ragedracer1977

On my checkride, on a single engine approach to an airport id never been to, the tower started vectoring me off the ILS to make way for an airliner. I told the DPE "I'm simulating an 'unable' call to ATC, BUT I'm going to comply. Do you want to give me my engine back or should I stay on one?" He left me on one and we flew a big teardrop back to the ILS. It was fun!

$2300. Dollar for dollar, the twin is actually slightly cheaper. The hull value is almost triple what the mooney was.

I flew my 180hp 63 mooney all over the country. I'm a big guy. 250lbs. My wife and kids are not. I've been all the way to Florida, Washington state, wisconsin, colorado, etc etc. Never found an airport short of leadville or telluride I wouldn't go out of at gross. Based in Phoenix, I never had a problem hitting MEAs. I cruised as high as 16.5. took planning to get there, but I could do it. Flew pretty solid IFR for hours when I went to Florida. Great airplane. However.... My family outgrew it. And outgrew it's capabilities. We traveled so much, we really needed something bigger and more capable. With a smaller family, a 252 would probably have been where I went, but I went 310 instead. I've got a 78 T310R with FIKI, onboard radar, basically all the bells and whistles. I don't think there's many days I won't fly. For your budget, you can get a very very well equipped 310 and accommodate your growing family. For reference, I paid less than half your budget for mine. Insurance with literally ZERO twin time was $5300. I had about 800 hours of complex time, but I've only been flying for 4 years. Someday, the kids will be gone, and I'll probably find myself in another mooney, but I don't know. I like having the ability to fill up all 6 seats, luggage, and fly 3 hour legs. All that said, you can't go wrong starting with a nice mooney. They're comfortable, they fly well, and they're very economical. You can go faster, at less than half the fuel burn and cheaper maintenance. If I had to do it again, I'd do it the same way. A less expensive plane to see if we'd "like" traveling by our own airplane. Less expensive maintenance while you're learning how to be an owner.

I use a zulu 3. My wife does too. I have an A20 and an X for the middle row, and some cheap passives in the third row for the kids. They just stick earbuds under them anyway

Run a standard bit backwards and melt through.

Just because rosen supplies an STC doesn't mean you need one.

I've met MSers ask over the country. Many with different political views or music likes, or whatever. And I don't care. I don't care what peoples politics are, I don't ask. If you're good people, you're good people. That stops being true when you accuse a of being a Nazi and a mass murderer in waiting, just because you don't like his views. If you can't recognize that, and call it out instead of this empty platitude filled post, you're not any better.

It would be interesting to see the demographics. I know it's anecdotal, but every person I've heard of recently that got it says "I wore my mask religiously, I followed every rule". Where also anecdotally, no one I know that eschews the mask mandate has gotten it. Which makes me wonder if people wearing masks engage in riskier behavior thinking "I have a mask, I'm safe" or are they getting it because they're reusing masks, touching their face more, etc? It would be interesting to see where/how people are getting it. They don't seem to be releasing much data on that. Are all the cases coming from gyms? Dine in restaurants? Grocery stores? Where is the bulk of transmission happening and is it where masks typically are worn or not. That's the kind of science I mean. Right now, there's really no way to quantify whether the masks helped or not, from a layman's perspective. You can look around the country at places that mandated masks early vs those that didn't, and the data makes no sense to me. Reference this study in Kansas. "By the week of the governor’s executive order requiring masks (July 3–9), COVID-19 incidence had increased 467% to 17 per 100,000 in mandated counties and 50% to six per 100,000 among nonmandated counties. By August 17–23, 2020, the 7-day rolling average COVID-19 incidence had decreased by 6% to 16 cases per 100,000 among mandated counties and increased by 100% to 12 per 100,000 among nonmandated counties." Even though they say cases decreased in mask mandate areas and went up in non mandate areas, it was still safer to be in a non mandate area. 16 cases/100,000 in the areas requiring a mask vs 12 cases per 100,000 in areas not requiring one. It's hard for me to wrap my head around that. I also wonder how much is trying to prevent the spread has allowed the mutations to occur. The virus has been prevented from naturally circulating in the population and burning out, thus giving it a chance to mutate. I'm not saying people dying is a good thing, but it's just something I'm curious about.

I just need someone to explain to my why the covid only got worse since we mandated everyone wear masks. No science is addressing this. And then, why stop at 2? 3 is demonstrably better (I read the study) so why not 4 or 5?

Unless you want to fly. IIRC, Delta United recently kicked someone off for wearing one of those and insisted they wear a crappy cloth mask instead. No mask: Get the hell out. Extremely effective mask: Get the hell out. Cloth gaiter of dubious effectiveness: Welcome aboard! Feel free to remove it when we bring peanuts and drinks by! edit: Sorry it was United. https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/man-kicked-off-united-flight-for-wearing-scuba-inspired-mask/

Sorry, it was supposed to be in the title. It's a DC RFI filter. There's one on both alternators. AK-950-FTR. I'm just wondering if it's worth leaving them or... Just leave them alone.

When lockwire just doesn't seem like enough.....

Noticed these tucked into the nacelles on both sides of my 310. @EricJ are these things snake oil? The FAA doesn't like the company and in theory wants them removed, but technically not required because they predate the cease and desist. What say you guys?

In theory, you could send in your timed out engine, and get back the exact same parts and have a new serial number and 0 time engine.

Don't put it back together like that! The springs are in the wrong spot!!! I don't have the manual in front of me to remember which side they should be on, but they're supposed to be outside the joint between the flange and nut. Not in between the flanges!!

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Unless you go to school, you need 4800 hours. 30 months x 160 hours = 4800

No joke, I thought about getting one of those little RV center console refrigerator/cupholder things. Would be great for summer flying. Cold drinks anytime you want!

This would fit. Could I run it off 100LL?

Unfortunately it's the wrong kind of 115 for the Mr. Coffee. It's 400hz

N201mkturbo and I have been messing with my onboard weather radar since about September. Replaced the RT box with an overhauled one. The existing box was bad, had multiple issues. New box didn't fix it. I read every manual I could find. Couldn't figure it out. I called a bunch of radar specialists. I was not going to give up. The radar was marked INOP shortly after the G500 system was installed. so we started working backwards. Everything seemed like it was working, but when the system was put in test, the antenna would tilt full down and not come up. Radar tech said to check for 115v at the antenna. Hmm. No 115v. Let's review that log entry for the G500 install... Hmm. What's this P-20A they removed just before the annual where they marked the radar INOP. Hey, that's an inverter! For some unknown reason, the avionics shop removed the inverter. I guess they didn't understand or care that it was required for the radar. So, long story short. I found a new/used inverter. Got it installed and ta-da! My 310 has working weather radar!! Went up for a quick flight this afternoon to test it. Unfortunately the precip we've been having had all moved out, but it's pretty cool to "see" a mountain through the clouds 40nm away. The areas close in are nearby terrain, far out at the 40nm ring were peaks at or above my altitude. Little by little, we're getting every system in order! Now we just need to work on a stabilization source. The antenna is stabilized, but was a replacement for a non stabilized antenna, so there's never been a gyro for it. Next up is figuring out why the GI-106A doesn't get nav info from the 430W.

I've had one 'real life' experience with GPS jamming. Safety pilot and I were shooting approaches. I was shooting a GPS approach into KTYL. There was a NOTAM for GPS outage, and we were on the edge of it. I've got the needles centered, everything looking good. I notice out of the corner of my eye, my safety pilot is looking outside and back at the instruments really quickly. Usually he just sorta stares out the window, so I knew something was amiss. The MDA was 300 AGL. I get to the MDA, look up, and I'm at least 1/2 mile off the runway centerline. I mean, not even close. I was far enough off, there's no way I could have landed. He just let it go, because he could see we weren't going to hit anything. We went missed and flew it again to the same result. The GPS jamming did something to really screw it up.

Wait, do you want $50k, or 50% of $50k?

It's gone!

Since when? You only need to be rated in category and class. A brand new PPL without even a complex endorsement can log PIC as a Safety pilot in a brand new acclaim.