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Buyer and seller have to agree. That's all there is to it.

Delivering my Mooney for annual last year I had no flaps, they were busted. 3K foot strip, hot and not a lot of wind. No trouble at all, and I didn't come close to using all the runway.

I hope I never have to digitize 60 years worth of logs just to sell the %$%$%!! airplane.

Are you certain you heard that correctly? Could he have said the Truetrak May be approved for Mooneys?

I wouldn't do a damn thing unless the letter came certified. If they try to collect I'd just say "what letter?".

I finally started baking real sourdough bread. For years I've made a sort of faux sourdough, where the sourdough batter gives flavor but you use yeast for leavening. The problem with using sourdough for leavening is it takes all day. With COVID I was home all day anyway, so I went ahead. I'll be making sourdough loaves from now on. I've never had better bread anywhere ever. That, and I'm putting finishing touches on Origami book number three.

Martha Steward went to jail for lying to the cops. What makes it worse is she didn't have to talk to the cops at all, that's what lawyers are for.

@Vilvens24 was that the G that was tied down at OSU? If so I know the airplane. I've gotten kinda cool to the OSU shop. I've had far more problems with them than I ought. Bob Norman at the Parr Airport in Zanesville (42I) knows Mooneys and can fix near anything, I recommend him without reservation. I've heard really good things about Dave Holden as well, though I've not yet engaged his services. Yet.

She flew under a bridge and got caught. She deserves what she's got coming. She'll have to pass her private again, maybe that'll keep her out of trouble. She married into the family the airport was named for. When her husband stopped flying she divorced him.

I think the DA20 was the trainer, two seater and you couldn't ever fly it IFR. The DA40 is the four place version, moves at Skylane speeds which isn't the world's best thing for a trainer. Diamonds have an outstanding safety record too.

I just hope I never have anything sufficiently eventful happen in flight for someone to want to make a YouTube movie out of it.

I once totaled up everything I'd spent on the airplane one year. I immediately swore never to do such a thing again. If you really have to justify costs, take up knitting, or baking, or perhaps woodworking. There is no rational justification for the monies we spend on aviation. None at all.

This is the fault of the mechanics, and not us. This is MY airplane! I tried to fly this weekend and got bubkiss. The saddest thing is this is the squawk that sent the airplane to the shop in the first place, and it looks like the pilots have to do the diagnosis instead of the mechanics! Pretty pathetic in the Book of Steingar. Hopefully with us leading the way they'll get it fixed this time. Third try is always the charm, right? If I had time I'd go to the maintenance hangar and watch while they start the thing.

There is a huge difference in how the mRNA vaccine work vs a natural infection. With the infection the immune system "sees" all sorts of parts of the virus and reacts against them. With the vaccines the immune system only "sees" the viral spike protein, leading to a more focused response. I think that underlies the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines and subunit vaccine in general. But yes, a subsequent viral infection will likely boost immunity.

Every time I land one of these out of the way places I have a sickening thought of "what if the engine don't start". I of course try hard not to think about those things.

First, its Dr. Steingar, my PhD is in genetics. This is really simple, so pay attention! If you've had COVID and survived it that means your immune system fought it off. Your immune system actually remembers the stuff it fights off, that's the basis of all vaccines. Hence if you had the illness already you're already immune, and don't need the vaccine. Now, if you had a nasty respiratory virus and assumed it was COVID, a vaccine is a good idea. You could have had a bad cold (fun fact, lots of colds are caused by coronaviruses!). But if you had a case of COVID confirmed by a PCR test or antibody, then you don't need a vaccine. It won't do you any good and it will probably make you ill, since your immune system will be responding to something against which you already have immunity. As for those worried about some sort of tracking, take off the tin foil hat please and live in the real world. Millions of Americans are getting the vaccine. Even if the government knows who they all are they'll never keep track of them all. By the way, I had to show a driver's license and that was it. And that was just to make certain they knew to whom they were giving the vaccine.

First, if you've had the illness you don't need the vaccine. You're already immune. The vaccine will just make you sick, it won't help you much. Second, your Friendly Neighborhood Steingar got his second jab Tuesday. Yes, got feverish and ill yesterday morning, by yesterday evening it was pretty much old news. Fine today. Get the vaccine. If you don't, you can contract COVID. You can die. If you infect someone else they can die. We've lost enough people as it is.

The Mooney M20c Ranger is the biggest bang for your buck in all of GA. Nike photos, spanky aircraft.

I know a couple that take their E into all sorts of turf strips in Michigan. Then again, I recall his E has turned into maintenance hog, and I have a sneaking suspicion I know why...

I usually drop the gear 3 miles out and have the flaps in as I venter downwind. I usually fly the downwind at 90mph, base 80, and try and have it as 70 over the numbers. Don't want to go too fast or I might run over a Skyhawk.

Hope you like flying early in the morning and just around dusk...

The difference is for your rock bouncer (whatever that is) you can just go to the autoparts store and get whatever you want to bolt onto it. For the airplane you can only use certificated airplane parts, they have to be the right ones, and they're often in short supply. I recall another poster who had the same plan, said "I have a metal brake, how hard can it be?". I think he gave up when he had some trouble sourcing an engine. You can buy an older experimental and refurbish it if that's your thing. There are a lot of them out there, they're often quite inexpensive, and a lot of them are downright amazing. But once you get into certification the complications go way, way up. A Mooney has over 7000 parts, and each and every one has to be the correct one. Even the nuts and bolts have to be airplane parts. All the regulation can really suck the joy out of a rebuild fast.

@gsxrpilot has the right of it. There are a bunch of really good kit airplanes out there. The RVs are the king of the hill right now, the 10 is their 4 place version. 7s and 8s are the two place versions, 7 is side by side, 8 is tandem. Fast, fully aerobatic, they're awesome airplanes and fun to fly. And did we mention that if you build one you can fix it and do all the annual inspections yourself? Your CFI can't supervise diddly if he isn't an A&P. And refurbishing a certificated aircraft really is a labor of love. I can't imagine sourcing parts, and yes, you'll be waiting on that IA for everything. And what happens when your pet IA retires/moves away/dies in a stamp collecting accident/develops a nasty meth habit? I love my Mooney, but I wouldn't want to try and rebuild one.

One of my pals bought one of those when it was still Lanceair. Really, really nice aircraft. People must really want the parachute, that's the only reason I could see Cirrus beating Lanceair. The airplane was was fast and spanky.

A few years ago I wound up doing my first landing at my home drone at night. It was really awful, I was unprepared (my iPhone has a flashlight, how bad can it be?), couldn't find the damn airport (look for the black hole) and forgot how dark the cockpit is. My landing really sucked hard. Went back out not that long ago with a headlight and lots of flashlights. Still couldn't find the home airport (wrong black hole!) but did far better.