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Can't say I've had the challenge of twins, but car seat in the back is very doable. Rear facing car seats for infants with someone to be able to tend to them is not as easy. You may try one in the back rear facing and one in the copilot a seat with the seat in the aft most position and mom in the back seat (behind you) to be able to get to both of them. If you do have a forced landing impact is from the front and you'll want to have the little ones rear facing in the plane just as long as you'd have them rear facing in the car. It does make a difference. Infants neck soft tissue mass is minimal and strength is non existent. Agree on on the baby banz. They're decent. Now that ours is 2.5 she wants to pipe frozen through her pink headset all time time. It's toddler opium I swear. Dont forget to get them a little baby logbook- they're a lot of fun.

the vast majority of prop shops say that but once they get it, it never comes out without ending up scrapped or completely rebuilt for a ton of cash. be very careful here.

Great Pirep/follow-up, Joe. Sewing all these details together, we are all going to be better off. Best regards, -a-

So this is how the story ends. The previous mechanic installed and improper gasket after removing the mag. The gasket had ears with holes made for a different application. The hold down clamps were clamped onto the gasket which eventually failed hence the nuts and clamps coming loose. Also the clamps that were on it were and older style which were on the SB suggesting to be replaced. The engine rebuilder was nice enough to send out the proper ones at no charge but mention sense it wasn't an AD they didn't replace at overhaul. Through no fault of my own, three mechanics and 700 dollars later it is now correct!

Just watched the second episode of this new series. Good stuff. In my past career I was on our "Accident Investigation Team". While this show is obviously condensed for TV it is pretty spot on for the most part as far as the reconstruction of the accident data. Gives some good sidebar facts as far as how many acres of Alaska is only accessible by air and their dependency of aircraft. They stated the aircraft accident rate, I couldn't believe the accident rate was so high. Just lots of good info and factual. I've never been to Alaska, but they sounded pretty accurate in comparison to how a motor vehicle accident reconstruction is done. No crazy drama, just a good factual program. Worth checking out. -Tom

Stirring up trouble in an election year?

Falcon shops around, knows the market inside and out and is good to deal with. Give them a call. Maybe Parker can chime in.

I only said so because Walt Atkinson (of APS farmer) told me to use 15 as a multiplyer. I don't think it's correct. I believe it's nearer to 16.

I renewed recently with AOPA. I often wonder how useful my membership is. That is, how much of my money goes towards lobbying. They seem to spend a fair amount on additional mailings, which ask for more money. I don't need a magazine, I don't need a hat, and I don't need stickers. I do need a political advocate for GA.

The angle valve N/A 200HP Lyc IO360 is 8.7 to 1. The 180hp parallel valve O360 and IO360 are 8.5 to 1. Increased CR is where the angle valve gets the bulk of its extra 20hp.

The first year I had my J it failed it's static check. Some dude out in California charged me for the check but didn't offer any hints at diagnosis other than his hourly rate to inquire further. Okay... Got far away from that guy. So to troubleshoot took a piece of duct tape to block one of the ports (remember to remove) and at the other port used a suction cup of the same diameter as the static port attached to a 3cc syringe with some iV tubing and a 3-way stopcock between the auction cup and the syringe. Then you can use a *very* slow and gentle back pressure to pull a slight negative pressure in the system. Remember that each inch of mercury equates to a movement of 1000ft on the altimeter. That's about 35cm of pressure. So if you pull a vacuum of 3.5cm you might expect movement of 100ft. The point is you can go slow and pull some negative pressure and a if you have a good seal at the port, the static system should hold that negate pressure. In my case I tracked it down to a busted static drain port, but you can troubleshoot the system this way. Just don't break anything and don't mess anything up and be very gently with the sensitive instruments. And goes without saying to get the system repaired / recerted...

Id give him a copy of the SI which clearly shows the correct magneto gasket. Also ask for my money back.

Michael The best airport in San Juan for GA is Isla Grande TJIG http://www.airnav.com/airport/TJIG. It is very much like a GA airport in the US. With FBOs like Signature and Millionair on the south side. Customs is provided by the FBOs right on their ramp with no wait. TJIG is right on San Juan Bay with easy access to the Old San Juan. At San Juan International there is no good facilities for small piston planes. Unless you know specifically where you are going to park. If you are returning back to the US non-stop from PR you will need to go through the Department of Agriculture inspection to insure you are not bringing fruits that could be contaminated. The inspection is free and quick. José

Today we flew from St Martin to San Juan and feeling decent. For the first time in 36 hours we left the room. We decided that if it was doable, that we would rather leave the Sonesta hotel and start the journey home. We were supposed to fly to Anguilla and then on to San Juan yesterday. We ended up trading a night in San Juan for an extra night in St Martin. But by getting to San Juan today, we were able to return to our original schedule. St Martin ATC was inefficient as usual. Despite a 3 man crew (tower, ground, and approach) this time, things were slower than a usual busy airport in the US. There were only two planes ahead of me but It took half an hour to get my IFR clearance. The Continited 737 ahead waited at the runway hold short for 15 minutes just waiting on a clearance. I was afraid of the flight but it It turned out the flight itself was actually the easiest part of the day. I felt better than I had all day. It cleared my senses and made the stomach and muscle pain vanish. I was looking forward to being back at a US airport but San Juan was a bit disappointing. I had to taxi over to a jetway to park for customs clearance. My chart doesn't show individual parking spaces and ground control wasn't very clear. I had to repark 3 times until we were finally allowed to disembark. They took us through all the back corridors of the airport until we reached the usual airline customs area. I had to be my own luggage handler and throw my bag on the carousel and take it off. The only good news was that there were no other arriving flights so CPB handled us exclusively. But if we arrived at another time we could have just as well gotten caught in the normal herd. Probably best we didn't cause we are still contagious. CPB was the usual stern way but nowhere near as bad as NYC CBP that treats everyone like a terrorist. By far my best experience with CBP I'd Fort Pierce where they have a dedicated GA CBP office. Overall, CBP ate up an hour of our time. Then we had to fire up, wait for ground, and taxi to the FBO. If that weren't enough, we had to wait for a van from the FBO to take us back to the airport terminal to get a car rental. This whole arrivals process ended up taking longer than entire flight from St Martin! Prior to this trip, I was hopeful that I could use San Juan as a convenient port of entry coming from the Caribbean in the future. But I am disappointed to say that San Juan International is not GA friendly. Will have to keep searching for a better way or just go back to using the tried and true Fort Pierce. The only thing that sucks about Fort Pierce is their bankers hours. Makes it difficult to cover ground when they close at like 5PM. Anyway, the most worrisome flight is not behind us. We are relaxing in San Juan and preparing for the leg back to Ft Pierce tomorrow and on to NYC the next day. Since we already cleared customs in PR, we don't need to do this in Ft Pierce. It just coincidentally happens to be the cheapest gas, most on the way, and best FBO for us.

I'd personally figure out a way to secure 2 car seats. Having never looked into this I wonder what people use for hearing protection? edit: looks like em's 4 bubs might be a good option for hearing protection...not your question but I was curious.

Please don't. I read all the MS posts and it burns too many of my ever diminishing brain cells sifting through politics.

Man, I feel for him and his wife. You look forward to a vacation and to have it ruined by a bug. Years from now Mike you'll remember these times and have a laugh about them. Heck, you might even be able to start a T shirt business at the hotel. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Don, thanks, will do that tomorrow, I just made sure the nuts were tight, cause I'm a fighter pilot not a professional hangar elf:) i will do as suggested. Based on my research, I was down to juice to the gauge, or the connectors as well. Off course you you need tiny monkey hands, tiny tools and super magnets to work in that space! Geeze they are fast a/c but a pain in the arse to work on in tight quarters!

Don't push on the spinner when moving the plane. Make sure the spinner is mounted straight. Install all the screws loose, give the spinner a good solid push to get it bottomed, then tighten the screws in sequence. I do the center screws between the blades first then move back and forth towards the blades. Do the little ears last working towards the nose. Make sure the spinner is clean. When parking outside crud can build up inside the spinner making it unbalanced. Sometimes bad things happen to good people.... (i.e., $h#^ happens)

That mechanic and his boss need to learn that incident could have killed you. Make it very clear! Sent from my VS985 4G using Tapatalk

For me, as I've said before, I don't hate the Cirrus. Its usually the owners and their attitudes I don't like.

Your in denial, you know you want to

Keep the plane, swap the girlfriend. There are a lot more of the latter than the former. You might keep both if you call her bluff. You're welcome.

Don't discount an Aerostar either if you're looking seriously at twins... closest thing to a Twin Mooney out there. At least two Mooney owners here have moved to or added an A* and are quite happy. Fast and efficient!

Why do you have a bias against a yoke mount? The mini in particular (as well as full sized iPads) work great on the yoke. Several on this forum use that setup and love it. Anything you stick on the window blocks your vision to some degree. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The Don Maxwell article says to use Permetex #2 for the screws

The Go-Around... It doesn't have to be a high workload event. Just take things one step at a time and try not to feel like you have to "rush". The biggest mistake that I see people make is that they try to do too much too quickly. Once you make the decision to go around (MDA/DH, etc), then it's easy. Arrest the rate of descent. Breathe. get your climb going. Breathe. Configure (if necessary).Breathe. Talk. Breathe. fly the procedure. It all goes back to aviate, navigate, communicate... and just taking things one step at a time (and don't feel rushed... 80kts is actually really slow in the "scale" of an instrument approach.. you've got time!). The best thing you can do to improve your missed approach (IMHO) is to study the missed approach procedure closely prior to shooting the approach. As long as you know that, or at least the first moves, then you won't be trying to climb, configure and squint at your chart for the procedure all at the same time. Regardless, the first big steps are always the same: power, arrest the sink rate, start a climb, then go from there... Of course, it's easy to say that here in my 1G chair in front of a computer screen as the sun shines brightly outside!!!!