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    My experience agrees with this mostly, It is a great clock/timer. The automatic flight timer is awesome if you forget to note what time you took off. However, I run the AI all the time when I'm in actual IMC as a verification of the vacuum AI. So far they always agree. I guess if they ever don't I"ll know something is wrong with one of them. A person with only one watch knows exactly what time it is... A person with two watches knows that one or both of them is wrong. A person with three watches knows which one is not working. I guess the Stratus AHRS could be the tie breaker. The AoA indication is uncalibratable in my experience. The TAS indicator has a programming bug. uAvionix is supposedly aware and working on a fix. Shouldn't be that hard given that they have temperature and static pressure measurements to calculate the air density... rho=P/(RT)?
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    Being oil based, peanut butter and old grease is the wrong base. I'd use some 3M fabric adhesive as the base, with some tank sealant and very fine sand. Apply quickly.
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    Portable stereo and aviation scanner. The first to break up monotony with music and the second to supply "airport ambiance". When I hear things like "Mafia 4 cleared for landing runway 22" it gets my attention.
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    Awesome stuff! Thanks so much for sharing.
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    Taken 9 May, about 40 NM west of Memphis from 7500'. That ribbon of water in the distance is the Mississippi River.
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    You're thinking shock absorber. The shock link is the steel rod that goes up through the middle of the discs. Shown in Fig. 23 of the parts manual. They wear out, at least the one in the nose gear of our bird did.
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    One thing Jeremy, if they are that old- your aircraft is probably missing some SB items. They added a shock link collar, and the shock links themselves can and do wear out. The one in the nose gear of our plane was found in badly worn condition during our last annual. That means that it wore out since the last replacement of our disks, which happened relatively recently in 2006. We found a used one. Good luck.
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    We did the JPI 900 and took out all the old gauges- plus kept all the flammable fluids forward of the firewall by installing the fp and op xducers in the engine compartment. We kept the old 1946 GMC resistance fuel senders and calibrated them. In flight we always compare the JPI indicated fuel quantity against the sight gauges mounted in the top fuel tank access panel. The old resistance senders consistently read within 1 gallon of sight gauges.
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    Wow. That's impressive. I can't wait to give that a try.
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    https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N98131 Aha! That's what class "F" airspace looks like!
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    See the answer to the question of whether or not one should fly during the time of COVID-19 provided by the pilot of N98131on Tuesday... Caution- salty language. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N98131 This pilot gets extra credit for doing this at the edge of the Washington D.C. permanent TFR. Reckon somebody is going to be called to a meeting with someone from the FAA?
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    Sadly I trashed them before I realized that they were not all used up.
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    In Feb. the MSC doing the annual on our C recommended that we replace the shock discs to protect our investment in the tank reseal. They were last replaced in 2006. I was expecting it to be "bouncier" but honestly can't really tell any difference. Based on this, I'm inclined to say that they weren't that bad, and could have gone a few years longer. Based on what @Pasturepilot observed, they could have gone a lot longer...
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    Wow, the US Air Force has some incredible museums. I've not been to the one at Wright-Patterson AFB. Gotta go. I've been to the one at Warner Robbins AFB, which is completely awesome and laid back, with active B-17 restoration happening in an adjacent hangar that was just open to the public (as of a few years ago anyway) https://www.museumofaviation.org/ I've also been to the SAC Museum at Offutt AFB, which is not too shabby either.. https://sacmuseum.org/
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    Wow. Like being hungry and force fed M&M's. Couldn't stop if I wanted to. At about 4:30 the drone hits a cable. Fortunate that it didn't bring it down...
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    Howdy -a-. My life co-pilot went along. She helps me remember to do things like switch tanks, switch off the boost pump, watches the engine monitor that you so deftly encouraged us to install, and runs the iPad. She recently has started entering transponder codes and new frequencies into the radio! We did a lot of flying and it was good to use our Mooney help with the CV19 relief effort. Especially since we have no other mission right now. I'd encourage other Mooney pilots in need of a mission to register with Aerobridge and accept a mission that looks like they can handle. You can read about it here: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2020/april/08/aerobridge-calls-for-covid19-mission-volunteers?utm_source=epilot&utm_medium=email For the portion of this flight that we were carrying the supplies, we flew under the call sign 'Compassion 1426'. My co-pilot was really good about helping me listen for our unusual callsign. Controllers were very good to us. It was an experience we won't soon forget. Maybe we'll do another one next weekend.
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    Yesterday my co-pilot and I flew a load of medical supplies from Fort Smith, Arkansas, (FSM) to St. Louis Downtown (CPS) for Aerobridge, an organization that arranges for volunteer aircraft to fly patients, medical supplies, and organs around the country. Our supplies were destined for Scott AFB and points unknown. 7.7 h total flight time over about 1000 NM. The winds aloft were pretty stiff at times . The first photo is after our delivery of the St. Louis Arch taken from downtown airport, which is across the river from St. Louis Missouri. The second photo is of the junction of the Ohio (left) and Mississipi (right) Rivers at their confluence at Cairo, Illinois. Interesting because it is rare that both of these major rivers are in flood at the same time, which they have been for the past few weeks.
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    Paul you are the only guy I know who needs to use a wide-angle lens to photograph his hangar...
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    Question- last Wednesday you quoted my plea to folks to try and keep the Tail Art thread classy and asked " You calling my wife smut? Really?"   

     I don't know you or your wife, but I've often found your posts to MS to be insightful.  Are you just making audacious claims to get a rise out of your buddies?   It is hard to play inside humor to a crowd of mostly strangers. 

    Let me know if you meant it or not.   Can't tell if you meant it or were just trying be be funny to someone other than me.

    Thanks,

    -Fred

    1. Marauder

      Marauder

      Fred,

      You're a relatively new timer on this site. The people who have been here for years get the joke. Take a look back at my earliest posts and you will see the "fat ladies" throughout the forum. Why fat ladies? In the earliest days of MooneySpace, there was always PoA behavior creeping in (ex. the "Little Timmy" thread, Jose's anti-gay rants, Peter Garmin's agenda posts to start with). The fat Iadies came out to diffuse some pretty ugly threads. There is no general moderation on MooneySpace, so when a thread goes sideways, they escalated quickly and get out of hand. And when they got that bad, Craig, the owner of the site started banning people. Often for personal attacks and even threats. We lost members.

      The reason you don't see a lot of fat lady posts today is because I have pretty much given up on the site. I started seeing an increase in snotty remarks (Jim Pease's comments on the J bar locks), people trashing the value of other people's planes when they advertise them here and a steady stream of attitude (Chris Calandro's posts). The current fat lady sighting was done because a number of MooneySpacers sent me PMs asking when the fat lady was going to return. I posted on your thread since it was convenient thread and I knew that most of the "fat lady" fan club would look. Sorry you took it as smut.

      I still receive PMs on a regular basis for people looking for help and from long time MooneySpacers that keep in touch. I've decided that I will continue to help those who approach me and certainly keep up communications with the long time MooneySpacers that I have come to know as friends.

      Chris

    2. 0TreeLemur

      0TreeLemur

      Hey Chris, thanks for your thoughtful reply.   I really appreciate your candor.  We're on the same page.  I agree completely with your assessment of some of the "tools" on MS. 

      Now that I know the origin of your fat lady posts, I realize you were kidding me, and I'm fine with it.   It is good to be in the joke!   I actually didn't think your post was smut.  I saw it for the joke that it was.  In my reply to your post I put a smiley face there, and I've often joined in the ribbing about your large woman posts.    What I thought was smut was the post from someone else of a woman's ass with a tatoo from an old 80's thrash metal band that I hate.  Not only were they a terrible band, but most of the members are now either dead or too fat to wear a guitar!  If I were to show my wife this thread with that post she'd hate it.   Your post wouldn't bother her too much.  Women.

      I just don't want MS to be a boys club.   I value it too much for that, and I wouldn't want to belong to an online community that creates a hostile environment towards anyone.  Life is too short.

      No kidding, I've always thought your posts were insightful.   Glad to count you amongst my MS friends if you'll have me as one in return.

      Stay healthy, and thanks again for your reply.

      Fred

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    I get 16.5 on climb at full power for the flight I posted EDM data for earlier in this thread.
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    Yeah, I'm aware. If you look at my history I've even joked a time or two about some of those posts. I'm pretty sure that I've written something about how Marauder would be better off with an aircraft with more UL than any Mooney. I get it. Fellas, I'm not a prude, just would like this thread and MS in general to lean a little bit professional and classy, that's all. This thread about Mooney tail art was suggested by @carusoam and I created it in part to amuse him. If it grew to consist of a fantastic collection of interesting Mooney paint jobs, then some of us could use it as resource to discuss ideas with our significant others when it comes time to consider paint jobs. Some of us have significant others who don't appreciate what they would consider smut. I assure you mine doesn't. I hear that POA is rife with off-colored posts. Good for them if they want to be that way. I never visit POA and don't plan to. Many of us more recent MS members have learned so much from all ya'll and this is such a valuable resource. We have female Mooney owners here. I think we would do ourselves a favor to strive to not be a "boyz club" and be welcoming to females, be they pilots or co-pilots! That's my point, and I make it only with the best of intentions. I am not trying to impose any morality on anyone. -Fred
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    Here's another of my favs. The "tail art" is a bit bland, but the rest is fantastically interesting.
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    I wouldn't fly it until you figure this out. I read in Mike Buschs' Engines that at about 500F is where so much of the strength of aluminum is lost that cyl. heads start to think about popping off the cylinder. Just a PPSEL, not an A&P.
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    There is an outfit in the Philippines that sells all kinds of aircraft logo stickers, I found them on eBay. Not too expensive. They ship by rowboat, whale, paraglider, and overland trail, so it takes 3-4 weeks to arrive. Good quality vinyl. I recommend them. You get a pair, each facing the opposite direction from the other.
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    Read the title of this thread. It isn't that I don't have a sense of humor. In fact I've got a killer sense of humor. It's that what you posted isn't cool and doesn't fit in. Why don't you start a thread on "Tail Art of Tattoos on Asses Featuring Extinct 80's Thrash Metal Bands". I'd be fine with that.
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