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I'm putting this out there to see if anyone wants to or can help. I've done a number of Pilots n' Paws flights and they are fun and rewarding. There are a couple of rescues, one in CA and one in AZ that I have done multiple flights for. It seems there is no shortage of small dogs they are looking to move from CA to AZ. Back in March 2018 I had the most dogs in the plane I've had at one time, two Pomeranians and a Spaniel mix. We flew them from Corona to Marana (KAVQ). The lady who was getting the Spaniel was there at the airport along with the lady who runs the shelter and her husband who were picking up the Pomeranians until she could find them a home. I received this email from her yesterday. The flight she is looking for doesn't really qualify for a Pilots n' Paws flight so instead of posting there she is reaching out to pilots that have flown dogs for her in the past. I'll just quote her email, if anyone can help her out or knows someone then please PM me and I can get you her email and cell number. "Hi Richard! I hope your sister was able to find just the right pup for her. I am so very sorry I missed answering this email. On Oct 18th (2018) - 6 days before your email - my husband was killed in a horrible car accident here in Tucson. I wasn't being good about getting into emails for the first several weeks and by then my box was so full I must have missed this. My sincere apologies! You met my husband, who was with me at the airport, when you dropped off the last batch of pups to us - a black pomeranian duo and a spaniel mix female. Anyway, I hope this email - extremely late as it is - finds you and your family well. I know things are very strange right now with this virus scare going around. Are you still flying at all or have they grounded flights at this time? I ask not regarding transporting a rescue pup for me/us, but, I am hoping if not you, then perhaps you know someone that could help me get another pup to Tucson for me personally. I am getting a golden retriever pup to train as a therapy dog. My hope is to reach a point with him that we can be a resource for other families who receive the horrible news that I did and find themselves broken hearted, confused and just needing something warm, soft and quiet to hug while they cry or process the news. I know how overwhelming it was to get that call and find myself in a hospital waiting room being told the worst news of my life. The pup I am getting is coming from a breeder on a large organic farm just outside Waco, Texas who specializes in therapy and assistance dog breeding - not a back yard or unethical breeder. She carefully chooses her pups for their health and temperament and I will need to pick up my little guy some time in the next few weeks. I was going to try to drive by myself from Tucson - but honestly with states buttoning down who can go where and hotels/restaurants being forbidden to serve, etc I am scared to drive on my own now and end up trapped potentially somewhere with the pup and nowhere to go. Do you know anyone, or would you, be willing to fly him from Waco to Tucson for me? I am happy to pay for fuel and any other fees that would be needed. I would just be so very thankful if I could find a less stressful solution - so thought I would give this a try." Here's a picture when we dropped those three off.

My son went with me to the hangar on Thursday to help put the lower cowling back on. During the 20 minute drive home I only saw three planes on approach to LAX, normally I can see at least between 5-10 lined up coming out of the east.

This will mess up some things.

Not surprised, I know of a few dealerships that are completely closing until April 1st. They made that decision prior to the governor's announcement last night, even though the Parts/Service side is included in the "essential business" category that is allowed to remain open.

Yes, there is a lot of conflicting/confusing information coming out from the powers that be here in Orange County. They initially put out a notice yesterday that was very confusing on what businesses could and could not stay open. It was a brief statement followed by four pages of businesses that were exempt from closing. That came out at 2:26pm. They followed that up with an order at 6:51pm clarifying that all businesses, except bars and dine-in were to remain open. Order #7 was the initial which is still the one that is on their website. Order #8 is the clarification which has not made it to their website but was available through the county health twitter feed as well as the City of Anaheim twitter feed. If interested, take a look at how confusing #7 was which launched everyone into the "OC is locked down" mode. EOC Press Release #7 - Public Health Order.pdf EOC-Press-Release-8-Public-Health-Order-Clarification-FINAL.pdf

I'd be happy with any of them, but wouldn't be able to afford the fuel to even start one up....

We didn't get to fly yesterday, the weather was crummy. My wife wanted to see the Poppies at the California Poppy Preserve. She was looking up museums between there and home when she came across one that was the "Blackbird Airpark" near USAF Plant 42. I told her it "had to have an SR-71 there." We stopped by and wandered around it as well as the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark next door. Not enough room here to post all the pictures, but there's 156 of them over on my blog. They had over 20 different planes there along with engines, bombs, etc... Joe Davies Heritage and Blackbird Airparks Here's one of us with the SR-71, A-12, and U2 at the Blackbird Airpark. A couple more I think this pilot in the T-33 has been there too long.

I am well aware of the difference between viral and bacterial infections. However, the 1918 viral infection did not kill everyone, it was the resulting bacterial infection to which they did not have the means to combat it. And again, we do not actually know how deadly Covid-19 is because we do not have an accurate number of infected. In South Korea where they have been doing extensive testing the mortality rate is less than 1%.

You keep quoting the 1918 pandemic. We have a few more things going for us today, one of the biggest of which is antibiotics. From an article on the National Institutes of Health website: "Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza Pandemic. The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health." https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bacterial-pneumonia-caused-most-deaths-1918-influenza-pandemic Penicillin was discovered in 1928, had antibiotics been around in 1918 the influenza pandemic would not have been the same.

I am not trying to downplay the virus, although I think the level of panic is not in line with the threat. All the hype does not add up everywhere. Can someone explain South Korea to me? Lows in the 30°'s and highs in the 40-50°'s seems like good weather for a virus, compared to the hot and humid places. Why is South Korea, a country with some very densely populated cities, having success, without locking down cities or regions? From a couple articles/interviews (not social media posts), South Korea has done more extensive testing than other regions. Interestingly in South Korea private institutions account for 90% of the medical system, not the government. South Korea is testing 15,000 people a day. They have run 3,600 tests per 1 million population, compared to the US at 5 per 1 million. The reported mortality rate in Italy is 6%, China 4%, but South Korea is less than 1%. That again points to the high mortality rates that are being reported most likely are reported much higher than actual because the number of infected is not reported accurately. From the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy yesterday, the 12th: "South Korea today reported 114 new cases, with 6 more deaths, raising its overall respective totals to 7,869 and 66, according to the Korea Center for Disease Control. It said 80% of cases are linked to clusters, including 99 illnesses recently linked to an insurance company call center in Seoul." Again, South Korea did not lock down cities or their country and shut down their economy, yet it is not the apocalypse there wiping out hundreds of thousands (or millions as some are predicting). http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/03/ecdc-covid-19-not-containable-set-overwhelm-hospitals https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/815097813/experts-credit-south-koreas-extensive-testing-for-curbing-coronavirus-spread

My youngest sister and her family are on a cruise ship in Mexico right now as well. They get back on Saturday. I have talked with my parents (in their 70's) and will talk with my sister when she gets back that they should not go visit my parents for at least two weeks after they return. They normally are over visiting my parents a couple times a week as they only live a few miles apart.

The EDM-830 I have is accurate enough to know within about 5 minutes when the tank is going to run dry. It is soon to be replaced by an EDM-900 along with the CIES senders which will provide even more accuracy. I will still plan to run a tank dry on long cross countries, not to know what is available as was the purpose the POH was addressing in 1965, but to have the most fuel in one tank when landing rather than split between tanks. As you said, having 10 in one and none in the other is much better than having your fuel split between two tanks.

I agree, and it is right in the POH, and with the O-360 it is an absolute non-event. I'm not saying (nor the POH) take off on one tank, run it dry and then switch. In that case I don't know what the situation is in the other tank. However, I start, taxi, run-up and take off all on the same tank. I fly on that tank for an hour and switch. If there's a problem when I switch I knew I can switch back and I have another hour and a half to get on the ground somewhere before running out of fuel. If all is good when I switch (it has been so far) I will fly on that tank until it's empty (if a long flight) or until on descent. I know when I switch back the fuel is good and will flow (at least that's the assumption having been using it for an hour on that flight) and I am going to be landing on the tank with most/all of my fuel in it. My personal minimum is to land with 10 gallons on board. So far with 350 hours in my plane and 300 of that falling in the 50+nm cross country category I've always landed with at least 10 gallons on board.

I'm not an A&P, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express more than once in my lifetime...

And enough of it can solve all of your aircraft related issues.

I called up Lasar on Friday the 28th and ordered the bolt, bushing, and, link where the trim attaches to the tail. During annual a couple months ago my IA said he wanted to just have it on the list of things to do in the next year sometime. Lasar placed the order Friday the 28th and the parts were delivered on Wednesday the 4th, pretty quick turn around.

Yes, I believe I stated that in my post. I'm not advocating putting in the unapproved parts. I'm talking about the arguments that have been made in this and other threads about it being a certified plane and therefore needing certified equipment to be safe. Not confused about the two, I thought I was clear about that when I posted. In fact the last few sentences that are underlined I believe already state the two items you are listing.

Here we go a trolling... I have a hangar neighbor a few hangars down with a beautiful RV that has lots of "non-certified" also not PMA/TSO's electronics/avionics in it. I have another friend around the corner with a Glasair (another pristine plane) with all kinds of "non-certified" also not PMA/TSO's electronics/avionics in it. Somehow the two of them manage to fly around without falling out of the sky or their radios quitting at the most inopportune moment causing a huge safety of flight issue. Yes, I know that my Mooney is not an experimental and thus requires certified or PMA/TSO parts in it per regulations and I knew that when I bought it. However, the argument that putting "non-certified" electronics in it can/will cause a safety of flight issue when there are experimentals flying around with those exact same electronics is disingenuous. Required by regulation? Sure. A safety factor? I have a hard time swallowing that when there are so many flying examples to the contrary. I should check with my neighbors and see which usb power ports they have installed. My guess is probably something like one of these. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/easmartdualusb.php?clickkey=156696 https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/pspages/usb-adapter.php?clickkey=156696

Or, buy the adapter to flush mount it, then you should be able to do it, I think. Can't find where you can buy it from AS but the one I have coming from @Jeev will have the flush mount adapter. https://wolfaviationsales.com/shop?olsPage=products%2Fjpi-edm-900

Is that @Hank on the front row next to the sign?

From the Lycoming O-360 Operator's Manual. It doesn't note that it is for moments during climb, etc... it is talking about cruise operation. I'm not recommending that people run that hot in cruise, but as some others have stated I'm not going to stress too much about seeing numbers over 400° while climbing out. "For maximum service life, cylinder head temperatures should be maintained below 435°F (224°C) during high performance cruise operation and below 400°F (205°C) for economy cruise powers." O-360 Operator Manual.pdf

I get all that, and I frankly don't care about the names of who was doing the flying. But why are there detailed reports of different accidents? Why does AOPA put out their accident case study videos? Why ever even have a discussion about an accident that involves something like a stall/spin in the pattern? It seems to me that we could sum up a lot of incidents in short statements of "Don't do this" or "Make sure you always do that." The 20 minute AOPA video of the accident in Houston where the Cirrus stalled after multiple landing attempts was very informative. At its core it was a stall/spin, but watching the video I learned all kinds of things and multiple times that things could have been done differently to break the accident chain. Yet here we are, at the same discussion there was last year, if you are part of the caravan or the clinics you can find out what happened and what has been done to prevent it, if not, you don't need to know because it obviously doesn't involve you or the type of flying you do. Anthony, another great summary from you in the list above from your experience, and as always I enjoy reading what you post. However what you say here in #6, apparently I either missed this completely, or it was not shared with the general public. I have read the statements on the incident on the Caravan website including the after action Ops report, but they are extremely vague when it comes to the incident or changes that were made for prevention. Even what was posted earlier in this thread seems to imply that if you are not part of the caravan or do not attend one of the clinics you are not going to be able to learn from what happened.

I'm not trying to start a debate, and not trying to denegrate the Caravan, but I don't understand this. Why do you have to know what was there in 2019 to know what changed? Why would someone have to attend one of the clinics to learn what happened and learn from what happened? Why isn't there a write up on the event so that everyone that wants to learn from it can? I've looked through the Caravan site, if it's there it isn't easy to find. I'm trying to recall but I don't think I chimed in much in the original discussion. There was much said about waiting, not speculating, and there would be changes coming which would be announced, so I waited. I guess I was hoping for an actual description of what happened, why, what could have been done differently, and what has been changed to keep it from happening again. What I am hearing here still seems very cryptic. I try to read about every accident I can, even if it doesn't have to do with the kind of flying I do, I figure I can still probably learn something. The Crash talk forum over on BT is usually pretty good. What I'm hearing here seems a lot like what was being said last year, it sounds like "If you aren't part of us, you don't need to know, and you probably wouldn't understand anyway."

This thread has gone on far too long without any thread drift... I just made one out of some scrap aluminum that I had around the hangar along with a rivet and washer in between the two arms for spacing. The first go at it was a little rough but it is fully functional. I'm planning on making a better one, taking a little more time.

The instructions said that you can install it on any line experiencing interference. The easiest spot for me was in the avionics bay so I cut the power wire that goes to the beacon/strobe and ran it to the filter and then from the filter to the beacon/strobe.