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My first 4th of July as a (newly naturalized) American citizen. Happy Birthday America Robert

My parrot teaches you how to fly the New York City Hudson River SFRA exclusion zone at the lower local altitude, the mid-altitude transient route, and in the upper Skyline route in class Bravo airspace. I recommend clicking the CC button in the lower right corner to enable the captions because the audio is a bit scratchy. Enjoy.

God Bless America! I cannot imagine what kind of world this would be without the USA!

You are right, you have a great country and you stand for wonderful principles. Happy Birthday USA

This post is mainly to acknowledge the folks at Brittain, specially Gerry, who do an outstanding job of supporting their customer. Since I purchased my bird a couple of years ago I've had problems with the Brittain A/P. Initially thought the Accutrack controller was at fault but Gerry tested it twice and could not duplicate the probelm. After some guidance from Gerry and some tips from Mike in this forum I finally traced the problem to the servo control valve. When the Mooney went in for annual two weeks ago I removed the servo control valve and returned it to Brittain. They replaced some electrical components and it now works beautifully!! Because Gerry had previously charged me to test the controller, he fixed the servo control valve at no cost under warranty!? This was totally unexpected. between the time Gerry spent on the phone with me and the actual repair of the servo control valve, I seriously doubt I justly compensated them for their effort. It is refreshing to still find a small company like this that actually cares about their customers and will go the extra mile to help them. The guys at Brittain are first class all the way. I guess the only way to get this level of support is to put the customer first before profit and there just aren't many businesses left that are willing to do that. Anyway, I guess the least I can do is tell other folks here about my experience with Brittain and I hope they stick around for while longer. Together with a couple of tips I got from Mike my Brittain A/P now follows the magenta line like its on rails!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Back in the 60's and middle 70's many of these were produced and installed as oem equipment. Around the middle 70's the oem's switched over to all electric newer systems and Brittain kind of went into a repair mode. New autopilots were relatively cheap and there wasn't much demand for the old stuff. Then new autopilots prices started doubling and tripling and people changed the way they looked at these older systems. Back about 8 years ago an aviation magazine did an article on Brittain and the great value they were. The demand returned, but they had no way to produce new parts. Much of the tooling had been setting for 25-30 years and had rusted or been lost by subcontractors. If your seriously looking for these parts go around to a few of the old school avionics shops in your area that are still left and see what they have setting on the back of their shelves. Take pictures of the parts you need so you can show them what you are looking for. It will take a little work but you can find the parts you need and them send them to Brittain for refurbishment. I did this about 3 years ago and was able to find all the parts I need for the Accuflite, Accutrac, and altitude hold. I dropped them off at Brittain early Monday morning while in Tulsa on other business and picked them back up Friday as I was leaving. My IA and I installed all of it and it worked flawlessly on the 1st test flight.

It's been 15 years since I came to this wonderful country. Very happy about that.

Thank you Oscar! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

And 17 people that really needed the aid were very appreciative of your support and service you provided. Report that back to the agency, although I'd bet they met all the criteria for the flights. I had one person that clearly didn't need the service, and took advantage of our generosity. I reported it back and they were put on a black list and an additional screening requirement was added.

i've been here 65 years and visited hundreds of other countries in my life. There is no place like the USA. I am so thankful my grandparents came here near the turn of the 19th century. They were both in their teens... Can you imagine your 14 year old daughter leaving home to go live in another country for a better life ? GUTS. BILL

In reading this I thought of something. Has anyone seen any mounts to mount the ipad mini on the back of the front seat headrests for passenger viewing?

Hector, I agree with you 100 percent. Jerry, Ceci, and Kevin all do an outstanding job of supporting their customers. Now if Jerry would just stop playing with that motorcycle and focus on the pitch stabilization and altitude hold tooling......

If you really don't want to use O2 regularly, why not consider an Ovation or Missile? You'll get speeds in the 175-180 knot range <10k' easily for ~13-14 GPH, and have enough power to get up into the O2 levels when needed, although not as easily as a Rocket. The higher compression IO-550 will give much better fuel efficiency than the TSIO-520 in the Rocket.

Bader would have been the field, but as mentioned is closed. KACY gives good service and it's the closest airport. It's open 24-7. Ocean City NJ, 26N, is just to the South of ACY, but you'll need to rent a car. Great place to fly to if you are walking to the beach, but I'm not sure how they work rental car wise. -Seth

If you mill a groove in the rear bearing journal, that doesn't affect the lifter but will provide full-time oil to the hollow cam. However, doing so effectively converts the rear cam bearing (the case, actually) to two separate bearings of slightly less than the full width, and has to be analyzed. It increases the oil film load in that area.

Note to rich guys- Jets are very much less impressive to your neighbors when you park them like this. Try to keep it on the pavement, remember the yacht goes in the water, not the plane.

I agree that the advantages of the IO-360 running LOP by an educated pilot with good instrumentation will far outweigh the additional cost of the cylinders at overhaul time. I also agree that whatever you choose, buying a good example that was operated well and regularly is the most important quality. It is also possible to overhaul the IO-360 cylinders if needed for half the cost or less...one doesn't necessarily need to buy new ones. Last year I had all 4 of mine IRAN'd for $2300 including new pistons (cost from the engine shop, no labor on the plane). Fuel tanks and props as mentioned above are potential "gotchas" too.

Perry? Thanks. I wouldn't mind having a look at the install if you are ever in Calgary or should I get a chance to fly out to the island. Seems like you're happy with the results and they're worth the price.