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Dead spot. Overshoot a bit, then a touch back. Works for me.

Thanks. As owner, do I count as a legal "someone" to sign off? I had thought so under part 43 owner allowed, but after your post I'm now uncertain.

Good to know; thanks. So, is there a reason not to move the crank while a cylinder is off? Or, am I misinformed on that, as well?

WARNING! Thread creep! Question: I believe one of the risks is moving the crank while cylinders are off and having a bearing shift/spin in the case (loss of clamping force when cylinder through bolts are removed) presumably resulting in a mis-aligned oil hole. With auto engines the bearings have 'tabs' that lock them in place...it sounds like aircraft engines don't have them. Why not?

A thought to consider...I believe Mike Busch doesn't recommend doing that; read up on his thoughts on cylinder work in general. I think he views cylinder work as one of the riskiest maintenance operations. https://www.savvyaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/articles_eaa/EAA_2014-06_cylinder-work-be-afraid.pdf

Dang! That looks like a pretty decent deal, right there! If everything checks out, I'd be all over it....man if I didn't already have my F. (The 'fresh annual with sale' always disturbs me...wonder how little it's flown in the last couple of years??)

Just an FYI. Laser refused to perform my annual because my engine is over TBO. Top Gun got my biz; they seem to believe in on-condition inspection and aren't as scared of lawyers, I guess

Looks great, flyboy! Could be the motivation I need to get 'er done.

I'm planning on wool as well. I already have some kind of foil backed fire insulation under the carpet that is still in good shape; I'm going to leave it. I'm going to try going to a local auto upholstery shop and seeing how much to cut for me. If too pricy, I'll just buy the material from them.

That is EXACTLY what I'm going to do...especially after looking at SCS pricing...YOWZER! There's got to be all of $50 of carpet from the local auto upholstery shop being used. I'm not afraid of cutting carpet to size using the old ones as templates.

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Sorry, but the picture of that GIANT tug, and LOOONG tow bar, hooked to a Mooney scares the CRAP out of me

Yeah, if I see my wife with a pair of scissors in her hand....

DuBois Aviation at Chino (CNO) in Southern California has a rental M20B. $148/hr. http://duboisaviation.com/rental/

Both your points are true. Welcome to the internet

To be fair, Chris was treated rather poorly by a couple of posters. I'd be kinda pissed, too.

SIGH...I've said MULTIPLE times that I am NOT advocating doing NOTHING and letting it "spread on its own." I think we have over reacted and are doing long reaching economic damage because of it. That's all. I'm actually advocating a MORE scientific approach, rather than the emotional driven actions. Again, see the Stanford professor's article. I covered, and so did Shadrach, the reasons why Italy is a rather poor data set to be using to predict what will happen in the US. Sadly, the rest of your post smacks of political bias...

Oh, many may well be soon....after they realize their retirement savings/investments are wiped out and won't be recovering anytime soon, or they lose their job due to the destroyed economy. But, hey, they can revel in their suffering since they'll still be alive; unless they become one of the 20,000 to 40,000 dead in the US every year from the 'ordinary' flu!

Thank you!

I went from flying a manual gear M20B rental to owning my own electric gear M20F. Insurance yawned; not even a checkout required. I picked it up from its pre-buy location and flew it home

You quoted my post and I don't see where I said any SPECIFIC percentage. But, fine, let's use 0.5%. Where did you pull the 70% infection rate from? Bear in mind that the 1918 flu pandemic, with pretty much ZERO mitigation efforts, infected only 30% of the world's population. Yet again, I am NOT saying to do nothing. The present draconian policy will, no doubt, reduce the total number dead. But, at what cost to society? It's harsh, and no one likes to admit it, but there is a limit to how much a life is worth. Is it worth ruining the economy for the next 5 to 10 years, or more, to save 1,000 lives; 10,000 lives; a million? This cost/risk analysis should not be ignored. And, I think it is. We are trading our liberties and economic future based on poor data, with the emotional argument that we need to do 'everything we can' to save lives.

Italy may not be a good comparison for a few reasons. First, Italy has been a rather popular destination for Chinese tourists; i.e., they may have had a disproportionate number of visitors with the infection versus other countries. Second, Italy has demographically aged (susceptible) population. Third, they have had a very large number of 'ordinary' flu deaths for at least the past five years. Note the 68,000 flu deaths in the three year study period; not sure where you are getting, "Far beyond what they see for a normal year from flu deaths." Here's an excerpt from the journal study (https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(19)30328-5/fulltext): Results We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17, respectively, using the Goldstein index. The average annual mortality excess rate per 100,000 ranged from 11.6 to 41.2 with most of the influenza-associated deaths per year registered among the elderly. However children less than 5 years old also reported a relevant influenza attributable excess death rate in the 2014/15 and 2016/17 seasons (1.05/100,000 and 1.54/100,000 respectively). Conclusions Over 68,000 deaths were attributable to influenza epidemics in the study period. The observed excess of deaths is not completely unexpected, given the high number of fragile very old subjects living in Italy. In conclusion, the unpredictability of the influenza virus continues to present a major challenge to health professionals and policy makers. Don't misunderstand me. I am NOT saying we should do nothing. I am saying we should look closely at whether we are overreacting and causing unrecoverable damage to our economy. I think we should be paying attention to the points raised by the likes of the Stanford professor I quoted earlier. It troubles me that it has already become politically incorrect to even question this. (Take a look at aviatoreb's response to my post)

Aha! That sounds pretty neat! I've spent quite a bit of time working my way through my proposed route looking at soundings. I'm headed to the App Store now to spend the $15. Thanks again for the PIREP.

Yeah, I'm jealous! I pay $360/mo just to rent a county hangar...and I only have a foot and a half clearance off each wing tip!

I just took a quick look at that app. It looks pretty close to what I grab from the rucsoundings.noaa.gov site. Does the app perform some kind of analysis to help, or is it just a different depiction? Looks like it may have some filtering ability, but hard to tell from the screen shots on the App Store site. Thanks!