Snoopyeagle

Here in the UK I paid £400 but we find everything in USA is generally cheaper.

Yes they don’t make it easy , looking at the photo it does look like there was silicon or something I had to dig out, I installed an new board and have had no problems since.

On mine I disconnected each cable individually, I don’t remember anything covering the screw, it was a fairly straight forward process of just unscrew pull cable out and push cables into new board and tighten the screws

I was flying C172s PA 28s and then a PA32 prior to purchasing CT and at first I thought I was never going be able to land it but after time it’s no problem and going in and out of strips a short as 750 feet, Basically it’s the advice from all the above posts that help and I find in particular the speed needs to be very close to book figures , you will get there and as suggested in the above posts try to practice on days when wind is light and not turbulent.

In the UK I recently purchased one for £ 400.00 if that gives you an idea as everything over here seems to cost more the USA

This may help

Yes the board on the firewall is where I had solder joint problems and other people on here have had same problems

Hi Roger Thanks for that info, looking at the board it does look like a one of the solder points is bad so I will get it re soldered and see if that cures it. My problem here is my Strip is only 300 meters although I’m now just increasing it to 500 meters if the flaps don’t come down I doubt I could land without any flaps here so I purchased a new one to be safe.

I had similar problems on my 2008 CTSW I’m sure it’s a crack on the flaps control board on the firewall but couldn’t find it so installed a new control board about a month ago and I’ve had no problems since, I will get the original board hopefully repaired and keep as a spare. Lawrence

I pulled out a SL-40 Last week from my CTSW because here in the UK we all have to have 8.33Khz spacing and I installed a Icom 220 and agree with Ctfarmer it does look and feel a lot more robust, I haven't flown it yet but my iPad is plugged in via a USB port next to the radio so I will listen out for the squelch problem. I now do have a working Garmin SL-40 if anyone wants one as it is of no use to anyone in Europe now.