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MARCH 2013
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Volume 40, No. 3 • March 2013
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Published By the International Comanche Society, Inc.
ICS President
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CONTENTS
2 Letter from the President
Comanche Spirit
4 The Perfect Airplane Compromise
9 2013-2014 ICS Officer Nominations Now Open
10 ICS Board of Directors, Tribe Chiefs,
11 Maintenance Resource Advisors
ICS Tool Loan Program
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Comanche Flyer •
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
I
was recently reading the February
issue of Flying magazine and came
upon an article by Dick Karl titled
“On Becoming a Better Pilot.” This
was a really interesting read for me
because it drove home points that I had
known to be true for years, but they
had never really been published in the
mainstream media. The bottom line
of the article is a comparison between
Dick’s experience as a long-time pilot/
owner/operator of his personal aircraft,
and his experience as a professional
Learjet first officer for an FAR Part 135
charter operator. This got me thinking
about the Comanche pilot community,
and how this same scenario plays out
in our cockpits every day in hundreds
of airplanes all over the world!
Let’s think about a couple of scenarios. When was the last time you
flew with another pilot in the same
cockpit? When was the last time you
flew with another pilot in the same
cockpit who had more experience in
the airplane you are flying than you
do? I bet many of us will be able to
answer the first question pretty easily.
The second might be a little harder to
answer unless you flew with a highly
experienced Comanche instructor,
or got checked out by the last owner
of the airplane you purchased. From
that point on, you probably have been
the pilot with the most experience in
your plane, regardless of your answer
to question one. This sets the stage
for a very interesting scenario. Any
bad habit or slack procedures that you
develop in a single pilot environment
are NEVER challenged by anyone else.
In the airline world, and to a lesser
extent corporate and charter aviation,
experience is gained in an aircraft with
someone else who usually has more
experience in the aircraft than you do.
This is not necessarily seat specific.
Many times a captain has less experience in a particular type of aircraft
than the first officer. However, through
good cockpit resource management
(CRM), knowledge is transferred and
Comanche Flyer Submission Guidelines
All members are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
the Comanche Flyer. If you have an article about a maintenance event,
trip, piloting technique, or anything else pertinent to Comanche
ownership, please share it with your fellow members.
For those with access to the Internet, please submit the article
via e-mail, preferably in Microsoft Word. You may also include the
article in the body of your e-mail message. Include your full name,
as you would like it published, and your ICS number.
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Although submissions are reviewed for technical accuracy, the
information in this magazine is meant for reference only. Any
modifications, alterations, or major repairs to U.S. aircraft require
FAA-approved data as a basis for beginning work, and as such should
not be based solely on information contained in this magazine. The
International Comanche Society does not endorse any piloting
adverse to published FAA regulations.
Submissions are subject to editing and revision unless specifically requested to be published as submitted. The right is reserved
to publish or not, any submission.
Deadline for all submissions is the 20th of the month, approximately 40 days prior to month of publication.
Send to: Kim Blonigen, Managing Editor at [email protected]
Articles and photos may also be sent via U.S. Mail to:
Kim Blonigen • 2031 South Beech • Wichita, KS 67207
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experience is gained in a positive manner. These companies also have very
specific Standard Operating Procedures
(SOPs) that have been developed by
consensus of the foremost experts on
that particular aircraft type. These two
items almost by themselves hold the
professional pilot to a higher standard
than the average GA pilot. Sadly, the
accident rates also confirms this.
So, now that we have seen that
professional pilots are held to a higher
standard on every flight, and that the
air carrier accident rate is far superior
to the private ranks, what can we do
about our shortcomings? For starters, we can hold ourselves to a higher
standard. Don’t shoot for a “D” flight
next time you go out to the airport,
make any grade less than an “A” failing. Put yourself on a high curve and
accept nothing less than perfect from
your flying. Mind the little things, like
actually touching down where you
want to – fly a stabilized approach,
don’t float, and nail the centerline.
Use altitude control, fly the airplane,
don’t let it fly you! Be precise in every way. We may not have the luxury
of having another pilot with a great
wealth of experience in our cockpits
on every flight, but try to imagine that
you do. Act like every flight is a flight
with the chief pilot of your operation
(actually, it is), and that the future
of your ability to fly depends on how
well you execute the mission (really, it
does. Failure has some pretty dire consequences!). Spend some time seeking
out those things that you just don’t
quite understand. Everything we do
in an airplane should have a purpose.
There are those things that have a very
obvious purpose, like putting the gear
down before you land. But what about
all of those little ritual things that you
do every flight but aren’t really sure
why? Chances are some are not necessary, some are bad habits, and others
are probably things you picked up to
overcome something else. Once you
get down to only the things you need
to do, the flight gets pretty simple!
MARCH 2013
I challenge everyone to seek out
and spend time with another aviator.
If you know someone who flew or flies
professionally, that will be even better.
If you can’t get schedules together to
actually get into an airplane together,
meet to have drinks, hangar fly or just
discuss aviation. If you approach the
experience from the angle of holding
yourself to a higher standard, you will
learn something. If you go fly, do not
select your flying partner based on
what they might think of your skills
and transfer that to your ego, select
your flying partner based on what they
can bring to the flight to help you improve. The flight should be a “give and
take” of information. Everything that
you do or say on the flight should be
questioned. If you have a good explanation as to the why and how and can
share it with your copilot, it is probably a valid procedure or habit. If the
question elicits a shrug or a grumble
of “that’s how I’ve always done it,”
then it might not be the best practice.
From there, establish your SOPs and
stick to them on every flight.
In the future, don’t pick the easiest
CFI on the field for your next flight
review or IPC, pick the hardest. This
is not about just getting by on the lowest passing grade; this is about acing
the class! The farther away from the
minimum standard you are, the more
mistakes you have between you and
an epic fail. As the weather improves
this spring, don’t just knock the rust
off; make the effort to truly polish your
skills. Flying may not be your profession, but you can approach it the same
way the pros do, and all of us will reap
the rewards.
Hoping you always have a tailwind,
Zach Grant
ICS Past Presidents
2009-2010
Bernie Mazurek
1990
George Burson
2007-2008
Dave Fitzgerald
1989
William Creech
2006
Lawrence Paratz
1988
Jim Fox
2005
Karl Hipp
1987
Pat Rowe
2004
Skip Dykema
1986
Ted Peifer
2003
John Van Bladeren
1985
Bill Shank
2002
Larry Rackley
1984
Jerry Irvin
2001
Robert Noble
1983
Bill Stanyer
2000
David Buttle
1982
Norn Berneche
1999
Roy Roberts
1981
Ben Kitchens
1998
Harley McGatha
1980
Jack Holaway
1997
Charles Wiseman
1979
Larry Larkin
1996
Bryce Campbell
1978
Clifford Younger
1995
Jess Bootman
1977
Art Shriver
1994
Chuck Medicus
1976
Mike Keedy
1993
Dale Vandever
1975
George Smith
1992
Bill Jackson
1974
Paul Rechnitzer
1991
Martin Busch
1973
Andy Speer
Comanche Flyer •
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C O M A N C H E
The Perfect
Airplane
Compromise
by Kim Blonigen
N5565P
is Zach Grants’ highly
modified Comanche
180. Zach grew up in
an aviation family, and his love of Comanches came
early on with family airplanes including a turbo Twin
Comanche that is still serving him and his father today,
as it has for over 20 years. Being a “twin type of guy,”
Zach found another one – an early normally aspirated
bird and flew it for a couple of years before passing it on
to a new owner. Then, as luck would have it, Zach says,
“A somewhat neglected 180 practically fell into my lap.
Not really knowing what to do with the baby Comanche,
I flew it a little, while working the bugs out of the old girl.
And what started as a planned short-term hiatus from
the twin world has turned into a love affair with the true
Piper Comanche original.”
Zach spent countless hours practically rebuilding the
180. The condition, as purchased, was “less than appealing!” The paint was oxidized beyond recognition (the blue
was almost indistinguishable from the white), the windows
sand blasted so severely, most were opaque, and the interior was some worn foam stitched to the seat rails with
remnants of interior fabrics from another time. One radio
worked, and the airplane hit a brick wall speed-wise at
120 mph indicated. The refurbishment process included
the paint being buffed and polished to what it is today, and
the interior was gutted to bare metal and replaced with a
complete soundproofed custom interior. All new glass was
installed, as was the first iteration of a radio package (some
used radios, but they worked!). Mechanically, the airplane
was not in bad shape, but the cowling was in awful shape,
and needed major “surgery” on a regular basis.
MARCH 2013
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Zach flying his dream machine
Comanche 180.
Grant’s perfect airplane compromise – his Comanche 180.
On a fuel stop from one of its many trips, 65P has been from Maine
to Miami, Seattle to San Diego, and most places in between.
MARCH 2013
Comanche Flyer •
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The decision to replace the cowling was one that would change the
game for this old bird. Zach decided
to install the APP Eagle Cowl, which
included the dual exhaust. This was
great, because 65P was in dire need
of a new muffler as well. Having seen
the difference in takeoff performance
between a stock two-blade propeller
and a three-blade one, Zach decided
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get out from under the AD on the original Hartzell. Zach thought to himself,
“Now this was going somewhere, and
fast, but just as speedy was the money
coming out of the bank account!” He
explains that soon the airplane became a
fanatical pursuit of efficiency and speed
with LoPresti spats and slipper, Knots2U
gap seals and wing root fairings, single
fork gear legs, hub caps, repositioned
antennas, and a few other tweaks were
added to make a good thing just a bit
better. Dedicated attention was paid to
the cowling and baffle areas, and at the
end of the day, the net result was an airplane that could beat book speeds by up
to 22 mph depending on power setting!
Next up for the Comanche 180 was a
new panel upgrade. This project started
because of a total electrical failure in
IMC on an approach at night. Zach says
that literally the next day the wiring
was being cut out of the aircraft and all
new wire was being installed, as a start
to a very extensive upgrade. The panel
took on a new look – out with the old
side stacks, and in with the new. A custom center stack, single piece panel was
fabricated and installed. Equipment
added included a Sandel 3308 EHSI,
Garmin 430W, GTX327 transponder,
JPI EDM700 and the 496 was mounted
in the stack making a fantastic MFD
when connected to the 430. Interior
lighting was upgraded, an alternate
static system was added, and the new
electrical system included almost 50
breakers. Many other minor changes
and small additions were made to truly
make N5565P the special airplane it is
today. At last count, there were 54 STCs
and field approvals installed on 65P.
Zach says that safety didn’t escape
with the need for speed. A few years
ago, PV Aero shoulder harness kits were
added with all new seatbelts, and with
the introduction of the Amsafe airbag
seatbelts, those were added to the front
seat. “If they only save your life once,
they are probably worth it!” he said.
(continued on page 8)
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The latest upgrade applied to the 180
was concurrent with the latest engine
overhaul. The Electroair Electronic Ignition was installed and, after a few initial
problems, has been working flawlessly.
Zach explains, “Performance is spectacular on some very impressive fuel burns.
Seeing 18-22 nautical miles per gallon at
cruise is not a rare sight – not bad for a
four-place airplane with 1,048 pounds of
useful load, 150-plus-knot cruise speed,
and seven-plus-hours endurance. Even
at 17,000 feet, it still trues at 140 knots!”
Zach summarizes his ownership of
the Comanche 180 saying, “N5565P has
become a perfect member of the family
in so many ways. What it gives up in raw
speed to the twin, it makes up for in reliability and efficiency. Since owning 65P,
it has been from Maine to Miami, Seattle
to San Diego, and most places in between.
It averages 175-200 hours of flight time
per year, and has a remarkable reliability
record. For short flights to breakfast or
long cross-countries, the Comanche 180
and N5565P might just be the perfect
airplane compromise!”
65P (below) undergoing part of its
very extensive overhaul, which at
last count included 54 STCs and
field approvals.
The result (above)
of Grant’s pursuit
of efficiency and
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MARCH 2013
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will find it rewarding and not as difficult as you might think.
Positions Available:
President
Vice President
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Please contact any of the nominating committee members listed below to
be considered for recommendation to an ICS officer position. The deadline for
nominations is March 31, 2013.
In addition to candidates proposed by the nominating committee, according to
ICS Bylaws, any member in good standing of the Society shall be a candidate if he
or she submits to the chairperson of the nominating committee a letter agreeing
to serve if elected and letters from three other members in good standing, not
more than one of whom is from the same tribe as the potential candidate, nominating the potential candidate and attesting to the potential candidate’s fitness
for the position sought. The chairperson shall immediately acknowledge each
communication received from a member wishing to be a candidate or nominating
and attesting to another member’s fitness to serve.
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2012-2013
ICS Board Of Directors
President:
Secretary:
Vice President
Treasurer:
Zach Grant, ICS #15515, NC Tribe
6736 Chapel Hill Rd.
Indianapolis, IN 46214
Cell: (317) 201-4293
Bob Cretney, ICS #2269, SC Tribe
428 McDaniel Rd
Ferris, TX 75125
Cell: (214) 725-6584
Jerry Jesion, ICS #14746, NC Tribe
26980 Coachlight
Woodhaven MI 48183
Ph: (734) 692-6152
Pat Donovan, ICS #12246, MS Tribe
421 Piper Ct.
Troy, MO 63379
Phone: (636) 462-8370
Past President:
Bernie Mazurek, ICS #7947, NC Tribe
7612 Camminare Dr.
Sarasota, FL 34238
Ph: (941) 922-7931
Cell: (734) 717-4946
CFF President: (non-voting)
Lorne Harmon, ICS #12436, SW Tribe
1491 Northridge, Prescott, AZ 86301
Ph: (928) 717-2630
Tribe Representatives and Chiefs
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Tribe Chief/Tribe Rep Phillip Hobbs, ICS #10509
Ph: (704) 360-4754
Northeast Tribe
Tribe Chief/Tribe Rep Bernie Stumpf, ICS #7300
25 Littlebrook Rd.
Westerly RI 02891
Ph: (401) 348-0997
North Central:
Tribe Chief Bob Williams, ICS #13853
647 Robins Gate
Akron, OH 44319
Ph: (330) 867-6711
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Ph: (815) 395-0500
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FEATURE
Emergencies
and the Mind:
Preparation
for the
Unexpected
by John Fiscus
F
or many years now, I’ve seen a phenomenon show up
regularly while conducting flight training – pilots who
felt that they knew what they would do in an emergency situation while discussing it on the ground, do not act
correctly or quickly enough while in flight or in the simulator. Most veteran instructors have seen this at one point or
another, and we have a sense of what’s going on. We usually
call it overload, saturation, or mental block; and advocate
more practice to overcome it. While those descriptions aren’t
far off, they aren’t totally accurate or complete.
In researching what happens to the mind in life-threatening situations, I turned to professions that face such occurrences regularly. It didn’t take long before I was nodding my
head in agreement with what I read: people involved in the
police, armed forces, firefighting, and other stressful careers
were encountering the same phenomena that I was seeing
in high-stress situations in the cockpit. I went on to learn
about the methods they use to deal with these situations,
and mitigate the interference caused by the way our brain
naturally works. Some of their techniques cross over pretty
well to the general aviation world.
Good Stress versus Bad Stress
We’ve all heard that a little stress is good and too much
isn’t so good. As it turns out, there’s a pretty well defined
set of “stress conditions” used to more accurately describe
what’s going on as we become more and more stressed. The
various levels or conditions are color coded to help describe
what we’re capable of and, more importantly, what we’re no
longer capable of.
Stress conditions have a direct link to
heart rate. As we become more and more
stressed, the heart beats faster to help the
body deal with anticipated demands. Thus,
heart rate is a good way to put a quantity on
stress. Let’s look at each condition briefly
and see what is common in each.
Condition White: As you read this,
you’re probably in condition white. You’re
at rest, the environment is reasonably comfortable, and you don’t have much expectation of needing to be on guard against
threats. You’re operating efficiently, but
psychologically speaking, you’re not quite
at your peak performance. If something
unexpected happened, it would probably be
a surprise and take a few moments for appropriate reactions to happen. For example,
you aren’t expecting a ball to be thrown at
you right now, and unless somebody said,
“Act fast!” just before throwing, you might get beaned.
Condition Yellow: At this stage of elevated stress, your
mind is “spooled up” and you’re ready for the ball to be
thrown since you’re looking for it. Your heart rate is up a bit
and your mind is more acutely engaged in what’s happening
around you. This stage sees increased physical performance
and peaking mental performance with fine motor skills being the sharpest.
Condition Red: Things start to get interesting here. As
the heart rate and stress climb, some interesting phenomena begin to happen. Fine motor control is eroded almost
completely away, but physical response time gets a little bit
better. Mental abilities are eroded in this zone, as the forebrain phases out leaving mostly the midbrain (sometimes
called the “lizard brain”) in control. This is the place where
conditioned responses become more prevalent – things
done so often that it’s almost as if you don’t have to think
about it. Some call this “muscle memory.” In Condition
Red, you’re more likely to be able to bat the ball away than
be able to catch it.
Condition Gray: This is a relatively small zone right on
the outer limits of Condition Red. Irrational actions will occur because there’s no “rational” part of the brain left, while
sight, hearing, and memory are scrambled. People entering
Condition Gray often don’t remember much of their time
during this condition, and what they can recall is typically
hyper focused or distorted. Even rough motor skills don’t
work in Condition Gray as the body enters full-on “fight
or flight” mode. Button pushing is essentially impossible
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here unless extreme repetitive motion
training has been conducted over years
of time and at very frequent intervals
(like weekly).
Condition Black: At this final stage
of stress, the body is a foreign place to
the thinking mind. People in this zone
probably won’t remember anything
about it as the deeply ingrained reactions of the primitive brain are in total
control. This is where we’ll see people
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up no matter how little good (and likely
bad) such an act would benefit them.
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These heart rates are caused by
threats and not by exercise, so we cannot recreate these psychological stress
conditions by running on a treadmill
(but such things might help a bit as
we’ll see next). You’ll also note that
the peak performance level appears
to be in the red zone … but that’s for
physical performance, not mental. The
mental performance peak happens in
the yellow zone, which is right where
a pilot would perform the best.
It’s important to understand that
there are no exceptions to these rules.
No one has been born as Superman or
Superwoman who can somehow continue to function normally and rationally when put into life-threatening
situations. Some level of inoculation
can be gained through training, so that’s
what we’ll look at next.
Easy Steps to Staying Out of
Red, Gray, and Black
There are two general methods for
the GA pilot to help prepare for the
debilitating stress associated with lifethreatening situations. Some of them
you’ll guess, but some might not yet
be evident.
Physical Methods
First, lower your heart rate. This is
an easy thing to say, but more difficult
to do. There are a few good ways to help
keep the heart from revving up to 170
bpm and hopefully keep you out of the
red, gray, or black.
Aerobic exercise, over time, will
lower your resting heart rate and allow
for a slightly increased tolerance of high
stress situations. Yes, I know … as if
you needed another reason to get on
the treadmill, ride a bike, or exercise a
few times a week. Your doctor has been
telling you to do it for a long time, your
scale has mentioned it once or twice,
and you know it would be good for you
in a lot of ways. Here’s one more good
reason to do some aerobic exercise a
few times a week – it’ll increase your
tolerance to stressful situations and
make you a safer pilot. Confer with a
doctor to know what exactly you ought
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to be doing, but do something. The
more fit you are, the better the stress
inoculation.
Another method for lowering your
heart rate is a technique taught by
the U.S. armed forces, many police
units, first responders, and generally
anybody that makes their living going
into threatening places. This method
is called tactical breathing and it has
been shown to be very effective when
used at the right time. It’s a very simple
technique that can slow your heart rate
a bit and hopefully pull you away from
the brink, allowing for more mental
resources to be available and better
decisions to be made.
Here’s how tactical breathing works:
Inhale slowly, for three or four seconds,
hold it in for three or four seconds, exhale slowly over three or four seconds,
and hold it out three or four seconds.
Repeat this process several times, typically five repetitions or so, and your
heart rate will decrease a bit if it has
been elevated. The direct tie between
heart rate and stress condition level
means that this decrease in heart rate
will likely give you a bit more clarity in
an otherwise overwhelming situation.
Programming Methods
It has long been known
that practicing
emergency procedures helps ensure
that we do the right
thing in an emergency,
but why does it work?
Most of us call this
muscle memory, but
it’s a little more
than that.
We’ve established that
the “lizard brain”
or midbrain is what
we’re talking about
when somebody reacts without thought.
This is the area where
muscle memory lives (not actually in the muscle, of course), and
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it’s the place we program when we do
repetitive, reactive things. It’s the part
of you that stomps on the brake pedal
when a ball rolls in front of your car,
or the part that catches a ball when it’s
thrown at your face unexpectedly. This
is also the place that will allow you
to react quickly and correctly when
you have a system failure or other
emergency in your aircraft. Programming the midbrain with emergency
responses is one of the best ways to
ensure you’ll be able to do those things
when you need to.
There are so many options available to us:
Here are a few easy methods you
can use to program your midbrain:
• Performaverbaldeparturebriefing
before you take off. You might be
surprised at how much a quick verbal review of emergency responses
will prime the midbrain to react.
Practice: Most people would guess
this one. When you go up for your annual
proficiency training and get a situation
thrown at you that you haven’t had since
last year, you call your skills rusty. It’s
actually more of an atrophy of the skill.
If you work it over a few times, chances
are good you’ll be back up to speed fairly
quickly, but only after you’ve practiced
it a few times. The rust timer may have
been reset, but it’ll be back in just a few
months. What’s the best way to deal with
rust? Don’t give it a chance to build up.
• GoupwithaCFIforacoupleof
hours once a quarter.
• Dosomesimulatortrainingaspart
of your quarterly workout for those
things you couldn’t practice in the
airplane.
• Go through emergency memory
items while en route on a normal
flight. You have the time, so take
out a checklist and do a few reps,
put it away and do a few more.
• Ifyouwanttoreallytestyourself,
give a list of memory item emergencies to a friend or spouse and ask
them to quiz you randomly from
the list. Make sure the list you give
them has the answers written in so
they can check you.
Your mind is the most valuable tool
you’ll ever have with regard to safety in
aviation. You have to make the choice
to keep it honed and ready to better
protect your passengers, yourself, and
people on the ground.
Safe flying everyone!
About the Author: A Platinum CSIP
who has dedicated his career to enhancing pilot safety through specialized training, John Fiscus has been
instructing in Cirrus aircraft for the
last 12 years. He first taught at the
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ONLINE INTELLIGENCE
Stall Warning
Lift Switch
From the ICS Website Member’s Forum
Hello fellow flyers,
I recently discovered that my stall
lift switch wasn’t working. We took the
switch apart and was able to get it
to work somewhat, but the travel
range to activate the internal switch
wasn’t consistent. We found the part
for anywhere from $500-$1700. My
mechanic had a used one that we installed, and it seems to be working.
My questions are:
1. There is a travel range for installation bases on slotted mounting holes
in the switch which allows the location on the lift switch to travel up
and down before you tighten the
screws setting the position. Does
this position matter or affect the
stall speed activation of the switch?
2. This switch on the leading edge of
the wing is not a sealed system and
will allow water inside the wing
when flying in rain. Is this really the
design, and is it okay?
Thanks for any replies.
Steve
___________________________________
Yes, the vertical position of the
switch affects the speed (actually
angle of attack) at which the switch
is actuated.
point may still be above the switch
when the wing stalls and the switch
will never be actuated.
___________________________________
The airflow stagnation point on the
leading edge of the wing marks the
point at which the flow separates. Air
above the stagnation point goes over
the top of the wing and air below the
stagnation point goes over the bottom
of the wing. The switch trips (moves
upward) when the stagnation point
moves below the switch and air moving
up over the top of the wing lifts the
switch. As angle of attack increases,
the stagnation point moves down. At a
particular angle of attack, the wing
stalls. At the stalling angle of attack,
the stagnation point is at a particular
location on the wing leading edge. The
stall warning switch should be slightly
above that point.
Great reply and I agree with all the
concepts! Do you happen to know
where the proper set point is? Since
it’s supposed to be a stall warning indicator, should it activate a few knots
prior to the buffeting? I understand it
is an angle, but only have instruments
to tell me the number of knots before
buffet after indication.
If the switch is too high, the stagnation point will be below the switch and
actuate the switch at too low of an
angle of attack (too high an airspeed).
If the switch is too low, the stagnation
Is it supposed to be adjustable, or
is there a proper position?
Also, do you have any thoughts on
the water tight concept or lack there of?
Thanks.
___________________________________
I just discovered my stall switch
doesn’t work either. I hear replacements are hard to come by, or very
expensive. Any ideas on where to start
with a fix? Is it usually the stall switch
on the wing, or is it the electronics
behind the panel that usually goes?
MARCH 2013
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The failure point can be anywhere
in the system, but the switch in the
wing is by far the most expensive issue.
If you determine it is the switch that
is not working, you can try this.
Remove the switch from the wing,
first marking its position so you can
re-install it at the same location. Then
go to Radioshack or another electronics store and buy a large spray can of
electronic cleaner. With the little flexible nozzle, start giving the inside of
the switch a bath by sticking the nozzle into all the little holes. The switch
is riveted together and not intended to
be serviceable. Do this periodically over
several days and then retest the switch.
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There aren’t any complicated electronics, it’s just a normally open switch
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the light. We tested with a meter and
had intermittent closure and hence the
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effective forum we have!
Can anyone comment on the rain
factor getting water into the wing? Is
it just the way it is and perhaps infrequent enough to not matter?
___________________________________
I just completed our annual where
we checked out the stall warning system. Our wing switch was not working,
but after liberal application of electronic cleaner, it was functioning very
well. But the other part of the system
that can lead to failure of the system
to flash the stall light is the flasher unit
MARCH 2013
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that is under the dash. It is a long black
box mounted on the upper side of a
phenolic resin board at the forward edge
of the breaker mounting strip. It is a
bi-metallic switch that after so many
cycles finally breaks. Ours was bad.
There is an article from the Comanche Flyer (December, 2011) that covers
a fix including part numbers, etc. You
just need to find a dealer in your area.
Mine cost just over $50 with shipping.
The fix replaces the bi-metallic switch
with a solid state electronic flasher unit
from Motogadget. Think of Moto Guzzi
motorcycles.
Note that a picture of the single stall
flasher unit is not shown in the article,
but the black box looks exactly like the
one shown in the article, just mounted
differently. I removed the old switch.
and with some work to get solder to
attach to the end terminals, it worked
great. My biggest problem was getting
a good solder joint due to the material
of the original switch terminal ends.
Cluster Gauges
S.W., AC, Rochester
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___________________________________
Wow! Thanks for the additional information. I never checked, but thought
the other end was just a light bulb. I’ll
look for the flasher.
Thanks again.
___________________________________
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As a responsible pilot and aircraft
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FEATURE
Comanche Flyer
Needs your
Stories, Tips
and Tricks!
SEPTEMBER
2012
VOLUME 39,
NO. 9
Publication of
Membership
The Official
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The InternaSociety
Comanche
Share your Comanche Knowledge with your Fellow ICS Members
D
o you have a good technical tip or overhaul story you can share? What about a flying experience or recent instructional
experience where you’d learned a lesson from which all pilots could benefit? Maybe a trip you took in your Comanche
that you’d recommend to others. We also desperately need in-flight photos of your Comanche to feature on the cover
of the Flyer (needs to be at least 1 MB in size to print well). Anything you can share that would be helpful to fellow
ICS members, we need you to send in your information!
You don’t have to be a writer by trade, just put your thoughts down and tell your story – it will be edited, if needed. Below is a
list of regular columns in the Flyer, and a few new ones that have been suggested (the word count provided is only an average to
help guide you).
Cover photo/Comanche Spirit – Not
only do you get to have your Comanche
on the cover of the Flyer, but we like to
feature the owner so ICS members can
get to know you better. You can fill out an
owner questionnaire and the editor will
write a story about you, or you can submit
your own. Average length is 1,000 words.
Maintenance Q & A – Do you have a
question regarding maintenance on your
Comanche? Send it in and we’ll have our
Technical Directors suggest some solutions. As questions come in and a reader
has an alternate solution, they can send
them in as well. This would be an ongoing
format for maintenance discussion.
Letters to the Editor – Send in your
comments about an article you read in a
past Comanche Flyer. Or you can also
send items of interests you’d like to share
with other Comanche owners that may
not be long enough for an article. Really,
we’d like to hear from you!
From the Logbook – If you have a trip
that you’d recommend to other members,
or a particular “adventure” you’ve taken
in your Comanche that you’d like to
share, this is the column! We have
featured trips in story and journal
formats. Average length is 1,500 words.
Technically Speaking – We like to
feature technical information you have
found useful in maintaining your Comanche. Maybe it was an ongoing problem
that you finally found a solution or you
want to warn other owners of an issue that
occurred with your airplane. Anything
technical is featured in this column.
Average length is 500-1,200 words.
Product/Vendor Information – Did
you have a good experience with a
vendor that you’d like to share or have
you recently purchased a product that
you’d recommend to other ICS members?
The best information that most owners
get is from others who have experienced
it, so share with us! Average length is
250-750 words.
MARCH 2013
Fly-In Reports – A pretty popular
column, but we don’t see the experiences
some of the tribes are having. Send us
your story. We’d like to hear how your
Tribe is getting together and sharing
the camaraderie. Average length is 250500 words.
Best of the Flyer – This is an easy
one. If you know of an article in past
Flyers that you found useful and you
think needs repeating, send a copy and
we’ll reprint it.
If you have a story that you don’t feel
fits into any of the above categories, send
it anyway. Most issues include feature
stories and we’d like to hear from you.
What do you enjoy learning or reading
about in the Flyer? Do you have
something you can contribute? We’d like
to hear from you!
Send your contributions and ideas
to Editor Kim Blonigen at kblonigen@
cox.net, or 2031 S. Beech, Wichita, KS
67207.
Comanche Flyer •
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NORTH TO ALASKA –
ICS 40TH ANNIVERSAR
ICS will commemorate its 40th year
in 2013 and the Northwest Tribe wants
to celebrate at the 2013 Convention by
CRUISING NORTH TO ALASKA!
Electronic registration
available on the ICS web site
(www.comancheflyer.com).
MARCH 2013
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CONVENTION NEWS
T
he Northwest Tribe is celebrating on land and sea for the 2013
ICS Convention, and we are
inviting you, your family and friends
to join us as we celebrate.
DATE DAY
6/27
Thursday
6/28
Friday
6/29
Saturday
6/30
7/7
Sunday
Sunday
The convention will be held June
27 – July 7. From Thursday, June 27,
through Saturday, June 29, we will be
at the Holiday Inn in Renton, Wash. On
Sunday, June 30, for those who choose
to do so, we will board Holland America
Cruise Line’s MS Oosterdam for a 40th
Anniversary Cruise to Alaska.
At right, is the schedule for the
convention which will give you a
better idea of what is planned.
TIME
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
9:30 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Morning
Morning
ACTIVITY
Registration
Hospitality
Tribe Night Dinners (on your own)
Old Board Meeting
Hospitality
Cliff Wilewski Seminars
Tour - Pike Place/Waterfront
Tour - Museum of Flight
CFF Meeting
No Host Cocktails
Dinner &
Annual ICS Membership Mtg.
Airport Activities
Hospitality
Maintenance Seminar
Barbecue Lunch
Flagship Judging
Cocktail hour (no host)
Banquet & Flagship Awards
Transport to Ship
Transport to Hotel
From Island-hopping to Lunch and Shopping
Remarkable places to fly while you’re in the Pacific Northwest (Part 1)
by Jay Hulbert, ICS #15334
T
he Pacific Northwest is a great
place to fly, and many notable
airports call the Northwest
home. Several have appealing aviation museums, noteworthy restaurants
and, just in case you need one, good
Comanche shops, including Pro Flight,
our host at Renton Airport (KRNT).
the convention to better explore the
area. To help you plan your before- or
after-convention aviating, we’ll infuse
the next several updates with local
knowledge from the Northwest Tribe
– our suggestions for interesting, scenic
and fly-friendly places to visit during
your stay in our neighborhood.
Once you’re here, we hope you’ll
stick around for awhile before or after
We know you won’t be able to visit all of these destinations, but we’ll
provide a range of suggestions in case
you’re looking for an appealing lunch
stop or want to spend a few extra days
flying in the Northwest.
A bit of airport intelligence is included with each listing, but as with any flight
please consult AirNav (www.airnav.
com) or your favorite flight planning website and call ahead to the airport to verify
fuel availability and other services.
MARCH 2013
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Boeing Field
In many ways the “mother airport”
of the region, KBFI was the birthplace
of the Boeing company, and Boeing’s
original “Red Barn” building is now
part of the Museum of Flight (http://
www.museumofflight.org/). This facility is one of the great aviation museums
of the world, featuring a former Air
Force One, a Concorde, a Space Shuttle
Trainer, a large collection of World War
I and II aircraft and of course many examples of Boeing models. The museum
is located on the southwest corner of
the airport and it is possible to park
your Comanche on the ramp and get
in from the airside (call the museum
in advance to coordinate). There is a
decent café for a light lunch. Plan to
spend a full day!
KBFI is a busy field with lots of
Boeing traffic (Boeing’s narrow body
delivery center is there; you will probably see lots of brand new 737s on the
ramp ready to be picked up by airlines
from around the world), but it is also
a GA friendly field. Seattle approach
is accommodating to VFR pilots and
Class B clearances are easy to come by,
but KBFI can be easily flown into from
the West (Puget Sound) side without
penetrating the class B airspace.
Paine Field
Another “must see” aviation experience is the Boeing plant at Paine Field.
While Boeing has multiple plants around
the region (including one at KRNT)
Paine Field is the site of the largest
(square footage) building in the world
and the “birthplace” of Boeing’s 747,
767 and now 787 wide body aircraft.
Boeing maintains a museum there, the
“Future of Flight” aviation center (http://
www.futureofflight.org/) where you can
peruse the exhibits while waiting for a
tour of the main plant. The plant tour
itself is fantastic. Huge aircraft moving
down an assembly line is something you
just don’t see every day! KPAE is also
a great GA field with friendly TRACON
and tower controllers.
San Juan Islands
On the north end of Puget Sound,
not far from Tacoma, lie the stunning
San Juan Islands. Lacking a highway
connection to the mainland, access
to these largely unspoiled islands is
provided by Washington State Ferry,
private or chartered watercraft or any
Comanche flyer’s favorite – an airplane.
Not only is this archipelago an
amazing sight to see from above, there
are some memorable places to visit,
whether it’s for a few days, or just a
relaxing lunch at the marina.
Roche Harbor Resort (WA09) is
situated on the northwestern edge of
San Juan Island. The private airport is
located on the property, literally steps
from the pool, beach, restaurant, hotel
and marina. Activities include dining,
kayaking, short hikes and fishing from
the docks. There are lots of activities for
kids as well, and the island has several
scenic areas and parks that are easily accessed by the mopeds available for rent
on the island. The restaurant is world
class and a great place to fly to for dinner. The return flight to Seattle at dusk
is an amazing summertime experience!
Since Roche Harbor is a private airstrip, the resort asks that you obtain
advance permission to land, although
we’ve often shown up on a whim for
lunch without notification and had no
problems. They do ask you to deposit a
nominal landing fee ($10 for singles, $15
for twins) to support field maintenance
in the drop box at the west end of the
runway. You’ll find all the information
you need at www.rocheharbor.com. A
link to airport information is included
on the left side of the web page.
Friday Harbor (KFHR), also located
on San Juan Island, is the “big airport.”
It gets quite a bit of traffic from the
mainland during the summer, including
lots of turbine equipment. KFHR has
GPS and NDB approaches, as well as
full services available.
The town is a short walk away and
is full of neat shops, restaurants and
several bed and breakfasts. You can rent
a vehicle there to explore the island,
or you can make Friday Harbor your
base for the “frugal man’s cruise line,”
the Washington State Ferry System.
Ferries connect the major San Juan
Islands to the Washington State mainland and Canada, stopping at Anacortes,
Victoria B.C., Friday Harbor, Orcas Island, Lopez Island and Shaw Island.
Board the ferry, take a seat by one of
the huge windows on the upper deck,
and enjoy the gorgeous scenery. It’s not
uncommon to see orcas (killer whales),
sea lions, harbor seals, eagles and other
sea birds from your seat on the ferry.
Go to www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries for
schedules and more information.
For those who’d like a different type of
San Juan Island flying experience, Kenmore Air offers scheduled transportation to the San Juan Islands by seaplane,
departing from Seattle’s Lake Union on
a variety of aircraft, including piston or
turbine-powered De Havilland Beavers
and Otters. Visit www.kenmoreair.com
for information and schedules.
Another classic San Juan Island
destination is family-friendly Rosario
Resort on Orcas Island. Phone ahead
to the resort and they will pick you
up at full-service East Sound Airport
(KORS) on the north end of the Island.
The resort was originally built as a
private estate for a Seattle shipbuilding
magnate. The main building retains its
nautical touches and still features the
former owner’s massive pipe organ.
Rosario offers the typical island activities – kayaking, sailing, fishing and
whale watching in season – but also
features a variety of activities to entertain the kids while the adults get on
with their relaxation. You’ll find details
at www.rosarioresort.com.
Nearby Moran State Park (once
part of the ship builder’s estate) offers hiking and mountain biking trails
and five freshwater lakes. The site features 2,409-foot Mount Constitution,
the highest hill in the San Juan’s and
a popular vantage point for taking in
the scenery.
Besides the full-service resort, there
is a B&B within walking distance of the
airport, for those who like a more personal touch. See www.kangaroohouse.
com for details.
MARCH 2013
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Comanche Flyer •
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PHOTO
CREDIT
NOAA
Need to walk off your meal? (You
didn’t forget the pie, did you?) Check
out the small aviation museum on the
airport.
Victoria is a cosmopolitan city and
home to the acclaimed Butchart Gardens (www.butchartgardens.com),
one of Canada’s National Historic
PHOTO
CREDIT
NOAA
The field is VFR only, but it is on the
sunny side of the Olympic peninsula,
has full services and is in excellent
condition. If you visit Victoria, B.C.,
this airport is a good customs stop on
your way back into the U.S.
Victoria, British Columbia (CYYJ) is
a wonderful destination located on the
southern end of Canada’s Vancouver
Island, easily accessible by a number
of transportation options, including
Comanche, Kenmore Air out of Seattle
(see listing above), the Washington State
Ferry system or the Victoria Clipper
high-speed catamaran from Seattle.
The Washington State Ferry system
connects the mainland to the San
Juans and offers easy travel to, from
and between the islands.
Appealing Diversions
High clouds creep in and
make for a glorious sunset
over Washington’s San
Juan Islands.
a classic fly-in restaurant, with aviation
memorabilia hanging from the walls
and ceilings and wonderful home-style
American food.
SAN JUAN PILOTS
Everyone has their favorite airport
restaurant. I won’t try to give you a comprehensive list but just mention one
of my own. If you get hungry on your
way to or from the San Juan Islands,
one of our favorite $100 hamburgers
(or omelets or – especially – pies) is at
Port Townsend/Jefferson County International airport (0S9). The Spruce
Goose Café opens early for breakfast
and stays open through lunch, plus
dinner four nights a week. This is truly
Sites, and the Fairmont Empress Hotel (www.fairmont.com/empress). The
Empress, located on Victoria’s inner
harbor, is world-class. Even if you don’t
stay the night, afternoon “high tea” is
a not-to-be-missed event.
PHOTO
CREDIT
If you’re unfamiliar with flying into
Canada, check with AOPA (www.aopa.
org/members/pic/intl/canada/) for the
latest information. Generally speaking,
travel into Canada by private aircraft
is a snap, but when returning to the
United States by air, you should be very
careful to follow the U.S. Customs and
Immigration requirements to the letter
or risk costly consequences.
Although its width is akin to that of a two-lane highway, the picturesque
runway at Roche Harbor is 1,100 feet longer than the “big airport” at Friday
Harbor. And you can’t beat the view.
Next month: We fly to the dry side
of the Pacific Northwest for a look at
eastern Washington’s wine country
and a primer on the shops, art galleries and high-country adventure of
the area known as “Oregon’s Alps.”
MARCH 2013
The Cruise
If you plan to cruise on Holland’s
America’s MS Oosterdam for the ICS
40th Anniversary Cruise to Alaska,
there will be plenty to keep you busy.
Below are some of the entertainment
activities that are provided.
Culinary Arts Center presented
by Food & Wine Magazine
Holland America Line, in partnership with Food & Wine magazine,
presents an exciting culinary program
featuring demonstrations and seminars
conducted by top chefs, wine experts
and leading cookbook authors on select
sailings. Guests have the opportunity
to learn and mingle with the world's
most renowned culinary authorities.
Explorations Café powered by
The New York Times
The Explorations Café powered by
The New York Times offers a comfortable, living room-style environment
where guests can sip a cup of coffee, work a crossword puzzle, browse
through a selection of more than 2,000
books, spend time enjoying a wide selection of music and surf the Internet. Wireless Internet is also available
throughout the ship for guests traveling with personal laptop computers. A
limited supply of laptops and wireless
network cards are available for rent.
Gaming
Whether a guest is an experienced
player, or has always wanted to learn
to play, the casino offers a friendly,
non-intimidating place to just have
fun. Guests can test lady luck on many
favorite games including Blackjack,
Poker, Craps, Roulette and Slots. Complimentary gaming lessons are held
throughout every cruise.
Bingo is another great way to win
money, prizes, and even a seven-day
cruise. Participate in the many games
scheduled throughout the cruise.
Greenhouse Spa & Salon
The ultimate pampering experience awaits guests at the luxurious
Greenhouse Spa & Salon. Professionals enrapture the mind and body with
exquisite treatments and rituals amid
MARCH 2013
Comanche Flyer •
25
DAY
LOCATION
ACTIVITY
Sunday
June 30
Seattle, Washington
Puget Sound
Depart 4:00 p.m.
Scenic cruising
Monday
July 1
At Sea
Tuesday
July 2
Tracy Arm and Twin Sawyer Glaciers
Scenic cruising
Wednesday
July 3
Juneau, Alaska
Full day
Thursday
July 4
Sitka, Alaska
Full day
Friday
July 5
Ketchikan, Alaska
Morning, half day
Saturday
July 6
Victoria, British Columbia
Evening
Sunday
July 7
Seattle, Washington
Arrive 7:00 a.m.
the serene ambiance of the sea. Choose
from a complete menu of massage and
body treatments, facials, detoxification therapy and a full-service salon.
The Greenhouse fitness center features
state-of-the-art weight and cardio machines so guests can feel free to indulge
in that extra dessert. Fitness classes
such as Pilates, yoga and cycling are
available at a nominal charge.
iPod Art Tour
A self-guided art and antique tour
of our multi-million dollar collection
is narrated by well-known radio hosts
Paul Lasley and Elizabeth Harryman.
The 40- to 50-minute tours include
walking directions, interviews with
artists, background music and photo
images displayed on the iPod screen
to help guests locate each piece. The
iPod-based art tours are now available
as free downloads from iTunes.
Guests desiring to take a tour simply
sign out an iPod free of charge and take
the tour at their leisure.
Digital Workshop powered by
Windows
Guests on Holland America Line
ships can “show and tell” their vacation
memories with Holland America Line
Digital Workshop powered by Microsoft
Windows. Free workshops led by Microsoft-trained “techsperts” show even
the most novice camera or computer
user how to take better
vacation photos, make
movies, edit pictures and
create scrapbooks using
a variety of Microsoft
Windows and Windows
Live services. Guests
will learn how to share
all their digital memories
through email, blogging
and social networking –
so friends and family can
see where they’ve been
cruising even before they
return home.
Shopping
Tax and Duty Free shopping is available in the cruise line’s Signature Shops
located just steps away from guest staterooms. There is a broad selection and
great prices on everything from fine jewelry and watches to designer fragrances
and cosmetics. Also available are gifts,
name brand liquor, tobacco products,
and stylish Holland America Line wear.
Each cruise also features relaxed
and entertaining auctions of art by
masters such as Rembrandt, Picasso,
Dalí, Chagall and Erté, as well as sports
memorabilia and animation art, all
priced at below gallery prices.
Sports
Guests will enjoy swimming pools,
hot tubs, walking and jogging our classic
teak decks and basketball and volleyball
courts. Our “Sports of Call” program
rewards guests with prizes for participating in events such as Golf Chipping
and Ping Pong. With so many choices,
there's something to suit everyone.
Entertainment
When the sun goes down, the ship
comes alive with entertainment. Whether a guest is looking to join the party
or enjoy a candle-lit corner, there's
something for everyone.
On Stage
Award-wining entertainers, many
with Broadway credits, perform dazzling musical numbers, mind-boggling
illusions and uproarious comedy. The
creative team behind Holland America
Line's shows has more Tony, Emmy,
Grammy and Oscar nominations than
any other cruise line.
Movies
Film buffs can enjoy recently released movies on our big screens. Don't
forget to grab some complimentary hot
buttered popcorn on the way in!
Music & Dancing
After the show, dance the night
away to a variety of musical styles performed live in our bars and lounges,
or join our DJ in the nightclub. From
classical to pop, Holland America Line
has something for everyone.
MARCH 2013
Excursions in the Ports of Call
Holland America Line offers a wide
variety of shore excursions to fit your
lifestyle, ranging from easygoing activities to high adventure. According
to the cruise line, each of their tours
provides the highest level of quality,
safety, convenience and value. Once
you have booked your cruise, you can
easily book your shore excursions online, and it is recommended that you
book early for the best selection.
Juneau
No roads lead to Juneau, which gives
the Alaskan capital a misty inscrutability.
You need to come by air or water, but
when you arrive, the place will delight
you with its bounty of water, forests,
and mountains. Squeezed between the
Gastineau Channel and Coast Mountains,
Juneau offers a lot of variety in close
proximity. The massive Mendenhall Glacier and the immense Juneau Icefields
are at its back door. The vast Tongass
National Forest stretches away to the
northeast. You can shop downtown or get
out and kayak, dogsled, raft, hike, whale
watch, flightsee or fish. The adventures
are as bountiful as the daylight.
Museum, Totem Bight State Park and
Saxman Village – try a flightseeing trip
to Misty Fjords National Monument.
These deepwater fjords were gouged out
by retreating glaciers, leaving granite
cliffs towering thousands of feet above
the sea and countless waterfalls plunging into placid waters.
Century. Catch a performance by the
New Archangel Dancers, be greeted
by native Tlingit people, then stand
on the spot where the United States
took possession of Alaska in 1867. The
dramatic setting in the shadow of Mt.
Edgecumbe is one of the loveliest in
the Great North.
Tour Highlights:
Tour Highlights:
• Alaska Bear Adventure by Floatplane: Deep in the forest, black
bears gather to feed on of pink, coho
and chum salmon.
• Tongass Rain Forest Nature Hike:
Head out on the Starrigavin Muskeg
Trail with a guide who is well-versed
in local flora, fauna, and history.
• An Alaskan Chef’s Table: A fivecourse tasting menu highlights
Alaska’s sustainable wild bounty.
• Colonial Russian America and Cultural Sitka: Several distinct periods
of Alaskan history are preserved at
Sitka National Historic Park.
• Magnificent Misty Fjords by Floatplane: Sheer granite cliffs, 1,000foot waterfalls, crystalline lakes and
low-hanging mists.
Sitka
The onion domes of St. Michael's
Cathedral are your first clue that Sitka
was once a key Russian settlement.
Indeed, it was capital of Russian America, seat of the bishop of Kamchatka,
and the most important port on the
West Coast for the first half of the 19th
• Jet-Cat Wildlife Quest and Beach
Exploration: Combine luxury and
excitement aboard an expedition
jet boat as you search for whales,
otters, puffins, bald eagles and even
brown bears.
And More – It’s all your choice for
an outstanding experience with scenic cruising and excursions that will
expand your horizons with wilderness
adventure.
Some of the Tour Highlights:
• Photo Safari by Land and Sea:
Capture everything from glaciers
to whales on this excursion that
features a professional naturalist
photography guide.
• Dog Sled and Glacier Adventure
by Helicopter: Learn the tricks of
the trade from seasoned veterans
of the legendary Alaskan Iditarod
Sled Dog Race.
• Best of Juneau! Whale Watching
Quest, Mendenhall Glacier and
Orca Point Lodge: See Juneau’s
highlights on this combination tour
and finish with a salmon feast.
Ketchikan
Ketchikan clutches the shores of
the Tongass Narrows, with many shops
and houses built right out over the water. The stairways are weathered and
the vibe is cheerful in the town that
calls itself the Salmon Capital of the
World. Besides the main attractions –
Creek Street, the Tongass Historical
MARCH 2013
Information on Registering for the
2013 ICS Convention and Cruise
R
egistration forms are sometimes hard to understand, so below are
some explanations on a couple of areas where there might be a
misunderstanding.
1. Registering for the convention is with the Northwest Tribe and can
be done by email or snail mail. Payment can be made by check or by using
the Northwest PayPal sight on the website for credit card payments.
2. Registration for the cruise is with Travel Leaders Travel Agency only.
3. Hotel reservations can be made through either Travel Leaders or directly
with the Holiday Inn at 1 (800) 465-4329 (mention the ICS convention).
4. If you use Travel Leaders for your hotel reservations ((281) 4922007), your card will be charged when you check in at the hotel. IF YOU
WANT TO MAKE ANY CHANGES, ADDITIONS OR DELETIONS AFTER
TRAVEL LEADERS HAS MADE YOUR RESERVATION, YOU MUST CALL
THE HOTEL DIRECTLY TO MAKE THEM.
5. We will be offering a couple of extra side trips on Friday. The only
cost will be $20 for transportation, made payable to the Northwest Tribe.
Pike Place Market in Seattle has no charges, and The Museum of Flight
will have a ticket cost. That cost can only be determined by the number
of people interested. As soon as we have single and group ticket prices, we
will publish them.
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by Dave Clark, ICS #8592
A
friend of mine had a starter
solenoid stick in his Seneca last
year that, unknown to him at
the time, caused the starter to be destroyed. Because it is relatively easy to
install an indicator light on the starter
solenoid circuit, I elected to install two
such lights in my Twin Comanche, one
for each solenoid. Since I was going to
drill two holes in my panel and do some
wiring behind it, it occurred to me that
this would be a good time to put in two
more indicator lights telling me that
the aux fuel pumps were on, thereby
reminding me to turn them off after
they were no longer needed. While I realize that the aux pumps
should be part of our
normal checklist, so is
putting down the landing gear, and yet each
year a few of us forget
to extend our undercarriage before reuniting with Mother Earth.
Therefore, if there is
some small reminder
that I can use to help me
remember items that I
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should be doing at the
same time that ATC is
often interrupting my concentration,
then I want to avail myself of it.
To that end, I spoke with my neighbor in the next hangar who is an electrical engineer and also an IA mechanic.
Together we designed a very simple
circuit for both the starter solenoid “engaged” indicators and the boost pump
indicators. (Refer to Figure 1 for the
wiring diagram, page 31.) We already
had some PTT (press-to-test) indicator
lights with red and amber lenses on
hand, so we chose to use the red lights
for the starters and the amber ones
for the boost pumps.
Next, we made a small thin aluminum
template out of scrap material to hold
the lights in place while we soldered the
leads to the back of the lights.
After deciding where to put the lights
on my panel, I made another small template out of a piece of scrap aluminum
for drilling four pilot holes. Once I drilled
these, I used a Unibit step drill to make
four perfectly round openings of exactly
the size required for the PTT lights.
The light sockets are pushed through
the holes from behind the panel and
secured with lock washers and hex nuts.
Figure 4
MARCH 2013
Articles from past Flyers that are worth repeating.
Reprinted from the April 2007 Comanche Flyer
Figure 3
Once the sockets are in place, you can
screw in the lenses that contain the
bulbs (refer to Figure 2).
As the wiring diagram shows, we
“daisy-chained” the ground terminals
and the “always hot” PTT terminals to
avoid redundancy in the circuitry. One
wire came off the RH Aux Pump light
ground terminal, and after crimping
on a small ring connector terminal, we
screw attached it to bare metal in a convenient location under the panel. Ideally we would have attached the power
wire from the PTT terminal of the same
press to test lamp to the buss. Since
running a wire under the flooring to a
circuit breaker is not very convenient,
we elected to attach
this wire to the “always hot” terminal
on the back of one
of the boost pump
switches with an inline fuse holder soldered into that lead
(refer to Figure 3).
Figure 5
MARCH 2013
We ran the two
indicator wires from
the red starter lights
through one of the
several pre-existing holes in the firewall into the nose compartment and
down to the starter solenoids, which
are located in the lower right side of
that space about 10 inches forward
of the firewall. We made these wires
approximately seven feet long to give
ourselves plenty to work with and we
tied a small knot in the end of the left
wire to identify it. It is easy to have
these two wires join the pre-existing
wiring bundle in the rear of the nose
section and secure them with tie-wraps.
We brought these two wires to the lower
right front surface of the firewall to join
a newly created fuse box that we had
mounted there with screws.
It is best to drill the two holes from
the nose compartment through the
firewall into the cabin just behind your
rudder pedals on the co-pilot side. Be
careful to avoid the large wiring bundle
Comanche Flyer •
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Volunteers flying for the
environment since 1979.
Phone: 307-332-3242
www.lighthawk.org
running on the cabin side behind a plastic “tunnel” molding. One can easily
identify the boundaries of this bundle
from the nose compartment side by
looking for the screws that hold the
plastic molding in place on the nose
side. Since it was virtually impossible to
solder down inside the crowded lower
nose compartment, we crimped on the
female connectors to the two indicator
wires and pushed them onto the male
connectors in the top of the fuse box.
We had built the small plastic fuse box
(refer to Figure 4) from parts readily
available at RadioShack or any electronics supply store. We drilled holes in
the bottom of the fuse box and riveted
two individual fuse holders in place.
At the same time, we drilled two additional holes in the bottom of the fuse
box floor that would accommodate the
screws for attaching it to the firewall.
We then used a mill file and cut slots
in the relatively soft plastic ends of the
box to allow the wires to pass through.
We also used small rubber grommets
around the wires that ran through the
slots. Next we attached two wires (approximately 18 inches in length) from
the bottom of the fuse box to go toward
the starter solenoids.
then crimped a 5/16-inch ring terminal
connector to the right wire and a 3/8inch connector to the left wire from
the fuse box and attached these to the
solenoid studs. Warning: Don’t crimp
on these connectors before you pull
the wires through the boots (refer to
Figure 5). Once the nuts and washers were back on the solenoid studs,
I replaced the rubber boots and put
new one-amp fuses in the fuse box and
tried out the new starter indicator light
circuits. Since each red light came on
temporarily when I was cranking its
corresponding engine and went out
promptly when the engine started, I
placed the cover on the fuse box and
replaced the nose cowling.
The process for installing one of
these indicator lights on a single Comanche would be almost identical, but
would involve bringing the wire through
the firewall into the engine compartment and attaching a small fuse box to
that firewall before running the wiring
to the starter solenoid itself.
The wiring for the aux pump indicator lights is much easier. All I did was
run the wire from each boost pump
indicator light to the back of the boost
pump switch on the lower panel. We
The most difficult part of the promeasured what we needed, cut the
cess: On each of the starter solenoids,
wires and crimped on two ring termiwe pealed back the rubber boot that
nal connectors. The screw terminal on
covers the power terminal connector
each switch to which one must attach
and stud and removed the nut and split
the lamp wire is not the convenient one
washer. We then ran each wire from
on the bottom of the switch, but rather
the fuse box through the rubber boot
the one on the side of the switch. I had
on its respective solenoid so that it
to loosen the hex nut on the front side
would run parallel to the large power
of the panel and turn the switch slightly
wire going to the starter. We had to use
so that I could access the screw on the
some surgical hemostats
to pull
thefor the
side terminal of each switch. Once the
Volunteers
flying
smaller wires through this very tight
wires were attached, I could easily tell
environment since 1979.
place. The outboard solenoid for the
if these lights were working properly
right engine starter was much easier
by simply turning the aux pumps on
to access than the inboard one for the
and off.
left starter.
Also note that for safety concerns,
On the two Twin Comanches that I
we inserted one-amp fuses in the wires
have installed these lights, I noted that
coming off of the starter solenoid power
the studs and lugs
are different
sizes
terminals (the fuse box) due to the large
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on the two solenoids. I surmised that
www.lighthawk.orgamounts of current drawn into those
this was intended so that one will not
circuits. Likewise, we inserted a oneconfuse the two wires to their respecamp inline fuse into the press to test
tive starters when replacing them. I
circuit of our indicator lamps.
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6th Vertical
can be working in the nose while the
other is in the cabin. A simple logbook
entry will suffice for this procedure.
You have cut no wires nor made any
significant alterations. No change in the
weight and balance is needed. Be sure
to mention that the wiring was done
“IAW AC43:13-1b & 2a.”
In the second Twin Comanche in
which we installed these lights, we used
simple panel indicator lights without
the press-to-test function, which makes
the wiring even easier. We eliminated
the press to test circuit and only “daisychained” the ground terminals on these
lamps. The other terminal on the back
of each of these lights was wired exactly
the same as the number two terminal
(indicator circuit) on the lights in our
wiring diagram.
This is a project that you and your
A&P can easily do in an afternoon,
or you can get your avionics shop to
do it. It required about four hours of
work. It can be done by one person,
but two will make it go faster as one
Note: Comanche owners are aware
of the varying requirements imposed
by different GADOs for this type of
work, as some GADOs may not accept a
logbook entry. It is therefore imperative
that owners seek appropriate guidance
from their IA before attempting such
alterations.
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Flyer is useful and worth re-running,
send a copy to Editor Kim Blonigen.
The parts needed for this project are:
4 press to test lamps
1 inline fuse holder
1 plastic fuse box with two fuse holders, mountable type
3 fuses, 1-amp
25 feet of 22-gauge insulated wire
4 spade connectors
1 ring terminal connector 5/16-inch (solderless or crimp-on insulated type)
1 ring terminal connector 3/8-inch (solderless)
4 small ring terminal connectors (solderless)
Some heat shrink for soldered leads on back of PTT lamps
2 small grommets for fuse box
4 screws and locking nuts
2 rivets, squeeze type
20 tie wraps
2 pieces of 2 x 4-inch scrap aluminum for templates
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Knit Polo (light blue, mens with pocket, ladies no pocket)
Coffee Mugs
Lapel Pins
Polo Shirts (with pocket)
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maintenance of your Single Comanche.
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Circle selection:
Twin: S M L XL
Single: S XL
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Circle selection:
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Circle selection: Twin Both Single
$35.00
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Circle selection: Tan Blue
Circle selection: Twin Single
$14.00
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Circle selection: Single Twin
$7.50
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Circle selection: Single Twin Logo
$5.00
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$5.00
ICS06 Cloth Patch
$6.00
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your Comanche airplane, both singles and twins, providing a high-quality magazine, and for the camaraderie you’ve
experienced among your fellow members. Don’t let your membership lapse or miss a single issue of Comanche Flyer!
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PILOT’S OPERATING HANDBOOK
AND FAA APPROVED
AIRPLANE FLIGHT MANUAL
“Formerly Published And Produced by the late Douglas L. Killough”
Piper Aircraft ceased production of the Comanche and Twin Comanche in 1972,
several years before the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA)
established specifications for the contemporary Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH).
As a result, the Owner’s Handbook published by Piper is incomplete by modern
standards. Now available EXCLUSIVELY from the INTERNATIONAL COMANCHE
SOCIETY, INC., through it’s licensed agents, is the upgraded Pilot’s Operating
Handbook and FAA approved GAMA format Airplane Flight Manual.
Discounted to current ICS members at $75.00 each, plus shipping (must
ask for ICS member discount and provide ICS membership number when
placing order). Available only through Webco Aircraft at 316-283-7929 or
www.webcoaircraft.com. Available Bound or Unbound/Un-punched.
There are SIXTEEN different GAMA format manuals
available for the Piper Single and Twin Comanche.
Please order your manual by “Manual Number 1-16”
from the chart below.
TO ORDER CALL WEBCO AIRCRAFT AT 316-283-7929 OR
WWW.WEBCOAIRCRAFT.COM. Specify “Bound” or “Unbound/Un-punched.”
Order
Qty
Manual
Number
Model
Gross
Weight
Year(s)
Mfg
Flight Manual
Report Number
SN
Begin
SN
End
01.)
180
2550
1957-64
1047
24-1
3687
02.)
250
2800
1958-60
997
103
2298
03.)
250
2900
1961
1127
2299
2843
04.)
250
2900
1962-64
1179
2844
3687
05.)
250
2900
1962-64
1220 (FI)
2844
3687
06.)
260
2900
1965
1334
4000
4299
07.)
260
2900
1965
1333 (Carb)
4000
4299
Singles:
Not Avail
08.)
260B
3100
1966-68
1359
4300
4803
09.)
260B
3100
1966-68
1358 (Carb)
4300
4803
10.)
260C
3200
1969-72
1545
4804
5028
11.)
260T
3200
1970-72
1640 (Turbo)
4901
5028
12.)
400
3600
1964-65
1295
26-3
148
13.)
PA30
3600
1963-68
1269
30-2
1744
1969
1515
1745
2000
Twins:
14.)
PA30T
3725
1964-68
1269 (Turbo)
143
1744
1969
1515 (Turbo)
1745
2000
15.)
PA39
3600
1970-72
1605
39-1
155
16.)
PA39T
3725
1970-72
1605 (Turbo)
1
155
MARCH 2013
FROM THE TRIBE CHIEFS
EUROPEAN TRIBE
FLy-INS FOR 2013
Edinburgh Scotland (EGPT)
May 23-26
The arrival airport will be at Perth
(EGPT) where we are being hosted by
the Scottish Aero Club and transported
by coach to the King James Thistle
hotel at the east end of Princes street
in Edinburgh.
There will be a tour of Edinburgh
Castle and a Gala dinner on the Royal
Yacht Britannia on 24th May. Other
events will include a tour of the Scottish Parliament, and a dinner at Prestonfield House Hotel, a 16th-century
manor house and Edinburgh’s most
prestigious venue.
There is a maximum number of 40
places on this fly-in which has already
been booked, and there is now a waiting list. Contact Barrie Taylor at abwt@
btinternet.com for more information.
Galway and West of
Ireland Tour (EICM)
August 1-6
The airport has a hard runway with
ILS. The itinerary includes an evening
at Galway Races and the opportunity to
explore Ireland’s Western coastline taking in Kilary fjord, Inishbofin island and
the spectacular Sky road at Clifden. You
can enjoy a landscape seeped in history
and Celtic antiquity. Our tour begins and
ends in Galway, a bustling and historical
city, and the gateway to Connemara,
where you can shop for souvenirs, learn
about the past or just soak up the atmosphere of this vibrant city.
Due to various arrival times and to
allow for late arrivals, the schedule is
left open for to explore the city as you
wish. Options include a visit to the Galway museum, historical walking tours
DATE
TRIBE EVENT/LOCATION
Arrive in Galway between 13.00
and 15.30 local time, and enjoy light
refreshments while awaiting transfer to
our accommodations. We will stay at
the luxurious Merrick/Victoria Hotel/
spa in the center of Galway (http://
www.hotelmeyrick.ie/index.html).
MARCH 2013
INFO SOURCE/HOST
March 16 *
NE
Lunch/Frederick, Md. (FDK)
March 16
NC
Lunch & Socializing/Rough
River State Resort Park (2I3)
April 5-7
SE
April 9-14
April 12-14
SW
April 20 *
NE
April 27
MS
May 3-5
SE
May 23-26
June 7-9
EU
SE
June 15 *
June 27-30
NE
ICS
Fly-in/ Callaway Gardens/
Pine Mountain, Ga. (KPIM)
Sun ‘n Fun 2013/Lakeland, Fla.
Fly-in & Horn AD Seminar/
Lorne or Peg Harmon at (928) 717-2630
Laughlin, Nev. (IPF)
(home), (928) 925-1225 (cell), or email
[email protected]
Lunch/Latrobe, Pa. (LBE)
Ron and Lynn Ward at
[email protected] register at:
Horn AD Seminar/
Pat Donovan at
Newton, Kansas (KEWK)
[email protected]
Fly-in/Destin-Ft. Walton
Phillip Hobbs at
Beach, Fla. (KDTS)
[email protected]
Fly-In/Edinburgh Scotland (EGPT) Barrie Taylor at [email protected]
Fly-In & Tribe Business Mtg./
Doris, more details TBD
Sanford, Fla. (KSFB)
Lunch/Newport, N.H.
Pete Morse at [email protected]
2013 ICS Convention/
Shirley Nelson (360) 671-7388 or
Renton, Wash.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Steve Marcozzi at (502) 564-0340 (day)
(502) 229-8614 (cell), or e-mail
[email protected]
Phillip Hobbs at
[email protected]
June 30-July 7 ICS
Alaska Cruise (optional)
July 13 *
Lunch/Ellenville, N.Y. (N89)
Dwight Coombe at dwightcoombe@
sprague-killeen.com
AirVenture 2013/
Oshkosh, Wis. (OSH)
Galway and West of
Ireland Tour (EICM)
Lunch & Elections/
Pittstown, N.J.(N40)
Lunch & Comanche issues/
Leroy, N.Y. (5G0)
TBD
NE
July 29-Aug 4
Aug 1-6
EU
Aug 17 *
NE
Sept 14 *
NE
Oct 19 *
NE
Lunch/Luray, Va. (LUA)
Nov 16 *
NE
Lunch/Cambridge, Md.
http://www.quietcornerbands.org/
Forms/ICS-NE_FlyIn_RegForm.htm
Dec. 14 *
NE
Lunch/Georgetown, Del.
ITINERARY
Day 1: Thursday, August 01
of the city, taking in a show or simply
taking up the atmosphere. This is the
perfect opportunity to sample the Guinness in one of the many traditional pubs
around the city and close to our hotel.
David Sheppard at david@
sheppardracing.freeserve.co.uk
Bernie Stumpf at
[email protected]
* The following Sunday is the raindate.
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We have the first part of the day
to continue exploring the “City of the
Tribes.” Galway is renowned as the cultural capital of Ireland. This medieval
city is now one of the fastest growing
urban areas in Europe. At this time of
year, the city is alive with street theatre, music, and packed with visitors
who attended the international arts
festival and are looking forward to the
Galway Races.
Day 3: Saturday, August 03
In the morning, we will be picked
up from our hotel in Galway and driven west to Connemara. We will pass
through the beautiful Inagh Valley to
visit the famous 18th century Kylemore
Abbey and its award-winning Victorian
Gardens. We will be able to have lunch
at the Abbey.
Activities included in our package for the afternoon include a scenic
cruise along Killary Harbour, Ireland’s
only fjord, featuring a live commentary
about the history of the area as well
as the workings of the harbour today.
We will also visit the Alcock & Brown
landing site of the first Trans-Atlantic
flight at Clifden which occurred on June
15, 1919. Afterward, we will be taken
to the beautiful Renvyle Peninsula to
our accommodations at the Leenane
Hotel (www.leenanehotel.com), where
we will have dinner.
Day 4: Sunday, August 04
In the morning following a sumptuous traditional Irish breakfast, we
will be taken to Connemara National
Park where our guide will provide a
comprehensive overview of the park
and the area while leading us on the
various tracks through the park. The
more adventurous in the group can attempt the two-hour climb of Diamond
Hill. Lunch is available at the park.
In the afternoon, bikes will be provided for a gentle cycle through Letterfrack village back to our accommodation
at Leenane. Alternatively, we will have
option to travel to Clifden by coach if
you would like to spend the afternoon
browsing through the shops in Clifden
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before being brought back for dinner,
which will again be provided at the
award-winning restaurant at our hotel.
Day 5: Monday, August 05
We will return to our accommodation at Inishbofin (www.inishbofin.
com) – one of three offshore islands of
Connemara! We will be picked up at our
accommodation on the Renvyle Peninsula and taken to Cleggan where we will
take the ferry to Inishbofin to sample
the unique “island life” and take in one
of Ireland’s unique attractions. This
island is an ideal spot for swimming,
hill walking, cycling and angling. Inishbofin has a highly respected reputation
for traditional music and world-class
musicians who visit it regularly. We
will stay at the luxury Inishbofin House
hotel and spa (www.inishbofinhouse.
com). On arrival, our first glimpse of
Bofin will be the impressive “Cromwell's Barracks” – the well-preserved
ruins dating back to the 17th century.
There are also many kinds of birds, as
well as colonies of seals on the island.
For lucky visitors, there is also the possibility of sighting dolphins, whales and
sharks! Individuals are free to explore
the island at their own pace. Dinner
will be provided at our hotel and entertainment will be easily found with high
quality Irish music sessions in each of
the island’s pubs!
Day 6: August 06
We will return to Cleggan on the
morning boat, where we will be picked up by coach and brought to Galway
Airport for departure. Our intended
schedule will see us ready to leave
around midday or early afternoon.
The itinerary has been organised
to allow enough time to pursue other
interests outside of these arrangements.
There is much to do such as horse
riding on the beaches or in the National
Park, shark fishing, other boating activities, and a cooking course for local
dishes may well be an offer. We will
gladly make arrangements as requested.
The cost of this fly-in has been calculated to include the itinerary, dinner
on four of the five nights, and accommodation. At this time the cost is estimated to be approximately 1150 Euros
per person for a double room, and as
usual there will be a small supplement
for single occupancy. The number of
people attending and the exchange rate
will affect the final cost.
If you are interested in coming,
please contact David Sheppard (david@
sheppardracing.freeserve.co.uk) who
looks forward to hearing from you.
MID-STATES TRIBE
Horn AD Maintenance
Seminars
The Mid States Tribe of ICS is hosting a series of one day, “hands-on”
seminars showing how you and/or your
mechanic can satisfy AD 2012-17-06.
With you watching and participating, a
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Comanche tail will be taken apart, the
inspection performed, and the tail reassembled. A local “Comanche expert”
will be used if possible; otherwise, one
will be brought in. Both ICS and nonICS members are invited.
The cost is $25 per person. An additional $5 per person will cover lunch.
Arrangements will be made with a local
hotel for Friday and Saturday nights in
case you wish to arrive early or leave
late. The person who volunteers their
Comanche will be charged $50 to cover
the inspection and attendance.
Seminars are proposed for Newton,
Kansas (see below); Denver, Colo.;
Rapid City, S.D.; Minneapolis, MInn.;
Iowa City, Iowa; and St. Louis, Mo.
These locations are general areas
and should not be construed as absolute. The first location is planned for
a southern location and progressing
north as the weather warms up. A local volunteer coordinator is needed
for each site.
We will also try to have something
for the non-pilot that could accompany
their time for the day. This will naturally be location dependent, and will
be determined later.
for both Friday and Saturday night for
those who need it. Cancellation policy
requires notification by 4:00 p.m. the
day of your reservation (pretty liberal)
so weather shouldn't be a concern.
The program administrator for the
seminars is Pat Donovan. If you are
interested in being a local coordinator
or want your Comanche tail inspected
as part of this program, contact him
at [email protected] or (636)
462-8370.
The seminar starts Saturday at 8:00
a.m. and will continue until late afternoon. Expect a full day of tail-related
show-and-tell as we pull apart a Comanche and perform the AD mandated
inspection on the horn.
FIRST HORN AD SEMINAR
Location: Webco Aircraft, Newton,
Kansas (KEWK)
Date: Saturday, 27 April 2013
Hotel: Comfort Inn, 1205 East 1st St,
Newton. A block of 10 rooms has been
set aside for us under Webco (not ICS)
at a cost of $88.99. Call (316) 804-4866
to make reservations and ask for Neal.
Hotel amenities include a full breakfast,
microwave, mini-refrigerator, and indoor pool/sauna. The hotel is blocked
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Non-pilot activities are still being
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Please contact Pat Donovan at
[email protected] to let him
know you are coming. Early arrivals
can meet for dinner on Friday night to
discuss sundry topics. Registration fee
(not including the $5 for lunch) should
be made out to “Mid-States Comanche
Tribe” and sent to Pat Donovan, 421
Piper Ct, Troy, MO 63379.
Saturday Lunch Fly-Ins
Saturday Lunch Fly-Ins will be
posted in our new Comanche Winds
newsletter which will come out every
other month, and are now posted in the
calendar summary in the Flyer.
Also, we will be sending out e-mail
notices a month before and the week
of the fly-in. There are several fly-ins
already in the process, so watch your
e-mails. These fly-ins will focus on having fun, kicking tires, telling stories and
promoting more new and old friendships among our tribe members.
Be sure to contact the fly-in host for
last minute changes or cancellations,
especially if you are not on the Mid
States Tribe fly-in or newsletter list.
If you would like to host a lunch
fly-in, please call Sarah McKinley
at (816) 868-1015 (cell) or e-mail at
[email protected].
MARCH 2013
Tribe E-mail Updates
If you are not receiving the Mid
States Comanche Winds newsletter
and would like to, please call Sarah
McKinley at (816) 868-1015 or by email at [email protected] and she
will make sure to amend the list to
include your e-mail address.
NORTH CENTRAL TRIBE
Lunch Fly-In
Rough River State Resort
Park, Ky. (2I3)
March 16
Fly in to Rough River State Resort
Park airport in Kentucky and walk the
easy ¼-mile to the lodge dining room for
lunch at 11:00 a.m. CST. The focus will
be socializing and talking Comanches.
Staying overnight is optional on
your own at the lodge with Sunday
after breakfast departures. For lodge
room reservations, contact the front
desk at (270) 257-2311. Check-in is at
4:00 p.m. and checkout is noon. Your
hosts are Steve and Kim Marcozzi who
can be contacted at (502) 564-0340
(day), (502) 330-0521 (b berry), (502)
229-8614 (cell), or e-mail [email protected].
SOUTH CENTRAL TRIBE
Saturday Lunch Fly-Ins
If it is difficult for you to make a
full weekend fly-in, you may find the
Saturday lunch gatherings with Comanche camaraderie, sharing of flying
stories, maintenance talk and lunch, to
your liking. You should be able to find
a schedule of the lunch fly-ins on the
South Central Tribe website at http://
groups.msn.com/SouthCentralTribe
ICS/welcome.msnw and in the South
Central Tribe newsletter Smoke Trails.
(If you wish to organize a lunch flyin, please contact Bruce Thumann at
[email protected] or
(713) 875-3056.)
Tribe E-mail Updates
If you are not receiving the South
Central Tribe’s Smoke Trails Newsletter
MARCH 2013
and would like to, please e-mail Bruce
Thumann at bruce@contractbuilders
supply.com, and he will make sure
to amend the list to include your email address.
SOUTHEAST TRIBE
Saturday Lunch Fly-ins
We will be scheduling lunch fly-ins
throughout the spring. These will be
scheduled by email. Let me know if
there are good destinations in your
area. We will get the word out!
Callaway Gardens Fly-in
Pine Mountain, Ga. (KPIM)
April 5-7
This is the perfect time to see this
magnificent wonder of central Georgia. We will fly in to Pine Mountain
(KPIM) just as the azaleas are peaking
in this 13,000-acre resort. Three days
of boundless activities are available
including tours of the spectacular gardens, biking, canoeing, ropes courses
in the trees, and of course the two Callaway golf courses.
Plan to arrive Friday, April 5, where
our host FBO will be Harris County.
The airport manager is Bill Champion,
who can be reached at (706) 590-1414.
Transportation to the Mountain Creek
Inn resort will be provided by the resort. Room rates are $112 per night,
plus taxes. For more information, you
can go to their website at http://www.
callawaygardens.com/where-to-stay/
mountain-creek-inn. All rooms have
free Wi-Fi access. Given the popularity of the resort and the peak season,
we are unable to block these rooms.
PLEASE notify me early of your commitment and make your reservations
as soon as possible. There are two
restaurants at the Inn serving terrific
breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets.
Friday night hosts a seafood buffet for
$26.95 per person. Saturday night is a
classic Southern buffet for $21.95 per
person. Several other restaurants are
also available on site or within minutes
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Friday night we’ll have dinner and
unwind with our Comanche friends.
Saturday morning we will start with a
little orientation, and then it is off in all
directions. With so many activities, we
plan a fairly loose agenda. We can team
up for tours or explore on our own,
and for the golfers, there are two great
courses at Callaway. We will probably
need to reserve space ahead of time, so
please respond early. Given the size of
the resort, walking it all is not feasible,
so bicycles and golf carts are available right at the Inn for rent. Bikes are
$20/half day, four-person golf carts are
$75/day. We will also have the van for
transportation as a group. After a day
of exploration, Saturday night we’ll be
back to gather around the buffet or one
of the other restaurants at the resort,
share stories of our explorations and
make plans for the future. I also plan
to hold a brief Tribe meeting Saturday
to discuss how we make these fly-ins
more attractive and affordable. Your
input is valuable. We hope you can at-
tend. Sunday morning will be breakfast,
relax and homebound.
Cost for the fly-in is $30 per person to mainly cover transportation.
All meals, rooms, bike or cart rental,
activities, etc. are at cost. A hospitality room is available and I would like
to include that in the weekend, but
the cost of the room will add $20 per
person. Before reserving that room, I
need to gage the attendance. Please
book your rooms directly with Callaway
and RSVP with Phillip Hobbs at email
[email protected] early so we
can get our reservations confirmed.
Please also let me know what activities
you are interested in so that we can
plan better.
Go to http://www.callaway
gardens.com for information on activities. This is one of Callaway Garden’s
most busy times. Please commit as
soon as possible by email and send
your payment of $30 per person to
Phillip Hobbs, 2916 Savannah Hills
Drive, Matthews, NC 28105.
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Fly-in
Destin-Ft Walton Beach,
Fla. (KDTS)
May 3-5
The Southeast Tribe extends an
open invitation to all members to join
us for a fly-in to Destin-Ft Walton Beach
(KDTS). This is an outstanding opportunity as you fly through the Destin/Elgin
corridor, perhaps one of the nation’s
most intense military airspaces. Prior to
arrival Friday, we are suggesting some
online training for flying the Destin/
Elgin corridor, go to the FAA web site
faasafety.gov. You will need a Wings
account, once you've logged on, look
for “Course Name ALC-47: Destin/Eglin
AFB FL Part 93 Operations.” This will
better prepare you for flying through
the airspace.
Our Host FBO is Miracle Strip Aviation at telephone number (850) 8376135; the manager is Brian Cherry.
We will have ample ramp space, fuel
discounts and great hospitality. Upon
arrival, the Wingate by Wyndham is a
short transport before you’re relaxing in
the hospitality room. We have a special
rate of $99 plus tax, per night. Please
contact Wingate directly for reservations at (850) 654-4678, and mention
ICS for the rate. Friday night dinner will
be at a great local restaurant, the Back
Porch (http://www.theback-porch.
com/destin/index.php). This is a very
popular restaurant, so we will try to get
there by 6:00 p.m.
Saturday the adventurous will fly
a short hop along the beach to Ferguson (82J) and on to the National Naval
Aviation Museum (NNAM) at Pensacola
(http://www.navalaviationmuseum.
org). Please note that 82J is within the
Pensacola NAS Class C, three miles
from the NAS, so preparation is advised.
We have a full and exciting agenda developing for our trip to the NNAM.
The tentative schedule includes…
• DepartDTS0900,arrive82J0930,
transport to NNAM
• Personalguidedtourofthemuseum
starting about 1000 (takes about
one-and-a-half hours)
MARCH 2013
• Lunchforourgroupwillbeprovided
in the Cubi Bar Café about 1200
• IMAXtheaterpresentationof“The
Magic of Flight,” beginning at 1300
(lasts 45 minutes)
• Opentofurtherexploration,return
to DTS
• Backtothehotel,and…
Off to join the others who will be
enjoying a day at the beach. Alternately there is a lot to do in the area such as
shopping at one of Florida’s largest outlet malls (http://www.premiumoutlets.
com/outlets/outlet.asp?id=102) and
lots of water activities if there is enough
interest. Other activities can be planned
based on response.
Saturday night, dinner will be at a
local restaurant (to be selected) and
we’ll return to the hospitality room for
more Comanche talk, stories of the day,
and general camaraderie. Sunday will
be brunch and then returning home.
Cost for the fly-in is $45 per person to cover transportation, hospitality
room, etc. All meals, rooms, etc. are
at cost. The day at the National Naval
Aviation Museum is $19.25 per person
which covers the tour, lunch and the
IMAX.Pleasebookyourroomsdirectly
with Wyndham and RSVP with Phillip Hobbs at email phobbs1@carolina.
rr.com early so we can confirm the
itinerary, logistics, etc. Let me know
if you are interested in the National
Naval Aviation Museum tour or prefer
other activities. Please commit as soon
as possible by email and send your
payment of $45 per person to Phillip
Hobbs, 2916 Savannah Hills Drive, Matthews, NC 28105.
Fly-In & Tribe Business
Meeting
Sanford, Fla. (KSFB)
June 7-9
A fly-in and Southeast Tribe Business
meeting is being planned for Sanford,
Fla. (KSFB). Doris is planning this now
and looking at some great activities including a dinner cruise on the St. John’s
River, so Southeast Tribe members,
mark your calendars! Based on our last
great fly-in at Ft. Myers, it promises to
be lots of fun. Details to follow.
MARCH 2013
SOUTHWEST TRIBE
Fly-In and Horn
AD Seminar
Laughlin, Nev. (IPF)
April 12-14
Our tribe’s annual Laughlin fly-in
will be in April this year, and we’re
returning to Harrah’s Laughlin Casino
& Hotel Resort on the Colorado River.
They always offer us the best hotel
rate, as well as free transportation to
and from the airport.
Seminar
A maintenance seminar is scheduled
that will deal with the Horn AD, conducted by maintenance personnel from
Arizona Aircraftsman, Inc. They are a
first-class shop located in Prescott, Ariz.
In fact, one of the participating mechanics happens to own a 1966 260B with an
Aspen panel (which I’m sure he would be
more than happy to show everyone). It is
anticipated that we will take apart the tail
section of a Comanche and demonstrate
the dye penetrant test that must be done,
as well as replacing the bearings, etc. At
this time, we expect to replace the used
horn with a new tube and horn, which
means we can also have a discussion
about the alignment process required
for that job. The seminar should run all
day on Saturday, April 13, with a break
for a catered lunch. For those attending only the seminar, please let us know
by calling or emailing, so that we can
plan accordingly. This seminar is open
to all Comanche owners, whether ICS
members or not. The Comanche Flyer
Foundation (CFF) will help cover the
costs for this seminar.
Co-Pilot Activity
As far as “extracurricular” activities
in and around Laughlin, it seems that
we have done everything offered in the
area at least once. However, there was
one more idea, and when the manager
of our host FBO Landmark endorsed it,
we decided on Keepers of the Wild, a
non-profit animal rescue park northeast
of Kingman on historic Route 66. To
learn more about it, go to their website
at www.keepersofthewild.org. There
are more than 175 animals – lions, tigers,
leopards, monkeys, cougars, etc. – all
having been rescued from abuse, neglect, abandonment or retired captive
animals. Even though the manager had
a real “close and up-front tour” (we
certainly won’t be doing that!), he assured us that the regular tour or the
guided safari tour will be a real treat
for our group. It’s very reasonable to
get in at $18/adults and $15/seniors.
We’ll be renting vans for the occasion
and we’ll have lunch at a “local” spot.
Saturday Night Banquet Dinner
Our banquet dinner will be the same
as in prior years, and it is scrumptious!
The cost, per person, is $40.
Temperatures
Laughlin should be in the mid 80s
to low 90s during April, so plan accordingly.
Hotel Information
There is both a smoking section and
non-smoking section for the gamblers.
Rooms are $49.99/night, with a 72-hour
cancellation policy. To make reservations
call (877) 881-5955. Be sure to specify
the group code number of S03SCT3
(group name is “Southwest Comanche
Tribe”). Cut-off date for reservations is
3/13/2013. There are four restaurants on
site, plus a Starbucks, Baskin-Robbins,
Cinnabon and McDonald’s ... in other
words, buffet to fast food to gourmet for
meals. Harrah’s will provide van transportation to/from the airport on Friday
afternoon and Sunday morning. Their
website is www.harrahslaughlin.com
if you’d like to look up anything.
Airport/FBO
Laughlin/Bullhead (IPF) is our host
airport, and Landmark Aviation our
FBO. Landmark has once again generously provided a hangar for our use
in the maintenance seminar. They
are also providing a ten cent per gallon discount for fuel, and no charge
for parking with the purchase of fuel,
otherwise parking is $15/night.
If you have any questions about the
fly-in, please call Lorne or Peg Harmon
at (928) 717-2630 (home), (928) 9251225 (cell), or email flying@cableone.
net. We’re very excited about this year’s
fly-in and look forward to having you
join us.
Comanche Flyer •
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FLY-IN REPORT
MID-STATES
Saturday Fly-In
Priceless Despite
Cold Temps
MARCH 2013
by Pat Donovan
S
aturday, January 26, turned
out to be an absolutely gorgeous day to fly! The air was
clean, the sky was a wonderful
blue, and the cold temperature made
for excellent engine performance. I
must admit that when I did my preflight planning and looked at the temperature for Greenfield, Iowa, I made
a detour back to my clothes closet for
long underwear.
The winds were interesting. There
was absolutely no turbulence, but a distinct shear at about 1500 feet. Above
that, the winds were from the west at
about 20 knots. Below that, the winds
were from the southeast at about 10
knots. The temperature also increased
slightly during the descent.
If you have never been to the airport
at Greenfield, please make it a point to
stop by. The Iowa Aviation Museum is
delightful (www.flyingmuseum.com)
and open seven days a week (10:00
a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday-Saturday,
and 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sunday). This
particular day, the museum was having its annual chili lunch fundraising
event. Lots of aircraft flew in including
five Comanches, as well as a Beaver on
floats that had just been restored that
came down from Wisconsin for the
day. Parking space became a minor
problem, but there was plenty of level
frozen ground for the overflow.
Because of the large crowd and
the scattered arrival of the ICS folks,
we weren’t able to sit together, but
Mid-States Fly Out Coordinator Sarah
McKinley tracked everyone down and
handed each person a volt-ohm meter
door prize.
The chili was tasty, the museum a
hidden jewel, the weather wonderful,
and the camaraderie terrific. Priceless!
If you need an excuse to go to
Greenfield, there will be another museum event on August 25 called “Wings
Fly-in/Drive-in,” featuring an omelet
breakfast from 7:30 – 11:00 a.m. I plan
to put it on my personal calendar.
MARCH 2013
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Comanches For Sale
PA24-250
1959, PA24-250, 4343TT, 887SMOH, annual
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Always hangared. Asking $55,000. (217) 3553484, [email protected]
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PA24-260
1965 260, well maintained IFR. N8651P, S/N
24-4094. TT5540, SMOH1782, New stab horn AD.
New Sky-Tec starter and cables, Stec 50 autopilot,
3-yr new leather interior. King KX155, 170B, KMA,
Garmin 496 with XM radar, Powertow 35, Paint 6+.
All manuals and Powertow included. $64,900
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Wanted: a 250 or a 260 that has complete
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contact me at [email protected] or
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1966 PA260B SN 24-4411 N8954P TTAF 3000,
SMOH 1392, Prop SMOH 71 Hrs.Center Stack
Panel with 2 King 155's, 6 Seat, Met-Co-Aire Wing
Tips, Knots2U Gap Seals, Custom Blue Interior,
Electric Trim, Hartzell Prop, 4 Fuel Tanks, 1-Piece
Windshield, New electric fuel pump, Hangared in
Phoenix since I bought it in 1978. Lost Medical,
out of Annual, $47,500. Bob (602)996-0800,
[email protected]
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69 260C N9359P, 3100TTAF, 800SFOH E/P Garmin
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$110,000; Jeff, [email protected]
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Lycoming LIO-320-C1A Parts for sale with engine
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ABBREVIATION KEY
A/C
AD’s
ADF
AH
A&P
AI
A/P
AP
CDI
CHT
COM
C/R
C/T
DF
DG
DME
EFIS
EGT
ELT
E/P
F/D
FGP
FWF
GPS
G/S
GSP
H/P
HP
HSI
IFR
IMC
ILS
LE
LOC
LORAN
M/B
MDH
NDH
NM
NAV
OAT
OH
PET
RB
R/C
RE
RG
RNAV
SB’s
SCMOH
SFN
SFRM
SMOH
SOH
S/N
SPOH
STOH
TBO
TT
TTAE
TTSN
XPDR
Air Conditioning
Airworthiness Directives
Automatic Direction Finder
Artificial Horizon
Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic
Aircraft Inspector
Audio Panel
Autopilot
Course Deviation Indicator
Cylinder Head Temperature
Communication
Counter Rotating
Carburetor Temperature
Direction Finder
Directional Gyro
Distance Measuring Equipment
Electronic Flight Instrument System
Exhaust Gas Temperature
Emergency Locator Transmitter
External Power Plug
Flight Director
Full Gyro Panel
Firewall Forward
Global Positioning System
Glide Slope
Ground Service Plug
Heated Pitot
Horsepower
Horizontal Situation Indicator
Instrument Flight Rules
Instrument Meteorological Conditions
Instrument Landing System
Left Engine
Localizer (Runway Centerline Guidance)
Long Range Navigation System
Marker Beacon
Major Damage History
No Damage History
Nautical Miles
Navigation Radio Receiver
Outside Air Temperature
Overhaul
Piper Electric Trim
Rotating Beacon
Rate of Climb
Right Engine
Retractable Landing Gear
Area Navigation
Service Bulletins
Since Chrome Major Overhaul
Since Factory New
Since Factory Remanufacture
Since Major Overhaul
Since Overhaul
Serial Number
Since Propeller Overhaul
Since Top Overhaul
Time Between Overhauls
Total Time
Total Time Airframe and Engine
Total Time Since New
Transponder
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PLACING AN AD?
Use this list as a guideline for the information you may
want to provide and the order in which to do so.
• YEAR, Model Year of Aircraft
• MODEL, PA 24-180, 250, 260, 400
• SERIALNUMBER, Serial Number of Aircraft
• N-NUMBER, Registration Number of Aircraft
• TOTALAIRFRAMETIME, Total Hours On Airframe
• AIRFRAMEDAMAGEHISTORY, Any Damage
History e.g. Gear Up Landing
• TOTALENGINETIME, Total Hours On Engine Since
Factory New or Remanufactured
• ENGINETIMESINCETOPORMAJOROVERHAUL
• PROPELLERTIME, Total Time On Prop Since New
or Overhaul
• ANNUALINSPECTIONDATE
• FLIGHTINSTRUMENTS, Standard Gyro Panel,
Electronic Flight Instrument System
• RADIO/NAVIGATIONEQUIPMENTLISTING,
Communications & Navigation Equipment Listing
e.g. GPS, ILS, VORs
• WEATHERADVOIDANCEEQUIPMENT, Stormscope,
Radar,
• SPECIALEQUIPMENTLISTING, Engine Monitor
(EGT, CHT, Fuel Flow, etc.)
• AUTOPILOT, Type & Make of Autopilot
• INTERCOM
• INTERIORCONDITION&NUMBEROFSEATS
• EXTERIORMODIFICATIONS, Gap Seals, Wing
Tips, Speed Mods, Windshield
• PAINTCONDITION
• HANGEREDORTIEDDOWN
• ADNOTECOMPLIANCE
• GENERALCOMMENTS
• ASKINGPRICE
• CONTACTPHONENUMBER
• CONTACTE-MAIL
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Comanche Gear .................................... 31
Ron & John’s Comanche Service ........... 42
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General Aviation Modifications ............. 30
Sound Ex Products ................................ 18
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