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Looking great Grant! Amazing that you already have 100 hours in it! I look forward to getting a ride in the new C-FUTR! Steve

I have 3 years as a tower controller, 22 years and counting as an approach controller. Without the benefit of listening to the tapes, given how you described the situation, I would say that your friend was correct. I routinely issue practice approach clearances to "inactive" runways and usually issue "runway heading" for the missed approach - to me this means the heading of the runway to which the approach was flown and I've never had a pilot interpret those instructions any other way. Having said all this, it will be important to review the tapes, many occurrences have been due to what someone thought they said, or thought they heard. It's why in our recurrent training "read back, hear back" is often one of the themes.

When I was shopping for my airplane, I brought my wife out to the airport to look at a J I was interested in, when we walked into the hangar she looked at the registration (C-GWED) and she said "Her name is Gwendolyn". We bought the plane and the name stuck.

This is disappointing/worrisome to hear. My plane is in the shop right now having an AV-30 AI installed. I'll report my experience once I get the plane back.

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Let's ask Clarence, he'll be able to tell us. @M20Doc?

Since our greeter @carusoam hasn't been by yet, let me welcome you to MS and congratulate you on your first post. Sorry Anthony, don't mean to step on your toes

Thinking back to a common expression used by my math profs, you could have said "I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader"

I have a Tannis so it may be different, but my plug is zip tied to the oil filler neck.

@Mcstealth had said he might be interested...

I think that the importance of this thread is to remind ourselves that there is risk in what we do and that we must remain vigilant. But I think that you may despair too much at the numbers @201er. The aviation world is small, we all know a lot of fellow aviators. Perhaps when you look at the number of people who responded that they personally know a pilot who had a fatal accident, you assume that those are all separate events? I suspect that there is some, if not significant overlap. The same accident may be counted several times. In the case of knowing someone who knew someone, I would bet that there is significant overlap in those numbers; we just all know each other. I've been trying to think of all the pilot's I've know over the years and I'm sure the number is over 100, it may well be for you too. Ask the average non aviation person how many pilots they know and many would likely answer zero.

I plan to get my commercial license this year and I look forward to getting back to traveling places. My wife and I are looking forward visiting friends/family in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa and NYC, as well as going to Oshkosh, attending another Mooney Summit and going a few other places that are on our list.

I can also say that Paul Beck is fantastic. Very friendly, professional and great at what he does. He did the tanks on my J about 5 years ago and I've had no problems with them. So that's my vote for Weep no More, but I've never dealt with the shop in Florida so I can't comment on them.

I would guess that I'm normally over 1 flight hour per landing, but this year has mostly involved local flying just to keep the engine running regularly and keeping my skills sharp. So this past year I only have 0.77 hours per landing.

Windows 10 on a USB stick

No, here in Canada we consider CDs to be ancient technology I built a new work PC for my wife last month and I asked her when she last used a CD or DVD. She couldn't remember, it had been so long. So I didn't bother putting a CD/DVD drive in the new computer.

The Avro VZ9 Avrocar is kinda crazy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar

At CZBA, in addition to my J, I'm aware of another J and a K, but I think that there may be a couple others as well.

Having worked in a couple of towers early in my career, I see nothing wrong with calling 10nm miles out. I'm an approach controller now and I typically switch vfr aircraft I'm working to my towers anywhere from 10 to 15nm out. As a rule of thumb, I would say call up by double the control zone radius, and not earlier than triple the radius. As others have mentioned, speed matters, if you're moving fast, call early enough that if it takes the controller a moment to get to you, you don't have to start doing 360's at the CZ boundary.

4. One I met here, he was looking to buy a Mooney but wanted a ride in one first, so I took him up. The second one became a Mooneyspace member and then an owner after getting too know me through a mutual friend. The third I met on the frequency. It was a quiet weekend night, I had only one aircraft in the sector I was controlling. It was a Mooney and I was in the market to buy one, so we started chatting. We've become good friends since, although he just recently sold his Mooney and bought a Baron. The fourth is Clarence, but we've never flown together in a Mooney, just a bunch of times in his Comanche 400 which is an impressive airplane!

They are beautiful airplanes. A good friend of mine owns one and I've enjoyed flying in it with him. The 195 community seems to be tight knit, I swear my friend knows almost every single 195 owner.

In Canada the aircraft has a journey log in which every flight and all maintenance is logged. It is kept in the aircraft. It is separate from the other logs which we also have (airframe, engine etc).

Back when I was a tower controller, there were several occasions when I asked pilots if they would like a low pass. It was usually military aircraft, but I also asked the occasional civilian pilot flying an aircraft type that I thought interesting/rare. The down side of being a radar controller is that all airplanes look the same on the scope.

Maybe I'm missing something, I don't see anything about the landings being full stops. CAR 401.05 (2) (b) ... Within the six months preceding the flight (B) five night take-offs and five night landings, if the flight is conducted wholly or partly by night,

That must be a US thing, I'm not aware of that being a requirement here in Canada?