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Vfr towers have very limited equipment. They'll give you traffic advisories and sequence you but in the air separation services are not provided. Only on the concrete. You are always responsible to see and avoid, class d usually affords little to no additional protection.

The only time a vfr tower is responsible to keep you separated is while on their concrete.

The irony being the only person displaying any of the 5 hazardous attitudes around here is the first to accuse others of the same.

I'm in the wrong line of work I guess

they wouldn't have the slightest clue what to do even if they arrived anyway. They don't know the airspace rules.

oh no, oleo struts! The plane lands a little firm, big deal. A good landing in a bonanza is a good landing in an arrow, is a good landing in a 310 is a good landing in a cirrus. You guessed it, still good in a mooney. Telling yourself the mooney is anything different is kidding yourself. I've trained plenty of students, thanks. And what I've seen is you can't make assumptions based on hours. Some students get better training and some get worse, pure hours doesn't tell you the whole story. I still got transition training, after the first lesson he said I was fine soloing the plane, so I did and continued to work on other things not related to type just to be sure, and this guy I assure you has trained more folks than you and me combined. SO, a guy doesn't know how to go around? A BASIC PPL MANEUVER?! And it's the airframes fault? Righto boss. Anybody that has researched the matter at all knows to expect a strong pitch up movement on go around in the type, but besides that it's a non event if flown just as you would in just about any other airplane out there. Too many internet know-it-alls out there convinced me the airplane was a lot of things it isn't to my own detriment. We all know model specific transition training is the best practice, but I don't think walking around telling ourselves we're flying some mythical beast that only a select few can handle is doing anyone a service either.

You'll be surprised to find that the Mooney isn't a fire breathing dragon waiting to bite you at every turn. It's no different than a Bonanza or arrow. I flew once with a safety pilot and some lessons with a local Mooney cfi with a couple thousand hours in type who seemed to be wondering why he was there after the first lesson. It got fairly annoying hearing how the type was going to eat my lunch. It didn't. It's a certified airplane that is not dissimilar from any other aside from a few quirks.

Seems like insurance companies just throw a dart at the board when choosing requirements. I have fairly low time, no Mooney time, 100 complex, some multi, and a ton of ratings. No requirement at all put on me. It's just bizarre.

She's unbearably cute. And the wife's OK too. Congrats

Oh also somewhere on the Web when I was looking into that other airplane I found a deep cycle procedure to try and reseat that o ring, I never tried it.

a prop on another airplane I was on needed a reseal and the local shop wouldn't IRAN the prop, only a full overhaul

I'm sure there's some kickback. They had their own software, then went to the jepp real time Internet flight planner, the somehow got wrapped up with Seattle avionics and had that flyq efb a d Web planner and now back to jepp, I don't get it but whatever.

If foreflight does it, wingx will soon follow then.

I'm a wingx pro user, and the planner is adequate but pretty basic, I like the web planners, bigger screen, I can draw the line, pick fuel stops, check prices, I dunno maybe I'm just stuck in my ways. The wind optimization on the old planner was pretty good too I thought.

there was a fellow selling a d2 in the classifieds in order to get a bravo, maybe he'll chime in once (if?) he does

I thought the old one was pretty OK, but the jepp does all the same things I guess too. Weird they keep changing things, then changing back or like the partnership website buying things and then shutting them down.

Went vfr to keep the altitude across the rocks down. That way I could go at 13.5 instead of 17+

Exciting stuff. Hope he gets traffic working.

You could be on to something, looks like an antenna connection in the back. Maybe a power outlet of some sort for the GPS?

always seems that the runs that work for me end up not working out for some reason, we moved this guy last week. He was happy as a clam at 13,5, which made me happy. I was worried about him at alt. Here's his new family.

it was really probably just the controller going "man this guys climbing slow"... "wait, is he climbing, lemme check"

wow, below 180 we're supposed to use something other than 29.92? Who knew!?!

When he climbed you to 7 he essentially released that block up to 7 to you. It's a lot different than if they climbed you to 2 and you blew through the altitude. I wouldn't sweat it. As far as the controller knows it could have been an automation issue between facilities. There is no downside, the upside is it's another data point for a hear back read back error which is a high priority. If it makes you sleep better fill one out.

Llc requires almost no paperwork. In my state once a year a 10 dollar annual statement is all. Heck I have one just to transfer nfa weapons because it's so easy to maintain.

wonder if it'll work with wingxpro... I'd build one, why not.