RobertGary1

Do you live in a state where you have to give 10% of the new planes value to the state? If so don’t upgrade.

“Intake boot”

Pht already had the specs. I just called them and they sent them.

It does seem to know exactly when it’s done and the green light comes on at the right time when it reaches full down

When I used to take my plane to shops it would really bother me to take the plane out of service for a month, only to find a month later it was still on the ramp. And this was common. Its a good sign its in their hanger. They don't want planes in their any longer than you want them in there. Hangers are for generating money.

You might be the guy who can successfully own white tennis shoes.

Been a Bruce's customer for 20 years. My last cover didn't last 2 years. They told me "Sorry the fabric wore out and we don't cover that". So I bough a mac at less than 1/2 the price. The mac doesn't feel as substantial as the Bruce's but so far its outlasted my last Bruces. I'm not paying double any more after that for Bruces.

yea I tried that for years and it never worked. The bag always ended up oily on the outside and would get oil on stuff in the hat rack.

All drip oil when you're done with them though. They're designed to be kept in a garage, not something you'd carry around and touch and get oily from.

I really don't like keeping an oily funnel in the plane. I just end up with oil all over the place. So I've been buying the paper funnels from Spruce and I smash them into the empty bottle afterwards. Has anyone else found a better solution?

The Mooney manual doesn't provide step by step procedures for replacing the main gear discs. I've seen a few descriptions here but not totally clear.. 1) Can the disc's be removed from the top after only removing the collar? 2) Is it necessary to remove the bolt at the bottom of the stack? 3) Does the splash shield have to come off? 4) Do you otherwise also remove the wheel?

Im starting to wonder if the squat switch could somehow get into ground mode after the gear comes up. My shock discs are older.

Recently when its cold I'm having problems retracting. I put the switch in the up position. The gear cycles up normally. But when it gets fully retracted the red "unsafe" light stays on and at that moment the gear horn starts going off. The "fix" is to fully retract and then bring it back up. 1) Obviously this isn't the squat switch since the gear does come up 2) It can't be the throttle switch since that wouldn't set the red unsafe light (and the "fix") doesn't change the throttle position 3) It can't be the down limit switch because the green light comes on at the right time and if it was stuck in the "down position" I assume the gear would think its down the moment it came off the up limit switch. 4) The up limit switch may make sense but then how does it know to sound the gear alarm at the exact moment the gear is fully up? Also wouldn't the motor just keep running until it pops the breaker? -Robert

I have almost that but gi-275s. The amount of power in the gnx375 is incredible. Really helps in the southwest when there is summer weather, thunderstorms

Ended up driving to work newr sjc. Wind was so strong took two people to open the office door. Airport was saying gust 43 at sjc

Never heard of him. Unfortunately there are a few on the books so the fsdo won’t approve more. Our school is sending multiple applicants a week up to Oregon now.

Anyone with recent experience with paper 8710's? I took my helicopter CFi checkride last week but IACRA was down for maintenance. The DPE said that if he can't log into IACRA and start the oral exam timer we have to do paper. I passed the checkride but then I had to fly home to get a wet CFI signature on a paper 8710 and will have to mail a copy to the DPE to send to the FAA. I image the paper process must take a lot longer than IACRA? (I had to fly out to Oregon for a DPE because we don't have any in Norcal). -Robert

I’m not a fan of using trickle chargers long term. If my battery doesn’t hold a charge over night I don’t want to find out when I’m away from home on a Sunday night trying to do a call out with the fbo. As your starter gets whimper each morning you know it’s time to start looking for a battery

I did my airplane instrument ratings in the 90’s. I recall we still had to learn an old instrument clearance where atc would clear a bunch of planes for an approach at the same time but we were assigned times. No radio during the procedure and we’d step down in the hold as our slot time came. I recall this being called a “timed approach clearance” but that doesn’t sound right. Anyone with a better memory?

Use the engineering data to support your 337.

Yes. It isn’t common in the Mooney other than under the hood. It’s not a blanket log pic anytime you’re pic

Actually the faa has written about this. Yes they do. One seat can serve as pic where multiple people are required. The other seat is sole manipulator and under the hood (hence the multiple required). Very common and they way most of the big schools like atp do time building.

Wow that’s intense. I just pour roughly 1/2 bottle to taste.

Are you mixing up being pic with logging pic? You don’t log pic because you’re pilot in command. 61.51e is what scenarios you log pic. Not related to pilot in command.

They both log pic time at half cost.