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Yoopers lancair strikes me as the best bang for your buck out there. You can pick one up for 400k. Again the insurance though?

Acquaintance of mine doesn't have much good to say about the tbm. I never got specifics but I'd take that too. Or a Malibu or a jetprop, or a pc12. When it comes to things I cannot afford I'm not picky The eclipse 550 looks slick too. Auto throttles!

Ours go tabs back. Quite honestly I didn't k ow you could put them in the other way round.

It's not a very honest 7 though. You won't take much fuel. Let's be honest here. If I could afford one you couldn't get out of my way fast enough if you got between me and a cirrus dealer. Reasonable performance, a real all weather airplane, pressurized, and jet a is cheaper than avgas. If you can afford the plane it probably doesn't matter but I wonder how much insurance costs.

I like easy fixes. Thanks for the update.

That'll buff out for sure. Super glue will definitely fix it if not.

Do not pass go, do not collect $200 head directly to turbo land.

Weird. Well, like you say you've got the parts on hand. In fact you better stock up in case you need something you don't have. Especially 231 parts in case I need, uh, I mean in case you need something.

Parked next to a SR22 heading to Australia via Hawaii tomorrow. 3 ferry tanks.

I wonder if the guy you sold it to passed and it sat while the estate was settled.

good point

thought of this thread today, self serve pumps were OOS at my home drome. They would honor the price but I needed a full load for my flight tomorrow so I hopped to an airport 5 miles away to top up so I could pump it myself. But I saved $17 so there's that.

that's one technique I guess? Really if they're worried about something a crossing restriction is more appropriate to my mind but whatever gets the job done. Actually what gets under my skin a little is issuing a descent and having them ask if that's PD. But only a little because now I have to restate it and pay attention to the readback. I won't let you know where the other goats are tied.

the route across the Atlantic is pretty set in stone. I'm not buying a HF radio so I'm stuck with the northern route. I'm more curious why no one seems to duck across canada to get to the start of that route.

you can do the northern route without tanks no problem. Longest leg is less than 600NM.

It isn't. if controllers let something as small as saying PD bother them... they'd never make it through training let alone survive their coworkers. you can leave discretion, PD and everything else out except descend to whatever, I doubt they'll care. If you didn't receive the PD part it makes no real difference to them, they have released that airspace to you and protected it already. Though if you don't read back the PD and don't descend, they may query you about it. The easy solution is to make it clear you received the instructions by reading it back but how you do so makes little difference outside of what is required.

You really do see more traffic in if you're adsb out.

I'd be doing the same, only skipping going through Bangor me to gander or goose Bay and instead ducking across canukistan from cywg, provided I can actually get fuel. If I can get 2 weeks off in a row next year I'll go.

The round the world flight had me curious. If a guy wanted to take the northern route to Europe are you forced to head to the ne us and then up to Canada or has anyone gone like Winnipeg across Canada to start the northern route? Pretty desolate area but sure saves a lot of miles. There's a few guys here that have ferried across the Atlantic, maybe someone has done it that way.

Had a guy on the last flight in a canard pass 500 feet below me despite multiple calls from approach pointing him out. Didn't see him until directly under us. I don't have great eyes but I can pass without glasses....

I have never flown a Mooney with anything but a continental

that aux tank is neat, where is it plumbed into? Teed into one of the fuel tank lines behind the seat maybe? I have always sort of wondered how they did that.

Agreed. We're 1090 out and portable in, we don't get all the traffic via adsb but it sure helps. Some time go to a site like flightradar24 that is like flight aware but does replays, you can see the traffic around you on your last flight if they're in radar, it's pretty eye opening if you live near busy airspace

You travel a bit more than I do but my experience has been that most do care. I prefer to self fuel but thats mostly to get the monroy tanks full, they don't know how to get enough fuel in there. It's just ignorance, not a lack of care.

Lol, most likely.