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Landing light, I assume it's the same as my '75 E anyway.

Looks like it is the normal cycle. A 12V nominal car battery is 14.4V. It looks like when it hits 13V it turns on and runs until 14.4 then turns off.

Oops. My mistake. You are right. I was thinking it was just a perpetual TFR, but it is setup as an ADIZ and charted. Can you tell I never fly in that region of the world?

But why is the a TFR in the first place? T of TFR is temporary. There is nothing temporary about the TFR over DC. Why is it not Restricted with provisions and charted as such on the sectional?

A few months ago he visited Greenville to have dinner with a campaign doner and I literally could not leave work for over an hour because of it. I work right next to our international airport and so they closed all the roads into and out of the plant. All politics aside, that was BS!

Just a less than choice first impression. The work was good so I'm sure I'll be back through. Just offering some constructive criticism.

Reminded me of this. In reality, I am jealous of that panel though.

If 11 is one louder, what is an F?

I just had mine done at AGL too. I felt good about the inspection, my only complaint is their business acumen. Don't be in a hurry if you need to deal with them. I was flying in from out of town to pick her up with a ferry pilot. I told them on the phone when I would be landing to pick her up and everyone agreed. Not only were they not there when I arrived, they weren't done with the inspection. Arrived almost an hour after I landed and then had to finish the inspection. And all of this is after I had been bumped in the scheduled twice after I dropped off a non-owned plane with them. I'm easy to deal with, just tell me what's going on. If they were behind, no big deal. Give me a call and we can work something out. I didn't head a word from them. Luckily for me, my local A&P is quickly becoming a Mooney Guy whether he likes it or not. I walked in the other day and he had 4 Mooneys in work, not including mine that was in for an oil change.

I have the(an) RC Mooney. She's a big one. 80"+ wingspan. Bought her second hand from an older guy who wasn't/couldn't fly RC anymore. Got it all fixed up and then I never flew it either. It's a shame. She is a beautiful plane, but I started focusing on full scale and haven't flown any of my RC stuff in a pretty long while. I guess it was foreshadowing that one day I would be a Mooney driver.

BMW started out making airplane engines. They quit around the 1940's for some reason though. But a fun fact if you didn't know, the BMW logo is a spinning propeller. White for the prop and blue for the sky behind.

Definitely. I don't live far from the airport and stop in at the restaurant pretty regularly myself. Shoot me a message and we'll try to make it happen. Same for you @Hank. Shoot me a message and we'll see if we can meet up.

Nothing special, just a little clipped together footage from my last insurance requirement flight. Now I can finally carry my fiance along so she can see what this Mooney I'm constantly talking about is all about.

Somebody's receiving it. Unfortunately for you, it's not you.

Only took one for me. I won't ride again.

Thought I would share this in case you've not seen it. It is a talk given by Mike Busch of Savvy MX. The opening line is "Engine TBO is a fully discredited concept." I worked on jets in the Marines and we never overhauled anything. The only parts that were 'overhauled' were individual components that were IRAN'd and returned as 'overhauled.' The part I found really interesting was the part describing infant mortality and by overhauling you could be putting yourself at a greater risk of an engine related incident vs. just continuing to run the engine. Just FWIW. I still subscribe to the idea that there could be a reasonable time and place to overhaul. I just don't agree that it corresponds to 2000 hrs.

But that is subjective. My fiance puts on a huge parka at 60F, I'll put on a light jacket at 40-50F, and I hear Canadians, put on long pants at 0 and jackets at -10.

I live far enough south we don't really get cold. The coldest I've personally seen here is 10 degrees one morning before sunrise. We usually hover right around freezing with normal exceptions throughout the winter. So my question is, what do you guys consider cold? At what point do you break out the heaters before starting?

EYEWITNESS STATEMENT AIRCRAFT: CESSNA 172 PILOT: 30 YRS OLD, CFI, IR FATALITIES: None DAMAGE: Substantial DATE OF ACCIDENT: July 10 1982 WITNESS: Line attendant at airport Pilot came to airport at 9am, 10 Jul 1982. Line boy reports padlock on his hangar door was so rusted he had to break it off with a 10# ball-peen hammer. Also had to inflate all 3 tires and scrape pigeon droppings off wind screen. After several attempts to drain fuel strainers, pilot finally got what looked like fuel out of the wings sumps. Couldn’t get the oil dipstick out of the engine but said it was okay last time he looked. Engine started okay – ran rough for about 1/2 minute, then died. Then battery would not turn prop. Used battery cart and although starter was smoking real good, it finally started and the prop wash blew the smoke away. Line boy offered to fuel airplane up but pilot said he was late for an appointment at a nearby airport. Said it wasn’t far. Taxied about 1/2 way out to active runway and the engine stopped. Pushed it back to the fuel pumps and bought 3 gallons for the left wing tank. Started it again. This time, he was almost out to the runway when it quit again. Put a little rock under nose wheel; hand propped it; and was seen still trying to climb in the airplane as it went across the runway. Finally got in it; blew out the right tire trying to stop before the cement plant. When he taxied back in to have the tire changed, he also had the line boy hit the right wing with 3 gallons of gas. Witness, who saw the takeoff, said the aircraft lined up and took off to the north. Takeoff looked fairly normal – nose came up about 300 ft down the runway. At midfield nose came down. Engine coughed twice – then cut power and applied the brakes which made both doors fly open and a big fat brown book fell out on the runway and released probably a million little white pages with diagrams on them. Looked like sort of a snow storm. After several real loud runups at the end, he turned her around and took off in the other direction going south into the wind. Only this time he horsed her off at the end and pulled her up real steep like one of them jet fighter planes – to about 300 ft – then the engine quit! Did a sort of a slow turn back toward the airport – kinda like that Art School guy – and about 30 ft off the McDonald’s cafe she started roaring again. He did sort of a high speed pass down the runway; put the flaps down to full and that sucker went up like he was going to do an Immelmann! The engine quit again and he turned right and I thought he was coming right through the front window of the F.B.O.; but he pulled her up – went through the TV antenna and the little rooster with the NSE&W things – over the building then bounced the main wheels off the roof of 3 different cars in the lot – a Porsche, a Mercedes and Dr. Brown’s new El Dorado. When he bounced off the El Dorado the engine roared to life and he got her flying. Came around toward the runway and set her down – once on the overrun, once on the runway and once in the grass beside the runway. He taxied into the ramp, shut her down, and ordered 3 more gallons of gas. Said it was for safety’s sake. Then he asked where the phone booth was as he had to call his student and tell him he was going to be a little bit late.

A Former Marine Aviator wanted to show off his new twin-engine plane. His friend was riding along as he put it through its paces. Suddenly, they were caught in a violent thunderstorm, with lightning crashing all around them. Next, they lost the radio and most of the instruments. As they were being tossed around in the sky, pilot said, “Uh-oh!” Fearing the worst, his friend asked, “What’s wrong now?” Pilot replied, “I got the hiccups. Do something to scare me.”

Forgive my ignorance, I'm new to the Mooney game. So I've got to ask before it surprises me on my own new Mooney. What are you eddy current inspecting?

That is a great thing. That's how I got back to flying. It had become so difficult for me to reserve and get access to rental planes here that I went several years without flying. When I decided I really wanted to get back to it, I found a small partnership to join. It was the same way. The original owner had the plane but didn't want it to sit. He knew it would just rot if it sat, so he took on partners to keep the plane active. Worked out for all of us. We got into a plane very cheaply and he had the plane he wasn't willing to sell continually flying. Got me back into flying enough that I wanted to branch out and now I'm on my Mooney. Wish more people would do that. So many planes wasting away and so many pilots who would like to share the costs with someone and have access to a plane.

Looked good to me. Better than my first flight on Wednesday in my E model, though I don't have the video evidence to prove it. Your self-critique sounds a lot like my first flight as well. My biggest bads were flaring too soon and too much. She sits lower than I'm used to and so I flared too soon. The controls are tighter than I'm used to as well so I ballooned a lot too. Sight picture is really different too. I felt like I was flying a crab on approach with no wind and when I parked I parked really crooked too. So much to learn still. Hope you're enjoying your new bird too!

I do have ram air, but there is no warning light for it on my model. Or not there at least. There is an amber light directly above the control.