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I thought I was voted down when I suggested a software change wasn’t going to fix a hardware problem?! Sounds like there were hardware issues after all.

I’ll pay shipping for any of the instruments you don’t sell to add to my avionics paperweight collection.

I think it speaks to the value of having an experienced CFI. The gentleman I did my commercial rating with had 500 hours and had never flown outside the state. My two main instructors for my private were both ATPs with 10k+ hours, one was ex-military. My dad was also a CFI and the airport I learned to fly at (CRQ, Carlsbad) was notorious for getting a marine layer in the morning and evening so I had lots of experience with pop-up IFR and getting a clearance enroute. I may have accidentally done an ILS approach as a student pilot as well but I cannot confirm or deny that. I still maintain it was a practice ILS but my father claims the field was IFR.

It took a couple of tries but I guess I was in the right spot. Sometimes that will happen and I’ll start seeing a bunch of emails come through the lose internet a minute later.

It’s amazing how much easier it is to pick up IFR in the air now. On my recent trip home from Sedona I made a fuel stop in Bullhead City, AZ. Destination was low IFR so I’d filed an IFR flight plan (or so I thought). Took off VFR out of Bullhead and asked to pick up my IFR flight plan with Center but they said “we don’t have one.” Then I realized I was an idiot and forgot to hit the “File” button on ForeFlight. I pressed the button and let the controller know. He came back with my new squak code and “cleared as filed, maintain 10k.” That would have been such a cluster 20 years ago and it was basically painless. I do love technology sometimes but it’s humbling to realize us humans are often the weak link.

ChatGPT is a communist. Google Bard in 2024!

That’s a cool video but isn’t the “zero emission” flight only true for one of those aircraft?

I certainly didn’t mean to dog pile him and mostly enjoy his contributions (except for the pictures) but I think what some people took offense to was suggesting not doing things “by the book” possibly including falsifying medical records. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding but either way I apologize if I offended anyone.

But, technically, is there an Equadorian air regulation that specifically forbids me from “flying the approach” while being towed behind a jet? ;-)

I’m pretty sure I could do those in my Ovation with a GTN 750. As long as I had a tow rope attached to a jet.

I can get 96% but usually have to use the “mask” setting above 12-13k’. I don’t fly as high as you do so for me it works well. I also use the big bore cannulas or whatever they’re called. Seems to dilute the incoming oxygen less.

https://www.mhoxygen.com/product/o2d2-x-str/

I’m curious to know where you obtained that information.

I’ve never found the regulation that it refers to either but I think it’s good advice. You could always ask your friendly neighborhood FSDO.

Because the FAA said so in their pamphlet. https://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/oxygen_equipment.pdf

Hopefully in time to recover from the Vne dive and not break the wings! It really depends on individuals and how long you’ve been hypoxic as well as the degree of hypoxia. Most of my experience with this is with opiate overdoses and although they regain consciousness quickly they remain confused and disoriented for quite some time. You might wake up pretty quickly back down at a normal altitude but you probably won’t function well for a while.

One of my first Mooneyspace posts was on pulse oximeters and I basically got attacked for suggesting people get one and use it to adjust their oxygen delivery. I feel more used to the “feedback” now so I’ll comment again on things that have been said before: 1. Pulse oximeters are great, but to paraphrase Dirty Harry, you have to know their limitations. 2. They will read artificially high in the presence of CO. 3. They are inaccurate in the setting of poor perfusion (cold, poor circulation). 4. They tell you what happened in the past, not what’s happening now. This study showed it took almost a minute to detect acute hypoxemia in the foot (compared to ear) but a cold hand could easily have the same problem. 20-30s delay is not uncommon even in normal warm patients. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10386281/ 5. #4 is worse than it seems because the fall in oxygen levels once you start to get hypoxic isn’t linear. Once you detect hypoxemia on the pulse ox, you’re on a very steep part of the curve and likely much more hypoxic than the number is reading. If you factor in the time for the device to alarm, your response time (while hypoxic) to the alarm and the time it takes to take corrective action (while hypoxic) then it may be too late. 6. Hyperventilation doesn’t cure hypoxia. You’re just going to introduce another respiratory disorder (respiratory alkalosis) by blowing off CO2 and increase your chances of passing out. 7. Be careful out there. CP thoughts only. Not a flight level flyer or flight surgeon. Edit: Cool dog study showing how hyperventilation actually makes cerebral hypoxia worse (I guess not so cool if you were the dog).https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6774644/

If there’s any justice in this world, that post needs to win the day.

First rule of Woke World Domination is don’t talk about WWD. I’m not even supposed to mention that we’re holding the convention at Disneyworld this year just after the state of Florida takes it over.

Who decides what shit is stupid?

Nice to have you back!

I haven’t donated to any of them in years but it doesn’t get me off their mailing lists! Edit: That’s not entirely true. I think we still donate to NPR every month.

It’s amusing to me that the ones constantly bringing up authoritarian regimes trying to control behavior are clearly doing so in order to manipulate behavior. Due to my broad political leanings in the past I’m on several mailing lists and I’ll often get mail from the Republican party, Democratic Party, Southern Poverty Law Center, NRA, Planned Parenthood, NPR etc. They’re constantly trying to scare me into donating money or else “they” will oppress “us.” Just different sides of the same coin. I really enjoyed the book “Think Again” and am currently listening to “The End of the world is just the beginning” which isn’t enjoyable but certainly interesting. Anyone up for a Mooneyspace book club? ”It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Mark Twain (or maybe not)

Those percentages are still much better than the internet as a whole. When you have such a low threshold to shut things down that you disagree with (like the POA mafia) then you end up creating an environment where people aren’t free to openly discuss and a small group controls the content of the site. I was on there very briefly but it seemed that whenever someone posted something that was disagreeable to the group in control they would scramble to lock the thread as quickly as possible and silence any dissenting opinion. I much prefer the open environment here. Even if it does lead to stupid crap like the climate thread with now corrected erroneous statistics that really had no place on this site to begin with. Not surprising that the most liked post there is the one saying it doesn’t belong here. One of those threads every once in a while still seems like a small price to pay for the excellent content and people who generally post here. And a sabbatical is sometimes therapeutic as well.