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I guess we’ll never know if having the CFI there would have made a difference. It certainly seemed to help Maggie to have an excellent controller and CFI there when the wheel fell off her Warrior.

I feel like we’re doing a really good job of not communicating with each other. Is sounds like you have an agenda and a point you’re trying to make and I’m not really sure how the facts support it. I have no grudge against Mathias for his poor English skills. Just the opposite. I have a lot of empathy for him because when I first came to the US I had a horrible accent and struggled to learn English. I remembering not knowing what “name” was in kindergarten so I would just copy the person next to me. This ended when we had a parent-teacher conference where the teacher produced all of the “duplicate” assignments that had been turned in and asked me why I was copying my neighbor (which was clearly undeniable). I finally confessed that I didn’t know what that word meant and I was too embarrassed to ask. If you went on a Spanish speaking forum and called someone a cabron would they call you an Arrogant Gringo for asking a question or would they call you that for insulting someone and then expecting to get a helpful response? The insult was not accidental, it was very deliberate. If it had been a misunderstanding, then there have been plenty of opportunities to correct that misunderstanding which have not been taken. To some people, being “right” is more important that accomplishing their goal. The point I was trying to make is that if you’re asking someone for a favor, don’t be a cabron. If you are rude or insulting, then it is a very reasonable expectation that people will be much less likely to help you. I didn’t realize this was such a controversial statement. Sheesh!

Excellent summary! The very next line in my post said that if he’d asked nicely he probably still would have received the information he wanted. Sounds like someone did take time out of their day to provide him with very useful information without any sort of compensation. Then he asked for more information, didn’t like the response and then the insults started and the exchange of information stopped. It’s surprising to me that it’s surprising to people that this is not a helpful way to ask for favors. Having spent a lot of time in Latin America, I can assure you that insulting people and subsequently asking for favors works just about as well there as it does here.

Beautiful airplane!

I think some people, while not calling the gentleman from Argentina any names, pointed out that: 1. His question on how to obtain the STC had already been answered. 2. His approach, if more considerate, might yield better results. The OP asked for intellectual property owned by someone else without compensating the owner: “I've found a supplemental type certificate that I want to install on my airplane. What do I do now? You must contact the supplemental type certificate holder to seek written permission. The supplemental type certificate and its related information – all drawings, data, specifications – are the property of the supplemental type certificate holder. FAA will not release this information without authorization from the owner.” https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/stc/stc_install I don’t care if he’s using it to build an orphanage - what he was requesting is the property of the STC holder. Not public domain. Prople here have refused to even include a page of the MAPA PPP course because it’s proprietary. I think the precedent for respecting IP ownership here has been set. That being said, if he’d asked nicely I think it’s likely someone would have sent it to him. Things are rarely black or white. @LANCECASPER has helped me out many times. He even sent me an Ovation checklist for free and refused to let me even pay shipping. Instead of pointing fingers why don’t we just acknowledge that how you treat other people has a huge effect on how likely they are to help you. Honey works better than vinegar.

Well, it kind of depends on who you ask. I use 110.

Thank you for the information. That sounds awful. I was reading in Beechtalk that the Cirrus doesn’t have a manual trim which was surprising. I had a trim failure as a student pilot in an Arrow (a wire detached and the trim essentially broke) but fortunately my instructor was on board and we were able to wrestle the plane back and land it after spending some time practicing at altitude. I’m glad I wasn’t solo that day. I’ve never flown a Cirrus and wouldn’t have even considered one as a primary trainer but I know some people like them and having a parachute to help you seems to have some appeal. Where would be a good spot to pull the chute if this happened at MYF? Mission Bay?

Certainly sounded like a runaway trim. Almost seemed the controller didn’t appreciate the emergency until after it happened. The resuscitation/extrication video is interesting. They’re not doing CPR and they’re intermittently providing artificial respirations so I assume he had a pulse when they got there. There’s some mention of taking him to a trauma center which I assume would be UCSD or Hillcrest. Maybe they were worried about a fire and were just trying to get him away from the aircraft but with that many people it seems like it would have been a lot faster to just put him on a backboard and carry him out to the gurney.

Waldo is back! @Matías Equiza, you were already given the answer to the question you asked. If you had read @LANCECASPER’s post you would see that he wrote: If you go to the Mooney website you can get a list of authorized service centers: https://www.mooney.com/contact-2/ I see you’re from Latin America. So am I. I remember growing up my grandfather saying “you catch more files with honey than with vinegar.” I believe the same applies to interpersonal interactions on the internet.

Same thing came up recently with respect to MSCs and the quality of the work being highly dependent on the person doing it and the amount of oversight. I’ve had issues at all of the MSCs I’ve been to - two of them took responsibility for it and fixed it right away and another told me it was my fault and hung up on me after spending over $10k there. You can guess which one I don’t use anymore. Sounds very wise to look for recent experiences and maybe insight into how they handle problems. Seems like some places are fine when things go well but not so good when there are issues and other places go out of their way to “make things right.” Definitely red to find the latter. I don’t care how charismatic and well respected the owner is if he can’t take responsibility for his screw ups.

Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this! Doctor: Well, then don’t do that. I’m not mechanically qualified enough to answer your question, but if your plane has zero problems when the tank isn’t full then I probably wouldn’t fill the tank. A visit to Weep no more may also be in your future. https://www.weepnomorellc.com

For only $524 you can get one of these: https://www.purewickathome.com

Come on, Paul. All the old school guys call CRQ “Palomar.”

I’m not an airline pilot or a CFI, but the best advice I ever got for landing a Mooney was to “try not to let it land.” Almost all my problems were from coming in too fast and trying to force it to land. If I just barely hold it off the runway until it can’t fly anymore the landing are smooth and if I came in at the right speed (varies on weight, of course) then I get little to no float. I usually pull the power to idle as I’m starting the flare but sometimes it’s earlier or later depending on how badly I managed my energy. Vortex generators seem to help quite a bit at low speeds as well.

I think it depends on the model, doesn’t it? I know he won’t seal a long body.

Interesting. I just looked at the Precise Flight website to try to get the document @Debposted and saw that they advertise them as being good in turbulence. Has anyone tired this? I usually just slow to maneuvering speed and put the gear down if it’s really bad but I’ve never tried using speed brakes.

At $7.40 a gallon? LOP.

As one of my learners recently said to me “that made my brain hurt!” Very nicely written and excellent points.

@jaylw314 and @aviatoreb - great discussion! I think this would have gone much better sitting around a table drinking adult beverages but I guess since you’re on opposite sides of the country this is as good as it gets. @aviatoreb’s example is, of course, the classic example of confounding and was the one I was taught when I studied public health in grad school. Smoking causes yellow fingernails and smoking causes lung cancer, therefore people with yellow fingernails will have higher rates of lung cancer. Every study has the potential to give you misleading results and the most common causes are chance, bias and confounding. This is no secret, so someone who understands the field designs and interprets studies in a way to minimize these effects. As @jaylw314 pointed out and @aviatoreb is also keenly aware of - science doesn’t “prove” anything. That’s not know it works. But, when multiple well-designed studies consistently reject the null hypothesis (kind of like a double negative - “we didn’t find no difference between the groups”) then there is likely to be a true association between the variables. Anyone who has studied chemistry learned the Bohr model of an atom (it’s the one that looks like a planet with a moon surrounding it). The Bohr model of an atom is wrong. It’s not the truth at all. Why do we use it then? Because it’s useful in predicting the energy levels of a hydrogen atom. All of our models, in fact, do not represent the “truth” but are representations of what is actually happen that are useful and allow us to do thing we couldn’t accomplish without them. Science gives us these models and these studies. Even the “yellow fingernails” study is useful because if you’re deciding who to screen for lung cancer and you decide to go with people with yellow fingernails then your screening will be way more cost effective regardless of the fact that the fingernails aren’t responsible for cancer. At some point, we have to make choices based on incomplete information and this is where I think most of the problem lies. It’s really uncomfortable to make a choice, especially an important one, if you don’t know everything about it. Problem is, you will never know everything about something (and some of the things you may think you know are wrong). People deal with this discomfort in different ways - some just find someone they trust and listen to what that person says, some talk to others, some turn to scientific literature, others to religion, etc.. Then on top of this, we don’t interpret this information in a vacuum, but based on our knowledge, biases and different modes of cognitive processing. How confusing and frustrating! Personally, I have to be comfortable making big decisions quickly with limited information because that’s my job- if you come in with stroke symptoms I have just a few minutes to decide whether you should get a drug that in some cases will help you and in others will kill you. And I have to make this decision with no way of “proving” that you even have a stroke and no way of “proving” that you won’t get a fatal intracranial hemorrhage if I do give you the medicine. But if I do nothing and wait too long, then you’re out of the window to get the medication and we lost that as a potential treatment option for your stroke. Sometimes I wish I had a job with easier decisions, like when to take the fries out of the crisper. So, back to the topic of 100 LL it seems that most of us agree that: Lead isn’t good for you. We don’t want to pay more for gas. We are mistrustful of how the transition to unleaded AVGAS will be implemented. Can we go back to arguing about ROP vs LOP now?

If an attorney found my home address and wanted to have “a brief telephone conversation” with me regarding something I posted in the internet I would decline. I don’t see how participating in this would help you, the family of the deceased or aviation in general. Seems lawsuits like this are exactly the reason an aviation spark plug costs $150 instead of $15. I’m sorry about what happened to the pilot. I own property just a few miles from TVL but fly into MEV instead because it’s much lower and in a valley even though I have a much higher performance plane and over 1.000 more hours than that pilot did. I want to be an old pilot, not a bold one. As @kortopates pointed out, he didn’t die because of a bad plug - he died because he made poor choices and may have lacked the insight, training and experience to appreciate the poor choices he was making. When I took my commercial checkride the DPE commented “you’re the first doctor I’ve flown with who has any common sense.” I doubt that’s true, but I think it does point out a common theme among people who are experts in one field assuming that they will be able to translate that same level of performance into a different field and being surprised when that just isn’t so.

Yes, the “hygiene hypothesis.” There certainly may be some truth to it, however, it’s probably only part of the story. I remember growing up thinking that all my friends and their family members were “healthy” because no one ever talked about illness, especially chronic diseases. Now it seems people overshare all of their medical problems to complete strangers so it makes the true incidence of disease difficult to determine when you’re just depending on your own experience over time of what you heard about. Having met a lot of adults my age who eventually got diagnosed with ADD, I can assure you the disease has been around for a long time. I don’t like being in classrooms either, but there is a big difference between those who don’t like being in class and the hyperactive ones who can’t focus for two minutes and sit still. Stimulant medications can be life changing for those who truly have ADD. https://journals.lww.com/co-allergy/Fulltext/2013/02000/The_hygiene_hypothesis_in_allergy_and_asthma__an.13.aspx

I think he’s on to something. Your brain is probably mush by now. Better give up now before you create problems for yourself and resign yourself to a life of watching TV and eating bon bons. Funny thing about “downsizing” airplanes when you’re feeling cognitively impaired is that you can kill yourself in a Cub just as dead as you can in a TBM.

Obviously you’re using the wrong kind of paint in your house. The stuff you’re using probably tastes horrible. I found this on the internet so I’m assuming it’s true: ”Lead acetate has a sweet taste. It’s so sweet that it used to be called “sugar of lead.” It is as sweet as white sugar. Flakes of white paint containing lead acetate taste like candy to infants and toddlers who, as we all know, have a habit of putting all sorts of stuff in their mouths.”

Yes, anaphylaxis to peanuts is a new disease. It was invented by the biased media to scare parents into buying almond butter. Probably funded by the trillion dollar almond butter lobby. Autism and ADD are new as well. Creations of the medical industrial complex designed to make pharmaceutical companies rich and psychiatrists millionaires. Or maybe people’s lifestyles suck, social norms about taking about disease have changed and the explosion of the internet and social media has made us much more aware of things that previously wouldn’t have risen to the threshold to get published in the newspaper, Newsweek, Time or appeared on the evening news. If you’re spending all day in front of a screen, don’t exercise and eat crap then you’ll probably be unhealthy. Regardless of the “aromatics” in the fuel. Disturbing how our dialogue has transcended facts now and WAG based on our own opinions and preconceived biases on how we see the world are regarded as perfectly adequate replacements.

I think the weather today was pretty similar. I got cleared for the ILS 40 miles out. Anyone have recommendations for shops to install the LHS in California? I got a 16 hour quote from a shop in Lancaster just for the CB and audio wire (not including gear or GPS). Another shop I’ve used before offered to let me “owner assist” it but I have no idea even how to get the panels off.