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Probably is compared to what they would lose from the trial and coverage. Some of the stuff that came out during discovery was pretty damaging to their brand. Essentially admitted that they knew they were lying to everyone to promote their narrative and manipulate people into outrage over something they knew never happened.

Maybe we should rename this site Conspiracyspace? I’d offer to do it, but I’m too busy attending my Woke Word Domination meetings and figuring out how to make the world look like 1984 + Idiocracy.

I think the moderator can boot people off the site but we seem to do ok with self moderation most of the time. Any time you interact with a large group of people you’re going to run into a range of personalities. Hopefully you didn’t take my Bobby Brown comment as arrogant and sarcastic. I’ve blocked a few people and I’m sure some have blocked me. System seems to work pretty well. Not perfect but then when you start blocking a bunch of people it can turn into POA where a small group of people control the conversation and the “moderators” liberally hand out violations and threaten to ban those whose opinions differ from their own which has a pretty chilling effect on speech.

Funny, I thought I was the reason everyone left. Relived to know it’s actually @N201MKTurbo’s fault. I liked Paul too and appreciate his contributions and always found him to be kind and respectful. Hopefully he’ll be back someday. The video seemed like clickbait and didn’t show what it was purported to show.

I think we’ve already established that Jimmy’s determination of how much something is worth is highly dependent on whether he’s buying or selling. Stuff is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Seems like if you’re not in a rush to sell Mooneys are getting pretty good prices right now. As other have pointed out, it’s not like they’re making any more new ones in the foreseeable future.

I actually don’t think @Andy95W was trying to be critical, just pointing out that we’re all human and we can all do better. Except for my AI bot.

I told my son when he was little that if you see someone who’s obviously making a bad choice you should stay away from them because that’s probably not the only bad choice they’ll be making. It’s proven true so far and now I’ve even heard him say it to his friends. Plenty of examples in the last few years of people doing completely idiotic things in jets that few GA pilots would have attempted. I had a near-miss at the same airport 30+ years ago when they cleared a Baron for an instrument approach to the opposite runway that I was landing at and he ended up missing me by about 100’ on the go-around.

How far off the centerline to you have to be to get violated? An inch? A mile?

If I had a dollar for every time I’d thought that and been wrong I’d be burning Jet A. The other one I’m often wrong about is “there’s no way someone would try to stick that there.” I’m truly amazed by how many people apparently walk around their house naked and “fall on” things at regular intervals.

Yes!!!!

And nuclear fusion was 20 years away, right?

Try these guys: https://www.jetstreamavionics.com

Winds are stronger now than back when you were flying. And YouTube has mostly replaced CFIs.

Seems like overkill, don’t you think? A 12 ga would get the job done with much less collateral damage.

@GeeBee, your level of restraint is impressive. I also have a Cirrus driver that thinks he owns the taxilane and seems completely oblivious to the concept that others may want to use that space as well. I remember one particular day when I was trying to leave with my family and he and his passengers seemed oblivious to this fact - after about 40 minutes I asked him “Should I help you push your plane out of the way or are you going to do it yourself?” He got the point. Any benefit to filing a NASA report or writing it up for the airport newsletter?

I’m always happy to pay shipping and handling for any inoperative avionics you want to get rid of to add to my Aviation Paperweight collection.

How many engines have you overhauled?

Anything you can share that might help keep the rest of us Continental owners from suffering premature cylinder death?

I guess my poorly made point was that the total number of years isn’t the same as the developmental changes that occur over the life of an engine (or child). Owning a bunch of mid-time engines for a short time interval vs. owning a few engines from new to overhaul may result in different maintenance patterns and the discrepancy between @KLRDMD and @M20Doc’s experiences. If you observed a bunch of children from 8–12 years and generalized their behavior to be representative of children over the entire lifespan you would be likely to come to inaccurate conclusions.

Are you able to download the engine monitor data? Any red flags?

What the difference between raising ten kids from 8-12 and two kids from birth to 18?

I never use a cobbler. Every few years I get something absolutely disgusting on my work shoes and have to throw them in the biohazard bin. Always have an extra set of sneakers in the car. I found that if I keep my heels on the floor it doesn’t matter what I wear. I also found out that if I don’t, the tower gets really mad if you don’t make it past the hold short line with your flat tire.

I always wondered about that. If the average length of ownership is only two years isn’t that a red flag that something made then want to sell pretty soon after acquiring the airplane? For me, finding an airplane took a lot of time and money so I definitely wouldn’t be eager to sell and buy something else unless I had a good reason to.

So, to summarize, no sun and no fun?