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  1. rbp
    @PeytonM This is what Trek wrote me the other day: "As for the issues on Mooneyspace, we're working on a number of these and even went and looked at Peyton's plane, we know for sure in his case the problem is static data related, and the installer is looking at doing some different things with the static lines and possibly another static port on a different location of the plane." [I added a missing comma for clarity]
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    once upon a time on here, I argued that most planes should land with full flaps (except in icing), and you know what the counter was to that? the older model POHs said flaps "AS REQURED," so people treat it as an issue of freedom, rather than of safety, on a board where safety is discussed down to the smallest detail. Get a Mooney CFI, they tell you. Do slow flight. Have redundant equipment. etc etc. Land with full flaps??? "Why should I?"
  3. rbp
    every tec dive is treated as a solo dive. other participants are called "team members" not "buddies"
  4. rbp
    are you're suggesting that he picked the LNAV over the LPV, on a low IFR day given that he had WAAS? the barometer affects all category minima equally (+80 +1/4) "Baro-VNAV NA when using Washington Dulles Intl altimeter setting. For uncompensated Baro-VNAV systems, LNAV/VNAV NA below -16°C or above 36°C. When local altimeter setting not received, use Washington Dulles Intl altimeter setting and increase all DA/MDAs 80 feet and all visibilities 1/4 mile."
  5. rbp
    good for you.
  6. rbp
    Can you please explain this in terms of the approach plate? FlightAware_GAI_IAP_RNAV (GPS) RWY 14.PDF
  7. rbp
    F=1/2 * MV^2 2500# airframe @80 = 1250*6400 = 8,000,000 2500# airfreame @75 = 1250*5626 = 7,032,500 regardless of the units, doing 75 instead of 80 is ~17% less energy
  8. rbp
    this is true if the plane is an investment. if he is flying it, then making the plane more enjoyable / safer / reliable is worth spending some (personal TBD) money, above and beyond the value of the plane, especially considering that the alternative might be a more expensive plane, with concomitant unknowns.
  9. rbp
    sit in the cockpit with ground power and the manual.
  10. rbp
    Yes
  11. rbp
    can they be replaced by a pilot, or does it have to be an A&P?
  12. rbp
    once someone applies for a Part 67 (Class 1-3) medical, you have to complete the process. one cannot withdraw the application -- FAA will just issue a denial, which makes you ineligible for basic med (Part 68). Ask me how I know
  13. rbp
    when are the recogs going to start shipping?
  14. rbp
    as someone who went through this recently, it really is a blank wall. I had even hired https://www.aviationmedicine.com to help me manage the process (over 300 pages of medical documents, and five different physician status reports), and they were not particularly sanguine about the difficulties of communicating with the medical division.
  15. rbp
    "unless otherwise instructed"
  16. rbp
    Now that winter is setting in, its time for 54X to go into the avionics shop to have the squawks from last year's install taken care of. Its a fairly extensive list, but it should be ready next week.
  17. rbp
    I just sold my 106 and had two buyers. I sent a link to the guy who lost out
  18. rbp
    every time I switch tanks on my Garmin EIS-equipped Bravo, I check the fuel pressure, so I am 100% sure I have it
  19. rbp
    according to G, here are the (non exhaustive) possibilities : lubrication tension/instattion of the AP "bridles" static source anomalies (which make it seem like the plane is climbing/descending, and the AP overcorrects) vibration in the panel (see the GFC500 thread for a video copied from Beechtalk)
  20. rbp
    I thought I'd seen the locations mapped out, but can't find it in FF. maybe its on my G3X?
  21. rbp
    The word from @TrekLawler is that there is a software update coming for the pitch trim servo, but not for another few weeks, which possibly pushes it into xmas time, and therefore possibly January, plus whatever time it takes to get scheduled at the avionics shop. In the meanwhile, you have to placard the AP INOP, or have your shop disable the pitch trim servo.
  22. rbp
    not only that, but if you use the fax number, you get an error from the fax machine. AMEs have special ways of contacting them. you can always write a (certified) letter, and they pay closer attention to those
  23. rbp
    I agree with this. Note that approach segments are not "lines", but "tubes" and "cones" formed by "line." A TAA area is just a much wider "shape", with better accuracy. see attached
  24. rbp
    GI106A is sold 106A is sold New prices on the KT76C - $300 GMA-340 - $900 KCS-55A - $2500 Shadin - $200
  25. rbp
    when i was 17, I couldn't afford new tires, so I had balding bias-plys and managed to spin the car in light rain on the garden state parkway, terminating in a broken utility pole and a bashed in trunk. IIRC, it was about $1800 to fix the pole
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