 49 fingertips in a jiffy. 78 By the way, the company is ForeFlight Power, LLC and the product we use is ForeFlight Mobile. 13 But most everyone uses the term ForeFlight for the app. sixth pg. 47 Henry Fiorentini• www.smoothpowerllc.com and° his F33A fly out of full color KPWK (Chicago Executive Airport). Feel free to contact him at [email protected] or 847-682-4550.

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Dynon Three- Display Installation By Dale Smith

hen Adrian Eichhorn took the podium at EAA AirVenture 2018 to GPS navigator,” Eichhorn said. “I’ve also finished the first-ever installation accept the EAA’s coveted Silver Lindy Award as the Reserve Grand of a three-display EFIS system using the Champion, Customized Aircraft, he was, as you might expect, Dynon SkyView HDX touchscreens. I’m old school and love the round dials – the extremely proud and a little surprised. His 1962 P35 Bonanza W romance of flying a ’60s era airplane and had undergone a complete engine out, tip-to-tail, wings-off restoration, was fresh off all that,” Eichhorn said. “Well, now it’s all glass and I love it.” an around-the-world flight, and in his opinion one of the nicest restored and highly “Along with wanting something modified Bonanzas around. “My airplane is the way it is not to win an award, but totally unique, the three-screen setup allows me to de-clutter the displays so because, as a degreed engineer, I love the challenge of re-engineering things to make that I get the information I want exactly them look and perform better,” Eichhorn said. “From the day I flew it home, I’ve been where I want it,” Eichhorn explained. “I have the big PFD right in front of tinkering with every part of the Bonanza to make it different and better than the one me. I can put a big map display in the next door.” center and then on the right side I can have additional airport information or Eichhorn’s next goal is a flight, along around-the-world flight, I had changed my weather or a combination of whatever with two other Bonanzas and a Lancair IV, King radios for the Garmin GNS530 and displays work for that flight. Most across the North Pole set for May 2020. His GNS430 GPS navigators. They were fine importantly, once I have all three preparations include some considerable back then, but I wanted more modern displays configured for the flight my capability and performance upgrades to equipment for my North Pole flight, so workload is greatly reduced. Knowing the Bonanza. “A few years before I did my I changed over to the Avidyne IFD 550 exactly where all the information I need

58 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org is frees me up so I can fly with my eyes of all the components on the bench to servos, magnetometer, and wiring outside of the airplane – where they ensure everything would fit properly prior harness were installed.” should be. This setup makes my flying to assembly in the aircraft. Even though the Dynon package is so much safer.” “One major benefit to the Dynon designed to be easy to install, a bit of Eichhorn said that the Dynon SkyView system over traditionally installed expert insurance is always a good idea. HDX is, compared to a lot of the avionics is nearly all their components So Eichhorn enlisted the help of his friend competition, “amazingly simple to learn are connected with prefabricated and avid homebuilder, Mel Jordan. and use.” Complemented by a bit of wiring harnesses, so you simply plug “Mel has a lot of experience installing training from Dynon, he’s pretty much and play and you’re done,” he said. Dynon equipment in various RV aircraft so self-mastered the system’s operation. “Once he had it right, the panel was his expertise was a great help,” Eichhorn “Everything I need can be found in then disassembled and sent out for said. “He and I spent four days on the one or two steps – it’s not buried under powder coating and the new autopilot installation. The only wiring harness that layers and layers of pages like some other equipment,” he said. “I also like the system’s flexibility to be controlled GeneralQuality Aviation Maintenance via the touchscreens or with buttons Stockton - Sacramento Region and knobs. This is particularly important 76 when entering information or selecting Aero Main- 49 frequencies when flying in turbulence. 78 Controlling a touchscreen at arm’s length tenance can be quite challenging.” 68 Eichhorn’s panel also features mailto: qualityaero@gmail. Dynon’s Mode S transponder with sixthQuality pg. Aero Maintenancecom Lodi Airport (103) ADS-B Out, ADS-B In traffic and weather, 23987 N Highway 99 Dynon’s new three-axis autopilot, and the P.O. Box 208 (209) 366-1040 Acampo, CA 95220 email: [email protected] Dynon COM radio and a Dynon DA10A one color EFIS back-up primary flight display. While Eichhorn is an A&P/IA, he is not an avionics technician, so he was a bit reluctant to tackle much more of We keep the installation than designing and cutting the metal for the new panel. you flying! But that all changed when he saw how • Whelen LED Lighting logically designed the Dynon system’s • Concorde Batteries BAS Inc. installation process is. For example, SA00638WI the only approved battery STC there are Dynon Certified versions of Wilco Inc. for Bonanza’s (G36 NOW INCLUDED) sixth pg. all the wiring harnesses, and the wires *STC included at No Charge with themselves are color-coded to match the sixthBattery purchase frompg Wilco full instructions and diagrams that are in the STC full color installation manuals. coming soon! 72 But before the new panel went in, the color 1960s-era panel had to come out. Taking a 7 34 cue from experienced avionics installers, 67 he made room and eliminated any 54 chance of damaging his custom interior 71 58 by removing all the interior panels and 44 seats. Next, all of the legacy instruments, www.basinc-aeromod. circuit breakers, avionics, existing wiring, Quality Products, Service & Support com and autopilot servos were removed. Since 1953 Now to the fun part: designing the new panel. Using a new blank instrument [email protected] panel purchased from SRS Aviation (www. 800.767.7593 srsaviation.com), Eichhorn completed the www.wilcoaircraftparts.com final layout, fabrication, and assembly

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60 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org that will help make his upcoming trips safer and easier. Guardian 31 When asked about how the Dynon/ 15 Avidyne system in the Bonanza compares 72 to the avionics capabilities in the Airbus Avionics A320 he flies for jetBlue, Eichhorn 39 explained, “Comparing the Dynon to the Airbus is kind of unfair. The reality is our sixth pg. Airbus has one big PFD on each side, with www.guardianavionics. the navigation/MFD screens to the left next full color com/ABS to the center engine display. The drawback of the NAV display is it can only display one of five different items like altitude and speed constraints, airports, VOR’s, or NDB’s at one time. It’s very antiquated The right tools for the job when compared to the Dynon/Avidyne wingbolt wrenches • made in the USA units in the Bonanza.” Ryan Ma- Ⅵ Bonanza through the King Air Aircraft Series. 42 • Ⅵ These wrenches are used for the inspection and 73 ° replacement,chine as required, of the wing attach bolts on Beechcraft Aircraft. 68 Ⅵ Available for purchase or rental. Ⅵ Lifetimesi Warranty.xth pg. 61 Ⅵ See website for additional information. www.ryanmachine.net817•573•2786 Ryan Machine • 9608 Taxiway Dr. • Granbury, TX 76049 email:one [email protected] color www.ryanmachine.net

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hunderstorms in spring, icing in winter – it’s always something. With ADS-B In or SiriusXM Weather you get near real-time updates on thunderstorm activity at altitude. But when it came to icing, you had to do a fair amount of interpretation on your own, often using Skew-T and other products to compare T Figure 1 temperature and dewpoint at various altitudes and times at airports along your route to Figure 2 guesstimate icing. Color Level of intensity Approximate time for 1⁄4 inch ice building Well, no more. ForeFlight Mobile No icing Never has added an icing layer to its Maps view (figure 1). The Layers drop-down Light 15 minutes to 1 hour now includes icing (much like radar, Moderate 5 - 15 minutes satellite, etc.) and the sliders along the Heavy Less than 5 minutes bottom and right allow you to select both time and altitude. This is a pretty short article because, well, “it can’t get much simpler than this!” Figure 1 relays it all:

1. Yellow box at the top: Select ICING in the drop-down Layers selection. This is mutually exclusive from some other layers such as radar. 2. Blue box along the right side: Pick your altitude, in 1,000-foot increments. Aircraft Insurance 3. Red box along the bottom: Pick your time, from one hour ago, to now, to forecast for the next few hours. Animated icing over time is available via the Time Slider when more Agency by Dun- than one frame of data has been received…very much like radar updates.

can Note: I artificially enlarged the slider bars for clarity. In reality, they are “normal size” for ForeFlight. quarter Pg. The darker the image, the more intense the icing threat. Technically, there are two parameters for a fuller icing predictor: the likelihood of icing and how heavy that icing will likely be. one color ForeFlight compresses both variables into a single “light to 63 dark” scale defined in figure 2. Any blue at all is off limits 51 to airplanes not certificated for flight in icing conditions. In general, accumulations of medium blue (moderate) or greater 19 are Supercooled Liquid Droplet (SLD) conditions that are beyond 44 the approved parameters of “known ice” airplanes. By selecting altitudes above and below your intended altitude of flight you can get a 3D picture of the icing weather map, at least in your mind’s eye. A true cross-section view is not yet available. The icing layer on maps is available on the $199/year Pro Plus version of ForeFlight.

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Congratulations to these ABS LEVEL 2 members who have earned ABS AVIATOR status. Kent Krizman Danville, California ABS extends LEVEL 1 condolences to the Karl Kleiderer families and friends of Joe Keeton Charlotte, North Carolina these ABS members who El Prado, New Mexico recently passed away. LEVEL 3 Bruce Waldecker Charles Lyall Timothy Buckley Belmont, Michigan Pauma Valley, California Zionsville, Indiana A member since 1970, Erik Kaufmann he flew a 1970 F35. Silvano Gai Nashville, Tennessee Bend, Oregon Perrin Young Randall Wisener Raleigh, North Carolina Phil Jossi A member since 1987, Albertville, Alabama Chandler, Arizona he flew a 1970 F33A. Ed Abeyta LEVEL 4 Dwight Anderson Nevada City, California Fort Myers, Florida Elliott Solomon A member since 1997, James Brendel Delray Beach, Florida he flew a 1959 95. Reno, Nevada MASTER Charles Cinnamon Keith Bussman Roseville, California Bob Benda Lodi, California A member since 2012, Chandler, Arizona he flew a 1969 V35A. Morgan McCarroll To participate, send copies of Reno, Nevada Robert Gould your training certificates to Florence, Massachusetts [email protected], or fax Noel Norton (316) 945-1710 A member since 1967. Visalia, California attn: ABS AVIATOR.

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Tech Tips are answers to questions about a specific airplane, system or operation presented by an ABS member, and are the opinion of the Technical Advisor. Answers are the best information available based on indications presented by Dead battery the ABS member asking the question. Actual inspection of the aircraft or system in question may change an initial Raymond Allen, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Tech Tips opinion. Aircraft owners, pilots and readers are advised to physically present airplanes and indications to a qualified mechanic before choosing a course of action. I have serial number E-2595, a 1991 A36. Recently I have been having a dead Q: battery. I typically keep a trickle charger on it. This initially occurred after updating Bob Ripley retired from Delta Airlines as avionics with an older battery, and I replaced the battery. The second episode occurred a manager of line mainte nance after starting normally coming off the trickle charger. I flew two hours and parked the (Atlanta) and has run an FBO focusing on Beech airplane overnight. The next day it started well and I flew home, another two hours. I maintenance for 20+ years. parked the airplane and tried to start it again an hour later, and the battery was dead. The voltage in-flight was 27.9 volts before the battery charge and 28.2 volts after the

Curtis Boulware battery charge. has managed a Bonanza, Baron, I postulated poor alternator performance as it required high RPM to maintain voltage and T-34 Mentor-specific shop for and enough current to extinguish the stand-by annunciator light when running on the 13 years, winning numerous national awards for T-34 restorations. He ground. Where do I start to investigate the battery drain? Is there a flow chart to help my earned his Private in a T-34 and mechanic? Is there a “most common problem” with the master relay, clock, ELT, etc.? enjoys flying all models of the Beech piston family. John Collins First, what type of battery do you have? We have seen problems with the flooded- has previously owned an A: cell Gill batteries over the past couple of years, where one cell would go bad FBO and avionics shops, and for several years has been between the first and second year. If you have a flooded-cell Gill battery, start by ABS’s Avionics columnist. checking the specific gravity of the acid in the cells. If any cell is below 1.250, then the He owns a Bonanza and is battery is the problem. a CFI/CFII. If you have either a flooded-cell battery with all cells testing above 1.260 specific Louis Edmonds gravity, or a sealed battery, check the float voltage (the residual voltage with the power has over 25 years’ experience off) following a flight. It should be above 24 volts. Then with engine off, master switch specializing in maintaining off, and any courtesy lights off (you may have to pull the fuse on the engine side of the Bonanzas and Barons. His Edmonds Aircraft is firewall), disconnect either wire to the battery and check current draw (connect the a long-time ABS Service ammeter between the wire you disconnected and the battery terminal you disconnected Clinic host FBO. it from). It should read less than 1 amp. Items such as a clock and avionics “keep alive” Dan Honeycutt circuits are connected and drawing power, so you can expect some load on the battery. is an A&P/IA with over 20 If the load is greater than 1 amp, you may be exceeding the charge capacity of your years experience. He owns a California-based FBO battery minder. specializing in Bonanzas If testing shows none of that is the problem, check the current draw of the aircraft and Barons. with everything turned on. Is it within the current output of your alternator? The avionics shop is supposed to have made certain the total continuous load of the aircraft does Mike Tweedus not exceed 80 percent of the primary alternator capacitor. If it is within the alternator’s served 34 years in Beechcraft capacity, when you start the engine do you get a voltage increase when the alternator aircraft technical support, including 30 years supporting is turned on? At any speed above about 1000 rpm the alternator should be able to more Bonanzas and Barons. than make up the aircraft electrical load. You mention that it takes a fair amount of RPM to extinguish the back-up alternator warning, so I suspect the primary alternator, or its regulator is the problem. Connect Tom Turner a wire to the field terminal of the alternator that the regulator field wire is attached to, ABS-ASF Executive Director, bring the wire into the cockpit, and connect it to a voltmeter. Start the engine and look holds a Master’s degree in Aviation Safety. He has for a field voltage that is near the battery voltage. If you have that, then the regulator specialized in Beech pilot is working. instruction for over The next step would be to check the voltage output of the alternator. Do you 25 years. see any increase in buss voltage? Is there a hum in the radios when the alternator

64 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org is running? Then chances are you have a failed rectifier in the Air Conditioning! alternator. If there is only a slight increase of voltage, then you most likely have a failure in one phase of the alternator. Either of these cases would indicate an overhaul or replacement of the alternator is required. – LE A/C Systems Nose gear indicator Murray Thompson, Pierre, South Dakota quarter pg. I have an S35. Does the gear down indicator light (single Q: green) indicate fully extended and locked mains and nose full color Ad gear, or does it just indicate the mains are down/locked and I 21 have to rely on the mechanical nose gear indicator for verification 38 that the nose gear is also down/locked prior to landing? Further, A True 16,000 BTU Cabin Comfort Plus Control Developed For does the ABS have any recommended links toward upgrading to 10 a “three-green” type indicator for the S35 model? Baron & Bonanza23 The Same System That I believe that the panel gear indicator light indicates that is Currently Installed in A1: the bell crank on top of the transmission has rotated. The the New G-Models www.FTAaviation.com gear being down and locked relies on the proper function and adjustment of the pushrods and other components for each gear A/C Systems, LLC leg. A previous Forum discussion includes a link to a three-light O f c e 615-812-9375 system. – ABS member Robert Siegfried Web www.FTAaviation.com E-Mail [email protected] I agree with Robert. The green light only indicates that the A2: switch under the pilot’s seat has made contact in a position consistent with the gear being down. D’Shannon Aviation holds the old Clark Three Light Gear Position Indicator System STC. – BR

While D’Shannon has the STC they are not doing anything A3:with it. This may be because it is only a paper description of parts and what needs to be accomplished. It is a very complicated extensive modification. To see copies available on the internet; Great Lakes Aero search for “Clark Three Light Gear Position Indicator System.” – Bob Butt, Technical Edit Review Team Products

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The mixture vernier crept in a V35 I flew, and now I one color Q: experience it in a P35 I just bought. The mixture slowly 39 increases fuel flow as a result of engine vibration. Is this easy to fix? 55

33 A1: Possible solutions: 1. Have your prop balanced. This will reduce the vibration. 42 www.glapinc.com 2. Examine your mixture control. At the base of the control there is a friction knob that might be able to be tightened. 3. If the knob cannot be tightened, then loosen it. Behind the knob is a piece of leather. Reposition the leather, then tighten the knob again.

Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 65 www.bonanza.org 4. Have the entire mixture control I suspect a problem with the compressor replaced. This is the most expensive clutch blowing the breaker. choice. – ABS member Tom Pelz As per the wiring diagram the circuit You might also try a few drops of A: breaker routes power through A2: light machine oil on the leather the high- and low-pressure switch, and washers to soften them up. As Tom said, then through the 20 second time-delay the leather washers are behind the knurled relay of the go-around mode, before the nut at the instrument panel. – MT compressor. Any of those could be the issue. I suggest unplugging the green compressor wire at the compressor, then Air conditioner powering up the system to see if the circuit condenser scoop breaker is good. If it is okay, I agree you Jean Vitte, Maison Rouge, France should suspect the compressor clutch. If you can, check the resistance on the When I switch on my G36’s air green wire to ground while disconnected Q: conditioner, the condenser door and see what ohm you get. – BR opens and seven seconds later the 5-amp Member’s reply: While checking the breaker switches off. The air conditioning green wire we found that the connection Gear position system seems to be working normally of the wire was bad at the junction with lights inop otherwise, both on the ground and in the the white wire. If I had looked properly Blake Holi eld air. The two switches on the rear of the at my engine it would have saved me Tehachapi, California condenser door are okay, and the door from dismantling the whole lower part actuator works normally both to open of the air conditioning system. At least During a recent flight in my E35, both and, after we reset the breaker, to close. it’s clean now! Q: my up and down gear indication lights quit working. I had a nearby pilot

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Alpha Avia- tion Inc P2 Inc. sixth pg. is- sixth pg. verify my gear was down and subsequently land landed safely. Now my mechanic and I full color are trying to find the reason why both one color 67 lights went out at the same time. Of course, 7 64 we looked at the lights themselves and 49 couldn’t tell by looking if they are bad. We 79 also looked for any loose wiring but found 9 41 nothing. Any advice on what to look for? 51 www.p2inc.com The only two items in the circuit are A1: the position light circuit breaker and the navigation light switch. www.alphaaviation.com When the NAV lights are on, the gear lights are dimmed through a resistor. If the switch is off, the resistor is not in the circuit and the lights should be full bright. Check the NAV light switch first, and then the position light circuit breaker for power in and out. – BR Member’s reply: We found the problem. It was the breaker just as you thought, Bob. MAIN TURBO For anybody else reading this that may SYSTEMS, INC. have the same problem, don’t be fooled as I was by the breaker on the panel labeled MainWe Will HelpTurbo You Troubleshoot Systems Your System! Inc. “Gear Safety.” I still don’t know what that (Teaching Subject At FAA Endorsed Events) breaker is for, but it doesn’t go to the gear position lights. And it’s not the one you pull • TURBOCHARGERSthird pg if you must manually crank the gear down. • PRESSURE RELIEF VALVES The breaker that failed is a thermal BALANCED AT Full Color AdOPERATIONAL SPEEDS ON breaker and is located underneath the • OVERHAUL – EXCHANGE OUR VSR TEST MACHINE panel attached to the right sidewall near • CONTROLLERS 23 where a front passenger’s knees might 53 be. It is supposed to reset itself after it • WASTEGATES 26 Visit Our Website to cools but this one did not. My guess is it • WE BUY CORES See the VSR In Action is either corroded or the spring inside is 34 so old that it finally just failed. In either “A family operated business www.mainturbo.com since 1988 including a licensed A&P Mechanic case I don’t believe anything tripped the and Commercial Pilot” A36TC owner and ABS member breaker, it just failed. My question is: Why 1-800-847-8815 • 559-635-3322 • Fax 559-627-1960 did Beech design it that way instead of 6 am – 6pm PST • Mon – Fri just putting a resettable breaker on the breaker panel? That would have saved a GARY MAIN “Sensitive to your needs” lot of time (and money) in troubleshooting www.mainturbo.com • [email protected] and replacement. I have attached pictures

Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 67 www.bonanza.org in case anybody else is looking for this V35B’s landing gear. Aircraft Spruce is and EDM700 has a new #2 cylinder with 20 breaker, they will know what to look for. out of part numbers 05-22266 and 05-22267. hours on it. The new cylinder is getting hot Thank you, Bob, for your expert advice! I’m also looking for the hardware and not on takeoff with CHT low 430 degrees, and having much luck with it either. The gear then comes down quickly to 380 degrees The Gear Safety breaker is part was working fine but since I have five about 6000 ft. MSL with mixture full and A2: of the optional Magic Hand weeks of down-time for engine overhaul wide-open throttle. Initially I was told this Landing Gear Safety System first offered and the airplane has 5,800 hours total was normal “break-in” to have the high CHT. on the S35, serial number D-7842 and later. time, I thought I would have it done. Takeoff fuel flow was only 22.5 gallons/ It is an automatic landing gear extension hour at my field elevation of 2000 ft. MSL. system that was a common option but Tr y Performance Aero (800 -200 -3214 I asked for the fuel system to be adjusted has since been removed from most A: or www.performanceaero.com) as based on Continental’s table, checked the Beechcraft. If it was added to your E35 they have kits in stock. As far as hardware baffles, and made sure the correct fuel there should be logbook entries indicating goes, if it is a standard NAS or AN hardware nozzle was placed in the correct position this modification. Since most systems item try Aircraft Spruce (877-477-7823 on the new cylinder. I am told the shop have been eliminated, it may have been or www.aircraftspruce.com). If it is a adjusted the fuel pressure to maximum installed on your E35 and later removed. special part number, you will have to and got 22.8 gallons/hour. I understand it – Tech Edit and Review Team purchase from a Textron Aviation parts should be closer to 24.9 gallons/hour. They supplier. – BR are checking with Continental, but the shop manager suspects I need a new fuel pump. Seal kits for landing The current one listed in the logbook is part gear overhaul Fuel pump adjustment 646212-2. Is there anything else I should ask Dan Hill, Alpharetta, Georgia Steven Lampert, Tucson, Arizona them to check before assuming it’s the fuel pump, or does this sound like the probable I am looking for the seals, O-rings, My new-to-me 1977 A36 with IO- cause for the low maximum fuel flow and Q: and hardware to overhaul my Q: 520BA, D’Shannon baffles, GAMIs hot cylinder #2 on takeoff?

The fuel flow at 2,000 feet should be around 25.9 gallons/hour at 2700 ® A: Pilots N Paws RPM and wide-open throttle. Make sure is an online meeting that the shop is using external gauges to place for pilots and set up the system. EGT should be around other volunteers 1300°F with 2700 RPM and full throttle. If who help to transport rescue they can adjust the pump up to specs, I animals by air. The mission of the site is to provide a user- would continue to use it. If they run out friendly communicationPilots venue N Paws of adjustment on the orifice, then you between those that rescue, will need another pump. In that case I shelter, and foster animals; and suggest Great Planes Fuel Metering in Tulsa, pilots and plane owners willing half pg. to assist with the transportation Oklahoma (918-619-9600). – BR of these animals. A general aviation transport full color requires just one pilot volunteer and is far more effi cient and dependable than58 time-consuming ground transportation for these Baron glide ratio animals who are often in danger of euthanization. Volunteer pilots retain complete authority of Mark LaCroix, Grapevine, Texas their planning and fl ights, and can give as much35 or as little time as they like. SIMPLE AS 1-2-3 WHY71 JOIN THE PILOTS N PAWS NETWORK? I have been digging in the No bothersome paperwork required! • Enjoy fl ying while helping a worthwhile performance section of the POH If you love to fl y, and you love animals, 55non-profi t organization Q: please join us now! It’s easy, it’s fun, • Flights are tax-deductible 501c3 but cannot find a number for the “glide and it’s extremely rewarding. • Expand your network of pilot/aviation contacts ratio” for my BE95-B55. Is there a reference Joining is easy and takes just a www.airtoair.netand other professionals source that I am overlooking? minute of your time. • Gain fl ight experience and log more hours 1. Go to www.pilotsnpaws.org • Explore new geographical areas and register • An extremely rewarding experience every time The glide ratio is included in the 2. Post your information and read A: Glide checklist in the Emergency other posts ® section of your Baron’s POH. I don’t know Wait for contacts / make 3. Pilots N Paws the specific serial number of your B55, but contact with others ® www.pilotsnpaws.org I’ve attached a copy of the checklist from

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Section III BEECHCRAFT Baron B55 Ruddervator trim Emergency Procedures Serial TC-1608 thru TC-2002 Dardon Morgenroth, Victoria, Texas GLIDE 1. Propellers - FEATHER 3. Landing Gear - UP My V35B needs more nose-down Q: trim in level flight. 2. Flaps - UP 4. Cowl Flaps - CLOSED If the aircraft needs more nose- The glide ratio in this configuration is approximately 2 nautical miles of gliding distance for each 1,000 feet of altitude above the terrain at an A: down trim, then either your weight airspeed of 120 kts (138 mph). and balance or the rigging of the aircraft is off. Has there been damage in the past that would have caused the wing one of the three B55 POHs – it’s on or about is 10 percent of the skin thickness in pitting angles to be reset? If not, I would start by page 3-8 depending on the POH. The glide or erosion. Any pin holes are cause for having all the control rigging checked. ratio is 1,000 feet for each two nautical rejection. If you remove the elevators Are the trailing edges of the flaps flush miles with both propellers feathered. A and strip them and find they will pass with the bottom of the fuselage, and the thousand feet vertical distance over two inspection, then paint and balance it will ailerons in line with the flaps (not the nautical miles, or 12,000 feet horizontal cost you about $2,500. If you remove the wing tips)? Next, are the ruddervators distance, is a glide ratio of 12:1. – TT skins and replace them with aluminum properly rigged, not just their angles, skins, paint and balance, then reinstall, but the “short elevator cable” length and it will cost about $10,000. In my opinion differential mechanism that controls the Elevator corrosion the aluminum would be the best long- ruddervators? Then check the elevator tab and airworthiness term option since you may need to repeat rigging. Are they really at neutral when Chris Armistead, Mountain Home, the process on the magnesium skins, and the indicator shows neutral, and then Arkansas magnesium skin availability has become do they travel to the full nose-up and a major issue for Beech airplanes. – BR nose-down positions? – LE I am looking to acquire an A36. One Q: of the aircraft I am considering has •° filiform corrosion on the upper surfaces of both elevators. It primarily located in each of the parallel wells that run along the 4 surface of the elevators. The paint appears Double M 70 to be intact, but the corrosion is visible and easy to feel as you run your finger along sixth pg. 55 each well. The “roughness” of the surface is palpable and visible along the entire 43 length of each well on the upper surface full color www.doublemaviation.com of the elevator. My main question is this: When does this become an airworthiness issue? Second question: How does one determine the extent and severity of the corrosion during a pre-purchase inspection? Third: Might it be better, i.e., ultimately more economical, to go Avstat Avia- ahead and replace the elevators with the 77 aluminum STC elevators rather than go tion Inc. 57 to the trouble and expense of trying to 53 determine how bad the corrosion on the magnesium elevators really is, and then sixth pg. 62 repairing/replacing the elevator? One Color Magnesium elevator skin is .020 A: thick. The standard for skin rejection

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’ve found that Southeast Aerospace the barb. He grabbed a couple of empty exhaust valves (ABS Magazine, July 2019). Iin Melbourne, Florida (www.seaero water bottles, cut the bottoms off so only Dave does a great job illustrating the space.com) repairs many legacy avionics the top funnel shape is left, and then uneven deposits pattern and explaining such as the King KMA 24 audio panel in dropped the makeshift funnel into the the valve rotator. my H35. Contact Avionics Shop Manager access port at the bottom of the nacelle I believe there is an even earlier Adam Becker at 321-255-9877 if you have below the quick-release drain. Voila, no indicator of a problem than uneven any questions. – Ed Beers, Past ABS hose needed. Just twist and open the deposits: any significant leakage past the Service Clinic Inspector drain and the oil pours into the water exhaust valve during a compression check. bottle funnel and drops into the bucket By “significant” I mean more than a slight placed on the floor below. No hose, no whisper that doesn’t improve after 10 or 15 enjoyed the September oil drain article right-angle drain, no extra cap with hose hours of flying. I by Bob Butt and wanted to add another and barb! Works perfectly and doesn’t Uneven deposits on the valve are in very cheap hack. I have IO-520s on my spill a drop. – Jim Adams a sense a “late stage” indicator. Deposits Baron and both have the S6250 straight take many tens of hours to build up or drain valves. My mechanic showed me redistribute, on the order of 50 – 100 hours a great shortcut one day when he saw would like to add a comment to or more. By the time uneven deposits are me trying to force the end of a hose over I Dave Pasquale’s excellent article on visible, the valve has been stuck without Help Ensure the Future of ABS for the Next Generation

You’ve benefited from ABS membership and the programs, prod- ucts and services of the ABS Air Safety Foundation. Help the next generation of Beech owners enjoy the same benefits with your legacy gift, to protect lives and preserve the Beechcraft fleet. HEADING270 is your program, and your recognition, for including the not-for-profit ABS Air Safety Foundation in your legacy giving, through your estate planning, your tax-free IRA distribution gifts, Charitable Lead Trusts and other methods of supporting the safety training and education; Benefit from the tax savings that result from supporting the ABS pilot, instructor and mechanic training; aircraft technical support; Air Safety Foundation without giving up the assets you’d like your family to receive some day. and industry advocacy programs that have so enhanced your Beechcraft ownership experience. Charitable Remainder Trusts If you have appreciated assets, a charitable remainder trust can There are several ways to provide legacy financial support to help you defer capital gains tax while providing life income to you protect lives and preserve the Beechcraft fleet, including: or others from assets you give in trust. Memorials and Tribute Gifts Beneficiary Designations Honor a friend or loved one who has benefitted from the ABS Air Not everyone wants to commit to making a gift in their will or estate. Safety Foundation. Some prefer the simplicity and flexibility of a beneficiary designation. Endowed Gifts See PLANNED GIVING under AIR SAFETY FOUNDATION at Give a gift with an immediate and a long-term result. www.bonanza.org for more information. Contact your financial Wills and Living Trusts advisor or estate planner, or let ABS Air Safety Foundation know As little as one sentence in your will or living trust designates your at [email protected] if you have questions. We will keep all gift to the ABS Air Safety Foundation. legacy giving confidential unless you tell us otherwise.

70 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org rotating (and therefore heating unevenly) for quite some time. I corresponded with Dave a bit Sundance 73 about this. We have both seen a line of 73 erosion across the seating area of some Flying Club 55 damaged valves. I have been aware of this phenomenon for decades, watch for it, 67 and have seen the “line” at many different sixth pg. www.flysundance.org/ stages – anywhere from a thin line of easily n7201n.html removed dirt, to minor erosion, to a full- one color blown groove that can’t be lapped out. I have found that exhaust valve air leakage almost always leads to finding a “line” across the seating surface. I believe the line indicates that the valve has stopped rotating, and exhaust gases are escaping along the line and are eroding the seating face of both the valve, and the valve seat. If this is allowed to continue for 50 or 100 hours or more the valve gets progressively more eroded and heated in that area until the uneven heating creates the asymmetric deposits pattern. By paying attention to exhaust valve leakage, and lapping for a full tight seal whenever there is more than slight leakage, the valve keeps rotating and never progresses to the later stage of uneven heating and uneven deposits. D’Shannon Aviation Some may consider this “over maintaining,” since the leakage is usually far too little to affect compression half pg island readings and deposits on the valve are still symmetric, but I think it is a good protective investment. It’s far faster, full color simpler, and cheaper to have a valve 31 lapped than to remove a cylinder. And 61 the earlier in the erosion process, the 59 easier it is to remove the defect. My engine has over 2800 hours, three cylinders are 50 original, and I have never had to replace www.d-shannon-aviation.com a cylinder because of a burned valve. Early intervention seems worth it to me. – Bert Weinstein

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any of us use the Stratus ADS-B In receiver in conjunction with an iPad running one of the popular apps such as ForeFlight. I have been using the Stratus 2S for more than four years and have come to appreciate its Mmany uses and features, especially its lengthy battery life. Recently, the Stratus battery was a replacement battery kit for $85. I only running about two hours after a thought it a bit pricey until I received it. the supplied Torx (star drive) screwdriver, full charge, which necessitated running The battery is contained in the entire the old back unit is removed, and the new it from cigar lighter power. This added bottom section of the Stratus. This one is easily installed. I fully charged the to the power cables connected to my compartment contains the battery, a new battery and it ran the advertised iPad and GPS, plus Laurie’s XM radio, battery temperature sensor, cooling fan, eight hours. resulted in a mess of wires that makes and connector, and the top is covered by a The kit is for Stratus 2, 2S, and 3. Kit Quantum Entanglement look like child’s clear membrane. The battery replacement number is SKU 153010-000038. Find it at play. To reduce this mess, I checked the instructions are simple and brief. Four https://appareo.com/store/product/stratus- Appareo website and found it offers screws are removed from the back using battery-replacement-kit/. • BEECHCRAFT OWNERS °

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AIRCRAFT FOR SALE, RENT, PARTNERSHIP

BONANZA AND BARON OWNERS – Baron 56TC – 380 HP Lycoming Engines clean flying airplane. Info at barmstrong50 Neuse Aviation buys , sells and brokers with Centri-Lube Cams, G-500 w/SVT, @gmail.com. 114799 (697) quality Bonanza and Barons, over thirty GTN-750, GNS-530W, GTX-345R, Radar, years of experience. We have buyers for G36 Traffic, EDM-930, A/C, Stunning Paint Seeking S35 Partner – KPGD – 1964 Bonanzas or G58 Barons. We also handle and Ferrari Interior. Accepting Offers S35 V-Tail. Punta Gorda, FL. 508-868-7971 aircraft acquisitions and pre-buys, visit our (512) 426-7205. 171876 or [email protected]. 158483 website at WWW.NEUSEAVIATION.COM or 1967 Foxstar C55 Baron – Dual Aspen, call 919-965-1212 . 146396 For Sale to Good Buyer: 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza. Owned since early 1970s by A&P Garmin 420W, charts, weather, winglets, DON’T MAKE AN EXPENSIVE and WWII P-51 pilot. Carefully flown and IO-550s. Dual EI multi-function gauges, MISTAKE! Call me for a Free Consultation maintained for over 40 years by same owner. wired to audio alarm. Total Time:4325, on your purchase of a Bonanza or Baron Less than 600 SMOH, recent annual and Engine 1 Time:945 SFRM, Engine 2 before you Pre-Buy. Visit my web site ALL Ads current/ accomplished. Price is Time:945 SFRM, Prop 1 Time:165 SMOH, at www.beechcraftbuyers.com. Or call best offer from someone remembering Prop 2 Time:165 SMOH. Bought King Air. 850-240-7243. 80919 this is (1) a Bonanza, (2) it has a running Ready to sell $129K OBO. (325) 656-1203, engine, and (3) it has VFR avionics. Nice [email protected] 146021 Thinking of selling your Bonanza? Call me; I have buyers looking for good clean Bonanzas. BeechcraftBuyers.com, 850-240-7243. 80920 VAL Avion- 1/2 SHARE 1981 P BARON – N3848Y, T.T.A 78 3600 S.M.O.H.E L+R 950, Last Annual 2009 ics 68 Hangared NEW, $ 81,000 Hans 504 228 1230 13 or Email [email protected]. 173505 sixth pg. 53 F33A 1973 – Share Available, Chicago www.valavionics.com KLOT. [email protected]. 172377 one color 1997 Model 58 Baron – 1770 TTA&E, 350 STO L&R, Garmin 530W, KX155, GTX 345, GMA 340,KT63 DME, KFC 200 AP, RDR 2000, Artex-1000, Storm Scope, Complete logs and records since new. Always hangared, NDH, Same owner past 19 years. 512-773-3925. 173260 Air Mod 29 15 Partner(s) for 1979 V35B Bonanza. Solid IFR platform, great airplane. Currently sixth pg. 55 based in Tupelo, MS (KTUP) where I 33 work, but I live in Germantown, TN, and www.airmod.com would be open to an alternate convenient full color airport. If interested, please call Gerald 901-489-7961. 172446

Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 73 www.bonanza.org INSTRUCTION Baron and Bonanza Instruction – Tennessee based Steve Hammers, CFI, CFII, MEI, ATP – 25+ yrs. Exp. BPPP Instructor. Bonanza, Baron and P-Baron Instruction – Gold Seal and Baron G58 Owner and former E55 and 58P Owner. BPPP, Initial and Master CFI. Insurance approved P-Baron initial and recurrent Recurrent Training, Instrument Competency Check or Insurance training, Garmin and G-1000 instruction, insurance check-outs, Checkout. Call 615-479-7195. 80882 instrument and ME ratings, assistance with purchases. Gerry Parker, 713-826-6663 (TX), [email protected]. 475 EQUIPMENT, PARTS, SERVICE

30-year airline Captain, BPPP Academy trained flight & ground Bonanza Parts – Specializing in 35 and 36 Bonanzas. Instructor. Single-engine V & A36 series incl. turbo normalized. We dismantle many Bonanzas for parts! A thru P, Travel Air, Bonanza, Duke thru King Air qualified. Will travel M thru V35A-B, A36, B36, Debonair, A-F33. Email to your airport and can deliver. Insurance, IPC, BFR and Crew [email protected] or call requests to 530-661-1696. Training. Beech airplane owner with maintenance experience. Visit our web page, www.bonanzaparts.biz. 562 Karl Seuring, 206-669-8000 (m) Everett, WA (KPAE). 171304 Dual Yoke Rental. Baron/Bonanza. $300 plus shipping Complete the ground portion of your Flight Review – in your for first 2 months, $125/mo thereafter. Steve Weaver own home, on your schedule. Logbook endorsement guaranteed 843-475-6868 (WV). 481 for only $29.95! Visit www.WINGsRealityEDU.com. 704 Elevators, 33 thru Baron. FAA-approved repair station #209-53. Bonanza thru P-Baron Instruction – Will come to your Biggs Aircraft. 405-258-2965, Fax 405-258-3016. 486 airport. Your Aircraft! Your Airport! Your Time! Bonanza thru P-Baron Training/ Instruction taught by a Gold Seal and ABS BPPP Instructor. Tailored training for you! CFII, MEI, ATP – 30+ years’ experience. Robert Benda, [email protected], 720-891-0808. 160581

Kelly Aerospace SmartSpace Extended Baggage for Beechcraft 36/A36 STC/PMA Get more space! Give your pre-1979 A36 the same quarter pg. baggage capabilities as the latest G36! Adds approx. 11cu/ ft of storage and can accommodate 70lb of baggage. Same one color footprint as G36 rear baggage with no changes to aircraft exterior. All aluminum construction with innovative cargo 74 net & integrated seat straps. Removable in minutes for easy 74 maintenance access. Typical installations can be completed in 1-2 days. www.ApproachAviation.com 978-314-4626 148958 74 74 Baron Bonanza Rolling Lift. 5000# capacity by Tronair. Call www.kellyaerospace.com 614-204-4588 or email [email protected]. See picture on ABS website. 173496

FACTORY NEW CONTINENTAL IO-550-B82B. OMAHA Airplane Supply is the country’s oldest continental engine distributor. We have a customer who bought a factory new IO-550-b82b that was not able to take delivery. There is currently a 12-week wait on

74 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 www.bonanza.org these engines. No waiting for this popular conversion engine. $50,222. Brian Bronson, Avian Aero- Omaha Airplane Supply, 402-660-2209, 73 [email protected]. 173189 nautics Inc. 54 Landing Gear Repair and Overhaul 36 – Are your landing gear leaking or need a freshening up? Delta Strut sixth pg. 54 specializes in the repair and overhaul www.carolinaaircraft.com of the following Beechcraft Aircraft: one color Model 33, 35, 36, 45, 56TC, 58, and 95. Check us out on Facebook, visit us at www.deltastrut.com, or call (559) 441-1316. 156033

Under wing fuel vent tube repair kit. Stainless. $98. Heino Moeller 714-394-6609 655

Fuel tank/bladder leak repair. We specialize in fuel tank removal and installation for leak repair. No more leaking bladders now. Call Robert Boehnlein 706-573-5699 or email [email protected]. Columbus, GA. God bless and see ya soon. 668 NAFI–National Associa-

Parts for sale -De-ice boots, bladders, southwindheater and blowers with fuel tion of Flight Instructors pumps, all are new or overhauled w/8130’s, 3 in 1 gauges, fuel gauges all with 8130’s. half pg. island [email protected]. email with p/n’s or needs. 658 full color Reskin Your Elevators in “Aluminum.” 76 “No more Corrosion Problems.” Models 33, 77 34, 36, 95, 55, and 58. Replace one elevator at a time. Exchange and paint available. 77 One price covers all. Built in certified. 77 Fixtures by Experienced Technicians FAA www.NAFInet.org CRS U5LRO68X FAA-PMA (877)364-8003 or 952-447-7737. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.srsaviation.com. 463

FLIGHT CONTROLS RESKINNED: Flaps, ailerons and ruddervators 33 to King Air. Exchange and paint available. One price covers all. Built in certified Fixtures by Experienced Technicians. FAA CRS U5LRO68X FAA-PMA. (877) 364-8003 or 952-447-7737. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.srsaviation.com. 462

Volume 19 • Number 11 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 75 www.bonanza.org ENGINE BAFFLE: Replace your 470 starter. Outright or exchange. One Mike’s Upholstery: Custom interiors, series or E225 engine baffle with PMA Stop Aviation (760) 721-1389 or email singles-light twins. FAA certified. Same engine baffle, twice as thick as OEM. [email protected]. 700 location since 1968. North Omaha Also available are PMA push pull handles Airport (3NO), Omaha, NE. Mike Roney (aluminum). FAA CRS U5LRO68X FAA- Cylinders – Hard to find E-Series Cylinders, 402-572-8788. 490 PMA (877) 364-8003 or 952-447-7737. plus IO-470 & IO-520 Overhauled Stud Email: [email protected]. Web: Assy. One Stop Aviation (760) 721-1389 Engine Upgrade? STC’d IO-550-B Engine www.srsaviation.com. 705 or email [email protected]. 699 Conversions for S35, V35, V35A, V35B, C33A, E33A, E33C, F33A, F33C, G33, 36, and Spar Mod. Kit Installation Bonanza/ ENGINES – IO-520BA, ‘O’ SMOH, A36 Bonanzas. IO-470C or IO470-N engine Baron. Calkins Aero Service, Inc. – Houston, Complete with New Cylinder Fuel conversions for A35 thru G35 Bonanzas & TX. 281-579-6674, [email protected]. 491 systems, magnetos, harness, and 33 thru F33. Other mods, shoulder harness assemblies, instrument panel conversions, SS battery boxes, seat conversions. All Bonanza mods. Hammock Aviation Services, Inc. 972-875-4279. Ennis,TX. CIES Corp. 57 www.hammockaviation.com. 487 61 Dual & Single Control Yokes – Large sixth pg. 21 handles, trim knobs, all misc. parts for 46 control yokes. Exchange your faded & www.ciescorp.net cracked handles for our like-new refinished full color ones. Exchange singles for dual and vice versa. Call for quote, we buy any duals, singles or any parts. Air Mech, Inc.,

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e ABS Magazine design department sometimes needs a good Bonanza photo for an article – would you like to see your plane in print? We’re looking for good crisp shots, so set your camera at the highest resolution. e more creative the better. Try a variety of locations – in the air, on the ground or in the hangar. Would you like to join in the fun? Send us your photos and we’ll respond to you with a sign-o waiver allowing us to use them at will. And then keep an eye out for your favorite plane’s “guest” appearance. Send photos to [email protected] or call 800-773-7798 and ask for Betsy.

76 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY November 2019 580-430-1414. Email: airmech@sctelcom.net. mounted. Capable of ground cooling, starting in the 80’s. Gated, City water, For 20 years: Being your best source for light weight R134 certified. Call Gary underground electric/gas, curbed streets, affordable yokes is our specialty. 474 Gadberry at Aircenter, Inc. 423-893-5444 paved backyard taxiways. IFR full service (TN) or email [email protected], airport (5C1). Thresholdranch.com. Coverups By Denise. Expanded vinyl www.aircenterinc.com. 480 Kevin Best 210-260-5111. Contact e-mail: gear & flap actuator covers for Bonanzas [email protected] 626 and Barons. Uplock cover set – old style REAL ESTATE & GETAWAYS $49, new style $65. Nose retract rod cover MISC – $49. Nose steering rod cover – $26. SPRUCE CREEK FLY-IN REALTY – Wing flap actuator cover set – $60.00. RESIDENTIAL AIRPARK, www.fly-in.com. CoolTravelStuff specializes in Main gear chamois retract arm cover set Daytona Beach, Florida. ABS Sponsor, finding unique items for the pilot and – $72. Intergear door chamois – $51. All members. Home of over 60 Bonanza’s traveler. From safety to convenience prices plus shipping. Call or email Denise and Baron’s. Gated Country Club to beautiful leather wear. See us at [email protected], 321-725-9226. 489 Community with its own Airport, 4000’ at: www.cooltravelstuff.com 423-618-9555. paved runway x 180’ wide, 6/24. Private ABS members receive a 15% Seat Specialists – Seat recline cylinders GPS approach. (CTAF122.725). Taxiway discount. 152930 repaired, seat repair, seat replacement Homes from $540,000, condo’s from parts. Call Chuck at AvFab (660) 885-8317 $130,000. Golf/Nature Homes from or [email protected]. 482 $180,000. Lenny Ohlsson, Broker, SPRUCE CREEK FLY-IN REALTY, 800-932-4437, Tables, new and used available . email: [email protected]. 477 Contact Chuck 660-885-8317 or [email protected]. 483 Threshold Ranch Residential – Airpark brief description: Premium Texas BARON A/C STC KITS FOR SALE! residential airpark in NW San Antonio/ Cool Air ™ approved for 55 thru 58TC Boerne area. Large 3/4 to 1 acre lots series Barons. Total electric, remote

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ABS Board Term Expires Term Expires The Board of Directors shall consist of nine members elected from and by the membership of the Society. President: Executive Committee member: Six (6) directors shall be residents of any of the United Phil Jossi (At Large) 2021* Chep Gauntt (At Large) 2020* States one (1) of those directors may instead be a 4163 E Scorpio Pl 23805 S. Oak St. resident of a foreign country) and three (3) directors Chandler AZ 85249 Kennewick, WA 99337-6277 shall be residents of Areas East, Central and West, Phone: 308-440-5143 Phone: 509-582-3222 respectively, one (1) director from each area: [email protected] [email protected] Area East: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Vice President: Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Jay Burris (At Large) 2020* Paul Lilly (Area East) 2021* New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode 9 W. Kitty Hawk St. Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, 2123 Springwater Lane Richmond, TX 77406-9710 Port Orange FL 32128 Washington D.C., West Virginia, Canada and all other Phone: 713-855-7381 foreign countries except Mexico. Phone: 443-803-8656 [email protected] [email protected] Area Central: Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Michael Madigan (At Large) 2022 Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, 539 Shore Acres Ave. Secretary: Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North North Kingstown, RI 02852 Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, (Area Central) 2022* Greg Stratz Phone: 917-640-3932 Wisconsin, Wyoming and Mexico. W7534 County Road T [email protected] Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. 54937 Area West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Oregon, Phone: 920-539-6111 Kelly McBride (Area West) 2021* Washington and Hawaii. [email protected] 22141 Alizondo Dr Woodland Hills, CA 91364-6102 Past Presidents Phone: 213-494-0388 Treasurer: 1967 - 1971: B.J. McClanahan, MD * [email protected] 1971 - 1973: Frank G. Ross * Howard Johnson (At Large) 2020* 1973 - 1975: Russell W. Rink * 11400 S East 8th St. 455 Mark Taylor (At Large) 2022 1975 - 1976: Hypolite T. Landry, Jr., MD Bellevue, WA 98004 6114 Avocetridge Drive 1976 - 1977: Calvin B. Early, MD, PhD Phone: 206-91t9-3639 Lithia, FL 33547 Phone: 402-670-0317 1977 - 1978: Capt. Jesse F. Adams, USN(R) * [email protected] [email protected] 1978 - 1979: David P. Barton * * Second and/or final term 1979 - 1980: Alden C. Barrios* 1980 - 1981: Fred A. Driscoll, Jr.* 1981 - 1983: E.M. Anderson, Jr.* 1983 - 1984: Donald L. Monday * BEECH PARTS – ArrellBEECH Air- PARTS – ALL MODELS 1984 - 1985: Harry G. Hadler * 1985 - 1986: John E. Pixton * ALL MODELS Musketeer/Sport/Sundowner/Sierra/Skipper/Bonanza/Debonair/T34/TravelAir 1986 - 1987: Charles R. Gibbs Baron/Duchess/Duke/TwinBonanza/QueenAir/KingAir/9950 & 1900/Airliner 1987 - 1988: Joseph McClain, Ill* Musketeer/Sport/Sundowner craftOne of the largestSales “all-Beech” 1988 - 1989: Lee Larson * Sierra/Skipper/Bonanza/Debonair 54 inventories in the world 1989 - 1990: William H. Bush * T34/TravelAir/Baron/Duchess 1990 - 1991: Ray L. Leadabrand * Duke/TwinBonanza/QueenAir 28 Structural,In Landingc. Gear, Flight 1991 - 1992: James C. Cassell, III * KingAir/99 & 1900/Airliner 1992 - 1993: Warren E. Hoffner Control, Accessories, Instruments, Kits, 701 Del Norte Blvd., Unit 220 44 1993 - 1994: John H. Kilbourne One of the largest “all-Beech” Hardware, Interior Parts, Etc. Since Oxnard, California 93030 (805)www.arrellaircraft.com 604-0439/FAX (805) 604-0429 1994 - 1996: Barrie Hiern, MD * inventories in the world 1969,sixth your best source pg. for affordable www.arrellaircraft.com 1996 - 1997: Ron Vickrey genuine replacement parts; call the 1997- 1998: Willis Hawkins * Structural, Landing Gear, Flight e-mail: [email protected] Beech Specialists… 1998-1999: William C. Carter Control, Accessories, Instruments, one color (Minutes from Camarillo & Oxnard Airport) 1999- 2000: Tilden D. Richards Kits, Hardware, Interior Parts, Etc. 2000 - 2001: Jon Roadfeldt Since 1969, your best source for 2001- 2002: Harold Bost affordable genuine replacement 2002 - 2003: Jack Threadgill * parts; call the Beech Specialists… 2003 - 2004: Jack Hastings, MD 2004 - 2006: Craig Bailey 2006 - 2007: Jon Luy WildBlue 12 2007 - 2008: Arthur W. Brock 2008 - 2009: Bill Stovall 27 2009 - 2010: Ron Lessley 2010: Stephen Blythe sixth pg. 78 2010 - 2011: Lorne Sheren, MD 701 Del Norte Blvd., Unit 220 2011 - 2013: Keith Kohout Oxnard, California 93030 2013 - 2015 Robert Goff (805) 604-0439/FAX (805) 604-0429 39 full color 2015 - 2016: Cameron Brown www.arrellaircraft.com 2016 - 2017: Paul Damiano e-mail: [email protected] 2017-2018: Howard Johnson (Minutes from Camarillo & Oxnard Airport) 2018-2019: Jay Burris * Deceased

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ABS Events Additional details are available at www.bonanza.org/events. More extensive coverage of Regional Society fly-ins can be found on their websites (see web addresses below). NOVEMBER 7-10 MAY 12-14 SEPTEMBER 8 ABS/ASF Service Clinic at Cruiseair BPPP Instructor Camp – Wichita, KS ABSWeb – webinar Aviation – Ramona, CA (KRMN) Apply to [email protected] SEPTEMBER 12-13 DECEMBER 4 MAY 14-17 ABS Beechcraft Instructor Crosstalk ABSWeb webinar – Engine Talk ABS Service Clinic – Perkasie, PA – Indianapolis, IN 1900 U.S. Central Time (0100 December 5) Hosted by P-Factor Aviation SEPTEMBER 17-20 2020 JUNE 9 ABS Service Clinic – Fishers (Indianapolis), ABSWeb – webinar IN Hosted by Tom Wood Aviation JANUARY 14 ABSWeb – webinar JUNE 25-28 SEPTEMBER 24-27 ABS Service Clinic – Spencer, IA ABS Service Clinic – Lubbock, TX JANUARY 18 Hosted by Leading Edge Aviation Hosted by Lubbock Aero BPPP LIVE – Daytona Beach, FL JULY 14 OCTOBER 1-4 FEBRUARY 11 ABSWeb – webinar ABS Service Clinic – Olivehurst (Maryville), CA ABSWeb – webinar Hosted by Honeycutt Aviation JULY 20-26 FEBRUARY 29 – MARCH 1 ABS at EAA AirVenture – Oshkosh, WI OCTOBER 1-4 ABS Beechcraft Instructor Crosstalk ABS Service Clinic – Venice, FL – Houston, TX JULY 21 Hosted by Sarasota Avionics & Maintenance ABS Annual Meeting and Member MARCH 5-8 Dinner – Oshkosh, WI OCTOBER 13 ABS Service Clinic – Daytona Beach, FL ABSWeb – webinar Hosted by Daytona Aircraft Services AUGUST 11 NOVEMBER 5-8 ABSWeb – webinar MARCH 10 ABS Service Clinic – Ramona, CA ABSWeb – webinar AUGUST 13-16 Hosted by Cruiseair Aviation ABS Service Clinic – Greeley, CO NOVEMBER 7-8 MARCH 14 Hosted by Western Plains Aviation BPPP LIVE – with the North East Bonanza ABS Maintenance Academy – San Diego, Group, Reading, PA AUGUST 18-20 CA. Apply to attend under TRAINING at BPPP Instructor Camp – Wichita, KS www.bonanza.org MARCH 31 – APRIL 5 Apply to [email protected] ABS at Sun ‘n Fun – Lakeland, FL NOVEMBER 10 AUGUST 27-30 ABSWeb – webinar APRIL 14 ABS Service Clinic – Puyallup, WA ABSWeb – webinar DECEMBER 8 Hosted by AVSTAR Aircraft of Washington ABSWeb – webinar APRIL 16-19 ABS Service Clinic – Columbus, GA Hosted by Columbus Aero Regional & International Societies Visit these websites for more information. APRIL 23-26 ABS Service Clinic – Spring (Houston), TX AUSTRALIAN BEECHCRAFT SOCIETY • www.abs.org.au Hosted by Beaver Air Service BONANZA CLUBE DO BRASIL • www.bonanzaclube.com.br EUROPEAN BONANZA SOCIETY • www.beech-bonanza.org MAY 2-3 MIDWEST BONANZA SOCIETY • www.midwestbonanza.com ABS Maintenance Academy – Batavia NORTH EAST BONANZA GROUP • www.northeastbonanzagroup.com (Cincinnati), OH. Apply to attend under NORTHWEST BONANZA SOCIETY • www.nwbonanza.org TRAINING at www.bonanza.org. ROCKY MOUNTAIN BONANZA SOCIETY • www.rmbonanza.org MAY 12 PACIFIC BONANZA SOCIETY • www.pacificbonanza.org ABSWeb – webinar SOUTHEASTERN BONANZA SOCIETY • www.sebs.org SOUTHWEST BONANZA SOCIETY • www.swbonanza.org

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