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Post subject: Re: Proud new J35 owner Posted: 17 Jul 2018, 16:07 |
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Joined: 04/18/10 Posts: 304 Post Likes: +242
Aircraft: bonanza 35j
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Congrats, you'll love it. Had PA 30 for 25 hrs and regretted I sold it. Have now had my J model 10 yrs and would never go back. Find a good mechanic that knows the plane(not shop) and treat him well. I've found quite a few mechanics that love the plane as much as I do and love working on them. Bill
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Post subject: Re: Proud new J35 owner Posted: 17 Jul 2018, 23:04 |
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Joined: 02/04/15 Posts: 763 Post Likes: +379 Location: Peoria, IL
Aircraft: Bonanza J35
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Congrats and welcome to the J club. Everybody knows the J35 is the best.
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Post subject: Re: Proud new J35 owner Posted: 18 Jul 2018, 07:48 |
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Joined: 02/22/09 Posts: 2563 Post Likes: +1959 Location: KLOM
Aircraft: J35, L-19, PT17
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Username Protected wrote: Congrats and welcome to the J club. Everybody knows the J35 is the best. Truer words were never spoken
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Post subject: Re: Proud new J35 owner Posted: 18 Jul 2018, 09:42 |
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Joined: 07/09/18 Posts: 12 Post Likes: +6
Aircraft: 3020C
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Username Protected wrote: Andy, does your plane have shoulder harnesses for the front seats? Tom, no, It doesn't.
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Post subject: Re: Proud new J35 owner Posted: 18 Jul 2018, 10:30 |
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Joined: 12/09/07 Posts: 17005 Post Likes: +12429 Location: Cascade, ID (U70)
Aircraft: C182
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Username Protected wrote: Andy, does your plane have shoulder harnesses for the front seats? Tom, no, It doesn't.
Andy ... PLEASE install them immediately. Do this before any other upgrade.
_________________ "Great photo! You must have a really good camera."
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Post subject: Re: Proud new J35 owner Posted: 18 Jul 2018, 10:58 |
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Joined: 08/26/15 Posts: 9542 Post Likes: +8779 Company: airlines (*CRJ,A320) Location: Florida panhandle
Aircraft: Travel Air,T-6B,etc*
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Username Protected wrote: Andy, does your plane have shoulder harnesses for the front seats? Tom, no, It doesn't. Good morning Andy. Congratulations on the new airplane! Welcome to BeechTalk and ownership of a classic Beech.
Shoulder harnesses are surprisingly easy to fit to the front seats of any Bonanza. It takes a day or two and around $2-3,000. The good news is there are are a few different choices on the market. All of them good choices; your choice will depend on your personal preferences in the details.
The fuselage structure in your airplane is the same as thousands of other airplanes built by Beechcraft from 1947 until today, which means there are no secrets or surprises to the installation. The kits vary from $1,000-1,500, plus 5-10 hours of shop labor. The FAA paperwork is straightforward, it comes with the kit, and it's no trouble for any shop to take care of. (I say this in the sense that I don't know if this is your first airplane or your tenth.)
If you're good at following instructions to the letter, you're mechanically inclined, and your shop is inclined to let you do it under their supervision, then this job is well within your reach for what the FAA calls owner-assisted maintenance (it really means supervised by an A&P).
Here is some "light reading" on shoulder harnesses and Beechcraft. This should save you the trouble of searching:
http://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtop ... 2&t=108328 http://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtop ... 7&t=118927 http://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtop ... =2&t=86510 http://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtop ... 2&t=124273 http://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtop ... 6&t=109922
Jump into any of those threads with your shoulder harness questions. You'll get a lot of really good answers and some great BeechTalk fellowship.
I put BAS belts in my own airplane a couple years ago. Pictures: http://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtop ... 7#p1585857 Don't do what I did and fly around for four months with lap belts only.
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Post subject: Re: Proud new J35 owner Posted: 18 Jul 2018, 11:51 |
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Joined: 01/24/09 Posts: 3078 Post Likes: +661 Location: KRBG, Roseburg, OR
Aircraft: Sold my last Bonanza
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Hello Andy... If you read any of the Bonanza research books, the J model was the hotrod of the fleet until the S model beat its top speed by about 3 mph. The service ceiling was over 20,000 at full gross when others topped out at 18,000. I don't know if the engineers cooked the books to get these figures, but prior and successive models did not have the numbers. I recall a top speed figure of 207 mph. The IO470-C, first of the fuel injected Continentals, gave it all of this performance. Upgrading to the IO470-N is an easy +10 HP, with very little paperwork.Upgrading to the IO520 would need an STC, and Hammock Aviation and D'Shannon each have one.+ 35 HP would make you at the top of the yellow, and give you even better numbers. Fuel management is best done with a timer mounted on your panel or control arm.(and do pay attention to it.) When you know exact time to exhaustion of the aux tanks, subtract a minute or 90 seconds, and use that as a time to change tanks. Always first half hour on the left main, then to the aux's, then empty the right main, and back to a refilled left main. Aux tanks drain back to the left main, and if you do not fly enough initial time on it when you depart, you WILL dump fuel overboard through the fuel vent. J models, some with all the appearance mods of V35s, are real sleepers, and will walk away from other Bonanzas, especially the 36s. For various reasons, my IO470-C did not like running LOP more than about 40 degrees, when equipped with GAMIjectors.
I was never able to solve the why on this issue, but 10.8 gph at WOT 11,500 altitude, and 2300, gave me about 1000 mile range discounting winds.
_________________ Larry Matlock Roseburg, OR AMEL ASEL INST Wright Bros Master pilot award
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