Jim Peace

I just found this thread....I have two of them and sometimes forget to turn them off and weeks would go by before I got back to the plane. They still work and are many years old.

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...

There is a MSC in the northeast that removed my entire carb heat system....so it's probably not needed....

WTF.....

also for those of you with G5s you can get into situation where you turned the battery off then back on to check something then off again and you throw the G5s out of sequence and they will not start the count down and power off...they just stay on....dont ask me how I know.....

I carry a spare master solenoid with me

not sure why mechanics don't do this.... Do they think we don't notice?

My pax seatbelt is always locked and stowed in a way that cant happen...dont ask why

even the issues discussed on COPA are for the ultra wealthy..... Mooneyspace is where its at.....

all of these flying magazines are written for the ultra rich now...that is why it is just one big advertisement. if you want in the weeds info on real life stuff you must be on mooneyspace or beechtalk...

I used to fly N47BA,,,thats a whole nuther story