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This has gotten so bad today - I agree that the board should prevent new account creation until this is sorted.

There are clearly ways to deal with automated posts, and different forum platforms have different options. Craig mentioned that the current version of IPBoard has limitations, and he was hoping for an upgrade that would help. I’d be very happy with an occasional MFA prompt if it means stopping the spam.

@mooniac58 is the admin There’s a thread over here

They do manual user verification, which Craig mentioned was impractical

Yeah, today seems like the worst day so far. This is brutal.

Ugh. My paint isn’t as new as yours, but it’s still in good condition and I feel your pain:

A turn back at 200 feet wouldn’t benefit from a BRS, but I suspect that a Hooker harness or Amsafe airbags would make a difference in survivability. Either one is an easy retrofit, but most of us don’t have them.

You’re talking about Safe Glide? It’s interesting, not worth the money to buy an Xi for that feature alone. It can help with some of the high-workload things when dealing with an engine failure, but I suspect most pilots don’t practice it enough to save any time at all. I’ve tried a few simulated engine-out emergencies with Safe Glide and I thought it was mostly a gimmick. Squawking 7700 and broadcasting to ATC is the least of my concerns, and the navigator already has a nice “nearest” function (with a continuous “nearest” pointer on the G3X) without Safe Glide. Auto-land / Safe Return is a whole different animal, and I could see that being very valuable to passengers in a pilot incapacitation scenario.

There are definitely things that I don’t love about the Xi. I don’t like having to push the right button before changing frequency. I prefer the GTN where it’s always in “frequency entry” mode by default. And I prefer the home button at the top right. To be honest, I’ve never really noticed a difference in processor speed between the Xi and the non-Xi, although I understand that that’s one of the significant changes. The only real reason I’ve been looking at the Xi is the GCO that I can’t install.

I already have an Xi in the other plane … where did you find a deal on the new radio? Garmin describes this as a slide-in replacement. Isn’t it just like four screws plus configuration?

Yeah, I’d prefer one transaction with an invoice for the difference. Ideally it wouldn’t be buying one radio and selling another.

At the risk of reviving a four year old thread … Are many shops doing the one-transaction upgrade from a GTN to a GTN Xi these days? I see that Sarasota has an Oshkosh special at $200 off their normal one-transaction upgrade price. But I’m nowhere near Sarasota. I received a GCO 14 as a gift, and it requires the Xi unit, so I’ve been poking around to see what it would cost to do the swap.

The good news is that, according to the chart, there’s almost no chance of engine failure from here on out. Might as well put a few thousand more hours on that engine

Straight and level, negative turbulence. It was all uneventful except for the light. I’ve owned the plane for a long time and I’ve never seen the light before, so it’s certainly possible that some very short period of turbulence sloshed the fuel away from the sender and tripped the alarm. Dunno.

I found this ten year old thread after I posted, and the content there is pretty good: https://mooneyspace.com/topic/13384-low-fuel-l-r-warning-light/ I think the basic answer is that you *can* calibrate the warning, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing for the warning to come on when you have a bit more than bingo fuel remaining. I’ll have a dig around the mx manual to educate myself.

I’ve never once seen this light illuminate before - my fuel gauges said I had 11 gallons in the right tank and 16 in the left. The “Right Fuel Low” light went on and I immediately switched tanks to the left. I was about a half hour from destination, and on landing the gauges showed 11 gallons each. The plane topped off with about 44 gallons of fuel, so it had about 20 gallons left, and it took north of 20 per side - so the gauges agreed pretty closely with reality (i.e., there was about 11 gallons left in each tank on landing and the gauges said 11). I didn’t like seeing “fuel low” when the gauge said I had an hour of fuel remaining in that tank, but it’s better than having an empty tank with no warning .. Are these warning lights just not very accurate, or is there some recalibration to be done?

Hopefully we have a controller here who can comment, but my sense is that they do something very manual (like a phone call) to coordinate the handoff for VFR traffic. I regularly fly into a class delta airport where I’m talking to an approach controller on FF and I need to transition another class delta on my way in. Sometimes the approach controller will arrange a transition without me asking, sometimes I have to ask. Whenever this happens, they say something like “I’ll see if I can get a hold of the tower for a transition.” Today if it’s quiet I normally just cancel FF and call the tower for a transition myself. It seems too slow and painful for both me and the approach controller when I ask them to do it

I’ve been curious how much of Lycoming’s business is on the UAV side. If you have nation-state customers with deep pockets who buy in large quantities, it’s easy to see how the bugsmasher crowd might get a lower priority.

Yeah I think it’s the same idea. Pull out, then up/down.

Here’s the part that was replaced. Both the handle and the switch. I believe the replacement came as a unit.

It’s both. I have the old one somewhere.. I’ll try to snap a photo.

If the cost of a new engine weren’t so eye-watering, I think we’d see more discussion of new vs reman vs overhaul. Very few Mooney owners buy a brand-new engine to replace an engine at TBO, so it may be hard to find enough data points here for comparison. A new engine can have infant mortality issues just like a reman or an overhaul. With the same 24-month warranty for a new engine as for a certified reman, at least Lycoming thinks they have equivalent reliability. I’d be curious what a large flight school like Embry-Riddle does with their engine replacement money.

Just to clarify - they did *not* give you a Brasher, right? This was just you asking for the number to call because you wanted to talk to someone?

Also .. saw this on the sweepstakes site: “Editor's note: The next AOPA Sweepstakes aircraft, an Aviat Husky A-1C-200, was involved in a ground incident while en route to EAA AirVenture, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Nobody was injured. The Husky will undergo necessary maintenance so we can have it back in the air soon. Unfortunately, the aircraft won't be on display at the AOPA Pavilion this week. We will provide regular updates on its return to service.” https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/july/17/bring-home-a-husky

ASN page is up https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/528089