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Skates97

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  1. Great turn out! @Flash, @Steve W, @MooneyMitch, @jonhop, @wishboneash, @N803RM
  2. Weather looks great! I'll be bringing a friend and his son with me.
  3. I have sockets, open end wrenches, screw drivers, needle nose/regular/vise-grip pliers, safety wire and safety wire pliers. I also keep the best two of the last plugs I replaced, I figure if needed they will still get me where I need to go. I could basically do a lot of damage/repairs with what is in the small box in the baggage area. My question for those who carry a spare plug to change if needed, is do you also have a torque wrench in there or do you figure you'll just guess? My torque wrench has its own little case so I just keep it in the baggage area as well. I've seen plugs stripped out of heads before and that's not something I want to do.
  4. No, it's not permanent, just the cling style. I think this is the stuff I got. https://m.lowes.com/pd/GILA-36-in-W-x-78-in-L-Smoke-Tinted-Glare-Control-Static-Cling-Window-Film/1095827 I know I didn't get the darker privacy stuff because I was concerned that flying at night it would affect my visibility too much. The box is out at the hangar but when I get out there Friday I'll see what exactly I used. Also think I might just do a write up of it on my blog and will post that too.
  5. Sorry to the OP for hijacking the thread again. The stuff I got from Lowe's was the Gila brand.
  6. And, if I make it (which I am planning on) I'll do a write up.
  7. I did the same thing on my plane. I did the entire back windows but I only put a strip across the top of the front windows. It is just above eye level so it helps with the sun coming in but doesn't get in the way of my scan. I don't have sun visors so I also put a strip across the top of the windshield where the visors would be (kind of like the tinted strip across the top of your car windshield). I'll have to take a picture of it the next time I'm out there, but that won't be until Friday. It's easy to put on. I cut out a section a little bigger than the window. From the outside put the tint against the window with the paper side out (that is the way it will go on from the inside). You can hold it against the window and with your hand run your fingernail along the edge which will leave enough of a mark to use scissors to trim it out. Put it back up and see if there any places you need to trim more. Clean the windows well. Use a spray bottle with some water and a little dish soap in it. Lightly spray the window and you will be able to slide the tint around. (You could by the actual application stuff, but the CB in me wouldn't allow it.) Smooth out the bubbles (I used a plastic application thing that came with a tablet screen protector that I still had laying around.)
  8. Very clean, I like it!
  9. That's awesome, thanks for sharing the experience.
  10. Grew up on Air Force Bases, my dad flew, T-37's,then instructed in T-38's and later flew C-130's. As long as I can remember I've wanted to fly, maybe it was in my blood. Somewhere there's a picture of me at about 4-5 years old with my dad's flight helmet on. I was really sick and my parents decided that maybe letting me wear his helmet would cheer me up. They were right, it put a huge smile on my face. It was almost 40 years later that I would finally get my PPL, and the smile on my face the first time I flew was just like the one 40 years earlier.
  11. Congratulations and welcome. You're going to love it.
  12. This one is close to you. http://www.klrdmd.com/N5918Q.html That web page says $45k but it has been listed in the Mooney Flyer for quite a few months and in the May issue the price has dropped to $42,500. @KLRDMD is familiar with the plane. I traded emails with Ken and then with the owner back in November when I was looking for a plane but I didn't want to pay as much for it as he wanted to sell it for so I moved onto a different plane. It might be worth it for you to trade pm's with Ken about it and then go take a look. It's at Chandler KCHD.
  13. It would be interesting to see the top phrases used and their frequency of use for airplane ads.
  14. Along with "always hangared" in the description...
  15. I liked it. The effect of the lights reflecting off the bottom of the plane as you were coming in to land was cool. Is that just a GoPro mounted on the tail tie down?
  16. Skates97

    Howdy

    Welcome aboard!
  17. Falcon has a USAA Department and offers discounts for USAA members. I was quoted by I think three different brokers last December when I bought my plane, all were underwriting through STARR but USAA came back the best. This is who helped me out at Falcon. Arlene Rodriguez Agent USAA Department Falcon Insurance Agency, Inc. - Kerrville P.O. Box 291388 Kerrville, TX 78029 Toll Free: 866-750-8722 Fax: 830-792-1144 www.falconinsurance.com
  18. I can't make it to this one but I will be at the Harris Ranch one on the 20th.
  19. Who I am flying with dictates the amount of bumps I'm willing to endure. By myself or with my youngest son the bumps are no big deal (he actually enjoys them). However with my wife I am looking for the smoothest route. Sometimes that means different altitudes, or if I am not flying very high it means a little deviation around that hill/mountain instead of over it. A good example would be when we were flying from Southern California to Mesquite (North of Vegas). The direct route would take me directly over the mountain (close one) to the far left in the picture. It's not high and easy to go over, but I know that there will be some bumps going over it. With my son I go direct over the top, with my wife I go around the right end and the turn up the valley where the ground is smoother and the air is too.
  20. An Irish World War II Spitfire pilot and Flying Ace, was speaking in a church and reminiscing about his war experiences. "In 1942," he says, "the situation was really tough. The Germans had a very strong air force. I remember," he continues, "one day I was protecting the bombers and suddenly, out of the clouds, these Fokker's appeared." There are a few gasps from the parishioners, and several of the children began to giggle. "I looked up, and realized that two of the Fokkers were directly above me. I aimed at the first one and shot him down. By then, though, the other Fokker was right on my tail." At this point, several of the elderly ladies of the church were blushing with embarrassment, the girls were all giggling and the boys laughing loudly. The pastor finally stands up and says, "I think I should point out that 'Fokker' was the name of a German-Dutch aircraft company, who made many of the planes used by the Germans during the war." "Yes, that's true," says the old pilot, "but these Fokkers were flying Messerschmitt's."
  21. I was doing my long XC for my PPL from Chino (KCNO), to Camarillo (KCMA), to Santa Barbara (KSBA), and then back to Chino. I had been carefully watching the weather as Camarillo and Santa Barbara are near the coast and the clouds sometimes roll in during the afternoon. The weather looked good and the flight briefing confirmed that all should be VFR for the flight so I took off. As I was coming into Camarillo I could see some low clouds ahead off of the coast. After landing at KCMA I taxied to the run-up area to get out my flight plan for the next leg. The clouds, just patchy low stuff were obviously coming inland so I checked the weather at KSBA just to be sure before departing. It was showing 12,000' ceilings and 10 mi visibility there so I figured that most of it should just be hung up along the coastline. I had only planned for 3,000' for that leg as it was short and flying along the coast I would be high enough not to worry about obstacles/towers/hills. It wasn't long after taking off that the clouds were straight ahead right at 3,000' so I asked the tower (I was still talking to KCMA) for 2,500' to go under them. (In hindsight I should have asked for higher to go above them, more options that way). As I was approaching Ventura I could see the clouds were getting thicker ahead and lower. Knowing that I had clear skies behind me and inland I began a shallow climbing right turn back towards clear skies. I probably was going through clouds (very thin patchy stuff, what my CFI called "visible moisture" when flying with him) for maybe a second and was in clear skies. I went back to 3,000' and stayed a few miles inland from my planned route and completed the flight in clear skies. Santa Barbara was clear skies and great visibility, it was just a bank of clouds sitting off the coast by Oxnard and Ventura. Could I have gone down to 1,000' right along the coast, or 500' over the water just off the coast and been fine? Maybe. Had I continued trying to stay under the clouds and inland were I had planned my route there is a good chance I would have ended up as a smoking hole in the side of the hills along the coast. Here is a picture along my route of flight. I would have been under those clouds that stop just about at the coastline, but you can see that the hills are much higher.
  22. I don't want to go to Florida during the hot months either... I got enough of those flying in 90-100+ degree temps last year while working on my PPL.
  23. I don't know on the K, but on my D it is on the firewall forward mounted directly to the firewall. The positive battery cable goes to the master solenoid and then there is a short power wire that goes from that to the starter solenoid. They are almost side by side on the firewall in my plane.
  24. Does selling everything include my plane? If it's everything except the plane I might consider it.
  25. Hmmm... That's tempting.
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