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I usually read these things from top to bottom, but that one needs a TL;DR.

Seems like I have read quite a few posts complaining of this. Didn't you have it early on? If so, how did you get rid of it? Or how do you keep it at bay? Do you lubricate your yoke shafts frequently?

I wonder if it's worse in heavier airplanes. I have read that those servos are pretty wimpy.

Yep. Anthony will take care of business.

Calling Dan is usually the best way to get an obscure part from LASAR. Sorry I don't have the number, but you can search using your favorite search engine (not search from inside MooneySpace) like this: site:mooneyspace.com lasar dan

If you want Dominik to see your response, you need to tag your post like this: @dominikos. He might stumble on to it eventually, but this probably sends him a notification.

You should include a tag for @OR75 like this. Also, be patient -- This topic is 6 years old.

@JetKeel heed this advice. Took me about a year to get a hangar (not in Colorado), and ended up being another year before I had a Mooney to put in it. I don't regret the hangar rent for that year. Way better to be paying rent on an empty hangar than having your Mooney sit on the ramp.

Only occasionally.

I like altitude too and, when I plan a flight, I'll pick a route that takes me over the most airports, but even in the high teens or low 20s, it's hard to make it between some airports -- at least here in the Midwest.

This sounds like the best solution. Set the Aspen to MPH, put in all the numbers, then set the Aspen to display knots.

Wine.

So, the screw moves freely through the top collar of the jack stand until you run the lock back down to the collar? Once the screw is up, and once the lock has been screwed beck down to the collar, can you remove the jack? Is there anything connecting the top of the jack and the bottom of the screw? Sorry for all the questions, but I have never seen this arrangement before.

Just noodling around the Internet this morning, and ran across Continental CSB19-01 which suggests removing the primer diverter valve, and plumbing around it to avoid "diverter valve malfunction that can result in a partial or complete loss of power." While not an AD, the CSB does say "This Service Document updates the manufacturer's Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) for determining serviceable condition. I had not heard of this before, and I'm wondering if any 231 or 252 drivers (TSIO-360-GB, LB, MB, or SB) have done this? https://cessnaowner.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CSB19-01.pdf

Generally, the correlation between government spending and inflation is weak. This time, a lot of government spending was money distributed directly to consumers -- and they spent most of it. Still, "a recent analysis from the San Francisco Federal Reserve found that government spending only contributed to about three percentage points of today’s inflation" which jumped about 8.5 percent year-over-year: https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/08/25/does-government-spending-cause-inflation/?sh=205c478861e7

Thank God for Bernoulli. If not for him, we couldn't fly -- he invented lift!

Looking forward to more on this.

Kinetic energy requires mass — “heat” has no mass.

When they started becoming hard to get a couple of years ago, everyone ordered a dozen. Production has begun to ramp up again, and most suppliers are fulfilling their orders FIFO. I’m beginning to wonder if our supply chain will ever smooth out again. Right now we seem to be lurching back and forth between under-production and then adding capacity only to see demand go soft. Once you have a dozen filters on the shelf, you don’t need to order again for years. This diatribe is just the opinion of a curmudgeon.

The picture I see in my head is a piece of exhaust pipe chucked up in a vice. Fire up your torch (American torch burning gas, not UK “torch” with batteries) and wave it across the pipe just once. Count to 5 and you can grab the pipe with your bare hand. Now hold the torch on the pipe until it glows a nice red. That’s the difference.

Is that stabilization mechanical (gimbal) or electronic?

I think the point was that 20W50 is 20 in the winter, and 50 in the summer — same as your Aeroshell 100. And when it’s not super cold or super hot, the oil is some in-between viscosity.

The individual cylinders only get a pulse of hot gas occasionally. Turbine inlet gets hot gas from all cylinders — almost continuously.

Possible -- especially if Musk loses interest or needs the money elsewhere.

My limited experience tells me that many of the Cessna aircraft use Continental engines, and many of the Piper aircraft use Lycoming. Continental engines seem to be more prone to ice. It's not the aircraft manufacturer.