Just a pearl to throw in:

If you are going to do NTS shutdown checks, treat it as any other mx flight. Day, VFR and have a second pilot familiar with the procedure doing the shutdowns, timing and restarts. The other guy just flies the airplane.

This is the prop governor seal. This missing piece is the suspected culprit. This piece of the seal clogged the check valve and prevented the NTS system from functioning properly. Engine should be back together and on the plane tomorrow. Fingers crossed that this will fix it. Not sure the total amount of the bill at this point, but the seal was $248.00.

James....so glad they at least found something wrong that could explain the issue. It's when they rip it all apart and find nothing that you get really frustrated. Here's hoping that the problem is fixed and your baby will finally be able to start delivering on all you hoped for when you bought her....

James,

Start training in the new Solitaire Tuesday. Hope you're back in the air soon and look forward to seeing you in Smyrna maybe next week..

Lunch on me

What I wrote a month ago:

"I'd give this a good chance to be something simple, like a piece of rubber or gasket that plugged a hole."

Nailed it. :-)

Mike C.

Just got word that the plane was flown today and the NTS system worked. Its ready for me to resume training. I'm working out scheduling details to get back to TN.

Awesome!

Your doing things right. Enjoy.

You are going to live your mu2

Wow, I've really enjoyed reading this entire thread !
Good news on finding the issue and it being minor.
Congrats on the new airplane !

Great news! Look forward to pics of you flying your new bird with the MU-2 smile. My avatar pic was taken by Reece during my initial training with the left engine shut down....

Just finished another 3 hours with Reece. Will hit it again tomorrow. I'll try to take a lot of pictures and post tomorrow.

Logged 7 hours today. Phase flight before sign off is tomorrow at 8am and it's supposed to be about 3 hours. I feel more comfortable in the plane after 15 hours. Starting is a bit easier but still a lot to keep up with in a short period of time. We worked a lot on single engine flight today with approaches and go arounds. When flying on one engine, you can't do anything without retrimming. Every power adjustment requires trim otherwise you are fighting the plane. The Baron flew so easily and it took finesse but you could fly it with two fingers. You can't do that in an MU2. You keep the ball centered with constant pressure on the rudder pedals. Trim by matching fuel flows first, then roll trim to relieve pressure, then dial out rudder pressure. You can't trim it to center because when you change one axis then move to another one, the first axis is jacked again. Muscle the plane straight then dial out pressure by first matching fuel flows, roll trim, then rudder. It's actually not hard once you get the flow on the center pedestal. Did a lot of crosswind work today at Sparta TN and it was 18 knots gusting to 24. Crosswind in the MU2 requires practice and it's hard on tires (or I'm hard on tires). Using power levers to straighten the nose works really well but it'll take me a while to get it. I need to fly with Craig Hili so he can show me how to grease landings. Mine are not good. Nose wheel comes down abruptly every time. Makes me crazy. We shut down the repaired right engine today to check the NTS and wow, what a difference. It was really no big deal. I didn't get any pictures today because I was too busy trimming.

Great thread, good work James!