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New Continental Engine Parts RAM AIRCRAFT, LP • SINCE 1976 • PMA New Parts Available Now ©2019 RAM Aircraft, LP TTCF010919 The SM TWIN CESSNAFlyer FEATURES The Twin Cessna Flyersm P.O. Box 12453 FROM THE EDITOR 310Q LANDING GEAR Charlotte, NC 28220 4 20 Phone: 1-877-977-3246 Conventiion & seminar updates, MISHAP Email: [email protected] Brian Stoltzfus, illegal charter The electro-mechanical landing gear Website: www.twincessna.org flights, spatial disorientation, FLY- on Twin Cessnas requires TLC - more The Twin Cessna Flyer Magazine is the official publication of the The Twin ING magazine, In This Issue, and so than your average GA airplane. Cessna Flyersm owners organization, P.O. Box 12453 Charlotte, NC 28220. more. Adjusting one part of it affects all the The price of a yearly subscription is $85 ($130 international), which includes other parts. Member Euel Kinsey had a one-year membership in The Twin FLY-IN CONVENTION a gear incident that illustrates what Cessna Flyersm owners organization. 8 PREVIEW can go wrong with less-than-perfect The Twin Cessna Flyer is not affiliated with or sponsored by Textron Our convenion is this month! Check maintenance. Aviation or the Cessna Aircraft Com- pany. out our superb speaker and events lineup. Visit our website to register. MAGIC KINGDOM PILOT Twin Cessna owners and operators 26 are encouraged to submit articles and Most Twin Cessna owners know Jerry pictures for publication. Once submit- ted, the articles and pictures become HAMMER 414A Temple, one of the premier brokers the property of The Twin Cessna 10 Flyersm and cannot be returned. The Way down in Southern Alabama specializing in our fleet. Jerry’s been in act of making a submission for publica- tion is an express warranty that the is a fascinating man who owns a aviation all his life but his first flying submitted material does not infringe on pristine, low time 310R and, now, job after leaving the military invovled the rights or copyrights of others. an equally impressive 414A. A visit Mickey Mouse - no kidding! Published articles MARCH include opinions or specific recommendations to his home airport resulted in this on aircraft maintenance or operational practices. story, which wound up being about 28 READERS WRITE These opinions and recommendations more than just his airplanes. Nacelle tanks, alternator failure, adding are solely those of the article author and not necessarily those of The Twin deice boots, short engine runs, proper Cessna Flyersm. The Twin Cessna Flyersm does not endorse any practice that CIRCUIT BREAKERS nose trim, oil leaks, and more. would be in violation of FAA regulations 14 or the aircraft POH/AFM. AND INFLIGHT Nothing appearing in The Twin FIRES CLASSIFIEDS sm 36 Cessna Flyer MARCH be reproduced Have you ever reset a popped circuit or distributed without the express permission of the publisher. breaker in flight? After reading this 40 UPCOMING SEMINAR article, you’ll likely reconsider the INFORMATION wisdom of this practice. The twin cessna flyer advisory committee Larry A. Ball - New Haven, IN Anthony R. Saxton - Defiance, OH Cover photo provided by Bob Thomason. Editing assistance provided by Rose Comaduran. Copyright 2019 The Twin Cessna Flyersm. All rights reserved. THE TWIN CESSNA FLYER • MARCH 2019 | 3 from the editor by Bob Thomason, Editor will be at TAS Aviation in Defiance, OH, last year, it was the thing I missed most. and the other will likely be held in Las Vegas, NV, at KHND. We’ll also post A few years back, AuRacle stopped details on the website as soon as these manufacturing the units for piston are scheduled. aircraft. In December of last year, they announced they were ending repair IN MEMORIUM: BRIAN and parts support as well. That is STOLTZFUS unfortunate news for anyone who owns these units. Preferred Airparts When I bought the unit, I took comfort has been a strong in the fact that AuRacle was owned supporter of The CONVENTION by a huge defense/aerospace firm, Twin Cessna Flyer REGISTRATION NOW Ultra Electronics. Financial stability since our founding in OPEN would not be an issue going forward, 1988. It has been one as it might be with a smaller company. of our major sources What I neglected to consider was their See pages 8 and 9 for convention details. for Cessna parts, commitment to the General Aviation You can and should register now. We are Brian Stoltzfus both new and used. market. Without that commitment, I’m expecting a full house in Santa Fe this 1963 - 2019 Preferred currently sure it was easy to pull the plug on a year from May 15 - 18. Register at www. carries over 100,000 product that wasn’t producing defense ttcfevents.com. part numbers of new Cessna parts and industry profit margins. they have a large supply of used parts Please note that this site belongs to our from aircraft parted out over the years. event orgnizer which means you cannot use your TTCF username and password. The company was founded in 1982 by You must create a new user profile for Ken Stoltzfus Sr. and his sons Ken Jr. your first convention signup. If you have and Brian Stoltzfus. Ken Jr. passed any issues with the site, contact me at away from an illness in 2011. Sadly, [email protected] and I’ll help you Brian perished in an aircraft accident on with the process. January 21 of this year, when the DC-3 he was piloting crashed at his home field Support has been discontinued for the SEMINAR UPDATE in Kidron, OH. AuRacle 2120, one of the most beautiful engine instrument ever made. We’ll have at least two more seminars Brian had 10,000 flight hours and 5,000 this year, both in the fall. If we fill up the of those were in DC-3s. For the past Hopefully, our members who own Ft. Myers seminar in late February, we 20 years he and his wife have been AuRacles will have good luck and they’ll may schedule another spring seminar. flying mission flights in East Africa for keep working. If not, many options Check the website for the latest news Samaritan’s Purse. We mourn Brian’s are available from companies that are on this. I’ll also send out an all-member loss not only because of what his dedicated to the GA market. email if we decide to move forward. company has done for our fleet but also because of what he did for humanity. The exact dates for the fall seminars Our thoughts and prayers are with the AVOIDING ILLEGAL have not been set yet but they will be Preferred Airparts family. CHARTER FLIGHTS held in September and October. One AURACLE SUPPORT The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) is on the offensive DISCONTINUED “The speakers were great but regarding illegal charter flights that it’s the friendships that make it. impinge on their members’ legitimate When I updated my T303 Crusader in charter businesses and potentially I seriously can’t believe there 2011, I wanted a state-of-the art engine endanger the public. A couple of high were not 500 people there. monitor. I chose the AuRacle 2120. It profile cases have elevated concern Why would you not go?” suffered some early probe failures but among operators and the FAA, including once we got those fixed it was reliable. I a business jet operator that conducted came to love that instrument. I thought Andrew, Convention Attendee hundreds of illegal flights and was hit it was the most beautiful engine monitor with a $3.3 million fine last year. on the market. When I sold that airplane 4 | TWINCESSNA.ORG What does this have game. I’ll pay you!” Politely decline or, accident involving a CE525 CitationJet to do with Twin get your charter certificate like I did. that lost its pilot-side PFD while flying Cessnas? One way from Salt Lake City to Tucson. The pilot the FAA fights these SPATIAL struggled to control the airplane while “Part 134 ½” or DISORIENTATION AND trying to get to VMC conditions. He lost “gray charters” is IFR PILOTS control and crashed. with ramp checks. I was caught up in According to the BCA article, studies one once.