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John,
Thanks for the kind words and good luck on the
project!
Also look into everything you can do to lighten your
aircraft. For example, can you get one of the new avionics instrument
boxes approved - the trouble is that the affordable ones are not TSOed.
Yet these boxes contain all the instruments I had in
my Coupe, other than the gyros, in a single box weighing about 1.5 lb. And
solid-state gyros are available that are also similarly light.
Do you need a heavy floor board? Do you need
side-wall upholstery? Can you get lighter seat cushions? Replace a
rotating beacon with a lighter strobe? Do you need a 20 lb. battery or
would a 12 lb. do the job? Do you need the classic starter or can you
replace it with a modern one at 1/3rd the weight?
The original 415-C models had 65 horsepower engines
and performed wonderfully, I've read. That's because they were very
light. The earliest had NO gyros and no starter or battery. 1260
was a very usable gross weight, back then. What can you do to your Coupe
to approximate that light-weight state?
You might scrape up 50 lb. of extra useful load this way, too. (But
it will cost $$$.)
Have fun.
Ed Burkhead
http://edburkhead.com
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