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And more CAR-3 requirements, taken from AC 43-13-1B para. 9-61 (a) (1). Any material that meets any nationally recognized flash or flame resistance is acceptable. This would include many of the over-the-counter spray on treatments since many have an ASTM certification. So despite what @Aaviationist said, we do not need to meet the Part 23 flammability testing requirements.

I think that's part of why this one appears to be reasonably impressive. Not only does it look like they landed with the prop stopped, they also managed to stop on the foam. Usually the foamed area isn't all that long, so I thought it looked nicely done.

In cased you missed it he has a really impressive bio. Just ask and he will tell you all about it.

Ha ha, stalker alert. Stay classy. No doubt you are a 100% superior pilot and all around better human being than I. Congrats on that.

Very true. One of the ones I mentioned earlier sold for $125K about 4 or 5 years ago . I think the paint and yokes are about the only thing nicer on this one compared to what I'm looking at...

See my response to Mike above...

Sorry, didn't mean to conflate the two. I'm aware that you can fly at night and IFR with a basic med. But you can't fly IFR without the instrument rating and you can't fly at night if you're color blind and have a limitation on your medical...

FWIW, Don Maxwell told me that usually the pilot that stops the prop isn’t prepared for the decreased drag and is going too fast anyway fearful of stalling and ends up floating off the end of the runway and totaling the airplane.

This whole thread seems to be getting a little silly. Some obviously like to run their tanks dry and some don’t. Each to their own. Personally, I don’t see any great (actual, not theoretical) risk in doing so and I see no operational necessity to do so routinely.

I know what you meant, but so as not to confuse others, prop control pulled back gives low rpm and high pitch. It’s the drag from the high pitch that causes the low rpm.

Thanks Paul, This is helpful and I think it will lead to something I can use. Steve

You can hide the plate and everything you need to shoot the approach is on the map and profile view. If you don’t like the sidebar, you can hide it, too. It makes for a seamless transition from the enroute segment to the approach.

I missed that. In that case, as HRC once said "What difference at this point does it make?" *not a fan of her, but she had some good sound bites ;)

It’s like the guys who get a PA12 and spend tons to “supercub it”, issue is when they get near the value of a PA18 as no one with any sense is going to spend 18 money to buy a 12. Ultimately is will always be what it is

Plate number and effective date on the side of the plate.

I’m on basic med, instrument rated, and I also fly at night - just not above 18,000 feet ;o) Got my IR on Basic Med - no prob… -Son

Actually most J&K's that have the K wingtip do have the Whelen recognition lights - except for the earlier models. I can't tell you what year they started but Whelen designed the the new LED recognition light specifically to replace the original recognition lights for the Mooney wingtips used in the J&K and up https://flywat.com/products/mooney-led-wingtip-recogntion-light Its a minor mod to install these since they are a direct replacement for the lights used on later wingtip Mooneys. Pulsing them is a good improvement. I use them with a LASAR pulser that is no longer available and think they work great as do many other Mooney owners. Since there is no standard for these and you aren't replacing the other required lights your IA has much more slack in installing them, but its his opinion that matters here.

Agree to disagree... while selectors do sometimes fail, there is a reason that the industry differentiates between fuel exhaustion and fuel starvation, and the reason isn't fuel selector failure.

Not sure what you were trying to say, but you can most certainly fly at night and IFR (with an IA rating, of course) on Basic Med.

Well put Scott, especially the part about it being a good fit for the “right” buyer. A private pilot with no instrument rating who is flying on a basic med and can’t fly at night or IFR probably isn’t the right pilot for this type of plane anyway. No surprise that they wouldn’t see any value in it!

This is not a reasonable argument. Sudden and unexpected fuel selector failure is not a significant risk and you are not significantly increasing safety by your methods. By the time you've run the tank dry, you've probably already operated that system 5 or more times during that flight. There are way more fuel starvation accidents where the pilot neglected to switch fuel due to high workload prior to landing than there are fuel starvation accidents where the selector failed in flight. In each and every one of the former, having run the other tank dry would have saved the situation. If any of the latter have occurred at all, only a subset of those (where there was not an airport suitable for landing withing gliding range) would have caused a problem. I have an airplane to be useful and the range is part of what makes it useful. If I were to cut that range in half or less, that would make it much less useful. Now there are some of us who only fly for pure pleasure to get up in the air. In that case, yeah, sure, never go below 75% fuel. But that's not what I do and the additional safety of never needing to switch fuel tanks in flight is probably lower than the increased accident rate due to increased number of landings anyway.

Hey Bonal! long time no see. Best regards, -a-

I've been flying my 1964 M20E for a few years now, it has a decent interior, decent paint, mid time engine (about 900 hours now) low time airframe (under 2000). I upgraded it with dual GI-275s and a GNC 355 gps. It's an awesome plane, no speed mods and engine is in good mechanical shape. I have it insured for $75k though at this point it's probably worth a bit more. Last time I checked Jimmy from GMax's value guide that was about right. That being said, if someone were to tell me it was actually worth quite a bit more I would definitely not complain!