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  1. Just brought my baby back home. Here’s a few pics.
    14 points
  2. I think what @mike_elliott does is admirable and highly professional. He’s been doing it for a long time and, unfortunately, has quite a bit of experience doing it. I’m sorry about the loss of your friend, but saying “I know what happened but I’m not telling anyone” isn’t particularly helpful to anyone. Hopefully you have people you can talk to that will help you get through this, but don’t pick on Mike. He’s one of the good guys.
    11 points
  3. So to add a little closure to this thread, I called the tower supervisor yesterday and explained how I screwed up Saturday night by not understanding the big picture and how I bitched at the controller for 1)trying to help me out by squeezing me in and 2) keeping me safe when that didn't work out as planned. The controller happened to be working when I called, so he had me talk directly with him. The controller was still apologizing for putting me in a bad situation and insisted that I didn't need to do anything to make amends when I offered pizza or cookies and wouldn't even tell me when he was working so I would know when to send the goodies. So I asked to speak with the tower supervisor one more time and he provided the schedule info I needed. Pizza will be delivered Saturday night! I'm glad I shared this experience as I have learned a lot from this thread. I hope others have learned a lot too. If you thought the same way I did about my situation, please go back and read @GeeBee's explanation of why the little guy gets sent around. It makes perfect sense once you understand the performance capabilities and limitations of both aircraft. Unfortunately, I now feel a bit like a little kid who was pissed at mom for making me get a shot at the doctors office... who now just got a cram course in immunology.
    10 points
  4. Anybody out there have aviation related decorations? Here’s mine. Happy Holidays!
    5 points
  5. My co-pilot and I added these retro features to the tail and wing tip of our '67C. Just wanted to share. Vinyl decals purchased on eBay.
    4 points
  6. Just picked up Lolita from Lincoln Skyways. Fantastic job by Byron and his staff. While there, had a new Hartzell Simitar Prop installed. They did a Dynamic Balance - smooth as silk, and, I picked up 4-5 knots. With the 2 new G5s, I've now over improved her for more than she'll ever be worth to someone else - but not to me. She's perfect! Thanks to Byron. I highly recommend them. Merry Christmas and safe travels to all.
    4 points
  7. If he would like to do this, he sure can. There is nothing more to this fatality than usual. Protocols are all the same. Chrisorlando didnt have anything to offer that we didnt already know, just seemed troubled that I would act before survivors are notified, which is why I let him know I have done this before. For the rest, Once we have official confirmation, we will engage the Bill Gilliland foundation
    4 points
  8. Everyone, as a reminder the safety section is setup to discuss safety,mishaps, prention, etc. in a logical and clinical manner. I understand this can be difficult when members know the mishap pilot. For this mishap there are very little details, so there is not much to analyze or discuss as to why this mishap occured. I recommend we hold off and cool off for a bit. Everyone has good intentions, and right now discussing who the pilot is, whether their family has been contacted, etc. is outside the intent of the safety thread and would be best suited in the General section of the forum. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
    4 points
  9. They also finally updated the app so that you could direct donations from purchases made in the app. Previously you had to put it in your cart if shopping on your phone, and then open a browser on your phone and go to the smile.amazon page to complete the purchase. In the app click the three bars at the top left and then scroll down to "Settings." Under settings tap on "AmazonSmile" and set "Mooney Summit Inc" as your charity. All purchases through the app will now contribute to the Mooney Summit.
    4 points
  10. I'll tell one more "short" story that is more apropos to your situation. NYE 2014 I took my wife to Philly for the holiday. I was told to "keep my speed up" shortly after being vectored onto about 2 mile final for 35 at Philadelphia International Airport. I'm descending at ~160KIAS and I maintain that speed on final. As I cross the bank of the Delaware River I see a SW737 off to my right on the approach for 27R getting bigger and bigger. At halfway across the river on about a .5 mile final I can see this is not going as tower had planned it (likely due to my left-right cross wind and the 737s headwind which was high teens gusting into the 20s). Tower says "Mooney 39Q, this is not going to work...can you make this a left base for 27L?" Now I could have tensed up, gotten pissed because of his error and requested vectors to a different runway. However, the winds were more favorable to 27. The threshold of 27 was about a half mile off my current track and the 737 certainly wasn't going around. I replied "Affirmative on 27L for 39Q, always happy to help". He thanked me and cleared me to land 27L. I made the first reverse high speed turn off. I received another genuine yet unnecessary thank you before being handed to ground. I was then given unsolicited progressive instructions all the way to Atlantic with every transmission ending in sir and a final thanks before transitioning to the non-movement area. The moral of the story is that no matter who pooched the situation, the best course of action is almost always to calmly help resolve it while being as gracious as possible. You'll find more often than not you get treated like a pro. While this event was rewarding for me as a pilot, I've been flying into Bravo and Charlie airspace for decades. The real benefit was that my wife of one year was in the right seat listening to ATC professionals at a major International Airport acting graciously towards her husband. I would say that event had a huge impact on her comfort level in the airplane. If I had stressed over it and gotten bent out of shape she would have a different view of me. Also got a cool pic of the sunset on the Delaware river as we turned final...
    4 points
  11. So I called around to a few shops for quotes on my eddy current inspection. First the bad, Yingling quoted me $450 - $550 depending on what they found once the got started. WTF, this is less than an hour job... I guess they just didn't want to do it. And the good, I called Redline Aviation in Akron, CO. He quoted me $150, but said they were backed up for 3 weeks. When I told him I would by flying through the area to attend a funeral, he told me they could squeeze me in since I lived far away. Just asked that I call and remind him the day before. OK, that's more like it. When I showed up Mark, the technician, got started on it right away. I asked if I could help in any way and he said "Sure, come on out." I didn't do anything to help and got in the way more than anything, but he was happy to answer my questions. He explained that I would need an overhaul soon and thoroughly explained why. When I asked about Aeroshell #5 vs #6, he showed me what the difference looked like between the two when they leak out on the inside of my spinner. He also made a point of showing/instructing me on how to properly put the spinner on so I wouldn't damage it or the prop. Less than an hour later, it was time to go see Dan, the owner and settle up the bill. He said "Since you helped, I'll only charge you an hour of labor." That's pretty generous using the term "help" since I mostly just stood in the cold and got in the way! I also asked him for a quote for the overhaul and was impressed with the number he gave me. He then took the time to go through how to package and ship the prop so that it would arrive undamaged. I know @Cody Stallings in Arkansas has a great reputation around here (if I had been going that way, I would have stopped there without hesitation), but if you find yourself in Colorado and need prop work done, Redline Aviation seemed to be a top notch outfit.
    3 points
  12. @chriscalandro &@mike_elliott, please take any open grievences offline. I recommend you chat versus text, but that's just a humble recommendation. Any more posts about notifying the pilot's family (for or against) will lead to this thread being locked. Fly safe. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
    3 points
  13. This is a friend of mine, and my former insurance agent before he got an airline job... Yes, that is outside, and a real plane. Sent from my LG-US996 using Tapatalk
    3 points
  14. I am surprised that this discussion has not brought mention of the LASAR FAA/PMA gear down lock socket. It is significantly improved from the factory part, with hard anodized aluminum instead of plain cast aluminum. Not to mention that far too many J Bar Mooneys have worn out sockets. I learned first hand that it is virtually impossible to judge the amount of wear on the socket when it remains installed. I was shocked at how worn mine was when I removed it and installed the LASAR socket. One of the reasons the J-bar can come unlatched without pilot action is when the socket gets too ovalized. The parts and labor to do the job should be under 1/2 AMU. Important, because a gear failure on a J Bar Mooney is almost guaranteed to result in insurance totaling the airplane.
    3 points
  15. New case will run about $4K. Edit: I don’t see the crack in the picture? Tom
    3 points
  16. No obligation but It's a good idea for them to defuse a situation with a conversation no matter who is calling who. I have witnessed a number of ATC screw ups (the number pales in comparison to the number of pilot screw ups I've heard). I have had some interesting interactions with controllers over the last few decades. Last year I departed from Annapolis (inside the DC SFRA) I was northwest bound for my home base. After take off, I could not get a word in on the freq for about 3 mins as the controller was as busy as any I've ever heard and was not pausing in between calls. I was squawking the correct code and waiting patiently. In the midst of the staccato ATC calls the controller barked "N6339Q are you on freq?". I replied that I had been on freq since since departure and waiting for a brake to check in (I am not a shrinking violet on the radio he was just that damn busy). He politely tells me that I should have checked in immediately upon departure. I replied that my only option would have been step on existing transmissions (there were several blocked transmissions while I was waiting). He curtly repeated his original statement and cleared me on course heading. Two sectors later with different controller as I am departing the SFRA I get chewed on freq for the earlier incident. I was lectured about flying in the SFRA without establishing radio communication with ATC. This controller who was not on the freq in which the problem occurred and is talking down to me like I just decided to fly through some of the most restricted airspace in the world willy-nilly.... I thanked him for his opinion, reiterated my familiarity with the rules and restated the challenges with the first sector. I then told him that I would be happy to escalate things and asked for a number to call the Potomac TRACON supervisor so that we could go over the recording together so I might learn when I should have transmitted. He gave me a number. I read it back. He confirmed... I called after the plane was put away. The number given was for the Florida Budget Cruise Vacation hotline... I thought about looking up the correct number and calling but I appreciated the prank so much that I let it go...
    3 points
  17. Did the same thing on the 9th. San Diego to Mammoth mountain. I call it my 5 to 5’s, leave the house at 5am and back in the house at 5pm. Nothing better than weekday skiing!
    3 points
  18. On Thursday at 1030 am I loaded up the ski equipment and flew about 180 miles to mount poconos...picked up an Uber ride to camelback mountain resort...purchased a season pass for over 65, and skied non stop for 2 1/2 hours and caught an Uber back to the airport so I could fly back during twilight....”flew my Lear jet to Nova Scotia..to photograph a total eclipse of the sun” mooney freedom!
    2 points
  19. Okay, I'll put a plug in for my very good friend, Paul Bowen. This is one of his signature shots. His photography work is fantastic. Note: Even with winglets, there are still wake vortices. Horizontal wing is more efficient. And, to answer an earlier question, yes, the wing lift distribution changes (there would be no gain if it didn't … only more drag). As a direct result, the wing bending moment goes up, too.
    2 points
  20. BDB8A271-1B46-409B-92A6-617AFEF25C79.MOV
    2 points
  21. The skin was basically low over all of the stringers and it was very low over the spar. So instead of being the perfect shape that Al designed it’s kind of a series of high and low bands from front to back. The rivet dimples on the spar were .030” deep. The outboard wing skin was flat to the spar then kinked over it then flat behind it. We fixed all that. We use profilimeter to measure this, as long as the wing camber keeps getting flatter as you go back then the wing doesn’t have any low spots. Factory sprays something like Featherfill which is like Bondo out of a spray gun and they block it flat and paint it. But this is a cheap fast and not that really good way of doing this
    2 points
  22. I look at some of these before pictures and think, man, I'd love to have a paint job that nice. Of course looking at the after pictures, I just think "WOW!" @Joe Larussa The only thing you missed was updating your avatar!
    2 points
  23. Well, I tell you... 1. Left side door and, to make this work, bigger windows in front and accordingly slightly smaller in the rear; 2. Bended winglets sort of "sailplane style"; 3. LE slats to lower the approach and landing speeds; 4. Hinged flaps (you know what there are for so I don't need to go into details); 5. Two full wrapping ducts for the exhausts, one each side of the front LG doors. If you look carefully, there is a small opening on the front side of these ducts. Why? To get the same effect as in the fanjet engines: cool air flowing in and around the exhaust nozzles (or tubes, here), lowers the noise levels. Here, in this case, the rapidly flowing air through the ducts creates also sort of an extraction effect of the (slower) air inside the engine compartment. From cooling the cylinder heads, the turbo intercoolers and from the oil radiator. And I'd like a fully digital controlled engine from Lycoming also... 6. The antennas on the roof. Look guys, my reasoning is the following: Complex airplanes are expensive. Just like complex cars... With today's enormous technological advance, a pilot flying IFR on any GA airplane is very close to a professional guy flying a big plane. The vast amount of information the pilot(s) get nowadays make it mandatory for them to have a huge knowledge to extract all the capabilities of the GA planes they get. Even if it's an Archer LS, it has the same panel technology as the others... Being this so, I only think of changing to a new airplane if I can afford today's technology. Otherwise I buy an used one with some 20 years on it and spend some 100/150 grand making a really deep overhaul of all systems, add some of the smaller digital instruments which fit into the holes of analog ones and get a new paint and interior at my wish. Then I'll have a good, reliable and beautiful Mooney for, say, some 400k bucks or so. If I took the care to get the plane inspected beforehand mainly for corrosion and none was found, I'd have a plane for another 20 years (if in 20 years from now they'd allow us to burn avgas or even mogas... Let's see what you all think of it... "Babbling", of course, but... Carlos
    2 points
  24. My wife purchased this one for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSFF9jH7ai0
    2 points
  25. Me neither... I even took a drawing from "Scheme Desiners" and drawed carefully some changes I'd make... Let's see 1. If you like it and 2. If you find out the changes I did...
    2 points
  26. Kris, most of the G5 installs I've seen are not flush mounted. Ugly, IMNSHO. Garmin offers a bracket to do a flush mount. Well worth the few bucks extra... particularly in the great panel you're planning.
    2 points
  27. Falcon series aircraft do not have any tail de-ice either. I haven’t been told a detailed answer yet either. It’s a thin airfoil, ice build up may not be that great. I’ll try and find what airfoil it is. -Matt
    2 points
  28. I suppose most of the times I’ve had the keep speed up instruction I’m landing on a 8 or 10,000’ runway with an airliner sequenced behind me. If I come down the glide slope at ~130 kias to 200’ and chop power and level out there’s plenty of runway to slow to gear speed and touch down before midfield, no flaps. In all likelihood the tower will have what they need and allow me to slow sooner. What they don’t need is someone setting up a nice stabilized gear down and full flaps 4 mile final flown at 75 kias with a line of 737s behind him doing twice that speed. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
    2 points
  29. It depends. How many hours and what is the age of the engine? If you sell it with a mid time engine with a crack, you’ll be selling it as a plane that needs engine work. If the engine is no where near TBO, I’d look at having the crack repaired. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
    2 points
  30. I fly out of NASCAR international so I’m used to getting last minute reroutes, 360’s on short final etc to let the jets in. I had the bright idea of bringing the tower guys BBQ from a local joint and put my tail # of the outside of the to-go box so they know who it came from. Now I get a “please” when given a reroute or 360 on short final. Chalk up another win for the eman.
    2 points
  31. I do know. Absolutely nothing whatsoever. But as to why I chose "she" instead of "he", I'm happy to explain. I don't know exactly when, but probably 15-20 years ago I began alternating male and female pronouns in my writing. Call it my personal version of gender neutrality. It's not even; it's whatever strikes me at the time I write it. I've never seen a pattern, like male = good or vice versa, although if I am referring to two people at the same time, I'll almost definitely use it. If it crosses my mind that I've used the generic "he" too much, I'll do the switch. Nothing more complicated than that. You are the first one comment on it in more than a decade. The two best comments were a woman who accused me of being sexist because I happened to use "she" in describing something bad. But the best was a man on an aviation forum who figured out I must be a woman, because who else but a woman would use "she" generically. That last one got a great response from someone who knew me, "You go, girl!" was the reply.
    2 points
  32. Ram air delete will recover a couple pounds, but most importantly removes that multi-hundred dollar seal that is fragile. I really like the clean cowl too. Sent from my LG-US996 using Tapatalk
    2 points
  33. I know many spouses that will not fly with their pilot SOs. I think it's often about a single event that sets the tone moving forward. I encourage new pilots to use the system and get comfortable with communication in busy airspace. No better way to sour a spouse on flying than trying to take a trip somewhere and needlessly making a fool of yourself in a stressful situation. I also tell them to challenge themselves frequently but do it solo. No one wants to see their pilot looking uncomfortable.
    2 points
  34. Let me just say I’m disappointed in my brethren, y’all are flying too slow, we should be asked to slow down! [emoji1] Tom
    2 points
  35. I faired all of the ribs and stringer lines in the front half of the wing on my airplane. He probably used about a third of a gallon of a Epoxy and microballoons, which weighs about 5 pounds, and we sanded about 80%-90% of it off. And a gallon of Sherwin-Williams epoxy aircraft primer. So I would say there’s less than 5 pounds on the wings
    2 points
  36. Actually, it works better to google for: whatever and ever site:mooneyspace.com The "site:mooneyspace.com" limits the results to those from mooneyspace.com - simples.
    2 points
  37. That is exactly what it is. It needs to be set to a certain setting and maybe needs a software update as well. They recently, a year ago or so, did an update to the 430W/530W to alleviate these issues with the G5s
    2 points
  38. Did pushing the mixture in decrease EGTs? Think of it this way. Piston speed is controlled by the prop control (RPM). The speed of the combustion event is controlled by the mixture control. It is not uncommon to see an EGT increase after a power change. I can’t speculate as to your exact power setting but I suspect that your mixture setting was such that the speed of the combustion event (flame front) had slowed to the point that it was still burning during the exhaust stroke which would push burning gases into the exhaust manifold. Going very lean of peak will cause the same scenario as will running on a single mag (slow flame front due to single point of propagation). Was airflow driving the prop at your descent power setting?
    2 points
  39. This is an order of magnitude more in price, but works great with a laptop computer or Android device as your display: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GY7C9ZW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Cheers, Rick
    2 points
  40. Oh a byproduct of these wings will be turbulence, I can guarantee you that. The white is blue cheese. None of that ranch crap.
    2 points
  41. Isn't that mirror called "ADS-B in" in the US? ;-)
    2 points
  42. Mooneyspace: “my stock C model cruises at 155 knots true.”
    2 points
  43. From a Peter Garrison magazine article: Reader: ”My wife doesn’t like to fly with me. What can I do?” Peter: ”That’s interesting: My first wife used to say that, too.”
    2 points
  44. It’s not Mooney specific but it’s definitely humorous... Found in the FBO in Pecos, TX. Best tamales at any airport.
    2 points
  45. Yes, low MP, high RPM and high ASI you do get load of drag from the flat prop windmilling and that helps a lot when it comes to get down quickly, bringing prop RPM very down is like feathering it that does not help to go down but at least it take all the load off the engine, having prop it in the middle range is like trying to descend quickly by flying at best glide speed on a wing
    1 point
  46. This is the kit with the encoder , and internal GPS comes complete adsb out THIS IS NEW
    1 point
  47. Airmav shows KTIX has service on the field, if you want a Mooney service center, KDAB has one. X26 (Sabastian) has a shop who’s name I can’t remember. Least hassle is probably the local mechanic unless you have a reason not to use it. Tom
    1 point
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