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OK I finally get it. Ovations and poor man's Ovations ie The Eagle are freaking fast. Picked it up yesterday flew 800 miles home in 4 and half hours. Made it south across East Texas in an hour. Mooney Zoom. Oh there is a F model with Dynon Skyview for sale.

I test drove a Cybertruck a couple of months ago. The FSD tried to make a left turn out of the middle lane. So I took over and went straight. To be fair it was a construction zone and lanes may have shifted recently. It did pretty well on the high way. Not sure about letting traffic merge. The Ford and Subaru are bad about letting in cars merge in. It did pull out in front of a car on a side street. Not sure if the car was blinking to turn right, but I had to take over. It did get stuck making a left turn onto a busy street from a side street. I had to take over and do a Right turn then a U turn. The two biggest things were, I really did not know were I was or how to get back to the dealer, because I did not Navigate to the super charger. There seems to be a reliance on cameras/screens for visibility. so you end up looking at the screen, but then FSD penalizes you for taking the eyes off the road. Not sure how you handle these issues if you are a passenger in a self driving taxi. Several times I found myself talking to the car telling it how that was not going to work

Clearly you are not one of those people that have scraps saved from 12 years ago for just this moment.

you are probably right. I have some Mahogany laying around. A little Spar varnish. It would be a nice touch.

I would make one out of White Oak or Red Oak nicely stained and varnished of course.

hangar fairies are known to do good work. Just leave them a beer every now and then.

First question. A cotter pin works. Put some in your plane tool box while you are at it. I purchased several latches off ebay Same part number much cheaper price than Spruce. Like $8 vs $40

Yes the oil can travel up wind inside the engine compartment. has to do with low pressure and high pressure areas. after sitting after running, mine will leave a spot on the floor under the tube.

In the Certified version of the Dynon MAP sensor, the part number will cross reference to a Jeep MAP sensor. The more you know.

videos are designed to elicit a response from the viewer. Ask yourself this "At the end of this video I want the viewer to feel _________________" Then you shoot and edit to that. For the most part en route is pretty boring. Landing and take off is where the fun parts are.

The Harbor Freight O2 sensor socket will work on the spark plugs with a bit of grinding. Snap on 3/8 drive sockets work without grinding.

Simple things first. Check Belt condition and tightness. Build a new wiring harness to the alternator. Replace brushes in the alternator. May be a voltage regulator. Replace with Zeftronics.

Consider for a moment that there is no right and wrong. There is only Alive and Dead. Fly like that.

There is never a good ending when someone starts asserting their "rights". In motorcyles and bicycles I may have the right to pass in front of a car. But I know if I am in front of a car the car can hit me. So I always try to pass behind cars, which includes waving them on. Same with airplanes. If you never put yourself in a place where the other plane can hit you, you won't get hit. Same with a table saw. Don't ever put a body part in line with the blade. and you will not get cut or have wood hit you. In this case the Lancair pilot and passenger put themselves in a place that they could be hit, and they are now dead.

There is another event with a CRJ at John Wayne Airport and a gear issue. There is also a corrosion issue with the CRJ. Flare would have been nice. We have all had the wind drop out from beneath us on a gusty day. In a prop plane you can throttle up and catch it sometimes.

Not sure about using compressed air. Would a brake pump booster be enough to move it. The fear with air would be introducing more air into the systems to get out. We have done 40 pumps and then another 40 pumps with an oil can from the bottom to get all the air out.

Fantastic work.

Dukes tend to explode the plastic parts. There should be a filter next to the pump to catch the parts. I would still check the finger screen on the Servo.

This. What I will say is have about $10K in the bank to start with after you bring the plane home. Also are you buying a plane to fly or are you buying a plane to upgrade. Those are two different things.

Was the plane gear upped at some point in it's life?

Does it look something like this? https://lasar.com/actuators/gear-actuator-eaton-102000-3-sn-414

I think it's pretty standard crack to have on a Mooney. I have seen several with them. Mine is in the middle of the storm window.

I thought this was an option all along with the newer actuator being a $5000.00 price tag.

fixed. thanks

Nope. The Ford 8N starter solenoid is only 4 post. The main post run the gear motor. The 4th post is Positive and turns the brake off in the back of the motor. The brake is there to keep the gear from chattering down. Interesting enough some of the F models run two solenoids for the gear. One up and one down.