Hi! I am new to this forum! We met some of you in Oshkosh this year.
My husband and I are getting ready to do our first annual on our Bellance 260. We have purchased instruments, AI, Turn Coord, veritcal card compass, still looking for a DG with a heading bug and an low cost IFR GPS, and we want to take out the old DG, old AI, old electric compass/RMI, and the old autopilot as well as all associated wiring. The autopilot doesn't work well, starts doing a 3 degree bank turn after engaging, and I figure all the above would save some weight and upgrade the panel. Has anyone done this? Did it save weight? Has anyone had to fix the autopilot and did it successfully?
Also, has anyone had their hyd pwr pack overhauled? Or done it themselves? My pack blew the main o-ring on the way back to Oshkosh this year, luckly after I put the gear down! We want to overhaul it while we are in there doing the annual. We did the test on jacks as we were loosing our red light every so often in flight, and found it was the pack that was causing it. Some company wanted to charge us like $1200 to overhaul it and the o-rings don't cost but about $20!
Ava and Matt
My husband and I are getting ready to do our first annual on our Bellance 260. We have purchased instruments, AI, Turn Coord, veritcal card compass, still looking for a DG with a heading bug and an low cost IFR GPS, and we want to take out the old DG, old AI, old electric compass/RMI, and the old autopilot as well as all associated wiring. The autopilot doesn't work well, starts doing a 3 degree bank turn after engaging, and I figure all the above would save some weight and upgrade the panel. Has anyone done this? Did it save weight? Has anyone had to fix the autopilot and did it successfully?
Also, has anyone had their hyd pwr pack overhauled? Or done it themselves? My pack blew the main o-ring on the way back to Oshkosh this year, luckly after I put the gear down! We want to overhaul it while we are in there doing the annual. We did the test on jacks as we were loosing our red light every so often in flight, and found it was the pack that was causing it. Some company wanted to charge us like $1200 to overhaul it and the o-rings don't cost but about $20!
Ava and Matt