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I flew into APA a month ago. Didn't use any services, as I was just handing off a passenger for the next leg of an AngelFlight, so I can't provide any feedback on FBOs. I can say it was busy, which meant a wait for takeoff. OTOH, landing was straight-in without a delay. Controllers were good.

We wanted to go to Centennial. It's a bigger airport, and yes, it's more expensive and stressful, but I enjoy the experience. Reminded me of flying into Midway. Making memories.

I didn't have the 8-second ride, but it was more like the nose gear was wobbling like a bad shopping cart wheel. About 10 years ago, we sent my nose gear to LASAR for rebuilding and the installation of new shock discs. We also installed the new steering horn, and basically everything is like new.

Why didn’t you go to metro or Boulder?

I'm doing the electroaire switch at annual. As for space, i seem to remembwer someone on MS removing the switches from the electroaire assemblyl and installing them directly into the planes panel. honestly my guess, you might be able to just have your IA source and install standard switches

I know I am. I'm so excited to get out of a trainer and into my "forever" plane.

We flew into Centennial in June and I think we used Signature. Believe it or not, they had the cheapest fuel on the field, but honestly I've never wasted my time fretting about fuel prices at a destination airport. We saw a concert at the Red Rocks and it exceeded my expectation, and had a great experience in Golden, Morrison, Colorodo Springs, and Pikes Peak. I would use APA and Signature again.

Got a picture of the sheet. Well I can say without a doubt it’s wrong because if I add useful load to empty it doesn’t get near 3200 (like ~165 pounds off?). There is no way with just one person (!90 pounds) and full fuel the plane is completely out of CG? Huh? I would have to drop down to under 50 gallons. WHAT!? Are most Rocket drivers simply flying it out of CG? I find that also hard to believe.

That is where the Bravo shines. We usually cruise 15k and above and it is not uncommon to turn the heater on even in the summer.

Yes, and I very much thank MikeOh for the article. I have already ordered the shim from lasar. This is my 3ard Mooney, had an F and an E, never experienced anything like this on either previous airplanes. I am going to have the shop check the entire nosewheel when it goes in.

I have to agree, I live in south Florida and have had several mooney’s with ac, and the kool scoop makes ground ops totally tolerable and once you’re over 8k all is well. I have an endless battle with the ac in my A and if I could use something like the scoop in that plane I would in a heartbeat. unfortunately a pressurized plane has bleed air and you just get cooked without ac and it sucks!

And if you’re doing push button, are you also doing mag switches? They seem nice but possibly easier to leave on (hot prop!)

That is possible but today the wind was dead calm, no crosswind. I think Don Maxwells article is exactly what I am experiencing.

While my plane gets pretty hot in the summer, lugging large amounts of ice to the plane does not really seem a good solution to me. Bringing in substance that releases large quantity of suffocating gas even less so. I settled on the KoolScoop that I modified so it is removable and does not stay attached to the window and it seems to provide some relief on the hot days, albeit not as good as A/C. Total investment $50 plus some time to modify the scoop. Stays in the side pocket all year round and deployed when needed. Negligible effect on useful load and my back. Reasonably satisfactory result.

The issue with a push to start, is that you won't hear the SOS before starter engagement.

Our club will be sending our plane in for some avionics upgrades and one of our annoyances is that the key is so close to the side wall, that it is very difficult to turn to start the engine. One of our instructors suggested adding a push button ignition instead. Has anyone done this? We don't have room for the ElectroAir model on Aircraft spruce, so it would need to be a round 3/4" button.

You are correct, 1.55 gm/cc

My numbers were BTU/pound for both dry ice and water ice. Dry ice is denser than water (at least it's always sunk when I've dropped in water for Halloween 'effects')

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YUUP! That's why I don't think this idea is worth pursuing. The venting needs to be 100% effective and 100% reliable. Not realistic. I've considered a CO2 monitor, but when it goes off just what are you going to do? Crawl in the back seat and start throwing the dry ice out the storm window??? (Better have gloves on)

I read an accident report of the Labcore plane transporting samples stored on dry ice.

Don’t forget the density of the two.

Maybe I'm wrong, but my research shows the latent heat of vaporization for water ice is 144 btu/pound, but COOLING the ice below 32 F only gets you 0.5 btu/F. Most ice is purchased is around 20 F to 25 F, so only another 6 btu/pound, so around 150 btu/pound is the best you're going to do. Dry ice's latent heat of sublimation is nearly 250 btu/pound. Dry ice is at about -110 F, so you could pick up another 80 btu if you used the dry ice to cool the water ice as you suggested; that would get you around 225 btu/pound. But, that seem quite the hassle as you still need to get rid of the water! Again, this is just 'back of envelope' spit-balling, so my numbers may be way off

I did Jet Center a few years ago. They were very reasonable.

I’m just taking pride in the fact that Cirrus pilots can’t have this argument….