201Steve

Maybe it has to deal with horselubber grasshoppers or palo verde beetles or similar critters Texas hog control

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I’ve seen that guy chime in on the Mooney Pilots Facebook group. I figured it was just a nickname or alias but turns out he had creative parents.

Ever notice a twitchy oil pressure reading below 6 quarts? I made a cautionary landing under these conditions about a year ago. It was turning from daylight to dark, the factory cylinder head temp gauge has always been twitchy, and I had a lit runway directly beneath me. To this day, I don’t know if it was oil level, if my eyes were playing tricks, or if what my eyes saw was the known cylinder head twitchy gauge. Never seen it since on the oil pressure. Will never know.

Seems like they wouldn’t broadcast what could be useful information for a would-be bad actor, such as route and altitude, over a public broadcast. I guess I’ve never thought about it but I would have thought they’d simply clear the space, give a classified block altitude along each segment, and move everybody else. Hm.

It’s a great place to store skittles and M&M’s if you get hungry on a long weather layover.

A) you don’t need anything but an iPad and internets before you take off for electronic charts. B- flightstream won’t do anything for you except allows you to transfer your flight plan in ForeFlight to your your gps box without spinning knobs. The integration between ForeFlight and a 430 however, seems problematic in my assumption. C) a stratus portable box will give you Bluetooth connectivity to your iPad for traffic, weather, and Ahrs signals. You’re already good to go on the “out” via your 335

Yeah, I don’t think you have to look very far. No turn signal, no tag, no auto insurance, illegal dimensions, failure to maintain lane, no mud flaps, and on and on and on. But, I’m sure there’s plenty of friendlies out there. Best to ask forgiveness and don’t wreck anything while your there.

I have been pondering this chicken vs egg scenario, and your experience may help, but how did the lifter faces look? Does lifter destroy cam every time or does cam ever destroy lifter?

My sentiments exactly. I am making the same decision but not go around the world with it, just over to the Bahamas Not even close to similar, you’re only out of gliding range for about 10-15 minutes between Florida and the Bahamas. I only point this out bc I want to emphasize how easy this flight is for those on the fence for this reason. It’s a great adventure with IMO only a moderate risk. Less risky in many ways than flying around highly populated cities.

I think you’re safe to assume 95% of stimmy checks will be used to purchase goods. America, the land of debt, isn’t savvy enough to actually use it to pay down debt. Instead, they will use the funds to purchase foreign goods adding to the record high trade deficit.

I know a couple will honor the show discounts before and after the show if you tell them your intent. Just call them and ask

To me, your getting full value restoration for $6k. At half life now, that is +$15,000 in value for an additional $6k spent. Nobody will care that you opened it up if it wasn’t overhauled. From a valuation standpoint. I just went through this, and even though I don’t plan on getting rid of it, It felt silly to not capitalize on the single existing scenario for an airplane that I could spend money and it actually reflect and exceed what it did to the valuation of my asset.

Walt if you’re going to do an oil change, I’ve got some Blackstone oil jars in the hangar. I would like to know if there are any funky spikes from the sample in the event it’s not a reproduceable one off phenomena.

Good, now I know for certain there is at least one engine out of my way for a hopefully soon completion.

Also not tracking, but to keep with the spirit, can you cite an example of an A&P who’s license was yanked for their Lycoming 4 cylinder theory, and what that theory was?

Get there itis. HALT - hungry, angry, lonely, tired. Ready for that worm.

Consider face punched.

I would punch the face of anyone who inquired about the legal status of my sun visor. Be it an IA during annual or the FAA president himself. ok maybe not but would be thinking about it

@201er please explain the commercial aspect of a glider. Is it just instruction? Or “glider rides” for hire?

If you Want to haul 5k lbs (I know, you’re exaggerating), don’t look at Mooney. There are no “six seat” models. If you want to get there fast and efficient, look at Mooney. I know a lot of the Bahamas crowd is transporting folks friends and family to and froe, and gear a lot down there and they decide for slower, less fuel efficient, but high end of the useful load spectrum. (Cessna 210, Cherokee six, etc).

I’ve never fully grasped why some things require safety wire and others do not. Case in point, mag clamps. Why would this not be something that is saftied? Any feedback here?

I think the sharp criticism is warranted. These MFG’s are in the government fighting business. “Don’t yell at them, it’s tough working with the FAA, you don’t understand”. This is the line of work they chose. Unfortunately, you don’t beat the giant with soft spoken words of encouragement. Up and comers have to operate with violent tenacity and undeterred will. My favorite example of this, Elon Musk coming into the car business and the rocket business at the same time. A real David vs Goliath entrance. (This is my attempt at words of inspirational encoureagement for those fighting the good fight) Alas, the path of lesser resistance is likely the one which prevails in this endeavor. Hopefully everyone will have waisted their time in legacy certification, and MOSAIC will come along and make it all in vain with experimental-like rules. Or at least one can dream.

I am not a big three-blade prop fan boy. I think they look kinda dumb. But THAT... the quad... looks bad ass.

I queried the group about the difference between D2000 and D3000 and didn’t yield much. Best I can tell it’s a different casing?