mooniac15u

Both airports have towers and approaches including ILS.

I assume he's talking about OSU. They built a bunch of new hangars. I've been debating moving up there too. It's about 15-20 minutes closer to my house but it's also $125 more per month for the new hangars and $85 more per month for the older ones.

I haven't tried the new shop yet. I was hoping you might be able to give a pirep.

Do you usually pick up the GS on the 2L LOC Back Course approach?

Sorry I missed you. I was already in my car headed out the gate when I saw you taxi by. Can I ask where you are doing your annual? Are you using the new shop on the field?

Not really relevant to your question but technically PD isn't an acronym, it's an initialism. To be an acronym it has to be a pronounceable word.

Did it just go in for annual? I thought I saw you taxi in on Wed or Thur last week.

If @Sabremech is right and an inadvertent release of the gear generates enough force to bend a Johnson bar then it seems like there would also be some strong loads on the rest of the retraction system.

Didn't your old C suffer a gear collapse recently? Did they find a good explanation for that incident? Maybe the consequences of high speed extensions aren't immediately obvious.

I call the thousands of people who are now operating under Basic Med a success. Some doctors are saying no and some are saying yes. You have no idea what the success ratio is. Your logic is flawed. Success or failure cannot be measured simply by whether you got everything you personally wanted from this regulation. Many pilots are finding ways to make this work. Those that don't want to participate can stick with the 3rd class medical. Nobody has lost anything at this point and many have another option that they didn't have before. I choose to be happy for those who are helped by Basic Med. I will not sit around whining about how I can't fly without any medical at all yet.

Nothing makes naysayers madder than success.

Did you just tell us opinions on this drive you nuts and then offer your opinion?

On a '63 it should be in the nose gear well.

Yes, I was being sarcastic. Sorry if that didn't come across. I'm glad to see folks moving forward with this. It's not perfect but there is a lot of upside for some pilots.

Perhaps you should have your doctor read all of the negative posts in this thread so he can rethink his willingness to participate.

I think we've been beaten over the head here with all the hypothetical reasons that no MD will ever sign off a Basic Med. And yet, in the same thread we have people who are already succeeding...

I had this problem in my previous Mooney. My right main gear did not extend and I had no idea because the gear down light came on when the Johnson bar locked into the block. Fortunately there was someone holding short who noticed my problem when I was on short final. They jumped on the radio to tell me and I was able to go around. In the end I decided it was safest to retract the other two and land on the belly.

Never is a very long time...

Perhaps. Except for the part where you said, "No air pressure is pushing it forward." I see that you have edited your previous posts. The air pushes on the back of the prop blade. The force is transferred through the blade to the hub. To produce a given amount of forward acceleration the same amount of forward force is applied to the root of the prop blade at the hub regardless of whether the air is pushing on it or your hand is pulling on it.

Air pressure is absolutely pushing it forward. Low pressure is not a force that acts on something. It is actually a reduction in force. Air pressure is caused by collisions between the gas molecules and a surface. When the pressure is even on both sides of an object the number of collisions is equivalent on all sides of the object and the forces are balanced. If you reduce pressure on one side of the object you have reduced the number of gas molecule collisions and therefore reduced the total force on that side of the object. The forces are now out of balance and the object feels a net force from the gas collisions on the high pressure side. If the gas exerts sufficient force the object will move. There is no magical force that pulls an object toward a vacuum.

F=MA. The plane is a fixed mass so the force required is the same for an equivalent amount of acceleration. An object will only move as a result of pressure differential if the air pressure exerts a force on the object. Which rear aircraft surface is this high air pressure exerting force on? The trailing edges of the wings?

Do you not use your engine and prop to taxi on the ground?

I am neither offended, nor did I report anything. Members of this forum alerted the admin to a thread that they felt detracts from the overall environment of MooneySpace and you have branded them "snowflakes" for having a different opinion about how they think this online community should operate. That is insulting your fellow community members. You continue to lash out at everyone and I am trying to help you understand the behaviour that leads to threads being locked.

And you continue to lob insults for no good reason... "You privileged snowflakes that couldn't take the heat, cry like a baby so to ruin the fun for everyone else." Craig (aka Mooniac58) uses option #3: a technique known as "good judgement." He has applied it effectively and MooneySpace tends to have fairly civil discussions.