ShuRugal

I use VSDC - http://www.videosoftdev.com/free-video-editor It is not super intuitive, but it has a handy wizard function for importing and splicing multi-file segmented videos. The real problem I have is with export profiles - I have yet to find a setting that matched the combination of high quality and small filesize GoPro Studio could output.

I have my Android tablet semi-hard-mounted on the copilot side - made a wedge-shaped block to angle it where i can see, then stuck the block to the panel with 3M Dual lock, and the tablet sticks to the wedge with slightly less dual-lock (so the tablet will unstick from the block before the block unsticks the panel). Only downside to using a tablet is that they like to overheat. I might redesign the block to have a fan.

well, take stock of all the "gotchas" people are listing here, and make sure that they are checked on PreBuy inspection.

Reading posts like this makes me really appreciate how well taken care of my bird was when I got it last year. I was just over at the previous owner's shop yesterday for some paperwork, and he had 3 other mooneys in the hangar for work ranging from an engine teardown to annual and panel upgrades. The shop is practically an unlisted MSC.

You must be joking. Cost of real-estate is part of what's driving the insane inflation these last 20 years. I don't know anyone in my age group who can afford a house right now, most can barely afford apartments. If that went up, it would put luxuries like aviation that much further out of reach, not breath new life into it.

nothing a quick dip in clearcoat or a solder bath won't solve.

I've had the opposite experience - when i got my C model last fall, it would "ziing" in cold weather on the first attempt, then engage on the second. Hosed it with some tr-flow, and haven't had a problem with it since December.

I recall reading about two: one where the pilot was uninjured, but his buddy pointed out some popped rivets and wrinked wing skins the next day, and another where the pilot had to go to the ER for internal bleeding after he landed. The story I recall from the second case is that the plane was sent off to Kerville, and Mooney determined that it had experienced around 13 Gs...

Piss on that, be doing the pilot, his passengers, and the aviation community as a whole a favor by tipping off the local FSDO. If he's flying it with the spar cap rotting off, he's probably flying it out of annual. Last thing we need is another Embry Riddle in-flight breakup making headlines.

wasn't there someone who got their ailerons jammed when a pencil fell through the gap because their boot was gone?

I'm rather proud of the way the colors in this one turned out Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

That makes sense, but to flip this around, I'm also not saying I would force him to do it my way. I said right at the start that I would find another one who would do it that way - there will be one. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

The amount of condescension dripping from this post is unreal. I've never said I'm not willing to pay for work - I just don't consider reading the install manual, by itself, to be "work". When I apply for a job that lists a new technology as something I need to have knowledge of for the position, I don't tell the recruiter that they should pay me to learn it before I'm hired. This is no different. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

Are the Garmin manuals really that hard to get? I've got a copy of the install manual for every piece of Garmin hardware in my bird, complete with connector pinouts (430, 340, 327). And if an A&P told me he was going to charge me for the time it took to read the install manual, I'd find another A&P to do the work. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

Eh, wiring diagrams and D-sub connectors are not exactly rocket surgery. Any A&P that can't read a wiring diagram is an A&P I won't be trusting my life with.

That's my bad, he was a single. Musketeer, not the Baron. I can't keep Beech names straight.

I would expect that the "standard procedure" is to bore the hole out to the next standard 1/4"-ID bushing size (remaining material permitting) and then weld in a bushing.

Saw this a few weeks ago... I entered the pattern on a 2-mile extended downwind with a Beech Musketeer calling crosswind... that Beech proceeded to fly a 2-mile pattern at such a low airspeed that I had to do a 360 before reaching normal downwind, had to fly my downwind at 100 MIAS, and extended my downwind to a full 1-mile final to void passing the idiot. If I had known he was going to do that, I could have landed in front of him, done a touch and go, and still had to give way to him while he turned base.... never had a 10 minute downwind-base-final before... If his engine had quit, there is no way in hell he'd've made the runway, and the pattern was on the urban side of the airport.... he'd've come down right into someone's house. Once on the ground, I beat him to parking (despite landing 45 seconds after him) and watched him unload his pax clown-car style... and none of them were what you'd call "petite". how he managed to drag that thing around the patch at 80 mph, I have no idea.

+1 for TriFlow - I keep a can in the plane and squirt some under the slider any time I feel that it is getting too stiff to operate. Level flight, stabilize at gear speed, squirt the handle at the bottom edge of the slider, then unlock the gear and actuate the slider up and down the handle half a dozen times or so, until the movement is smooth and light.

My A&P gave mine a once-over with a handheld buffing wheel and some 3M plastic polish to get some light scratches out (looked like someone had wiped the windshield with a dusty rag) right after I bought the plane from him. Obviously not something you want to do every day, but definitely the best way to restore the screen to full luster and clarity. I've been maintaining it with Plexus and micrifibre cloths since. If it picks up any large particles or bugs, those get washed off with water before the plexus and cloth have a go.

You ain't kidding there. I've been trying to get my kit mounted, and after working with my A&P on it on two separate occasions now, we have concluded that it will not be a one-day event...

This is something that I am trying to add into my shut-down checklist. Well, I have added it, remembering to do it is the hard part, my hand keeps pulling mixture by muscle memory. It does, but it does not protect against the possibility that a p-lead vibrated loose in flight. I was going to mention the same thing: it seems that impulse couplers are at least as much of safety hazard as they are a benefit for easy starting. SoS might be a PITA to hand prop, but unless you have the SoS unit engaged, it won't retard the timing and it won't supply a spark...

The way I see it, DIAG, is that if you are going to tell people that they are wrong for complaining about things being pointlessly expensive, then you are contributing to the problem instead of the solution.

I feel like this attitude is part of why everything is so goddamn expensive in aviation. Sure, it starts somewhere reasonable like "if you can't spare $1300 for a one time expense, this isn't the hobby for you." but it takes half of no time at all for that to turn into "if you can't afford a brand new $15,000 WASS GPS NAVCOM and another $15,000 to install it in your $30,000 airplane, this hobby ain't for you". This is how we end up with Skyhawks that cost $500,000 brand new, and a public perception as a millionaires-only club.

well, I won't be able to afford one before then, anyway. gives me time to save up...