McMooney

I already have the Top Prop. My maintenance would absolutely LOVE the one piece belly, all I hear from them is "screws", omg screws and more screws. how fast is your plane on avg? I'm only seeing about 145kts, well that is with it pulled back just a bit. some smart guy put the fuel flow meter right next to the airspeed, some reason fuel flow ALWAYS wins.

really, you should stop by hooks one day

i'm bummed it's that time of year again, 1 whole week without my birdy. I'm thinking of adding a lasar speed mod or two this annual, other than the 201windshield( i'll never hurt my girl in this way) what is the best bang for the buck? I'm thinking this is the best order 1. cowl enclosure 2. flap hole cover, don't actually know the name of this one but there are large spaces for the flaps to move which have to be causing lots of drag 3. gap seals 4. long range tanks Lasar no longer makes the landing light cover for my plane, is it legal for me to fabricate one ? one other thing, my pc system is starting to go, seems there are times when the plane really wants to turn left. Is there Anyone that still works on the system? one other other thing, what brand of tires are you guys using? my nose wheel tire is on it's last leg.

you probably wont' need it depending on the placement of your gps and hsi/cdi

So today decided to practice the IR with a longer xc, kdwh to kdua. Have to say everything was going well until the casino took all my money 8( couple things I learned. 1. when calling clearance delivery, by phone, never tell them you're in the plane and ready to go. I think that is code for hey this guy is baking in an airplane lets put him on hold for 15 to 20 mins. 2. ATC will NEVER EVER, never ever ever, Give you the route filed. Even when cleared as filed or accepting an ATC preferred route, they will change it, probably before you get to the end of the runway. 3. you can get actual IFR in texas during the summer. so far i'm getting lucky between 9ish and 11am and late afternoon say after 6pm. Oh yeah, birdy found a friend today. Getting much better at holding course and altitude over an extended period

Hmm, darn too bad I hadn't thought about it, mooney summit would've been a good starting point for this years flycation. going to try checking off every state along the east coast.

darn, guess it's going to be garmin or trio

My mags are due in about 50 hrs been really thinking of getting a surefly. do you actually notice any difference ? how about fuel burn?

Spent today getting the new IR wet, man can't believe I actually get to do this flying thing.

my understanding, they are actually going to add dme's back to the system. https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/techops/navservices/transition_programs/nextgen_dme/

Nice to not have your name and address show up on the faa website

Yes, E or F even better. IMO, the sooner you get your bird the better.

Ahh except for the AOpa map I’ve never used jeppessen charts. Thanks that was bugging me.

if it's just a transponder, have the shop doing your annual do the installation? single downtime?

On my checkride Tuesday, inbound on the LOC 17R approach into KDWH the Examiner covers my GPS and ask now what, how do you identify the fix. I smiled, pointed at the ancient DME dutifully showing distance from the localizer and about 10 mins later, became an IR rated pilot.

Here's my flight for today, sorry no pics but I did get a new IR

build your own, probably do it for similar cost and it takes 5 mins longer

I kept my DME, I find it comes in handy on a number of approaches, not necessary but handy.

Not much has changed, pc is basically still a pc, internal bus has changed, water cooling is big, graphics cards are phenomenal and stupidly expensive, cpus well 4 cores are now entry level. Memory is dirt cheap and no one remembers spinning hard drives. oh yea, optical disc are relics. wait wait OH YEA AMD is actually competitive now. they might have more pci lanes for multi-gpu gaming, sound cards aren't really a thing anymore. Hopefully fs has been rewritten from the ground up. I always go overboard, so my next gaming rig will be something like: 8 to 12 cores 64 to 128 GB of memory Fastest 1TB NVME m.2 drive available. 2x latest amd or nvida graphics cards. 2x curved 4k monitors

Hey while shooting approaches the manifold pressure gauge decided to stop working. if I remember correctly, I think it read somewhere between 15 and 20 inches and I was at 3000ft. Engine kept running, prop kept spinning but mani pressure wouldn't move. on the way back to the airport, at approx. 2500 to 2000 ft the gauge decided it wanted to work again. wth? landed, taxied to the ramp for a runup, everything seemed fine. called my IA, he didn't seem worried, at all. anyone had this happen? am I good?

can he do the extended tank mod ?

i'm in, can't wait. my fsx is getting pretty long in the tooth

I feel your pain, i'm praying for trutrak to get it together.

would really only need it when taxing about and maybe for the first 4000 to 5000 feet of flight. so say 1 hour. could even fill it with ice to make it a bit cooler. $40 sounds a lot more reasonable than https://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/arctic-air-portable-air-conditioner-38-qt-single-fan-12-volt.html some concern about adding moisture to the interior of the plane, but hell, it's texas, pretty moist already.