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  1. Hi Guys, I'm not sure if this has been covered before but has anyone got any good ideas on how to get the suede-ish finish on the instrument binnacle clean or looking good? The inside of my 'plane looks really nice with the sheepskin covers on the leather seats, the custom made carbon instrument panels, new instrumentation and the carpets but the binnacle looks like it could do with a bit of a spruce-up. A friend has taken the binnacle out of his CTSW completely, rubbed it smooth (took a long time!) and spray painted it a sort of matt/satin very dark grey colour. It looks really good but I didn't quite want to go to that extent ......yet! Cheers.
  2. Hi Tom, Many thanks for that; I hadn't thought to look that far back on the forum. Althought the xCruze100 menu doesn't quite have so many adjustable settings (for example, torque values are preset at 100%) the other settings can be adjusted and I will enter them into my head-unit.
  3. Hi guys, I have watched Bruce Grammon’s very helpful YouTube video on how to set-up the Bendix King xCruze100 autopilot head-unit but it left me with quite a few questions. I am the owner of a 2006 Flight Design CTSW and, like at least 8 other pilots in the UK who are retro-fitting xCruze100’s into their CTSW aircraft, we have no manufacturer’s settings available from an install manual (which Bruce often alludes to) nor do many of us (me!) fully understand what some of the settings mean or do. I think most of us are familiar with the Baud Rate, Default Vertical Speed, Min & Max Airspeed and Bank Angle settings but are unfamiliar with what Lateral Activity, Micro Activity, Vertical Activity and Static Lag mean. I understand that BK are not the aircraft's manufacturer and cannot specifically say what head-unit menu settings would be applicable to a CTSW aircraft but I wonder whether: (a) other CTSW owners which have a factory-fitted TruTrak autopilot could supply the settings that were used and (b) could any autopilot 'expert' explain what the less obvious settings (see paragraph 2) fully mean and what we should be looking for when we make an adjustment to those settings? I also understand that versions of CTSW aircraft exported to the USA were fitted for a period of time with the TruTrak autopilot but those units had far more adjustability in the set-up menu than the xCruze100 does. Can anyone supply a list of settings that were used on USA CTSW aircraft fitted with the TruTrak units which can compare to the simpler xCruze100 unit’s set-up menu, please? Or has anyone installed a BK xCruze100 autopilot in their aircraft and could they publish what settings they used? Many thanks. Paul
  4. Thanks for all the info, guys. I'm looking at 6mm bushings now that will fit inside the bore of a 8MM rod end!!!
  5. Can anyone please confirm that the rod ends at the nosewheel end are 6mm bore with a 8mm right-hand male thread? Thanks.
  6. Hi Vic, Yes, they were cut from your CAD file! The CNC guy making them just used up a lump of Nylon 6 material that he had lying around and it turns out that he was able to make 5 sets. I only needed one set so I'm getting rid of the other 4. Two of my mates have got CT's with broken guides so they've now got new ones and then I sent a set to a guy in Frnace and one to a guy in Romania. Happy to send you a 'royalty' if you like!! All the best, Paul
  7. Hi CT owners. This advert is mainly aimed at the guys in the UK or Europe. Have your door handle guide mouldings craked and split? I have sets CNC'd out of Nylon 6 which are an exact fit. I also have new placards for them as well. A full set from Flight Design is over $300!! Robbery!! I can sell you a set (including new placards) for £70 plus postage. Contact Paul. thermicman@hotmail.com
  8. At the time I took the photograph, I was flying the route from Bodo to Namsos in Norway. Here's a screenshot of flight log from SkyDemon:
  9. Hi Mike, UNPAK is an airways reporting point which I use on my SkyDemon navigation app. Here is a screenshot of where UNPAK is and I'm sure you'll be able to orientate from that!
  10. Thanks Mike & Glen! Yes, I am very pleased I chose Kanardia for my new instrument fit. The UK Kanardia agent wasn't quite as knowledgable as I would have liked and I ended up contacting Kanardia directly and I must have sent them 20+ emails asking for help and advice on set-up/operation. Their instruction manuals were excellent is just that my old brain isn't! They couldn't have been more helpful and I can't praise their excellent customer service enough. For example, I found that there was a small discrepancy between the Kohls scale reading on the HORIS instrument compared to the scale on the stand-alone altimeter. When both hectopascal readings were set the same at take-off, they were different upon landing again instead of being identical to each other. Kanardia asked me to send both instruments back whereupon they put them both in their barometric test chamber for re-calibration. It turned out that there was nothing wrong with either instrument; I had messed with some of the advanced HORIS set-up settings and caused the problem inadvertently myself. Kanardia paid for the postage both ways, did it all as a warranty issue and returned the instruments to me within a week. Both instruments are now perfectly in sync with each other! By the way, the screen shot is me rounding the North Cape at the top of Norway on a fantastic trip last July (together with another CTSW) where we flew from UK across to the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany and back to the UK via the North Sea again. Paul
  11. Hi Guys, I have been asked by a few members for my .dxf files for the CTSW instrument panels (UK Version) so I am attaching them here. My panel dxf files have been made specifically for my instrument fit but you can always edit them to suit and just keep the outline shapes - which were the hardest things to get right! Cheers, Paul Left Hand Panel.pdf Right Hand Panel.dxf Right Hand Panel.pdf Centre Panel.pdf Centre Panel.dxf Left Hand Main Panel.DXF
  12. Hi,

    I have had a coupe of members ask me for the .dxf files that I made so that they can make new instrument panels.  Whenever I try to respond to their private message in my inbox, I cannot insert or paste the .dxf & .pdf files that they require.

    I am usually forced to ask them to send me their personal email address and then I can send them the files.

    Is there a way of inserting files to a message using the forum's messaging service? 

    As these files could be useful to a number of members, is there a 'sticky' place where you could keep them for all members to access?  I'm more than happy for my files to be used by anyone.  Thanks.

    Regards,

    Paul 

  13. Hi Guys, You’re all absolutely correct. First I read the manual from start to finish and then I went flying and bingo! The AP followed the track on the 760 brilliantly. I’m amazed at how good it is about keeping on course and altitude in turbulence. Very impressed. Just for interest, I was on an active course using the AP when I interrupted it to put a DIRECT TO 180 degrees from my current track and then pressed ACTIVATE. I was quite amazed that my plane first turned 30 or so degrees to the left and then did a 180 to the right. Is this some form of automatic checking of airspace before initiating a turn?! Paul
  14. Gentlemen, Thank you for your prompt and helpful answers! Darrell & Towner, I think you both may be right and what you say makes absolute sense in that it's the AP head unit and not the 760 that I need to alter. I'm not 100% sure that I saw the option in the AP set-up menu - not forgetting that I have the BK xCruze100 which has a slightly different set-up menu than the TT Vizion. Having said that and being totally honest, I haven't thoroughly read the AP's User Manual yet as I was just excited about getting a GPS signal to my AP and seeing it work - which my old AVMAP EKP V didn't seem to want to do. Would this be the MODE button by any chance? So far, I've only pressed the ALT button (to set the current altitude or to adjust the target altitude and rate of climb/descent) and twiddled the knob to adjust the track value. Without RTFM, what does the MODE button do? Paul
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