yakdriver wrote:
Dan,I ran Aeroshell 100 mineral oil in mine. Flew it about 400hrs and all compressions were in the 70s. It only has something like a6-1 blower in it, just enough to distribute the fuel but not much help up here at 4000'.
That's handy, I run the same stuff in my -670. And I just learned something, as I was under the impression it had no blower at all. I'm just a shade below 3000' here.
yakdriver wrote:
The fit and finish of the airplane is very good, too bad they get so abused during training. Also get yourself a large Scuba tank for an extra air supply. It comes in handy when you forget to turn off the air valve. Don
The quality of the workmanship in them is very impressive. We were lucky and had the pick of five and although some of them seemed to show signs of gravel ops ours appears to be pristine that way (somewhere under all that paint!)

We were wondering what to use for a ground air bottle, we were thinking of a nitrogen cylinder but a scuba tank sounds handier - thanks for the tip. Can you hand swing it in a bind? I don't imagine it has impulse mags though. This is kinda cruel and unusual punishment with it being 500 miles away and not able to go get it for another couple of months. I can't wait to get my hands on the maintenance manuals.
Dan