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  1. flyboy
    I am planning to fly down Thursday morning. I hope to meet Oscar, and many other mooneyspace folks there. For many of you, my home field would make a good fuel stop. 100LL is around $4.75 per gallon at KAND. From there I can make it nonstop.
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    Wow, Oscar you fly/live/play in such a wonderful place.
  3. flyboy
    I have one in my B model. I loved it until my last cross country. The flow rate is now all over the place, from 0.7 gallons an hour to 24.9 gallons an hour at full throttle.
  4. flyboy
    where are you located? I would think that there is someone here that would take you for a ride so that you could get a feel for the airplane and what it can do.
  5. flyboy
    Paper,... what is paper? I do miss the big wall charts with a string that were on every FBO's wall 30 years ago.
  6. flyboy
    Could it be wingwalk? The stuff that they put on the area of the right wing that you walk on.
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    Shouldn't a tug/crew transport vehicle have a GEM and mixture control? That way it can be run LOP. Also cowl flaps, open for tow operations, closed for transport operations.
  8. flyboy
    Oscar, My bladder vents face forward. My vents are under the leading edge, impossible to see from inside the airplane.
  9. flyboy
    I started with DC H10-40 back in the '80s. At that time they were the best of the best, most expensive at sporty's. I swore by them for years, and they are still good functional headsets, had 3 sets in my 172. Used them for many students, in and out of many airplanes. When I upgraded to the Mooney last year I inherited a lightspeed along with it. Could not believe what I had been missing. Had to have another ANR headset and bought a Bose. After one flight with the Bose, purchased a second Bose. Both Bose headsets are from ebay and look brand new. They were around $550 each, I am very satisfied with them.
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    Dave, I have the same problem in my M20B. Are you leaking oil or are you burning oil? Is the oil going on the belly of the plane or is the tailpipe lined with greasy black nastiness after spending some time at cruise power with a properly leaned mixture? Oil is cheap.(well,.... sort of) Leaking oil is a positive sign of lubrication, if it stops leaking bad things can happen., With enough altitude, no one can see how greasy your belly is. Fixing a leak may require that you throw a lot of money at the leak. ( Envision taping twenty dollar bills on the leak until the leak stops )
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    In my '61B its behind the left kick panel, close to the step crank.
  12. flyboy
    My 50 pound boxer does just fine. Falls asleep.
  13. flyboy
    My M20B has had O and N bladders for 22 years. I keep full tanks most of the time. No complaints.
  14. flyboy
    Can I have your old one?
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    kind of difficult for us to use our landing gear for a bit of a push to build airspeed!
  16. flyboy
    Mine was removed before I bought the airplane. Someone installed a firewall grommet, then put a bolt through the hole of the grommet, couple of washers and a locknut.
  17. flyboy
    Best I have seen in my B model is 204. I should have went for a speed run yesterday, I did an IPC and the wind was really howling.
  18. flyboy
    Things you say to the new airport kid: Go fetch me 20 feet of flight line Bring me a bucket of prop wash (Hmmm...,did I just say "airport kid"? now I am showing my age)
  19. flyboy
    I was at a local airshow, a lady was looking at the county's sheriff chopper, she asked what is this while pointing at the pitot tube. I explained the tube and its function. She asked if I flew the chopper. "No madam, I fly fixed wing aircraft, fixed. What is the opposite of fixed? BROKEN! Which is what you see before you. This is WAY too many moving parts flying in formation!" The whole time I could see the chopper pilot grinning and poking his buddy while listening in on our conversation.
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    My first flight instructor would say this at the end of every lesson: "Flying is a lot of fun, and now comes the most fun part of all. Its called taking the money" Thank you David Hege. Even though you are no longer with us I can still hear your voice when I fly. You would say: "As the flaps go down the nose goes down" "A change in power means a change in trim" and during my slow moments: "sometime today"
  21. flyboy
    2 weeks is certainly doable. I did the commercial + multi engine + instrument multi, in less time. I thought the commercial was kind of fun after the pressure I felt on the insturment
  22. flyboy
    Sounds to me like its time for a set of new points in the mags. Not really that hard to do if you are handy with a wrench, time consuming however.
  23. flyboy

    Beer Stop

    flyboy replied to Cabanaboy's topic in Videos

    That is stout landing gear to take that kind of punishment. I cracked up when the papers started flying all over the store.
  24. flyboy
    Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner, The best advice ever given on this or any other forum. (Drum roll please) TTaylor from Logan Utah with: "never calculate the real numbers or you will stop flying " I plan on 10 GPH at 150 MPH = 15 MPG in my old M20B with an O360, perhaps someday I will hang an IO360 and that will improve things.
  25. flyboy
    Can you "feather" a reindeer? Do you try to restart a reindeer or do you just jettison it? Is there a green nosed reindeer on the right side of the sleigh? I guess its in the POH or owners manual
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