Skates97

In my short body the power off stall is docile, the power on stall is docile, sometimes... The first one I did in transition training I had the stall and gave it one more pull on the yoke and it snapped over. I had told my CFI to be ready and he took the plane and recovered it after about a half spin. The next time once I got the stall I recovered immediately and it was not bad. The first one gave me a bit of a scare, first time I had gone into a spin. I still want to go out and do some actual spin training with one of the local schools that does it.

The OP is having other issues besides the full power and low RPM so this may not apply but I had a similar situation shortly after buying my plane. I was originally getting 2700 but about a month later was only getting 2500 or so. Turned out that the prop cable had slipped in the clamps and was not hitting the stop.

Will do, expect to have some for you by mid week as I'm taking panels off in preparation for my IA to come.

I will have to take a closer look during annual this coming week.

I may be wrong but I thought my vacuum step on my 65D just came back down from the weight of the step when the vacuum pressure dropped. I have played around with it a little because it sometimes sticks and pushing up and letting it come back down I did not feel anything other than the weight of it.

Hmmm.... I don't know Hank. A quick scan looks like the highest MEF around there is around Tennessee/North Carolina at 7k feet. That won't even get me over the "hills" here if I'm heading north.

Looks like you can fill another state in on your map after that trip.

Those are some good questions. I was thinking about this a month or so ago when we had a big fire near our home. The only reason we weren't evacuated was because of the direction the wind was blowing. The houses that burned down a couple miles from our home had nothing left, even those that had fire safes found that the safes were melted to puddles of metal. A week ago when we had high wind and fire warnings I got things together and left my phone on during the night to receive alerts from the city in case of evacuations. With what happened in Northern California and people evacuating in the middle of the night I didn't want to get caught. Among the things I had ready to go were the log books and my flight logs (although I do have those saved in the cloud). As it turned out the huge Thomas fire that is burning through Ventura County and is currently at 242,000+ acres with 972 structures destroyed could have easily been us. It got me thinking that perhaps I could just keep them locked up in the hangar. If the hangar burns and the plane is destroyed then the log books can go with it. The insurance company should still pay the claim.

Wow, very cool! I saw this one recently.

Would love to be there but the first week of the month is always hectic closing out financials...

I may have to check into that. If my son has his music plugged into his headphones I can hear it. I currently just have him out ear buds in underneath his headset now.

It has one at the top of the tail, just not in that picture.

I don't try to do the math on what is cheaper... It's convenience and that I love to fly. Fortunately my wife does too. She flew Delta recently to Salt Lake to see the grandkids because she had some credits to use. She was texting me from the terminal while waiting to board wishing she was in our Mooney.

Finally got back up in the air after a few weeks. The 830 works great and the SL-40 that was put in sounds amazing compared to what I was using. The new Zeftronics VR probably is playing a role in that as well. The generator that they put in also charges so I'm all set for more flying. It was bumpy for the couple trips I took around the pattern to check everything out, winds 040 10G19 for runway 07. Best part of it was seeing this paint job at the field.

Just got a call from the A&P. The generator is in and when they started the plane up it was showing 13.5 volts idling. They said it is back in the hangar along with all the necessary paperwork and a sticker for the log book. It's nice having a mechanic there on the field that can just get the plane, work on it, and put it away. Can't wait to get out and fly again! I don't know the answers to you first few questions. As for how long they are good for, my generator had 19 years and about 1,400 hours on it. If I can get that many more out of the one that just went in then it will be well worth the $300 in parts. I don't know how much the labor was, my A&P said the invoice was in the plane but he had told me 1-2 hours when he gave me the estimate.

Same thing I did. I did the paint stirrer for awhile but really like the FuelHawk and reading it. Just be sure if you use one that after you put it in let it sit for a couple seconds before putting your finger over the top. If not then the fuel level inside it may not be at the same level as the tank if you don't let it settle.

I made a note, any of the dates work for me so I think I'll just pull my responses out if it will let me. Edit: It won't let me remove my votes.

@Flash, @Steve W, @MooneyMitch, @jonhop, @wishboneash, @N803RM, @Bennett, @mooneyflyer, @Dan at FUL, @MrRodgers, @JohnB @bonal Tag anyone else you can think of to let them know about this. I just saw that in the other post mooneyflyer had suggested Paso Robles KPRB and Joe's as a possible destination. I'm not set on Harris Ranch, we could go somewhere else if the group want it. Maybe someone wants to pick up @M20FanJesse on the way.

We had a great time at the Harris Ranch Fly-In last May! Harris Ranch has great food, a fun narrow runway, and provides a somewhat central location for people coming from the North and South. Sitting in the central valley it has lots of VFR days. I only put up dates on Saturdays because I want to be there and I can't make it on Sundays... If everyone that can come picks a couple of the dates we could plan for what works for most people. Harris Ranch Fly-In 5/20/17

Can you take a picture of where/how you have the camera mounted?

I had something similar happen. I was getting a whining in my headset. I ended up that the volume on my radio was turned down too low and the volume on my Halo's was turned up too high. I started playing with the volume on the Halo's and it went away, then turned up the radio a little and it was perfect...

I would go to Harris Ranch again. It was good food and little more of a middle meeting spot for anyone coming from up North. I'll put up a thread with some dates a little later this morning and see what works best for people.

Congratulations, there's a few of us here in SoCal. I'm thinking we need to have another fly in....

Interesting, I haven't thought much about it as I have read others that have almost full up trim on final.

In mine I am typically almost full up trim or close to it for it to be at 80 mph hands off on approach.