Some of our friends (Andy and Mark) have reported good success with the AntiSplat system, so we’ve decided to take the plunge. We’ve always had a haze of oil on our cowling as our existing separator dumps at the cowling join line. I don’t know if the actual separator is better or if it’s mostly a function […]
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I’m mostly posting this to show the new approach plates and charts options, but folks always want to see a combined set of final panel pictures. Low Altitude Approach chart left, sectional right, Geo-Referenced! I68 GPS Runway 1 Approach Plate CO Guardian and Pulse Oximeter reads out on our HX screens This is the screen […]
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I’d mentioned that I’d bought these cameras, but with all of the flying I’ve been doing and the, I hadn’t finished installing them. The weather was a factor on in the fact that the biggest part of the instructions is getting the under-wing-mount’s toe-in angle correct. In order to do that I need to get […]
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One of our purchases this year was the Radenna SkyRadar-D, for dual band. We already had the Garmin GTX330ES, the ES giving us ADS-B out capability and TIS in, but we had been using a WxWorx reciever for our weather information into the GRT EFIS. That worked really well, and actually has a bit better radar resolution (at least […]
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Here we go again. Nose pants are notorious in Velocity circles for getting chucked off for various offenses. I can only hope we can spare this one. Jerry has set up the paint booth in his shop to paint the underside of N202VB, so he was kind enough to shoot this too. I’m hoping to […]
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Since I like sharing our travels almost as much as going places in the airplane, and based on some other folk’s success, I’m getting another HD camera, the GoPro Hero2. This one will be mounted, using Bob Jackson’s Sky-3D camera mounting system, under the wing. The video below, taken by Darrell Kufalk, used the suction cup mount, but […]
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