Jim Peace

There may be a pill or a procedure for that...

I fly with my oil door open for better cooling....

I just have my girlfriend do it for me.....it's her JOB....

I do not want it mandated. I want pilots to do the right thing and get these portable CO detectors on their own but most will not due to the 100 dollar cost to save their life and their passengers. I remember when I installed a 406 ELT years ago. I actually got some backlash from pilots telling me it was crazy to do that being that it was "not required." I think it was 600 dollars at the time to give me the ability to be found on a map in minutes vs hours or never.....

what would you say the percentage of GA piston planes flying today have a great CO detector with live readings displayed in your face? I am not talking about that scratch and sniff POS....

I fly with two. One to check the checker. On the ground they are reading sometimes double digits. I taxi with the door open almost 100% of the time. In the air they read 0. Maybe low single digits with the heat on or if the cowl flaps are open it may read between 1-3ppm. Every plane should have these. They are cheap and do save lives. I read nearly 200ppm one day and found some scat tubing off in the cowling. Unfortunately we will need legislation to mandate expensive panel mounts due to cheap ass pilots who refuse to smarten up.

yes...on the ground it should only be on when aircraft is moving and not in another pilots face......but in the air it should basically stay on 100% of the time below 18,000..

This has nothing to do with your issue but why would you turn off the landing light? see and be seen.....should stay on 100% of the time you are below 18,000 feet...

Or MDOC....whatever happend to him?

did you have carb heat on? I like your 0 FF,,did you have your CARB heat on? Here is mine the other day at either 8 or 9000 feet...

I know EGT's really don't have a red line but in the O-360 in a C what would be highest number you would want to see even if CHTs are at or under 400?

how did you get that tail compartment so clean? did you do it? want to do mine?

I came out of annual once from a Florida MSC and they told me they adjusted the preloads...I could not get the gear down unless I used both hands and very slow airspeed. Also I was not convinced it was not going to pop out of the holder if I did not roll it on or if I hit a bump. I got back on the ground and asked if they swung the gear after adjusting it and I literally got a shoulder shrug indicating they did not know and could not find out....Also they did not know how to fix it. So I took it to a non-mooney mechanic who was not to proud to call LASAR and it was fixed in 15 minutes.....this is also when I found my oil cooler with just hand tightened loose connections. The MSC told me my oil leak was just residual from the oil change....

Its frustrating to have a little bit of knowledge and ethics in this world...