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Today I flew home from Vegas. It was my first IFR flight on my new IR ticket.... the weather was clear and clear so didn’t get it wet. But I got about 5 reroutes so I got to work the brain in someway. The flight was just over five hours. The day started out pretty cool, when I got to the airport there was a can’t miss famous airplane tied up at the transient parking! And let me say it’s even cooler in person! And I got to fly formation with N201PH:) The instrument ticket was well worth the journey!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you want to be really advanced, count on your fingers in binary. You can count to 1023 before you run out of fingers! Which reminds me of my favorite math joke. There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't.

I don’t practice the traditional “partial panel” anymore. With multiple AI it doesn’t make sense to spend scarce training time on an unlikely event.

A GPS 6pack of any sort is indeed quite a bit better than nothing. An IPad with AHRS and synth vision would be very usable. The issue is not that these are “toys”. Far from it. They’ve brought a great deal of redundancy and situational awareness to the cockpit at a value previously unseen in GA. In my opinion, the issue is the unidentified AI failure that is only recognized after the airplane is in an unusual attitude and the pilot on his way to disoriented. If the situation is not rectified in an immediatel but calm and smooth manner it will likely be exacerbated by panic and overreaction. A second AI is a great idea, but training partial panel and having a very bright, low vac annunciator is is just as important. No gyro turns from straight and level are something most of us could do proficiently. Recovery from a descending, steep turn in IMC while disoriented? Not as likely...

He is having this issue at wate.com not Mooneyspace. The forum software we use (IPBoard) is GDPR compliant. The key thing is that if you delete your account all data is wiped from our servers.

According to Boeing, they will have a software update in 10 days or less for the Boeing 737 Max -8. Does that make it a, 737 Max-8.1? Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

I always heard that there are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't. Yeah, me too. Or me neither. Same difference, right?

I have often thought about losing gyros in IMC and there is no reason with the low cost of a decent back indicators we have available today not to have a plan for when primary instruments fail. One thing I wanted to say too is I think it's insane for a person to think a cellphone or iPad 6-pak is anything more than a toy because it may be better than nothing but just barely. There is no reason not to pick up a used dynon D1 or something like that. I know they can be had for way less than 1000$ used and even buying new they are so worth it. A device that send attitude info to an iPad I dont trust much either. I think get a good backup system and also fly it under the hood in vfr with a safety pilot. Sad to lose fellow pilots.

Not sure if any of these guys are wearing Armani. But it is “proof” you can put 4 adult, well-dressed gentlemen in a short-body Mooney!

If you haven't done so I would suggest you call the Georgia shop you use. If they can't pull the ferry permit they should have an interest in helping you bring them work. This ought to be simple, our friend Don Maxwell gets ferry permits to bring in gear ups every month and that involves a damaged plane with a borrowed prop and an engine that will need to be torn down.

The boom travels behind the aircraft- think of it like the wake on a boat... except that the “boom” is a cone in shape.

Welding or gluing.... Exhaust system metal might be made from some high end metals... like Inconel.... probably adds to the challenge of welding properly... Either way, in the past... small cracks have turned into long tears in a single flight... small amounts of CO, turned into too much CO... Often, CO is not detectable by the person being poisoned... So... even if JB weld could block the hole, it won’t be able to stop a crack from propagating... it doesn’t have the strength or adhesion to do so... Compare the costs... a proper fix. broken plane, still needing a proper muffler fix. Either way, the cost seems to have been incurred already. Next steps seem to be getting the muffler OH’d at the lowest cost... typical muffler OHs are done by a couple of exhaust welding shops... the procedure is two step... replace the front half parts... then... replace the back half parts... It looks totally brand new when they are done. Working with ancient sheet metal that is in a hot environment can have a lot of wear...over 50years... flame tubes typically break down first, and the hottest spots move to places that aren’t built to be that heat resistant... If you can’t find the flame tubes, they may have departed the plane already... If able... or when able... get a new muffler, or a muffler OH... At the point you have measured an increase of CO related to the heater... it has become time to enact plan B... stop playing with Fire, er CO.... This is sample logic that can be used to free up the necessary funds to improve the safety level of one’s Mooney... PP thoughts only, not a mechanic... Best regards, -a-

I do not buy the Ipad as a back-up thing. In an emergency situation, you want to quickly find and use traditional instruments as back-ups. You want the back-up instruments to be ready, waing, working and available at a glance. With a heightened level of anxiety, even small changes in procedures or thought processes can be problematic. The cost of additional equipment to insure a seamless transition is negligible when compared to the consequences. I have 3 artificial horizons in my plane, G66, Vac AI and electric AI. Yes, there is a story to that. I started out with a steam gauge panel, with a vacuum artificial horizon and a 2" electric one. When I bought the G600, I though of taking out one, but then realized that: 1. If I had 2, it may take more time to recognize the problem. If I had 3, I can see immediately which 2 correlate, and thus see which is bad. If in IMC, that can save precious time. 2. There is no fussing with transitions, just fly the remaining 2 and cross check 3. I realize there is a push to get rid of the vacuum pump, but in my situation I have redundancy in instruments and also have redundancy in what drive them. All my back-up instruments are traditional gauges. The new electronic stuff is real nice, but it is still a computer. John Breda

Not entirely a "copout" really. GDPR was a pretty extremist approach to online privacy protection and with way over the top penalties, especially for small websites/companies. The cost for a good sized website that is custom built (not like MS which uses a package software for example) could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to meet exact compliance, especially when you really need to bring in a GDPR consultant to make sure you did not miss anything. Again the penalties for non-compliance are in excess of $20 million USD...so basically bankruptcy for most small sites. The safer and cheaper option was just to block EU users. If I was still running the old MS forums that I built myself I would have had to do the same thing.

Like Windows, avoid all the even number versions...

I think a brand new D3 is under 800 bucks. Edit: $879 https://m.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/avpages/efis10-06727.php

My bet is NASA has some COOL toys

Increased load / range is a great side benefit. My Useful Load is up 4 gallons the last several months.

That's all part of cipherin', Jethro Bodine-style! Yeee-haawww!! Lessee, four gozinta twelve three times . . . .

Not as good as you, but I now weigh 6.5 gallons of 100LL less than I did a couple years ago.

Even better at night. This was coming back after my Ir cross country. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We were all taught to practice partial panel, but sadly in an emergency it hasn't worked out well. The FAA eased up requirements a few years back and encourages a 2nd attitude indicator in place of a turn coordinator https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC91-75.pdf

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ You get to chose what country you’re from. Theoretically, I could have used it to stream the Olympics from a Canadian IP address instead of using the limited US access. If I was someone who did that sort of thing...

Oh Andrew. You aren't trying to corner me and my mathematical wit are you? (A circle has no corners). 1) Well it is conventional to speak in terms traditions of the country of residence. So it is officially Pi day on 3/14 in the USA, every year. The day of celebrating Pi. Whether or not numerically accurate. And all day it is Pi day. Every year. Further, I could only fit 3 digits per regulations of the FAA. However, there is a tiny dot on my paint job between the 3 and the 14 and if you look close that dot is actually the true greek symbol used for Pi - my attempt to better honor the number. 2) In "the rest of the world" there is never a Pi day because there is never a 14th month. Too bad for the world. 3) If we are worried the year. 2019, then who said I am necessarily using the date relative to the birth of Christ? Maybe I dated relative to.... 4) Now Pi is defined as the ratio of the length of the diameter of a PERFECT circle to its diameter. No where does it say, "in base 10" but that we use base 10 is an accident of biology - of evolution that we humans have ten digits on our hands. In base 8 for example, Pi is: Octal base = 8, 3.11037 55242 10264 30215 14230 63050 56006 70163 21122 01116 02105 14763 07200 20273 72461 66116 33104 50512 02074 61615 http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/pi/pibases.html and who has 8 digits? Well Disney people of course! Just ask Mickey Mouse (as drawn by Walt) how many digits he has. OTOH in some "circles" people speak in base 20 in years past. Just ask Abe, "Four score and 7 years ago today" (87 years).

My granddaughter was born at 3:14 on 3/14 so her middle name is Pi.

Grandson took Woopie Pies to school today.

Nowhere fancy, but I bribed Mooneymite to give me a ride back home from the avionics shop in Griffin, GA. Turned a 75 minute car ride into a 20 minute Mooney trip. I ended up having to buy him lunch at Popeye's.

Josh Flowers, the CFI, is a good friend of ours here in the Austin, TX area and many of us have flown with him. In fact we can say we all knew him way back when he was just learning to fly. He's a pretty low time CFI, but a CFI none the less and does have plenty of Mooney time. My thought watching the video was that I should invite him to go fly with me, and show him how to properly fly and engine manage a turbo Mooney But he does have a great YouTube channel and his video editing skills are legit. He's got a huge following of young aspiring pilots who follow his channel. And that's positive for all of us.

Saw this a year or two ago. If you've got a couple grand lying around, I think it's available now https://epicoptix.com/epic-eagle/

The chart is an oversimplification. The flaps contribute to the lower stall speed, but the gear out does not. However, as others have said, gear affects performance. So, in climb, gear up provides better Vx and Vy performance.....so for clearing obstacles and gaining altitude, gear up and flaps as appropriate. Where the gear out situation may be more effective, is in slowing the airplane down to stall speed. So, for an off field landing, it is easier to slow the plane to achieve stall speed with gear out. So, to get into a small field, or treetops at stall speed, gear out may be the way to go. To stretch the glide or ditch have the gear up. As others have said, J bar aircraft, gear up early for no other reason than it’s much easier. That said, many airports in our area are surrounded by trees, so I like the performance early to have more options as I run out of runway. Would prefer a gear up on the runway, than no options as I approach the end of it. This can likely be as controversial as LOP and flap take-offs. Worth trying various methods with a CFI to see what works best for individual aircraft, pilots and environments. No trees or buildings off the runway might yield a different preference.

Maybe we need a “Lying Cat” on Mooneyspace so we can weed out the bad information.

I've worked in the metal trade around welders my entire adult life and not even the best of them would recommend repairing that thin metal without TIG or MIG. Yes, there are shops/welders out there that would be able to repair, even in its current state.

The good news is Boeing seem to be experts at software. Especially when it comes to automation software.

I have a backup electric AI in my C and at times have briefly debated removing it to make room for another toy. Then I had a vacuum pump failure once and was soooo glad for that electric AI. With the vacuum failure the wing leveler stopped functioning and slowly drifted into a left bank around 10 degrees. Took me a few seconds to figure out what was going on. The two AIs showing something different then I looked at the vacuum pressure and it was zero. Quickly turned to the electric AI to get things back on track. Non-event after that but not sure how badly it would have gotten without a backup AI. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

Btw, congrats on the instrument rating!

It is widely recommended to never attempt exhaust system repairs at the shop, and this is also taught in A&P school. Not very cool that they attempted and now it may no longer be repairable... Yes, send it to a repair station that specializes in exhaust repair... if they say not repairable, maybe Alan (Grim Reaper) can help with a replacement?

man, this is terrible. Instrument failure in IMC is very very bad. Practice partial panel ! Or have a backup ADI. Thoughts for the survivors.

For those seeking an update: The next saga in this story. In short, the 6PPM did accurately display a small crack in muffler and allowed me to catch it early. I think the key is that it came on when heat was on, and off when heat came off.

Flew to Big Bear on Saturday for some lunch. Met up with another Mooney owner who I don't think is on here. Was hoping to meet up with @xcrmckenna but he was polishing up for his upcoming, and successful, IFR check-ride on Monday. It was a beautiful day, under a broken layer, up through a hole in the clouds to come in over the lake. Big Bear, Clouds, and Poppies Last night after an oil change I took it for a trip around the patch. Flying to Phoenix this afternoon to visit family.

That was really funny specializing your usual disavowing expertise statement.

You can always weight the plane for a sanity check. Nobody says you have to update your aircraft records.

You could now tell your passengers that it isolates your headphones, so all you can hear is ATC. Flip the switch, then really hear what they have to say about you....

I have lots of videos from my first Mooney. I loved filming everything I could. I do a lot less now, just because there's so much effort involved in the editing. I think cameras are a very useful tool and can help make one a much better pilot. They can also lie and make things look different than they are. I can't think of a single situation where I did anything different because the camera was running. In fact, I usually forget they are there until I'm walking away from the airplane.

@Yetti I've haven't experimented much with mounting go pros on the plane except for one time in a rental. However, from all of the Youtube videos I've watched I would imagine that it could make you a safer pilot as long as you do it all prior to pre-flight and then forget about it until after landing. The knowledge that many people could be watching the video (and nit picking as Steingar points out) may cause you to go that extra step as if there were a CFI in the plane with you. Do we all verbally brief the abort plan before every takeoff when flying alone? I try to verbally call out all checklist items and abort procedures as much as possible but would be lying if said I didn't slip every now and then. I have a feeling some of these Youtube pilots force themselves to go the extra mile (even if subliminally) due to the fact that many will be watching the video. On a side note, I'm always listing for an incorrect IFR read back but after watching hundreds of videos it never seems to happen on camera (or make the final edit) .

Single engine, IFR, weather, at night - not for me, regardless of my experience.