ZachP

Thanks for the input. Questions beget questions. Why do so many of you guys make a distinction between day IFR and night IFR? If you can't see further than the windscreen then the position of the sun should not make any difference? I would not purposefully fly into known icing but that can always happen even in the summer. I live in central Texas and finding IMC to practice in is difficult to say the least not to mention no snow ever. Hard to get proficient in winter flying

Ok, so I have about 38 hours in my C and am feeling comfortable with it as well as having a new instrument rating . My question for the experienced ones here is this. How do you decide weather to fly commercial versus fly yourself? Also, the destination I am looking at regularly gets bad weather including ice and snow. How does the C do in those conditions or is it a no no?

Thanks all. I have to check on what the serial number is for you phil. I have been using a way too rich taxi "lean" as I learned yesterday. My flight was at 7500' throttle full forward 2500rpm and lean the mixture back till either EGT peaked or engine ran rough. seemed like the roughness won out and so I went with 25-50 degrees rich of that to smooth it out. I got the 11.5 gph on the Shaden. I believe I was at 22" MP, but don't quote me. TAS was ~138kts into a 7 kt headwind. Do you all think a engine monitor system like the JPI series is worth the cost over the above technique or is it just mental masterbation?

Hi all, I just purchase a very nice 1978 M20C. While I haven't posted I have lurked around the forums and found a lot of useful information that made my decision easier. Today I had my first working ( not flight training check out) flight. I had a problem with some serious roughness during runup. I called my mechanic and he talked me through a full power mag burn off (mag 1 was dropping 200 rpm). After that he told me to have a very low taxi lean setting. Flight went well from then on. Except I couldn't lean down to a fuel flow of 10.5 gph like I could the last 7 hours during my checkout flights. It wanted to run at 11.5 gph. I have a Shaden fuel flow meter. I am curious about leaning on the C. I have done some reading here and online and there seems to be debate about how to/if you can lean the carbureted engine. I don't want to break my new engine. Thoughts?

Do you guys think there is a benefit to putting one on a M20C ? I have heard you can't really lean a carbureted engine.