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Can it be "Yesterday's Flight"? My CFI and I flew my new plane home yesterday: We stopped for fuel in KPGA and KHBR, deviated around buildups just west of ABQ, and spent a good bit of time riding the mid-day bumps over NM and TX. Wheels up in NV at 7am local, tied down in AR at 9:15pm local. It'll be quite some time before I fly that much in one day again... I got pictures en route to KPGA, but threw my phone in the back seat when we got ready to leave Page and I forgot to take any more pictures. Ah well, here are a couple I did get: And of course, the obligatory picture of the plane in Page:

I'd be shocked if Garmin's source code management process was sloppy enough to allow this. If it was, I think they'd lose their PMA approval for anything including the software...

^^^^ THIS ^^^^ Building a working exploit for a single device that doesn't glitch or crash the device is hard enough. Building working exploits for multiple devices that must coordinate their actions and do so without being apparent to the pilot and ATC is orders of magnitude more difficult. Nobody will waste their effort with that unless there's a specific target and the attacker is well-funded. Based on the complexity and limited scope of application, that's solidly nation-state level work and not something any of us will ever have to concern ourselves with.

A "Like" just doesn't cover it. Thank you Mike for providing us with continued updates on Mark. This is great news, even if there's still a long way to go for him.

Jake, there's a M20C at SUZ that has a 3-blade and is really smooth. @Cody Stallings did the dynamic balancing on it, so I highly recommend you reach out to him when the time comes (or for anything prop-related at all, for that matter).

Ha! Rich is who I'm working with for my PPI. Hard to get on the phone, stays really busy, but seems to be good. Probably gonna get to mine on Monday.

Yep:

Welcome aboard! Have you considered LASAR over in Lakeport, CA? They are a little pricey, but as the closest Mooney Service Center it might be worth it to have them take a look. If you don't want to go that route... In a few days I should be able to comment on the place that's doing my PPI (Reno area). We'll see how it goes and I'll report back.

@RogueOne I think you win the Internet. In all seriousness, I've been known to jump into large online debates and do genuinely enjoy the back and forth of them. There's a certain draw to intellectually challenging oneself against the knowledge & wisdom of many others; Learning happens when confronted with the truth, and many people (especially aviators) are "compulsive" learners. That said... Nobody is immune to losing objectivity in such debates. Some have a higher tolerance than others (and an unfortunate minority effectively have none), but the end result is that there is always a risk for a debate to devolve into an unproductive spewing of words. Given that we, as pilots, spend so much of our training and effort trying to mitigate and manage risk, it just makes sense that we would extend that mentality to our aviation-specific "water cooler". That's not because we want to drive people away ( @Tommy ), but rather because we DON'T want anyone to feel un-included or un-wanted. Ultimately, politics will still make an appearance here fairly regularly, and that's OK if handled properly... What's not OK is when the politics become the focus of the discussion and it drives a wedge between otherwise very good (virtual) friends. That's what I see this petition trying to avoid, and as a semi-formal agreement I think it is a very good solution.

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On desktop, you can also hover over the user's name, and in the info box that opens there's an option for Ignore User.

That high?

Penalty flag: Moving the goalposts. You obviously aren't making a good faith effort to have a good conversation. Welcome to my ignore list. ALL: If anyone needed any proof as to why politics should continue to be banned on MS, can we agree that this thread is it?

Dr Duncan I. Steel, BSc, MSc, DIC, PhD, FRAS. Discovered 12 minor planets. Former ESA Research Fellow at Lunds Observatoriet. Established and directed first Southern Hemisphere program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids. Technical expert to Australian Department of Defence. Noted climate skeptic. This... isn't a coherent response to what I said, and shows a deep lack of knowledge as to what I've posted on these forums. Rule number one of hurling insults: Know your target. Frankly, nobody has to prove anything to anyone here. It's the internet, by definition none of us should be believed without significant reading and cross-checking. Approaching it from any other angle is pretty well guaranteed to end in [virtual] tears. And with that, I say adieu to this thread...

You do realize that there are highly credentialed people in the world (read: people with brilliant-looking CV's) that would fail your "test" gloriously, right? Don't insult our intelligence by presuming we need you to show us who is believable and who isn't. That's not OK, and takes a hell of an ego to think otherwise.

Yeah, after clarifying a couple items on the quote from Lone Mountain, I'm less than impressed... I'll also note that I was told they have a "wide open" schedule; Seems like a pretty big red flag to me. They won't be getting my business. I'll give them a call later. They are also on the field where I'm meeting the owner for the test flight, so that might work out pretty great.

So does anyone have any other suggestions for a pre-purchase shop? The quote from Lone Mountain was a touch less than DMax' standard, and includes an oil change. I'm thinking that's not terrible, but given @KLRDMD's previous less than great experience I'd like to see if there are other options. Thanks!

I'd seen some posts about that previously, but hadn't put it together until now. That definitely changes my plans. Thank you.

I have. There's not a broker involved and the seller/owner is still pretty low time (much better than me, but still in the early part of his flying career). He responded with his open pilot policy info (scanned) and said he's good with it given the insurance requirements are met (300 total, 25 retract, 10 make/model). Thanks for bringing that up, though; It's an excellent point.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll be sure to ask questions and be "involved" (as much as I can remotely).

Very cool. I'll give them a call. I'll also note that the plane just got its annual sign-off last month, so I'm not sure it makes sense to re-annual it so quickly...

I'm scheduled to go test fly an F early in the afternoon of the 13th at the North Las Vegas airport (yes, it'll be hot... scheduling just worked out that way). I'd like to have a very Mooney-experienced CFI meet us there if possible. Does anyone have any suggestions? Bill Custer out of Reno, maybe? The next step would be a prebuy the week following; Any suggestions near Reno/Lake Tahoe? I do note that the closest MSC is in Vegas (Lone Mountain Aviation). Thanks!

Fair point. I did learn some things to look for in the process...

@FlyByMike I replied to your PM, but just for completeness' sake I'll add that I'm not much further down the path of "first purchase" than you. Knowing what I know now, I probably wouldn't have gone to look at 73N as some of the issues are plainly obvious in the pictures on the broker's website (if one looks closely). Good luck!

FWIW, it was back together when I saw it... For some reason I feel like it's also had a new paint job, but don't hold me to that. I wasn't paying a lot of attention at the time.