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my voltage light came on....reset the field breaker and all looked fine after that. on the return trip it did the same thing. some more details: my battery has been showing signs of weakness. granted it is well over 6 years old but cranks the plane every time. I do have a new one waiting for the right time to install. if you look at the attached image of my ammeter, green dot location 1 is where the needle is in cruse almost all the time (uh, except today), and very stable in that position. voltage light came on, I cycled the field breaker. with the breaker pulled, the needle dropped down to red dot position 2. with breaker back in, needle jumped to red dot position #3 for probably not more than a minute, maybe even less. needled stabilized back at position one for the remainder of the flight. the above steps and results from each makes sense to me. I have one of those cigar lighter voltmeter thingamajiggys and after the breaker reset, it was fluctuating between 14.2 and 14.7, bouncing back and forth between those #s. usually it is much more stable at the lower end of 14. the tension on the alternator belt seems normalish, maybe even slightly tighter than I remember but that could just be my brain playing games now that a blinky light came on (actually it wasn't blinking, it was on solid). I'm going to get the specs on my voltage regulater and alternator, but other than that I'm not sure what my next steps are. I am a bumbling idiot when it comes to electrical stuff. when I was 5 I stuck a popsicle stick in an outlet and that was when I wrote off anything and everything electrical. please form replies as if you were talking to that 5 year old (pre-popsicle stick incident), because that is about where my electrical skills are up to. thank you.

Maybe YOUR current practice.

Grasshopper. Because that was my first passenger the day I bought my plane.

Whachoo mean, “you people”?

if only raleigh had a major airport with flights to and from florida all day every day

How much/how long???

Do it, it’s fun!

Is that a kx155? How’s the display on it? I might be interested in that, thanks.

Yes, there are historical charts that show temperature changes are cyclical and have been higher and lower than they are now.

how dare you

I didn't say that was pizza and I didn't say he was or wasn't a nice guy.

he looks like the kind of guy that would eat pizza with a knife and fork.

lol ok hank.

OP said nothing about hood time. he never asked for a safety pilot for practice approaches. these random CFI/hood time/whatever examples are useless when someone says "you sit right seat, pay me for half the flight, and log pic the entire flight". I see it all the time on the carolina facebook groups. this has nothing to do with hood time/safety piloting/cfi'ing.

He never said anything about being under the hood. He said he wanted to build time while someone else paid half the hourly rate.

well, maybe they do, but not legally.

lol no, they don't.

so you want someone else to pay you money so you fly your plane and build hours......? I see this posted sometimes in a local facebook group and I never get it. "I want to build hours and I want someone else to pay me for half of it". do people actually log time sitting right seat doing nothing? that's crazy. good luck though.

are you looking for a safety pilot?

1975 M20F"s are the greatest planes ever of all time. anytime one comes up for sale you should immediately offer more than the asking price because they are in such demand, if you snooze you will lose. do not ever question the asking price, they are worth it. just buy one, now. really. (this post bookmarked for future use in case I ever decide to sell my 1975 M20F)

yes, that's what a youtube link is.........

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but also

I almost always land with full flaps and 80mph on final (slowing down a bit ‘over the fence’) flying a VFR ‘standard’ traffic pattern. Never once causing the plane behind me to do a go around. Flying an approach though, 90kts, one notch of flaps all the way to minimums. Sounds like something else is going on here.